Steyr AUG

[444]

"I'd take 117 degrees of dry heat............"

That is sort of a running joke around here. A statement always associated with tourists from back east.
When working out in the sun, and you have ear wax running down the side of your head because it melted, one guy will look at the other and say, Damn it's hotter than hell today and the other guy will say, "Yeah, but it's a dry heat". And both laugh like maniacs.

 

[Ivy Mike]

so true!

hey, 444
If you don't mind answering, what part of the valley are you in?

Myself, I'm just outside of Green Valley.

I would like to mention a new way of removing cosmoline from a milsurp firearm. Leave it in the LV summer sun for a few hours, pick it up with a towel, cause its too hot to hold, and watch it drain.

 

[444]

I live at the other end of town from you. Near the 215 x Cheyenne.
I have used that method of removing cosmoline many times. I usually go outside every half hour and wipe the stock down with a paper towel. I don't care how long you spend letting that stock sit in the sun, when you take it out to shoot, more will come out.
Most people who work outside around here start work before daylight and quit around noon. Anything that has been sitting in the sun will cause burns when you pick it up. Lay down a hammer for a couple minutes and it will burn your skin when you pick it up.
Continuing to drift off topic, I spent my time in the big green machine at Ft. Bliss (El Paso TX). That was another hot place. The tops of my ears were scabs most of the time. That was when we wore OD green soft caps (pickle suit): no boonie hats back then.
A week or two ago, we were playing around at work with someones paintball gun. I shot the license plate on my pickup a few times. When we were done we hosed off the parking lot and the stuff we shot with paintballs. I made the mistake of accidently spraying my windshild that has been sitting in the sun all day and it cracked from top to bottom in several places.

Sorry for the thread drift, but in Las Vegas at this time of the year your mind is on the weather.

 

[Bluey]

I understand most of the aussie troops are pretty happy with the AUG, but the fellas running the country want to replace a lot of the equipment with refitted ex US stuff, so we can be compatable with US deployments we tag along with.
I don't have any experience with it yet, but I'm hopeing to find out for myself in a couple of months.

 

[Group9]

A friend's father worked for the DEA and now works for INS, he says they use Styer AUGs

I bet what he actually said was that he used to work for Customs, and now he works for ICE. The are the only federal agency I know of that ever issued Steyer Augs.

 

[RevDisk]

Anytime you feel like coming out here for a summer and actually doing it, I'm sure the desert SW crew will welcome you.

I do. Every single year.

The nice thing about humidity is that it causes you to sweat.
Here, with the humidity around 12%, you just get hotter and hotter and hotter. The ONLY escape is shade or shelter. To give you some idea of what the desert heat is like, plug in a hairdryer, turn it on and stare at it.

When humidity is insanely high, said sweat doesn't evaporite. Yep. I'm vastly familiar with desert heat. I'll see yer "desert heat" and up ya a body armor.

I lived and worked in Southern Florida for a year. I did construction during the heat of summer.
I'll take your humidity ANY DAY over working outside in 110°+

Different strokes for different folks, I suppose.

 

[nico]

I don't care how long you spend letting that stock sit in the sun, when you take it out to shoot, more will come out.

I don't know about that. My SKS was on my dash board, wrapped in paper towels and a black trash bag for about a week. I also wiped it down with mineral spirits several times. I took it to the range for the first time last week and put about 100 rounds through it, with the barrel and gas piston getting too hot to touch, and (to my surprise) no cosmo ever came out.

 

[Rovi]

Well, it looks like I've successfully derailed this thread with my picture of the fainting Irish soldier

My apologies to the Mods.


In the interests of further thread drift, humidity here has been running around 90-95% for the past few weeks. This may go some way to explaining why fit young men succumb to attacks of the vapours when forced to stand in the blazing sun (mid-80s F , thank you ak47nevada ) for hours at a time, while wearing the most unsuitable clothing possible.

Please remember though, over here we consider temperatures in excess of 80F to be 'sweltering,' and anything more than a few degrees below freezing is a sure sign of the dawn of a new ice age.
The country grinds (slides?) to a halt when we get our annual 1 day of snow, 1 inch deep.
We're more used to telling the seasons apart by the temperature of the rain.

 

[RevDisk]

According to them, the Irish Army's GPMG is the FN MAG (aka. M240)-

More info at http://world.guns.ru
Apparently, MAG stands for 'Mitrailleuse d'Appui General,' which means........... General Purpose Machine Gun

So far as anyone's willing to say, the Irish military don't have any .50 calibre sniper weapons, but the Army Ranger Wing (our special forces unit) use the Accuracy International L96 in 7.62x51.

Ahhhh, I get it now. Doh. I asked them what the weapon was, and they kept saying "GPMG" while grinning. Nevermind, long story. Short version, the Irish were having fun at my expense. I forgive them for two reasons. Potcheen (spelling?) and the drinking binge in Shannon, Ireland. I passed out the entire trip back across the pond.

The severely different optics and lack of a buttstock makes it look rather different from an M240 varients I used. Come to think of it, I've never used a tripod mounted M240.


The Irish do have M2's. (Photo, note the brass pile. ) But no .50 cal sniper rifles when I was working with them. Hence the tears when they had to hand back the M82A1.