CFT reports that size 48” Battle belts can carry enough 20rd mags to almost make up a basic load! Hooah!
Sig Spear 7.62x51 is out and she's a porker
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Pretty much 100% agree. I’m very excited about the M250. And there are way too many people they’re planning to issue M7s to, who have much more important things to do and extra things to carry.Roger that. The most interesting things about NGSW are the LMG, the rifle used as a DMR/SASS, and the cartridge technology applied to smaller firearms.
Within an Infantry Company, here are all the duty positions that are going to look at the XM7 and say, “What the......"
Company HQ
CO
1SG
XO
Drivers
RTOs
Supply Sergeant
Supply Clerk
Commo NCO
Commo Specialist
(Attachments)
Fire Support NCO
USAF JTAC (will have some pimped-out SOPMOD Block 3 Mk.18 in FDE with 10.3” pipe)
Engineer NCO
3x Rifle Platoons
Rifle Platoon Leader (PL)
PSG
Combat Medic
PLT RTO
Forward Observers
Drone Operator
Combat Engineer
Rifle Squads x3
Rifle Squad Leader
Fire Team Leader
Grenadier
SAW Gunners will get M250 and be happy with the massive weight reduction, insane terminal performance through barriers
Rifleman will think, “This is cool and new!” Then when he’s handed cross-loaded items, he will embrace more suck.
Weapons Squad
Weapons Squad Leader
Machinegunners will love getting a flatter-shooting cartridge but will wonder about barrel change rates
Assistant Gunner (wants an even lighter M4A1 he will rarely/never shoot)
Ammo Bearer (Why is this happening to me?)
Anti-Armor Weapons Specialist (already has more than enough to carry)
Mortar Platoon
MTR PSG (Lights cigarette...."Aright gents, arms room time....he he he....you’re gettin’ ready to suck again even more.”)
MTR Team Leader (“Guys, time to draw....weapons.”)
Mortarmen (“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”)
The Company Commanders will not want to issue out the XM157 Integrated Fire Control and Laser-Aiming/IR Illuminating systems due to the $10,800 statement of charges price on each one (2022 dollars), except for maybe a few NCOs.
Can you imagine? “Sir, PFC Akbar-Jones just lost one of dem -157s. We’ve already stripped the soldiers down and began sweeping the forest on-line."
Captain: “My......beautiful, precious career......iz gone. RTO, gimme the hand mic....."
"Rakkasan 6 actual, this is Bravo 6 Actual.....uhhhh, we lost a -157......"
BC: “Aghhhhhhhhh!!!!! My beautiful, precious career. Checks skin color. Agggghhhhhhhhh!!!!!!"
Brigade Commander: “LTC Slack Jaw, Are you ready for your Letter of Reprimand?"
A few hours later, as the Engineers string up the triple-strand concertina wire around the Company and place guards on them, a dark cloud emerges from nowhere and hovers over that Company until the XM157 Electro-Optical Aiming Module Fire Control Widget is located, which it won’t be, because it was sold to a stripper acting as an agent for Chinese and Russian foreign materials collection and exploitation operatives who have been running the local strip joints for years.
Or maybe it all be ok? We’ll see.
I think the M7 has a lot of potential if you limit it to the straight riflemen in a squad. Everyone else keeps M4s.
But, there are enough expensive and sensitive items issued out nowadays that I don’t think the 157 will be an issue.
God, it’s a commissioned officer… What an example for it’s soldiers.
I think the main duty positions that will benefit from and appreciate the XM7/XM157 combo are Snipers.
Good 1-for-1 over the M110, though the magnification is limited to 8x on the top-end with the XM157.
It’s too much gun for a Rifleman due to the mags, even if that Rifleman is large in stature.
They’re going to re-learn this the hard way, same as they did with the M14 back in the early 1960s.
I graduated Q Course, so nobody knows what weapons you need more than me. Right, BG?
Yes sir.
Yes sir.
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Milley was my BC in Korea. I thought he looked familiar a few years ago but didn’t put 2 and 2 together until I looked at my 1-506th yearbook. There he was, but much thinner of course.
The BC before him was awesome, LTC Fuller, former 2/75 guy with a Grenada Scroll and mustard stain. Best BC I had out of many across 7 different units.
For Colonel Fuller’s change of command, he got out there on the PT field at Camp Greaves and said in his heavy Tennessee or Georgia drawl, “Men, I believe speeches are like mini-skirts, the shorter the better. You guys have been a great battalion to command! Pass and review!"
We stood their bewildered with disbelief, because this is usually a 1hr affair minimum standing there listening to someone ramble on and on about crap nobody is going to remember or care about.
There was silence across the Battalion in formation, and then, from one of the line companies a cry rang out....
“DOG-PILE on the COLONEL!!!!!!"
With that, hordes of Joes poured out from formation and dog-piled him like it was OK or something. Never saw anything like it before or since. Certainly wasn’t a Stateside thing.
Milley was more guarded, very quiet and always looking out the side of his eye, carefully managing his career. We could get away with pretty much anything up there, so he didn’t have to worry about anything other than punching his Battalion Command time ticket.
He did bless off on my Scout Platoon PL’s recommendation to institute a Battalion DM program, since we had a bunch of in-the-wraps National Match M14s in our HHC arms room. That was ~5 years prior to 9/11.
My local gun store had one of those ultra carry/holster type belts on the discount rack in a 44 or 46 because the owner said it was too tight.
When I got my cowboy belt rig for my vaquero the guy who sold the belts had a 50something inch one that was being lengthened to fit the customer.
Just to be clear, I was bagging on the careerist, command hoppers you speak of, who collect courses for their punch cards, not the intended purpose. Oddly, they never seem to add 1/10 the value of most other graduates. In fact they gum up the works with counterproductive decisions. Weird.
Fuck milley and fuck all the other pentagon dingbats, they're no better than that crossdressing weirdo biden made a "general" lol. Mattis was the last guy up there worth a shit and even he turned out to be a globalist.
Come on, this thing has
2 charging handles, thats twice as many…
Folding stock( gangsta fire ability)
A replaceable cam slot in the upper.
Quick change barrel.
BTW… nobody makes it that high in the ranking( milley). With out being yes men. Anyone says no, they got more behind willing to say yes… been like this for a very very long time. Any one with moral fortitude took a walk, long before they got their stars…
2 charging handles, thats twice as many…
Folding stock( gangsta fire ability)
A replaceable cam slot in the upper.
Quick change barrel.
BTW… nobody makes it that high in the ranking( milley). With out being yes men. Anyone says no, they got more behind willing to say yes… been like this for a very very long time. Any one with moral fortitude took a walk, long before they got their stars…
Don't forget bullets that are supersonic to 1300 yards and it comes in FDE which goes faster.
The steal head cartridge and the metallurgy used in the barrel to with stand the higher pressure are pretty impressive. Wonder if that will trickle down.
These guys have posted 3 of a 4 part series on it.
Posts a 1.4 moa group with a well used one. Same rifle has been passed around by all the gun tubbers, full auto fired. I do not know the rnd count. But I imagine pretty high.
I think it's amazing, I don't see it being general issue though. Maybe a smaller version in a much smaller caliber.
Sig sent MAC the 308 version with scope and silencer. It's a first look sort of thing but he does shoot it.
I will ask, it is a free floated barrel so don't they all flex if you torque them? Why would clamping the rail make it more rigid since it is free floated? I may not be understanding the video.
It's free float from the barrel and to a certain amount, yes, they all flex but aren't designed to do so. Some are better than others. On the Sig, you can flex it and it'll move and favor the direction it was pushed, becoming off center. Any aiming device attached to the front section of the rail won't return to zero.
Arisaka actually makes a little internal clamp so it's secured from both internal and external sides but it's not out yet for the big Spears. Even the LT version can suffer from it and I have the Arisaka brace en route.
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Arisaka actually makes a little internal clamp so it's secured from both internal and external sides but it's not out yet for the big Spears. Even the LT version can suffer from it and I have the Arisaka brace en route.
MCX Zero Retention Clamp
The Patent Pending Arisaka Zero Retention Clamp (ZRC) greatly reduces zero shift for lasers and iron sights that are mounted on the handguard of the MCX Virtus. This version is designed for the MCX Virtus chambered in 300BLK or 5.56mm with either the Sig Sauer SD handguard or Midwest Industries...
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It's not just that it's flexing. It's that is stays cocked to one side after you flex it. It should return to center, like any decent AR handguard made in the last decade does.
I'm not sure what the mount attachment limiting hamdguard deflection is all about but it doesn't seem right. Is the HG being pinched that much?
There was the option of a musette bag clipped to the straps if you could get, "borrow", or homebrew one. Not the best of gear but much more convenient for certain troops vs the damnable haversack that had to be packed just so or the assault vests that were fine for brief approach but not so good for wading ashore out of LVTs in chin-deep water. Which they addressed later on with the M56 and M61 kit, being able to carry a pair either with an adapter or direct-clip.
I tried it on my Spear LT and can not replicate it. Makes me wonder if the guy making the video does not have the barrel seated correctly and the screws torqued properly. I do not have a gap in the handguard as pronounced as in the video. My rifle is also newish so it is not fully broken in.
Must be a problem for enough people that Arisaka has enough demand to sell a solution.
Thank you from dropping out. More for others. The spear will be around for a long time
What else does your crystal ball say?
Whoops, my mistake.
Don't have any Sig rifles so I'm apparently not paying close enough attention.
I'll exit stage left, carry on..
They actually make it for the Spear LT and a number of other Sig hand guards. I have one on my LT currently.
Do they do anything? I mean I'm not using a PEQ to shoot 600yds and at 100 it's accurate enough to stay center mass.
Actually yeah, it did make a bit of a difference even on my LT which has a short hand guard. Not earth shattering by any means but it does secure it from two sides so to speak and you can definitely see the logic behind it while installing. Not over the top expensive and easy to install too. Plus I've learned to accept that I'm a modaholic.
But yeah your point is totally valid. I don't think it's going to make a difference at a 100 yard range. Plus scopes on AR's are always mounted on the upper receiver anyway (PEQ's diff story). I have a Sig Cross and the rail from the hand guard extends onto the upper and causes issues with zero unless the mount is moved back so it's interfacing with just the upper receiver. On the Spears, it's the opposite, with a portion of the rail sticking out over the hand guard. Thought it was pretty clever first time I took the rifle apart.
But yeah your point is totally valid. I don't think it's going to make a difference at a 100 yard range. Plus scopes on AR's are always mounted on the upper receiver anyway (PEQ's diff story). I have a Sig Cross and the rail from the hand guard extends onto the upper and causes issues with zero unless the mount is moved back so it's interfacing with just the upper receiver. On the Spears, it's the opposite, with a portion of the rail sticking out over the hand guard. Thought it was pretty clever first time I took the rifle apart.
Don’t be a hater…. It going to be the new weapon. Be good with it. Evolution is good.
There is no way you are that dumb to ask that… when you ask a question like that, run it across your husband first. Damn
uh.. yea. It’s been adopted already. I think many are in denial about it. It’s happening whether people like it or not. I can’t believe how many are in denial… lmao.
So this is the first time you've watched a bunch of high ranking brass and politicians grease the palms of friends in the industry, waste millions of taxpayer dollars to develop the next greatest system, line their own pockets, "adopt" said system, make sure to get plenty of promotional press photos of the system "spreading democracy " to hype it and justify the expense, then years later you'll talk to boots who have never personally seen one in the field?
Meanwhile all those boots will keep saying they didn't get sufficient range time or proficiency with the last weapon system, much less the new one.
Not saying you can't teach an old dog new tricks, just saying I wouldn't hold my breath. Government has a long track record of screwing up everything it touches.
So you are saying this weapon is a product of high ranking military personnel greasing thier pockets and taking care of sig? Show me some proof. You are a pompous ass. It’s obvious you don’t like the weapon. Everyone can see that. Got it. When were you in? About 50 years ago? If ever? You are the guy who can’t stay away from a thread that you hate. It’s like the judge who max out a DUI and then gets busted for one. It’s a good weapon. Deal with it. You are the guy who hates innovation. Embrace it.
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Calm down Karen. I don't care about the Spear either way. It's clear that you've fallen in love, and that's fine. Go rub another one out over it.
It had nothing to do with me falling in love. It was about you getting called out on your BS and making up crap. You can deflect by calling me Karen or whatever. You got exposed spreading a bunch of crap. Stop it. Don’t need anymore CNN conspiracies from people.
What? Stop pulling strawman arguments out of your ass. You didn't call out anything, you just changed the subject four times in one paragraph and didn't once address the well known fact that many selection processes are heavily influenced by money and politics, and this may or may not just be another one of those cases.
Remember the .276 Pederson? Remember the M14? Remember the way the US forced 7.62x51 on Nato when all our allies were already developing superior cartridges? History proves that the military industrial complex makes equipment selection errors all the time, and to say the Spear is definitely not one of them before it's had its baptism by fire just screams fanboi-ism.
You also didn't address the part where current service members aren't being taught how to shoot, how will adding weapon weight, size and recoil cancel out poor fundamentals?
If you can't respond with cogent arguments, counterpoints or even stay on topic, maybe it's best not to respond at all.
Aside from Tony’s nonesense, has anyone shot one for accuracy? I have a 716 G2 piston that shoots .75 most of the time. I’m thinking about getting the 13 inch 308 SBR. I want to make it a mini DMR. Thanks for any input
Just wait till Knights drops a commercially available 18" 6.5 Creedmoor SR25. . The Sig tide will shift
