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Oh for ****'s sake...
You apply this insanely illogical "argument" to just about anything. Hey, did you directly witness [event X]? I DIDN'T THINK SO. Clearly [event X] never occurred.
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.
Oh, would you like to elaborate on that? Maybe point out where on the G36's scope there are adjustment knobs?
G36 optics are not user-adjustable. End of story.
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.
"End of story". Go on and make a you-know-what out of yourself.
Well, no. To keep costs low, they really half-assed the 1.5x red dot (good RDSes cost almost half as much as the rifle itself), and the anti-fog coating kinda sucks.
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, but it's not going to hold zero very well...
Bull****. It's pretty much rock solid.
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders did a bayonet charge in Iraq, not to mention the inability to strike something is indicative of the general flimsiness of an almost-entirely plastic rifle.
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. 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.
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.
I was wrong about the rails, at least on the A2, but it sure as hell isn't as modular or modifiable as, say, and AR15, nor are there really any aftermarket parts for it.
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. I can't think of much. The whole modding thing is a way overrated anyways due to civilian shooters.
Who uses tape? Mag clamps are cheap, light, and mean that your non-clamped magazines don't take up more pouch space than they need to with the snag-happy coupling nubs.
Hell, most people don't couple magazines anyway, at least people outside of subsarharan africa, where mag pouches are apparently in critical shortage. It adds weight, screws up balance, and the double-wide magazine is more clumsy and difficult to stow, all for a slight increase in reload time. Whoopty-do.
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. See I actually try to look at things from an objective point of view. Try that sometimes.
How often do you have to pull your AR15 out of a magazine dump pouch?
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.
