Comments on: The one great fault of American ordnance is that it can never let well enough alone https://www.isegoria.net/2019/05/the-one-great-fault-of-american-ordnance-is-that-it-can-never-let-well-enough-alone/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 01 May 2026 09:53:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Adar https://www.isegoria.net/2019/05/the-one-great-fault-of-american-ordnance-is-that-it-can-never-let-well-enough-alone/comment-page-1/#comment-2781922 Adar Wed, 15 May 2019 18:54:54 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=44853#comment-2781922 BAR rated as best American small arm of the Korean War. BAR, MI rifle and M1919 light machine gun all using the same ammo. That is a considerable PLUS?

For those of you interested, Soviet burp gun rated BEST small arm of the Korean War.

]]> By: Kirk https://www.isegoria.net/2019/05/the-one-great-fault-of-american-ordnance-is-that-it-can-never-let-well-enough-alone/comment-page-1/#comment-2781379 Kirk Wed, 15 May 2019 04:12:40 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=44853#comment-2781379 I think the bigger problem that Dunlap didn’t acknowledge with the BAR was that the Army was trying to use a weapon designed as an Automatic Rifle in a Light Machine Gun role–And, that was just a non-starter for a lot of reasons. Bottom-fed magazines being the primary one.

The Army would have done a lot better to have gotten the UK to go in on .276 Pedersen for the M1, adopted the BREN in .276 as well, and called it good. With a little judicious modification of the magazine system of the BREN and Garand, you could have swapped magazines between them the way the UK did with the FN-FAL and the later models of the BREN in 7.62 NATO.

Had we done that, we’d have all been a hell of a lot better off, and the odds are that we’d have kept that combination in service for a lot longer than we kept what we did adopt.

]]> By: Neovictorian https://www.isegoria.net/2019/05/the-one-great-fault-of-american-ordnance-is-that-it-can-never-let-well-enough-alone/comment-page-1/#comment-2781344 Neovictorian Tue, 14 May 2019 22:49:41 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=44853#comment-2781344 Is Dunlap the all-time record holder at Isegoria for number of excerpt posts? I’ve read here quite often for the last several years and can’t remember anything comparable but I haven’t been consistent, nor really long-term.

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