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Now that is one hell of a Dog! From The Daily mail (UK)

Hero SAS dog saves the lives of six elite soldiers in Syria by ripping out jihadi’s throat while taking down three terrorists who ambushed British patrol

  • The dog had been out on patrol in northern Syria with a team of six crack troops 
  • As the soldiers left their armoured convoy they were hit with a frenzied ambush
  • A source said the unnamed Belgian Malinois took out three jihadis on its own 
  • The SAS commander in charge credited the dog with saving all his men’s lives

By GEORGE MARTIN FOR MAILONLINE

An SAS team was saved after a brave military dog fought off a jihadi who attacked a patrol in northern Syria.

The unnamed Belgian Malinois, a fierce breed of sheepdog known for its bravery, had been out on a routine patrol with a team of six crack soldiers from the SAS.

They had just entered a small village in a convoy of armoured vehicles when they got out to continue the recce on foot.

But soon after they left the safety of the convoy, they were attacked on all sides by waiting jihadis in what was described as a ‘360 degree ambush’.

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The team had been on patrol with a Belgian Malinois (pictured), a breed known for their bravery [file photo]

The team had been on patrol with a Belgian Malinois (pictured), a breed known for their bravery [file photo]

The SAS men returned fire but the jihadis began closing in and tried to outflank them.

The animal was said to have leapt to the defence of the struggling British soldiers, tearing the throat of on gunman who was firing at the patrol. 

It then turned on two other

A source told the Daily Star: ‘The SAS found themselves in a 360-degree ambush.

‘The initiative was with the terrorists and the only hope for the British was to try and make a run for it.

‘The handler removed the dog’s muzzle and directed him into a building from where they were coming under fire.

‘They could hear screaming and shouting before the firing from the house stopped.

The small SAS troupe had been out on a routine patrol in a small village in northern Syria [file photo]

The small SAS troupe had been out on a routine patrol in a small village in northern Syria

‘When the team entered the building they saw the dog standing over a dead gunman.

The incident was said to have taken place two months ago, but details of the dog’s bravery can only be made public now for security reasons.

‘His throat had been torn out and he had bled to death,’ the source continued, ‘There was also a lump of human flesh in one corner and a series of blood trails leading out of the back of the building.

‘The dog was virtually uninjured. The SAS were able to consolidate their defensive position and eventually break away from the battle without taking any casualties.’

The SAS commander in charge of the patrol credited the dog with directly saving the lives of all six of the men.

****One Dog that deserves a Huge Steak in my Humble opinion- Grumpy*****

The team had been on patrol with a Belgian Malinois (pictured), a breed known for their bravery [file photo]

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I would not mind owning one of these! Atomic Annie — The M65 Atomic Cannon

Designed in 1949 by the American Engineer Robert Schwarz, the M65 “Atomic Annie” was inspired by German railway guns used during World War II.  The M65 however, was designed to deliver a nuclear payload to its target.
The gun and carriage itself weighed around 85 tons, was manned by a crew of 5-7, and was transported by two specially designed towing tractors.
At 280mm in caliber and capable of firing a projectile over 20 miles, the gun was certainly powerful enough as a conventional weapon, but the Atomic Annie was certainly no conventional weapon.
In 1953 it was tested for the first time at the Nevada Test Site, where it fired a 15 kiloton nuclear warhead, creating a blast similar in size to the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
After the successful test, 20 M65 cannons were produced for the US Army and deployed in Europe and Korea.  They were almost always in constant motion so the Soviets never knew where they were and could not target them.  Image result for M65 Atomic Cannon 
While an interesting weapon, the Atomic Annie suffered from limited range, especially after the development of ballistic missiles which could strike a target from thousands of miles away.
The last M65 Atomic Cannon was retired in 1963.  Today only 8 survive, and are displayed in museums across the country.
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The rare & very elusive Bren 10 pistol

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 Now I think that almost anyone with a pulse that was around in the ancient days of 1980’s saw at least once. The Cop show called Miami Vice.
Now it was very hip show with some great music in it. But in my mind the real star was the Bren 10 pistol. That seemed to be in almost every scene of the series.
The only major problem that I have with this pistol is that it is a very rare bird indeed to find. Let alone to shoot one or God Forbid buy one! (They only made about 1500 of them all told. So I have a better chance of getting hold of a Colt Boa!)
But as I have been told by folks that seem to have their shit together. It is a great pistol that help launch the 10mm pistol round fad.
Go figure!
Grumpy
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Bren Ten

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bren Ten
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Bren Ten pistol by Dornaus & Dixon
Type Semi-automatic pistol
Place of origin United States
Production history
Designer Michael Dixon, Thomas Dornaus
Designed 1983
Manufacturer Dornaus & Dixon Enterprises, Inc.
Produced 1983–1986
No. built 1,500
Variants Bren Ten Compact Models
Specifications
Weight 38 oz (1,100 g) (Standard Models)
33 oz (940 g) (Compact Model)
Length 8.75 in (222 mm) (Standard Models)
7.75 in (196.9 mm) (Compact Models)
Barrel length 5.00 in (127.0 mm) (Standard Models)
4.00 in (101.6 mm) (Compact Models)
Width 1.25 in (31.8 mm) (Standard Models, Compact Models)
Height 5.75 in (146.1 mm) (Standard Models, Compact Models)

Cartridge 10mm Auto
.45 ACP (11.43×23 mm)
Action Browning short recoil, vertically tilting barrel
Effective firing range 50 m
Feed system 8 or 10 round box magazine
Sights Adjustable 3-dot type; rear notch, front blade

The Bren Ten is a semi-automatic pistol chambered for 10mm Autothat was made by Dornaus & Dixon Enterprises Inc. from 1983 to 1986.
While the Bren Ten’s design has an appearance similar to the 9×19mm Parabellum CZ-75, it was larger and stronger with several unique design elements that made it a distinctly separate firearm.
The design was produced only in small numbers before the company went bankrupt. Subsequent attempts to bring the firearm back into production have been unsuccessful.
The Bren Ten remains a weapon of some controversy. Many enthusiasts consider it to be one of the best pistols of its era, and the 10mm Auto is one of the most powerful semi-automatic pistol rounds.
Issues reported with the gun when it was in its original production run included some of the units delivered with missing or inoperable magazines.
Spare magazines were hard to find and were relatively expensive. The 10mm Auto caliber was at first unique to this pistol, and produced initially by FFV Norma AB of ÅmotforsSweden.

History

In the 1970s the police and some military forces used a mix of semi-automatic designs and revolvers.
Automatics offered high rates of fire and quick reloading, but generally used small rounds that would neither overstress the mechanism nor the shooter.
Revolvers were offered in calibers with considerably more power than the automatics, but held only a small number of rounds and were fairly slow to reload. Neither could be considered ideal.
On December 13, 1979, Thomas Dornaus and Michael Dixon decided to start the development of a new semi-automatic pistol to address the gap between revolvers and automatics.
What was needed, they believed, was a semiautomatic pistol with its greater ammunition capacity and faster reloads, but one that would deliver power exceeding both the .45 ACP and the .357 Magnum. They hoped the new design would become as popular as the then-aged Colt 1911.
On January 15, 1980, they went seeking advice from the most knowledgeable sources available. This effort led to Jeff Cooper.
Upon seeking his advice, the two discovered that he had already been working on such a pistol. The trio combined their efforts: Dornaus and Dixon provided the engineering, development, manufacturing, and marketing, while Cooper provided conceptual design criteria and technical advice.
The company was formally incorporated as Dornaus & Dixon Enterprises Inc. on July 15, 1981 in California, and a new factory was set up in Huntington Beach.
The pistol, meanwhile, was adapted from the CZ-75 but heavily modified, including a stainless steel frame, easily visible sights, and various other features that would normally only be found on heavily customized arms.
The original prototype named CSP-80 was chambered in .45 ACP. Jeff Cooper however insisted that the new gun be chambered in what he termed the .40 Special. His ballistic requirements were that a 40 caliber 200 grain FMJTC bullet fired from a 5″ barrel have a minimum target impact velocity at all reasonable combat ranges out to 50 meters of 1,000 FPS.
Because of this and the fact that the CSP-80 was chambered in .45 ACP, the shorter cased concepts such as the .40 G&A were abandoned and work began on the .45 ACP length .40 Special using shortened .30 Remington rifle brass.
The resultant wildcat cartridge was then renamed the 10mm Auto. Jeff Cooper took this and renamed the Combat Service Pistol 80 the Bren Ten.
Production of the Bren Ten ran from 1983 to 1986, with a production run of fewer than 1,500 total pistols according to some sources.
They had started taking orders in 1982, forcing them to ship out examples as soon as possible, before any sort of in-depth testing could be done.
The first batch of pistols was sent out to the customers with one magazine from a pre-serial batch. The much needed magazines could not be available on the US market for two years because Italy prohibited their export and customs seized them as war material.
Customers cancelled their orders and in 1986 Dornaus & Dixon Inc. was forced to file for bankruptcy.

Design details

The Bren Ten models borrow some traits from the famous CZ-75 pistol design, however the “Ten” is not a clone of the CZ line of firearms.
The Bren Ten was offered in several variants in full sized and compact pistol frame sizes, made out of stainless steel. The slides were made out of carbon steel and had a blued or hard chromed finish.
.45 ACP conversion kit was available for all full size Bren Ten variants. All full sized models contain a dual head screw driver built into the recoil spring guide rod which fits all screws used in the pistol and serves as an emergency tool for performing field repairs.
The nose of the magazine base plate serves as a wrench used to remove the castellated barrel bushing. Very early guns feature rear sights adjustable for windage with opposing tension set screws. Later guns have click adjustable rear sights.
The Bren Ten is a short recoil operated, locked breech semi-automatic pistol that uses a Browning Hi-Power style linkless system.
The pistol has the capability of being fired single– or double action and feature a reversible frame-mounted combat thumb manual safety that locks the sear so the trigger cannot be moved rearward as well as an internal firing pin block safety which stops the firing pin from traveling forward.
The manual safety allows the pistol to be carried with the hammer back, ready for use just by switching the safety off, a configuration known as condition one.
The Bren Ten has adjustable iron sights with three dots for increased visibility. The Bren Ten standard grips are made by Hogue from black textured nylon.

Magazines

The capacity of the detachable box magazines of the Bren Ten pistols varies from chambering to chambering and the exact Bren Ten variant.
Technically the length of the magazine well in the grip frame dictates the shortest possible magazine length and accompanying minimum ammunition capacity. The manufacturer offered the following default factory magazine capacities:

Model / Chambering 10mm Auto .45 ACP
Full size and 10mm compact models magazine capacity (in rounds) 10 8
Pocket model magazine capacity (in rounds) 8

Variants

Standard Models

The Bren Ten Standard Model is the basis for the entire line of Bren Ten pistols. Basically, the only differences between the Standard Model and the rest of the Bren Ten line deal with finish, barrel length and chambering.
In the case of the Dual-Master and Initial Issue/Jeff Cooper Commemorative other extras include special engraving, a special walnut presentation case and, for the Dual-Master, an extra slide and barrel.
Basically, these guns were Standard Models with added window dressing. The Bren Ten Standard Models could combine a stainless steel frame and a blued carbon steel slide, though some collectors/owners opted for aftermarket hard chroming factory blued slides to make the pistols look like the Miami Vice Bren Tens.
The full size models were made in the following variations:

  • Bren Ten Standard Model (SM) – the basis for the entire line of Bren Ten pistols.
  • Bren Ten Military/Police (MP) – targeted law enforcement and military contracts.
  • Bren Ten Dual-Master Presentation Model – 10mm Auto and .45 ACP included two upper assemblies.
  • Bren Ten Initial Issue/Jeff Cooper Commemorative – listed at $2,000 in the 1984 wholesale price list.
  • Bren Ten Marksman Special Match – .45 ACP non-catalogued item (250 pistols made).
  • Bren Ten API – Standard Models with special serial numbers made for the American Pistol Institute.
  • Bren Ten Original Prototype – manufactured from billet steel.
  • Miami Vice Bren Tens – .45 ACP blanks firing pistols with hard chromed slides for better low light television scenes visibility (2 pistols made).

Compact Models

The Bren Ten Special Forces Models are basically short barreled versions of the full sized Bren Ten.
The Special Forces Bren Ten Model was offered in two variants; L (Light) with a hard chromed slide and D (Dark) with a matte blued slide. Both were introduced at the 1984 SHOT Show.

Pocket Model

The Bren Ten Pocket Model is a subcompact short barreled Bren Ten variant with a special compact frame that deviates from the Standard and Compact models.
Further it retained many of the features of the Bren Ten Standard Model. No production models were ever made. A hand made working prototype built by Tom Dornaus was used for advertising graphics.

Accessories

Factory accessories included extremely rare white Hogue nylon grips, smooth and checkered walnut grips by Herrett, and a very few and therefore rare 6″ 10mm barrels. Factory accessories cataloged but never built include .22LR conversion kits and ambidextrous safeties.
A black Cordura nylon carrying case was commissioned by the Marksman Shop for the non-cataloged Marksman Special. System Ten Associates produced a line of accessories not endorsed by Dornaus & Dixon, Inc. .
These included posters, silk screened T-shirts, baseball caps, jacket patches, tie tacs/lapel pins, web Para Belts and brass belt buckles.

Bren Ten resurrection

In 1986 after Dornaus & Dixon Enterprises Inc. closed, entrepreneur Richard Voit purchased all intellectual and certain physical assets from the bankruptcy courts and established The Bren Ten Corporation.
This entity eventually became Peregrine Industries. Models included the Peregrine Falcon and Phoenix. Peregrine Industries, however, fell victim to the Savings and Loan scandals of the early 1990s and saw their lines of credit disappear.
Consequently, while many Falcon and Phoenix 1st articles were produced for testing, none were launched.
On February 1, 2008, Vltor Weapon Systems of Tucson, Arizona, announced that they would be resurrecting the Bren Ten with the launch of their Vltor Fortis pistol project.[1]
The blog hinted that the project would involve a more modern version of the Bren Ten design, but offered little other information. On July 27, 2009, Vltor announced they obtained the rights to use the Bren Ten name and “Circle X” logo for the production version of the Fortis project and intend to release the pistol as the Vltor Bren Ten in May 2010.[2]
In January 2015 the company released a letter stating that their efforts to produce the firearm had not met quality standards but that they were still committed to the project and predicted going into full production in 2016.[3]
However, as of 1 September 2017 no production guns are available and no projected release date is available from Vltor.

In film and television

The Bren Ten is notable for having been one of Sonny Crockett‘s pistols in the television series Miami Vice. Excluding the pilot episode, he wore the pistol during the first and second seasons of the show.[4][5]

See also

References

  1. Jump up^ Vltor blog about the Fortis
  2. Jump up^ [1]
  3. Jump up^ https://www.vltor.com/2015/02/06/bren-ten-2015-update/
  4. Jump up^ Ayoob, Massad (2008). The Gun Digest Book of Concealed Carry. Gun Digest. p. 177. ISBN 978-0-89689-611-6.
  5. Jump up^ Sweeney, Patrick (2003). The Gun Digest Book of the Glock. Gun Digest. p. 148. ISBN 978-0-87349-558-5.
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S&W M&P 10 Sport Rifle

Smith & Wesson Adds M&P10 SPORT Rifle to the Popular M&P Lineup

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The M&P10 SPORT Rifle is the latest addition to Smith & Wesson Corp’s award-winning M&P10 rifle lineup.
The M&P10 SPORT rifle features a popular 16″ barrel with a .30 caliber A2-style flash suppressor. Chambered in .308 WIN/7.62×51 NATO caliber, the Sport is optics-ready  and equipped with ambidextrous controls for both right and left handed shooters.

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Specifications & Features:

  • Chambered in .308 WIN/7.62×51 NATO
  • Mid-length gas operating system for lower felt recoil
  • Semiautomatic
  • Medium-contour 16″ barrel
  • 5R rifling for increased accuracy
  • 6-position telescopic stock
  • Corrosion resistant Armornite finish on barrel interior & exterior
  • Optics-ready with picatinny top rail and gas block
  • 20 round Magpul PMAG
  • MSRP: $1,049

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“In 2013, Smith & Wesson introduced the award-winning M&P10 rifle, which quickly became a popular choice with consumers.
Today, we’re proud to expand the M&P10 line of modern sporting rifles with the release of the M&P10 SPORT rifle in .308 WIN.
The SPORT rifle offers consumers a top performing modern sporting rifle at a competitive price, and is well suited for target, hunting and competitive sport shooting,” said Jan Mladek, General Manager of Smith & Wesson and M&P brands.
For more information, visit www.smith-wesson.com.

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FN SCAR Review – The Most Refined Assault Rifle in the World by WILL DABBS

The FN SCAR 16S is the semiauto-only version of the SCAR-L that is available to us mere mortals. Rugged, well reasoned, and fun, the SCAR is the optimized modern combat rifle.

The HK416 that DevGru used to introduce Osama bin Laden to his seventy dark-eyed virgins was itself an evolutionary offshoot of the space age weapon that Gene Stoner and a few others conjured up way back in 1958. While its ergonomics are unparalleled and its design undeniably inspired, the basic chassis is more than half a century old. Back in 1958 a telephone was tethered to the wall, weighed as much as a frying pan, and was nearly as large. Surely this deep into the Information Age we could do better.
About every twenty minutes, somebody in the US Army posts a list of specifications that drives the flower of modern engineering prowess into an apoplectic furor of frenetic gun design. The carrot that drives all this capitalistic chaos is the prestige and subsequent vast market share that opens up to the weapons company that supplies the guns that American grunts pack downrange. In addition to the obvious monetary benefits of a fat government production contract, everybody knows that the coolest kids on the block serve with the US Special Operations Command. If Uncle Sam’s Bad Boys are humping a particular smoke pole then everybody else on the planet will want one just like it.
Most of these fishing expeditions don’t amount to much. Everybody gets tooled up for a while, but budget priorities change, somebody new moves into the White House, or we go to war someplace else and the process starts anew. Such boondoggles brought us the XM8 assault rifle as well as the XM25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement System. These weapons were both undeniably awesome, but you can’t find one outside a museum nowadays. However, every now and then something truly magical happens.
Sig’s new M17 Modular Handgun System made such a splash. Uncle Sam now wants more than 400,000 copies. Additionally, everybody’s aunt out here in the civilian world is waiting in line for one as well. A proper government arms contract can put a company firmly on the map. With this as an impetus in 2004, Fabrique Nationale rejoiced when their newest rifle system was selected as the new Special Operations Forces Combat Assault Rifle.

SCAR—The World’s Coolest Acronym (Special Operations Forces Combat Assault Rifle)

It was decided soon after the turn of the century that our boys and girls in SOCOM needed something spiffier than a fifty-year-old M16 variant. They go places and do things that others don’t, so their requirements might be a bit more stringent than is the case for the rest of us mere mortals. After a competitive comparison wherein the baddest operators in the business did their dead level best to tear up everybody’s newest toys the FN offering reigned supreme. The end result was indeed a spanking piece of iron.

The SCAR-L saw some active service before Uncle Sam changed his mind and pulled it from the inventory. Here we see the SCAR-L in the hands of USAF Captain Barry Crawford, winner of the Air Force Cross for gallantry in combat in Afghanistan.

Modularity is the new gospel in modern firepower, and the FN SCAR just drips with it. The upper receiver starts out as an extruded bit of aluminum, while the polymer lower contains the fire control system and secures the magazine. There are two major subtypes. The SCAR-Light (SCAR-L) runs 5.56x45mm. The SCAR-Heavy (SCAR-H) chambers 7.62x51mm. There were rumors of conversions allowing these guns to fire 7.62x39mm and 6.8x43mm Remington, but these variants never really made it to prime time. The SCAR-H can also be fitted with a conversion kit allowing it to run smaller 5.56x45mm rounds. The SCAR-L cannot be scaled up, however.
Both versions run off of a gas tappet design similar to that of the M1 Carbine. This particular method of operation keeps all the crud up front in the weapon so the operating parts stay clean and cool. The bolt carrier is a fairly massive piece of kit, so the rifle has plenty of spare energy to keep the action running when it gets dirty. The barrels are chrome-lined, free-floated, and easily exchanged. This allows a single chassis to be used for long-range engagements, mid-range assault rifle chores, and close-range CQB missions. There’s that modularity again.
Starting at the nose, the SCAR uses a proprietary muzzle brake/flash suppressor that looks like a Jackson Pollack painting but remains undeniably effective. The gas system of the SCAR is easily adjustable without tools. Top quality backup iron sights fold when not needed yet deploy quickly for use when life goes truly sideways. The front sight is adjustable for zero, while the rear sight readily compensates for bullet drop. The gun sprouts enough Picatinny rail space to mount a tactical crockpot along with a modest pinball machine.

The front backup iron sight is robust steel and folds down when not in use. The SCAR’s gas system is easily adjustable without tools.

The charging handle is rigid and reciprocates with the action so it can be used as a forward assist device if needed. This appendage is easily reversible at the user level, but one needs to mind one’s fingers lest they get pinched when rushed. The magazine release is in the expected place on both sides of the rifle, while the bolt release runs exactly like that of an M4. You can drop the bolt just as easily by giving the charging handle a quick snatch to the rear.

The rigid charging handle reciprocates with the bolt and can be used as a forward assist if necessary.

The safety/selector is bilateral and in the same spot as that of the M4. However, it only rotates through maybe 80 degrees. In this regard, it more closely resembles that of an HK G36. The SCAR-L is designed to feed from any NATO-standard 5.56mm magazine. The SCAR-H uses proprietary FN magazines.

The FN SCAR’s controls will seem familiar to anyone who has run an M4.

The real magic happens with the rear end of the rifle. The stock on the SCAR is as adjustable as your favorite recliner. Once you get it tweaked the gun fits you like your most beloved pair of broken-in boxer shorts. In addition to a readily adjustable length of pull and comb height, the whole shebang pivots to the right for storage if need be. The rifle will still shoot fine with the stock folded, but nobody in his right mind would run it that way for real. By my count, there are six different sling attachment points. If you can’t find a handy place to hook a sling you are being too picky.

The SCAR’s buttstock adjusts all over the place to ideally interface with the gun’s operator. It also folds to the right for storage or transport.

The side-folding stock on the FN SCAR readily adjusts for both comb height and length of pull without tools.

Tactical Glass

I topped my SCAR with a new EOTech EXPS2 Holosight sporting a green reticle in concert with a flip-up magnifier. These two items are hardly cheap, but the last thing Osama bin Laden saw as he embarked for his well-earned eternal reward was the angry end of a Holosight. I can think of no higher accolade.

The newest EOTech EXPS2 Green Holosight takes the world’s best gun sight to a new level of performance. While it is hardly cheap, the end result is easy target acquisition and fast engagement times.

The perception of color is a billion dollar industry. The good ladies in my medical clinic will order blue t-shirts calling them periwinkle and pink ones titled mauve. Out here in guy-world where I live such things are much simpler. Blue is just blue, while pink is simply pink. However, our eyes do typically get a lot more mileage out of green than red.
Take laser sights as an example. Both green and red laser sights may put out the same 500mw of power, yet the green sort is perceived as being much brighter. Green dots seem to throw much farther than red. In the case of the newest Holosight, the same cool laser-born holographic reticle seems to magically hover out over your target, but the green reticle is six times easier to see in daylight than is the red sort.
I have more than half a century on my eyes so I suffer from the inevitable age-related Presbyopia. This means I can see fine at a distance but need reading glasses up close. However, that weird Holosight reticle projected onto a little pane of indestructible glass two inches from my eyeball remains crystal clear just like my distant target. I have no idea how it works. Fairy dust maybe.

Trigger Time

A tricked-out SCAR is an absolute dream on the range. The controls are all easily accessible, and once properly adjusted the buttstock fits me like a second skin. Recoil is a joke, and the gun stays flat and true at reasonable assault rifle ranges. The reciprocating charging handle takes a little getting used to, but it’s not a chore. Care must be exercised, however, not to pinch your fingers between the charging handle and the Holosight.
The gun is bulkier than your M4 though no heavier. The safety doesn’t seem quite so easy to re-engage, but I’ve been running an M16 since I was seventeen. Some things are tough to unlearn.
They say a direct gas impingement AR is more accurate, but that’s nuance at best. The SCAR shoots great as far as my eyes will allow. Anybody who splits those hairs is just a snob.
Particularly with a can in place the gun is pleasantly front-heavy. This means doubles are fast and easy. Muzzle rise on semi auto with the SCAR is not a real thing. After a proper afternoon turning ammo into noise I find I must agree with SOCOM. The SCAR is the ultimate shooting machine.

The Rest of the Story…

After a great deal of fanfare, USSOCOM bought enough SCAR-L rifles to outfit a Ranger Battalion and then sent them downrange with their best wishes. By all accounts the weapons performed admirably, but, like a dog chasing a squirrel, Uncle Sam got distracted, ran out of money, and called the whole thing off. By 2013 all those lovely SCAR-L rifles had been pulled out of inventory and likely, knowing the government, ended up chopped up into beer cans or something comparably ignoble.

Though the SCAR-L fell prey to budgetary woes, it is nonetheless a superb and mature special ops small arms solution.

The SCAR-H still soldiers on with alacrity albeit in markedly smaller numbers. A conversion kit indeed allows this rifle to run 5.56 ammo if desired, and the SCAR-H occupies the Designated Marksman Rifle role that had been filled by antiquated though updated M14 variants previously. Internet chatter claims that the Navy SEALs are still particularly fond of the gun. That is likely true. However, the Internet also tells me that Caitlyn Jenner is carrying the Loch Ness Monster’s baby and that the moon landings were faked on a soundstage in New Mexico. One mustn’t believe everything one reads.

The Navy SEALs are said to be quite fond of the SCAR-H rifles. The SCAR-H is a modular weapon that can be configured to fire either 5.56x45mm or 7.62x51mm rounds.

FN is quick to point out that the SCAR got binned for budgetary reasons and not something more sinister. Nobody disputes that the SCAR is a better rifle than the M4. It is simply that Uncle Sam discovered more pressing places to spend our hard-earned cash. After a little trigger time on mine, I find myself quite taken with the gun as well.

Denouement

The FN SCAR 16S is the semiauto civilian version of the SCAR-L. It’s an undeniably great rifle that is pretty crazy expensive. If you are in possession of a robust credit card you can usually find a couple right here at GunsAmerica. I bought mine at a good price at a Sheriff’s auction of seized guns, of all places. The rifle is in fine condition, but I am intrigued by the story. How someone on the wrong side of the law ended up with such a rarefied combat rifle is thought provoking to say the least.
The SCAR rode its SOCOM cred to be adopted by twenty-seven different countries as well as LAPD SWAT. Belgium adopted the SCAR as their standard Infantry arm. Though our snake-eaters took a step back to their old M4 carbines I suspect we will still see more of the SCAR in the future. The FN SCAR really is tomorrow’s high-end combat rifle.

Though the SCAR-L was pulled from the SOCOM inventory, some twenty-seven different nations adopted the weapon in one form or another.

To learn more about the FN SCAR visit FN America by clicking here.
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Technical Specifications

FN SCAR 16S
Caliber                           5.56x45mm
Operation                       Short-stroke Gas Piston
Magazine Capacity          10/30
Weight                           7.25 pounds
Barrel Length                  16.25 inches
Overall Length                27.5 inches folded/37.5 inches extended
Barrel                             Hammer-forged, Chrome-lined, Free-floated
MSRP                            $3299
Performance Specifications
FN SCAR 16S
Load                               Group Size (inches)        Velocity (feet per second)
American Eagle 55gr FMJ                 2.1                        2969
American Eagle 50gr JHP                  1.9                        3194
HSM 55gr Sierra Blitzking                0.8                        2976
SIG 60gr HT                                     1.5                        2605
 
Group size is the best four of five shots measured center to center and fired from a simple rest at 100 meters. Velocity is the average of three shots fired across a Caldwell Ballistic Chronograph oriented ten feet from the muzzle.

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And now you know why a good knife cost so much!

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