09-08-2011, 05:33 AM
bwaites Wrote:If all you are proving is that you can make the Grendel work from links, well, I have no doubt it can be done. Lots of other cartridges work, there is no reason to believe that it won't, simply because it hasn't been done.
I wonder about making it work consistently not so much because of the links, but because the gas system will be far from ideal for the Grendel, the reciprocating mass is not optimized for the cartridge, etc.
The problem is a lot of other people do doubt that it can be done because the cartridge doesn't taper enough, or the shoulder angle is wrong, etc., etc. You can argue with those people forever, but if you can demonstrate a working system, it answers the basic questions.
Also, if you show that it can work in an ancient Soviet belt fed design, and in an AR platform, then the cartridge is flexible enough to be of interest.
As for the reciprocating mass, couldn't the same thing have been said about the AR platform?