I sat on this link long enough for everyone else to have already covered it, but, hey, I need something else to write about today.
I have never really seen the need to add a .50 BMG rifle to my armory – the rifles themselves cost a bleeding fortune and weigh a metric ton, the ammunition is absurdly expensive, and aside from causing anti-rights cultists to involuntarily lose bladder control, I would have no real use for one.
That said, I want a GM6 Lynx. Badly.
28 inch barrel in a 44 inch overall package (compressible to 36″ for traveling purposes), long recoil action (which is not a concept I will claim to understand, but apparently does interesting things for recoil), five-round capacity, bullpup style, and supposedly able to plug a one-meter-square target at 1500 meters. Yeah, I could work with that.
And, really, with what other .50BMG rifle can you honestly expect to pull off this:
Granted, all of the guys in the demonstration videos are a bit on the hefty side, but that recoiling barrel gives you the opportunity to mitigate the impulse over one hell of a distance, and with one hell of a counterweight.
Unfortunately, Sero does not have a commercial presence here in the States yet, which means importation of this particular beast would be difficult, but something tells me that they would not have a hard time engaging in a rather brisk business with the right kinds of people…
Long distance: the next-best thing to being there.
Of course, in situations that call for lethal force, long distance is even better than being there face-to-face….
Long-recoil means that the barrel and breech are locked together for a length of travel equal to or greater than the OAL of the cartridge. The only really common commercial long-recoil firearm that survived into modern times is the Browning A5/Remington Model 11 shotgun.
Most recoil-operated firearms use the short-recoil principle, in which the barrel only travels a fraction of the length of the cartridge before stopping and allowing the breechblock to travel the rest of the way on its own.
Shiny. [Jake reaches up and wipes away the drool.]
@ AuricTech: Hell, I want to be a nautical mile away from anything I shoot… should give me time to dial it in before it turns into a serious problem
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@ Tam: Oh, I get all the words that are used to describe the system, and the pretty pictures at the page I linked to do a good job showing how the steps work, I just cannot quite wrap my mind around how I see it function. Basically, the separate action of the barrel and bolt confuse me, especially with the empty cartridge having time to eject and then the bolt somehow knowing to start its return trip. Visual person and all that.
@ Jake: You and me both!