- Location
- Calgary, Alberta
(This is a double post, I put in under General but it's mostly black guns so I thought I would post it here as well):
So I went and it was VERY hot! :lol:
I suspect these pics will look quite big at lower resolutions, (and they're a bit crap) but anyway:
FN SCAR semi-auto, they're only releasing 4,000 this year because of some contract clause with the DoD I was told. Honestly I wasn't that impressed by it as you can see from the trigger group:
And then there's this:
Ruger's gas piston AR-15 knock-off. Unlike a lot of these gas piston guns this one seemed like it might actually work.
The S&W .22 AR-15.
Made mainly from Zytel as far as I could see, the trigger mech is standard AR-15 though, the MSRP is $499.
Colt has a monolithic rail.
Para-Ordnance has moved to the US and is marketing the ZM weapons "gas piston" AR-15, I'm not sure it actually is a gas piston per se, it's just a longer carrier key and the bolt carrier is chopped in half. Good for IPSC rifle competitions because there is less mass so less recoil.
Oh look everyone, a gas piston operated AR-15! Zzzzz. This is the military one, they make a semi-auto version called the MR556 which costs some idiotic amount of money and has all the "military" features deleted.
7.62mm version of said gun, this is a mock-up, it had no internal parts, availability the end of the year apparently.
As used by the UK MoD police, bit of a dud though I think because 5.7x28 is definitely winning the PDW race. As demonstrated by:
This is a pretty clever idea, the FN people were miffed by it when I asked them what they thought of it! Be even more clever if Ruger made the 10/22 in 5.7.
Semi-auto version of the M240 GPMG, MOA accuracy apparently.
Made by Umarex, called a "Colt" because the name has been licensed to them, it's a .22LR AR-15 but for reasons that escape me the trigger mech works in a different way so an AR-15 mech cannot be used in it, they told me. Very well made though I thought. The mags are bespoke as well, also well made.
A shaky close-up of the receiver.
You'll never guess - it's a gas piston operated AR-15. What gets me about all these companies making them is that for the average civilian user, the standard gas impingement system is a better idea because you don't have the mass of the gas piston moving back and forth so accuracy should be better. Only the ZM/ParaUSA gun seemed to take that factor into account.
EAA sell Zastava stuff in the US, the girls I suppose are intended to distract us from the crapness of the product range. I think they also are the Tanfoglio importers.
Meh, it's a website, they had to do something to make it interesting. Maybe I should hire them, :lol:
The new RTF2 version of the Glock, which standards for "Rough Texture Frame 2" because the first version wasn't rough enough. This is a significant improvement I thought but I wish they'd lose the finger groove grip which is pointless. Also they've changed the slide serrations to make them look cooler but now they don't work. And miracle of miracles, sights made of metal are now a standard factory "option".
The new and improved model which now comes with a rail which you can use to clip on your gold medallion. And guess what, this one was in .38 Super as well. I guess every market has a niche.
So I went and it was VERY hot! :lol:
I suspect these pics will look quite big at lower resolutions, (and they're a bit crap) but anyway:
FN SCAR semi-auto, they're only releasing 4,000 this year because of some contract clause with the DoD I was told. Honestly I wasn't that impressed by it as you can see from the trigger group:
And then there's this:
Ruger's gas piston AR-15 knock-off. Unlike a lot of these gas piston guns this one seemed like it might actually work.
The S&W .22 AR-15.
Made mainly from Zytel as far as I could see, the trigger mech is standard AR-15 though, the MSRP is $499.
Colt has a monolithic rail.
Para-Ordnance has moved to the US and is marketing the ZM weapons "gas piston" AR-15, I'm not sure it actually is a gas piston per se, it's just a longer carrier key and the bolt carrier is chopped in half. Good for IPSC rifle competitions because there is less mass so less recoil.
Oh look everyone, a gas piston operated AR-15! Zzzzz. This is the military one, they make a semi-auto version called the MR556 which costs some idiotic amount of money and has all the "military" features deleted.
7.62mm version of said gun, this is a mock-up, it had no internal parts, availability the end of the year apparently.
As used by the UK MoD police, bit of a dud though I think because 5.7x28 is definitely winning the PDW race. As demonstrated by:
This is a pretty clever idea, the FN people were miffed by it when I asked them what they thought of it! Be even more clever if Ruger made the 10/22 in 5.7.
Semi-auto version of the M240 GPMG, MOA accuracy apparently.
Made by Umarex, called a "Colt" because the name has been licensed to them, it's a .22LR AR-15 but for reasons that escape me the trigger mech works in a different way so an AR-15 mech cannot be used in it, they told me. Very well made though I thought. The mags are bespoke as well, also well made.
A shaky close-up of the receiver.
You'll never guess - it's a gas piston operated AR-15. What gets me about all these companies making them is that for the average civilian user, the standard gas impingement system is a better idea because you don't have the mass of the gas piston moving back and forth so accuracy should be better. Only the ZM/ParaUSA gun seemed to take that factor into account.
EAA sell Zastava stuff in the US, the girls I suppose are intended to distract us from the crapness of the product range. I think they also are the Tanfoglio importers.
Meh, it's a website, they had to do something to make it interesting. Maybe I should hire them, :lol:
The new RTF2 version of the Glock, which standards for "Rough Texture Frame 2" because the first version wasn't rough enough. This is a significant improvement I thought but I wish they'd lose the finger groove grip which is pointless. Also they've changed the slide serrations to make them look cooler but now they don't work. And miracle of miracles, sights made of metal are now a standard factory "option".
The new and improved model which now comes with a rail which you can use to clip on your gold medallion. And guess what, this one was in .38 Super as well. I guess every market has a niche.
