tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274583756441452923.post5547871875716111279..comments2024-02-13T14:28:21.282-05:00Comments on New Jovian Thunderbolt: Upper SwappableNew Jovian Thunderbolthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09452246769246304612noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274583756441452923.post-62262876106706930382016-03-30T13:48:22.341-04:002016-03-30T13:48:22.341-04:00I WON'T HAVE AN 8x57 TO HOME, NEITHER.I WON'T HAVE AN 8x57 TO HOME, NEITHER.<br />New Jovian Thunderbolthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09452246769246304612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274583756441452923.post-20457622451813256892016-03-29T15:59:38.971-04:002016-03-29T15:59:38.971-04:00Most 7.62x39 ARs don't work worth a damn, and ...Most 7.62x39 ARs don't work worth a damn, and the ones that work okay don't really work so hot either, at least by any serious standards of working well.<br /><br />That incense cone shaped cartridge is just flat incompatible with the AR's straight section of magwell, and the case head is too damn big for the standard AR bolt to have a decent amount of meat left on it.<br /><br />Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274583756441452923.post-66659797734752250752016-03-29T15:56:33.369-04:002016-03-29T15:56:33.369-04:00"It's SO dang easy to make a boo boo with..."<i>It's SO dang easy to make a boo boo with the ammo switch. Resulting in bad bad. Dead upper, dead lower, dead hand.<br /><br />I hate Kabooms. I want nothing to do with them, ever.</i>"<br /><br />It's funny, but half the people I know who say this own both 8x57 and .30-'06 guns, even though an 8mm Mauser will grenade a .30-'06 gun every bit as spectacularly as the .300/5.56 mistake.<br /><br />People don't use their thinkboxes. ;)Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274583756441452923.post-44526799920751630712016-03-29T13:35:44.656-04:002016-03-29T13:35:44.656-04:00Not ANYTHING else...
There's several 5.56 alt...Not ANYTHING else...<br /><br />There's several 5.56 alternatives that you can't get to chamber in a 5.56 upper no matter how hard you hammer.<br /><br />The dangerous alternatives are the ones that take the same magazines and have the same head size. Like .300 BLK... And people noticed and mentioned this all the way back when JD Jones came up with .300 Whisper and people started hot-loading it.Angus McThaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09295013525738248801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274583756441452923.post-60035550746301851412016-03-28T21:24:54.239-04:002016-03-28T21:24:54.239-04:00Ratus is right, anything else is tempting fate...Ratus is right, anything else is tempting fate...Old NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274583756441452923.post-17757077899683457032016-03-28T18:54:42.324-04:002016-03-28T18:54:42.324-04:00Easy Tbolt, just get a 7.62x39 upper.
No way for ...Easy Tbolt, just get a 7.62x39 upper.<br /><br />No way for a cartridge with a diameter of 11.35mm (0.447") will seat in a chamber of only 9.6mm (0.376").<br /><br />Also the x39 magazines are very differently shaped, more of a curve like an AK.Ratushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02546867391478669489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274583756441452923.post-41824651331499108272016-03-28T12:11:40.079-04:002016-03-28T12:11:40.079-04:00I'm thinking paint is your friend here. Maybe...I'm thinking paint is your friend here. Maybe do the .223 upper in standard black, and the .300BLK in ODG, and make sure to only use the magazines to match. That way, nothing permanent is done to the magazines or lower, but it's easy enough to keep them straight- provided one is in on the color scheme, of course. If it comes to scrounging rounds and magazines from opposition supplies, things have progressed past the point where color codes are going to really stick- at that point, I think I'd pretty much keep the BLK stuff together, but out of regular rotation. <br /><br />Of course, if given the option, I think I'd prefer just having two different rifles, but that's me.Wolfmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10757339335162584002noreply@blogger.com