Saturday, December 21, 2013

Age of the battle rifle

The turn battle rifles was appointed to the select fire rifles countries where using. After WW2 allot of countries where developing battle rifles. A battle rifle is a full powered automatic rifle, usually chambered in 30 caliber. The big famous battles of the days where, the Belgian FAL, the American M14 and the Russian AK 47( even tho the round was shortened). These battle rifles are nice in the fact that they have a big caliber that can punch threw walls or trees but they are very heavy and the ammunition is very heavy. Story time, when the Australian army was in Vietnam ( same time as the US) they where using the FAL. The FAL is like race race that is stretched to its limits, its very powerful. The Australian troops would not shoot at the enemy but at the trees they where hiding behind. The round was actually powerful enough to punch threw the trees, the tree would break apart making a shot gun of wood splinters. In my opinion a battle rifle is great if the solder can hit a target at 1000 meters, but a average solder cant do that. The weight was another issue. the ammunition weighed allot, and the rifles where around 10lb's. I play airsoft with a gun that weighs around 11 pounds, i'm a pretty big guy and even carrying that around for a hour or too is pretty tiring. Not to mention holding your sights on a target for extended periodes of time.    

 (picture of a M14)
     
(picture of a FAL)

(picture of a AK 47)

bibliography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AK-47
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M14_rifle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FN_FAL


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  1. Thomas DDecember 21, 2013 at 4:18 PM

    Hey,
    Those guns look really powerful and could kill someone in a seconded. I really hope that no one bad will get hold of those guns and kill people with them. I had no idea that the gun can shoot threw trees, ant that another gun can hit their target at 1000 meters away. Thank you for sharing

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  2. pledge allegiance to the liftJanuary 29, 2014 at 4:56 PM

    I've got to say I've had to chance to shoot variants of these guns as well as an m14 and I must if I had to chose one I would not even have to think twice and put my money on an m14. In my opinion the FAL is too much gun to be hauling around with me in the field as well as its a hell of gun to shoot. The m14 with a shortened barrel holds true to ergonomics and power as well as accuracy, more so than the AK 47. The WASR-10 that I frequently shoot is an AK variant that I have a hard time hitting past a 100 yards with open sights, but with the m14 I could tag targets out to 400 yards with open sights. Mind you that the 14 has peep hole sights which I personally love.

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