Because there are only a handful of accounts of this happening and even of those, most are anecdotical at best. But that's the way you draw your conclusions, i forgot. Make yourself an opinion about something and then search for evidence to support that. Awesome.
Isn't that exactly what you've done?
Thanks for proving that you are trying to lecture people on a rifle you never touched and all your "knowledge" comes from what you read on the internet:
You simply adjust them with an ordinary hex key and the knobs are very visible, see for example here :
http://www.rsov.com/images/product_images/aim_0149_3.jpg. I guess every German soldier spends a good half an hour shooting-in the rifle. Even you could have googled that up. And before you try to lecture me again, I know very well that this is an aftermarket thing, but it's the same on the G36.
That's not user-adjustable. You can't easily re-zero your weapon without a hex key (which I doubt if many soldiers carry) and you sure as hell can't do it in combat. Not a big point on the sights, though, I'd thought I'd just bring it up.
Also of note is the lack of backup irons, so if your optics go down or lose zero, you're ****ed.
Also, yeah, I've screwed around with a G36 (not fired, though) and fired an SL-8 a lot, I thought both felt pretty flimsy.
It's 3 times magnification for most users and the sights never fogged up on me even though I used them in a wet, woodland environment. But sheesh what do I know right? It's just that I actually used the thing. "The anti fog coating kinda sucks", care to elaborate? Personal experience?
Yes and no, I've fooled around with a G36KE RDS and, when exposed to rapidly varying conditions, would fog up (and stay fogged up) way more than, say, an Aimpoint or EOTech.
A good RDS goes for about $500 at least, and a good scope (EG, an ACOG) can break $1000 easy. $1500 is just about as much as the entire G36 unit costs, which includes the gun itself; you simply can't make such high-quality optics for that price.
Yawn, you can easily mount a bayonet on the rifle. With the LA85 or any bullpup you can't really "buttsmack" either that's why they use the barrel in case no bayonett is mounted.
The "LA85" (I think you mean "L85") has a steel receiver. Not a plastic one. It's perfectly apt to buttstroke with it.
As mentioned it's not even like you wouldn't run into any danger of wrecking an AR15 doing that and from what I've seen of the SCAR's stock, I wouldn't do it either. And still they got accepted and are in selective service now.
Both are sturdier than the G36; the M4's collapsible stock is supported by a metal buffer tube, and the SCAR's stock isn't a slouch either. Both are far cry of the G36's poly skeleton stock.
You are blowing this out of proportion anyways. Before even talking about such very secondary qualities such as being able to club someone to death, foremost, a rifle should shoot. Reliably. The AR system is not the optimum when it comes to that.
With a few small improvement (IE, not replacing the whole damn system), it would be close.
Try shooting a battle load of ammo rapidly and see how "reliable" the G36 is.
There is everything the military needs and that is what counts. In fact, show me something you can do with an AR15 that you can't do with a G36.
Replace any part with any one of hundreds of specialized different ones, potentially shoot more accurately, dump a few hundred rounds without melting, etc.
I can't think of much. The whole modding thing is a way overrated anyways due to civilian shooters.
Yeah, it must be totally overrated, considering how nearly all SOF units in the world use AR15-style rifles, partly because of the "overrated" modding potential.
There are better magazine designs than that of the G36, like for example the Steyr magazines. I don't even question that, but they are much better and more reliable than STANAGs.
No, they're more reliable than USGI STANAG magazines. STANAG is just the standard for the last few inches of the magazine, the part that goes into the mag well. There are civilian STANAG mags out there that outperform Steyr and HK's mags.
See I actually try to look at things from an objective point of view. Try that sometimes.
I see you've yet to talk to Kettle.
How often do you carry your rifle directly in front of you with much of the rest of your gear (mag pouches, slings etc.). Oh right: All of the time.
For right-handed people, the forward assist is away from you, and no, it's completely different. You manipulate and store magazines in totally different ways from your rifle.
Hahaha, barrel melting under sustained fire? Well of course you dip**** (yes I said that, I just hate people who pull facts out of their asses) all weapons do that if fired for too long.
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Jesus Christ...
Oh.
But anyway, if you manage to melt it you're doing something wrong
Well, "dip****", no, I'm referring to the receiver, which is critical to holding zero and makes direct contact with the outside of the chamber. It's also plastic.
