pinzgauer Wrote:A bit sad... the original poster never got a reasonable answer before the food throwing started. Was completely silly, especially given M4C is focused on hard use carbines, not bench guns.
This is why we (grendel shooters) can't have nice things. Someone asks about Grendel, and a firefight quoting 7 year old history erupts over nuances that only someone wanting to sell custom barrels/reamers would care about.
At least we now know that Constructor makes $170k a year, and Atlanta would fall down if it was not for his insight. :-) (I'm guessing he's an ME???)
Here's the link if anyone wants a painful read:
http://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?...rade-build
Firefight -- Very nicely captures the underlying issue. Someone's ego was bruised because he did not understand the design parameters stated for the Grendel and did not have the honor to accept being wrong.
I saw his post about bridges and buildings falling. I think that would suggest a Civil Engineer's training. Again, few people care about the nuances (see above) but there is a rather significant gulf between the mindset of CEs and MEs. The gulf is even greater (in attitude at least) between both of them and other hard sciences like physics and chemistry. In truth, all of these specialties have a range of folks running from the genuinely curious and mentally flexible to those who know only one way of doing things.
How do I know this? I was trained in college as an ME but spent my entire career (8 years in the AF notwithstanding) in a multi-discipline research and advanced development environment.