NEW RIFLE GETS LOVE

“You will have to excuse me for a moment whilst I take a moment and slob­ber,” Rob Cherry pants.
The object of his liq­uid affec­tion: the Army’s new XM8 rifle, which is win­ning rave reviews at Ft. Bragg and from the Army Times.
“With attach­ments, it can go from a com­pact rifle with a 9-​​inch bar­rel for close com­bat shoot­ing to a sharp­shooter rifle with a 20-​​inch bar­rel for 600-​​meter range,” the Fayetteville Observer notes. “It costs less than an M-​​4, is lighter and is capa­ble of fir­ing 20,000 rounds with­out mal­func­tions.“
It also won’t jam if it’s clogged full of dirt. “Jose Gordon of Heckler & Koch USA, the gun’s maker, demon­strated this last fact when he buried an XM-​​8 in Fort Bragg’s red dust and then fired it.”

June 10th, 2004 | Guns | Comments Off Both comments and pings are currently closed.