Comments on: Zachary Adkins’ Gun

By: AdGins

AdGins — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 06:48:18 +0000

Hey dicks, have you ever fired a weapon in combat or even taken a life? Well I have. That is my rifle and it shoots great while bracing it from the mag, and how the heck can you “shoulder” the rifle when I’m wearing an IOTV? Answer is simple, you cant. BTW i am a sniper

By: curious

curious — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:57:26 +0000

maybe he’s just looking down the scope =) not shooting someone

By: Ontos

Ontos — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:56:03 +0000

Being an M-14 guy myself that has carried one in real world ops, I’d like to put my $.02 in.
Hanging onto the mag is a BAD IDEA. Go ahead and grab that mag and jiggle it around. Feel a little play in the mag? Do you really WANT the round at the top of the mag to be jiggling around under the bolt while it’s under fire?
Hell no you don’t!
Yeah, I’ve seen people do it… I’ve also seen them have failures. Is it common? No. Do I know that the two are linked? No. Are these guys having failures when I’m not? Yes…
I could be way off base, and it couldn’t have anything to do with anything… But when the mechanics point to introducing variables which may add to the failure rate, why tempt fate?
Take my opinion for what you’re paying for it, but I think it’s bad practice.

By: Baptist

Baptist — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:01:33 +0000

Dear Bob;
If it is better to grip the rifle by the magazine rather than the ” as you call it ” the fore grip why do all rifles have fore grips?
If Zachary is building a bone bridge why doesn’t Zachary have the stock into his shoulder? That would be a very important part of the bone bridge wouldn’t it?
By the way, bone bridges are very important in precision rifle shooting.
Bone bridges are not even thought about in the heat of combat shooting unless you are a sniper.
I doubt that Zachary is a sniper. Otherwise he wouldn’t be holding his phony rifle like a dork on a photo opportunity.
As a further aside, have you ever fired a M-14 while holding onto the magazine rather than the fore stock?
If you have ever done so, you would know what happens to the hand that has hold of the magazine. Fast.
Perhaps that is why, after all, they put fore stocks on rifles.
If you look at the pictures from Camp Perry you won’t see to many shooters holding onto the magazines.
If you look at pictures of US soldiers, German soldiers, or any other countries soldiers combat footage you will be hard pressed to find a photo with the soldier holding on to the magazine.
A few might be holding on to the magazine well, but not the magazine.
Been there and done that Baptist.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:11:07 +0000

For those of you out there questioning why the soldier in the pic is bracing the rifle using the magazine, rather than the fore-grip is simple ergonomics and learned lessons in marksmanship.
The soldier is attempting, as best he can in this situation, to create a ‘bone bridge’. If he were to attempt to stabilize the rifle using the fore grip he would soon begin to suffer fatigue and likely his site picture would begin to wander. However, with his left elbow brace on his hip he has much better stability for observing and when it comes to engaging the target he will have as stable a shooting position as he can attain while standing. Some would argue he could shoot ‘off-hand’, that is with his hand on the forearm, but the same issues of arm fatigue would soon come into play. If he took a knee he would brace his elbow on his thigh and move his forward hand to the forearm.
A fore grip is most applicable in a CQB type situation, not a mid to long range shot scenario.

By: Travis

Travis — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:03:51 +0000

I am really curious who shoulders a rifle that way and who holds onto the magazine for support. That’s not the brightest move.

By: Baptist

Baptist — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:13:56 +0000

Little Zachary should learn how to shoulder a rifle rather than just buy things at Wall Mart to attach to his rifle.
But then again, Zachary is just posing isn’t he?
Zacahary is however certainly not very convincing with his combat commando killer pose.
Zachary is a phony wannabe whose father likes to take pictures of him while Zachary pretends to be a hard core Secret US Army Spec Op Commando Unit Killer carrying a bullshit rifle that he put together from pieces he bought from a catalogue.
In case anyone is wondering about the telling points in this picture, one of them is that heroic Zachary is holding the weapon by the magazine.
Only a posing dunce, who has never fired a M-14 would hold one that way.
There are lots of other things in this Zachary picture that smell as well.
Ciao! Zachary

By: flying fart proudly joyned

flying fart proudly joyned — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:09:19 +0000

“There are a lot of Soldiers today who do not need to carry either a carbine or an M-16, but yet a pistol may just not be enough.”–
MP7 MP7 MP7 MP7 MP7 MP7 MP7 MP7 MP7 MP7 MP7 MP7 MP7 MP7 MP7 MP7 MP7 MP7 MP7 MP7 MP7 MP7 MP7 MP7 MP7 MP7
—And the difference between one of these and a Personal Defence Weapon (such as the FNH P90—
ok.. but since when is P90 a “personal defense weapon”? who pooped this classification out? seriously WTF?!

By: Edward Liu

Edward Liu — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:58:37 +0000

Possibly stupid question from a civvie who hasn’t fired a weapon since Boy Scouts: the M14-EBR that Sgt. Adkins is toting has a foregrip, but he’s not using it, bracing against the magazine instead. How come?
Not criticizing or anything — I was obviously not there and I don’t know squat about squat (and am happy to admit this up front). Just curious.

By: XT

XT — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:52:29 +0000

Is it just me, or does it seem like there is an intense and misplaced focus on building specialized compact weapons, rather than focusing on improving our main battle rifle? Not that we don’t need compact weapons for some situations, but the emphasis seems heavily skewed toward the “Who can build the smallest/lightest/collapsible stocks/short barrel/etc.” side…?