Soldiers In Texas Are Putting The Army's Newest Marksman Rifle Through Its Paces

[Wilkie]

Neat looking rifle. That article needs some proof reading though. They seem to be confusing the HK416 and 417 at one point, as the 417 never fired the 5.56 cartridge as they state. After this they go on to say the 416 fires and even smaller cartridge to that. Obviously the 416 and 417 have always fired the 5.56x45 and 7.62x51 respectively and this new rifle is a direvitive of the latter.

[JDForBrkFst]

We has a marksman program/project at some point but the dinosaurs ####canned it as soon as Kandahar was over...

The dinosaurs came out of the wood work once Canada stopped combat operations. I'm glad I was able to participate in our short lived DM program. I learned a lot in training, and overseas from it.

[r34skyline]

Neat looking rifle. That article needs some proof reading though. They seem to be confusing the HK416 and 417 at one point, as the 417 never fired the 5.56 cartridge as they state. After this they go on to say the 416 fires and even smaller cartridge to that. Obviously the 416 and 417 have always fired the 5.56x45 and 7.62x51 respectively and this new rifle is a direvitive of the latter.

They were refering to the csass which is 7.62x51.

The m38 dmr used by the marine corps is a revised m27 variant/hk416 which is a 5.56x45 gun.

Hope this clears up the article for you.

Those oss cans look like a pretty neat concept. No baffles.

[Wilkie]

They were refering to the csass which is 7.62x51.

The m38 dmr used by the marine corps is a revised m27 variant/hk416 which is a 5.56x45 gun.

Hope this clears up the article for you.

Those oss cans look like a pretty neat concept. No baffles.

Yep the rest of the article checked out for me, I just completely misread the third or fourth paragraph:

“The rifle is a variant of the Hecker and Koch HK417, which is itself a derivative of the AR-15/M16 series that fire the 5.56x45mm round. The German-headquartered firm also makes a rifle, the increasingly popular HK416, in the smaller caliber.”

Reading it again I mentally missed some words and commas hah. Cheers.