15lb 308! What a total waste of engineering and steel!
I was flipping through the latest issue of Guns and ammo and saw some test targets and Chronograph figures from the newest and much ballyhoo'ed Nemo AR rifle.
Chrongraph chart showed a 180gr bullet at 2588, 150 at 2914 and some nice tight groups. So I thought, hmmm and pretty accurate 308, as those are common speeds from any number of 308 rifles including my 20 inch bbl'ed CETME. But then I began to read the article and this is no 308, it is a 300 WINCHESTER MAGNUM that has been de masculated and weenied out down to pure 308 ballistics by hampering it with a stubby 18 inch barrel. To FURTHER insult the intelegence of the AR buyers out there, the damned thing comes in at a not so svelte FIFTEEN FREAKIN POUNDS! YEAH, THAT is what we have been clamoring for, a 15 lb AR that belches fire and brimstone from a too short barrel that is, in real world performance, a 15lb 308..... I can see the lines forming already.....
I can only hope, for thier sake and that of the shooting public that they soon offer this with a 24 inch barrel and some unneccesary weight trimmed from somewhere. There HAS to be 3 or 4 lbs in the frame or somesuch that can be skeletonized or alloys used.
Anyone else read this gun rag piece and wonder "What are they THINKING/SMOKING!" ?
IMO, not a good plan or combination here, but there will probably be people who buy it thinking they are getting a really powerful AR, and allowing the recoil and nose and flames to bolster this mis guided viewpoint.
I was surprised that Nemo would bring this out in this configuration with its obvious flaws. I can keep up with it just fine with my much lighter CETME, as could anyone with a 20 inch or greater tubed AR-10 at less money and far less weight.
I was flipping through the latest issue of Guns and ammo and saw some test targets and Chronograph figures from the newest and much ballyhoo'ed Nemo AR rifle.
Chrongraph chart showed a 180gr bullet at 2588, 150 at 2914 and some nice tight groups. So I thought, hmmm and pretty accurate 308, as those are common speeds from any number of 308 rifles including my 20 inch bbl'ed CETME. But then I began to read the article and this is no 308, it is a 300 WINCHESTER MAGNUM that has been de masculated and weenied out down to pure 308 ballistics by hampering it with a stubby 18 inch barrel. To FURTHER insult the intelegence of the AR buyers out there, the damned thing comes in at a not so svelte FIFTEEN FREAKIN POUNDS! YEAH, THAT is what we have been clamoring for, a 15 lb AR that belches fire and brimstone from a too short barrel that is, in real world performance, a 15lb 308..... I can see the lines forming already.....
I can only hope, for thier sake and that of the shooting public that they soon offer this with a 24 inch barrel and some unneccesary weight trimmed from somewhere. There HAS to be 3 or 4 lbs in the frame or somesuch that can be skeletonized or alloys used.
Anyone else read this gun rag piece and wonder "What are they THINKING/SMOKING!" ?
IMO, not a good plan or combination here, but there will probably be people who buy it thinking they are getting a really powerful AR, and allowing the recoil and nose and flames to bolster this mis guided viewpoint.
I was surprised that Nemo would bring this out in this configuration with its obvious flaws. I can keep up with it just fine with my much lighter CETME, as could anyone with a 20 inch or greater tubed AR-10 at less money and far less weight.