Modacity shooters' thread

Meh, I hate wood, it's too heavy and catches on fire.

But, but its sooooooo pretty...

bahaha that's great. My issue with wood is what freelancer pointed out, it tends to be too heavy. Which isn't always a bad thing. But I don't think it looks that good on modern assault rifles. It varies. Although even though they offer the M1A is furniture other than wood, I would never buy an M1A in anything besides wood or in EBR/EMR setup. Polar opposites I know, but it still looks awesome.

I would buy a SOCOM 16 M1A in regular synth.

Just saiyan

Well, if you're goin SOCOM then that would just look weird in wood

Yeah the SOCOM's have rails and stuff on them, wood would look weird.

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Originally Posted by Cortexian

Yeah the SOCOM's have rails and stuff on them, wood would look weird.

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Or it could look extra special super awesome!

But probably not.

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Originally Posted by Cortexian

Meh, I hate wood, it's too heavy and catches on fire.

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I hate plastic. It feels like shit and melts...at a lower temperature than the wood catches fire, mind you.

Also, yeah, wood would look awful on modern assault rifles. You'd have to design the gun around the wood rather than try a retrofit. That said, modern assault rifles are pansy weapons shooting tiny bullets which tend to be shit outside of 300 yards and lack punch even at that range. Since we're firing semi almost all the time, what use is the neutered rifle cartridge? The guns that NEED to be automatic are so heavy that the recoil difference becomes nil. I mean, the only benefit is being able to carry more because the cartridge is smaller. That's fine, but you wouldn't need to carry more (for the riflemen) when the first shot doesn't get blown off-course or stopped by thin cover.

Finally, EBR *looks* flimsy as fuck. The proportions make it one butt-ugly platform. Functional, sure, but still an eye-sore.

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I love the look of the EBR personally. And having fired one I can say it's pretty sturdy. As far as the rounds go the 5.56 is still accurate as balls well into 500 yards. But you're right, definitely lacks stopping power that a 7.62 NATO round wouldn't.

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Originally Posted by PenGuin1362

I love the look of the EBR personally. And having fired one I can say it's pretty sturdy. As far as the rounds go the 5.56 is still accurate as balls well into 500 yards. But you're right, definitely lacks stopping power that a 7.62 NATO round wouldn't.

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The thing about the 5.56 is ammunition type. The ammo they use now is awful. The 60s/70s 55 grainers was excellent against people at short range. The 62 grain is garbage.