Full-auto redux

[Sinasta]

Ahahaha I did teach a few reserve DP1 courses, but I heard BMOQ is where all the scary stuff happens

If you want a good laugh, watch them try and do a fireman carry on BMOQ.

 

[Cameron SS]

Sorry but you young pups lost me for a bit, BMOQ was called CFOCS (Officer Candidate School) in my time. Yes, it was scary, it is supposed to be. Lots of pressure to perform, very little sleep, and the BS piled high enough that they made you rope up to climb over it. We did not have select fire on the FNC1. I have read that the select fire 3 round was chosen after much testing. The idea was that the 3 round burst gave the best chance of a hit (over 80%), any more was just a waste of ammo.

Damn! Am I suddenly that old now? It's bad enough that a plane I once piloted is now in the NA museum in Ottawa.

You describe the course as a candidate, experiencing engineered stress. The stress the instructors experience when getting lazed by loaded firearms or having grenades dropped at their feet by scared and negligent candidates is a tad bit different.

 

[Cameron SS]

If you want a good laugh, watch them try and do a fireman carry on BMOQ.

Ha ha ha. Firemans carry + weapon slung muzzle down = core sample

 

[angryeyebrows]

Ahahaha I did teach a few reserve DP1 courses, but I heard BMOQ is where all the scary stuff happens

A reserve DP1 ain’t got nothing on BMOQ-L...or BMOQ-A, as I think it’s called now.

 

[lawn gnome]

From the ruskie side, the AK was a replacement for their submachine guns.
So the semi automatic function is actually the anomaly on an AK selector switch, with full auto being the expected norm.
The fact semi auto aimed shots cn be taken is just a bonus.
Something to think about.

The adoption of the 5.45 round is an even bigger bonus.
As it mimics the wound characteristics of a M193 and the armour penetration of a M855.
It still suffers from accurcy issues but is more than capable for fig 11 sizes to 500m.

Funny, the Chinese experience they were never quite as fond of the Ak as the russians.
When they moved to the Type 81 they wanted a rifle.
I wonder if they had a full auto setting on their Type 81? or if they have one on their newer Type95 and type 03s?
Be curious for someone to explain if they use full auto and how they apply it.
I am sure they can apply full auto, but given their experience and preference for rifle fire, I suspect they frown upon it.

Be curious to know what the state of the choice on the selector switch is on the current US production of rifles and carbines?

 

[lawn gnome]

Teaching army courses, as it says in Ecclesiaistes,,,"there is nothing new under the Sun,,,.

 

[cyclone]

Interesting discussion.

There was a similar one about magazine cut offs back in the bolt action days.

No one cares more passionately & urgently about a riflenan's rate of fire than the actual rifleman...

 

[Tarrantula]

A reserve DP1 ain’t got nothing on BMOQ-L...or BMOQ-A, as I think it’s called now.

Lol

 

[cyclone]

Thanks again to all who responded....