furryanarchy [comrade/them,they/them]

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  • I shoot my buddies 101 every other week. It's extremely loud. Like, when we start shooting everyone else at the range snaps their necks over to see what the hell is going on. Zero perceptible recoil tho, it literally feels like shooting a .22. I bet they are amazing in full auto.

    However, if you take the muzzle brake off, fixing the noise issue, the recoil becomes a problem. It's still mild, but it feels like it's almost entirely turned into muzzle flip. Making the gun hard to control.

    Also, accessories are very expensive. Even basic stuff like, an mlok handguard is a good chunk of $100. The guns don't function properly unless you get the expensive $35-40 mags either. And you have to buy expensive extras to get basic functionality like an optics rail. Plus the guns are really expensive for some reason. Double the cost of an AR of similar quality.

    The ergos are also terrible. Like, you can't chamber a round with the safety on, you have to shift your grip to manipulate the fire selector, if you fumble the mag insertion you can cause the gun to jam, you have to reach around the gun to reload, you have to use a riser on your optic or else you have to hold the gun weird to not be blocking the sights with your hand, etc.

    They look cool tho.


  • If you think .308 is too much recoil and it makes it unpleasant to shoot, it's 100% a skill issue. Not to say you suck if you have a problem with it, but literally it is only a problem if you are holding the rifle wrong. Even slightly wrong and it's a problem. So train more, basically. It's easy to get bad habits when you only shoot 5.56.

    The extra weight of ammo and the rifle itself is the problem, not the recoil. At any reasonable combat range, .308 has little advantage over 5.56. In combat, you absolutely need at least one person with something in .308, either a dmr or a machine gun (ideally both), but for the majority of your people 5.56 is far superior.