You're denegrating those who prefer HK as video game junkies?
In my experience, they tend to be. Your mileage may vary.
Claiming Special Forces background?
Five years in an SF unit as a support guy, almost all of that working directly for the Group SFAUC and SOTIC committees. Run a search on my posts, you'll see I'm not at all about claiming to be anything I'm not -- having parenthetically added "(as a support guy, not a door kicker)" in dozens of threads, I do think I forgot to do so in this one. Oops.
Head-to-head, HK beat Colt, pure and simple. I'd be willing to bet large sums of money on any other head-to-head competition where the Army didn't try to rig it like they were allowed to with the first Dust test.
I don't recall mentioning the dust tests.
Check the 10-8 Forums. As I noted, people over there don't post behind screen names, all users register and post under their real names. Email the guy who had the problem if you want more details. The thread includes pictures of the failures they were having, etc.
(Note: My bad. They had 25 crap rifles, not 70. That's what I get for working off memory, I suppose.)
The initial post in the thread:
My SWAT team has recently received 25 new 416s as a test group with the intent of purchasing over 300 more in semi auto as patrol rifles in the near future. We are having serious feed issues with the rifles with ball and frangible ammo. The rounds are hanging up on the feed ramps instead of sliding in. We are using HK mags and colt mags with the same result. The same ammo works like a charm in our M-4s. We’ve swapped uppers and lowers with M-4s and the HK uppers are the problem. From my experience it seems that the feed ramps are rougher than the M-4’s
We’ve contacted HK and they said they were sending out a tech….two weeks ago. So far a rep from HK is a no show and now they refuse to return telephone calls. I understand 300 rifles to a company like HK is not that big a deal. At this point we are a step away from testing other rifles. I’ve carried their firearms for many years and have never had a negative thing to say about them. It is possible that they have a bad batch of parts. Has anyone else had consistent feed problems with a 416? Our issue is not limited to 1 or 2 guns we have about 10 of them with the same problem.
Solution appears to have been replacing the uppers or barrels with earlier production (2005 instead of 2007). Not real impressive QC, whatever you might want to think or pretend.
Anecdotes, suggestions you've 'been there', and veiled personal attacks ain't cutting it and I ain't buying it.
Once again -- Whatever. The 416 is a decent, but not superb product -- in my experience. You may have hundreds of hours on the gun and know it inside and out in ways I don't, but what I've seen with them doesn't live up to the hype.
I stated facts only (that the 416 was preferred over the M4...and that the AK was preferred over both, by that individual and most of his team), I am NOT an HK fanboy, have never played airsoft, scarcely play any video game, and own none of their rifles (though I do own a HK pistol), and haven't a clue what any of this has to do with anything.
I'm inclined to call BS. I've never met anyone in SF or the other SOF units I've worked with who'd trade an M4 for an AK. 416 I can see, depending on what they're doing with them, and if HK has tightened up their barrels since their early production runs, but the AK . . . nope.
Just out of curiousity, without asking the actual team number of your buddy, what are the first couple digits -- that's anonymous enough that no one could trace it back to any particular person . . .
I stated facts only (that the 416 was preferred over the M4...and that the AK was preferred over both, by that individual and most of his team), I am NOT an HK fanboy, have never played airsoft, scarcely play any video game, and own none of their rifles (though I do own a HK pistol), and haven't a clue what any of this has to do with anything.
