Re: Bullpups advance (slowly)

From: Damian Kneale (nospam_at_mail.iinet.net.au)
Date: 01/29/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 09:03:25 GMT

Once Par Leijonhufvud <usenet@hunter-gatherer.org> inscribed in stone:

>Paul J. Adam <news@jrwlynch.demon.co.uk>:
>> (Blanks jammed a _lot_ with the L1A1. I came to the conclusion that this
>> was deliberate, to give us much practice in clearing stoppages in a
>> hurry. Where a particular rifle - *** number 72, for the record - would
>> struggle to fire twenty blanks without a stoppage, it would happily fire
>> 1,200 rounds of live ammunition in two days without a single failure)
>
>I'm not familliar with the weapon in question, but in that case I would
>suspect that the gas pressure or recoil force was different between the
>blanks and the live rounds.

In the brief experience I had with the SLR (L1A1) the primary mode of
failure when firing was actually the extraction of the blank round
base only, leaving the rest in the chamber. Easy enough to clear, but
a fault in the construction of the blank round rather than anything
else. From memory the base was aluminium with wall about 1cm high
into which fitted a plastic top which had the shape of shell and
bullet with a rough crimp at the top. Turning the gas setting down
might have helped, but it was otherwise reliable (more so than the old
M60 GPMG's) so I preferred to accept that at the price of things.

Damian.

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