Optimized Caliber

[bwaites]

That's just not true. In my personal experience, as well as observation of others, things typically happen more from actions based on knowledge and experience than on faith that it can happen.

We could argue this point until the sun refuses to rise. But without the faith to try something new, there would be NO KNOWLEDGE OR EXPERIENCE. As my dad taught me many years ago, "knowledge and wisdom come from experience, and most of that experience is liable to be of the bad type."

Perhaps you should read about Hiram Maxim. He invented a reliable, watercooled machine gun 20 years before Browning created the M1917, and he did it with black powder ammo!

Yes, and Maxim produced exactly ONE weapon that became widely used.

Also, Browning's first belt-fed -- the M1895 "potato digger" -- incorporated a ridiculously complex mechanism to circumvent the patent on gas operation invented by (Guess who?) none other than Hiram Maxim.

Well, I know there are some things that simply aren't doable with the technology available at the time. And since I'm not a man of faith, I require evidence that something can be done before I'll advocate it.

I sincerely hope that y'all are right, and disintegrating links for 6.5 Grendel are just a matter of $$$. But, it's difficult for me to argue for something that's currently no more than theoretical possibility.

Ah, the M1895 Potato Digger. Yep, complex. So complex it was designed and built in a workshop in Ogden, Utah before the turn of the 20th century, using tools that were crude even by the time, some of which were his father Jonathan Ogden's!

And its difficult to me to argue against something which is so inherently easy and cheap to produce...if there were a demand.

Do you believe that Armstrong walked on the Moon? If so, please tell me how you arrived at that belief.