“And while certain varieties of missilery have taken great strides, little of importance has been done to improve the rifles with which we greeted the turn of the century.
Well hold on now! We have semi-automatic actions and telescope sights, haven’t we?
Of course we have, and these improvements do deserve consideration, but the first matters only in the military mode and the second is still only partially understood. Rapid repeat shots do little for the individual rifleman, whose primary object is to hit with his first shot…”
-Jeff Cooper, The General Purpose Rifle
That quote is from an article written by the late Col. Jeff Cooper in the early ‘80s. It hits on a number of things, some of which can be fixed, some of which will not be fixed any time soon, given the nature of the military review and acquisition process.
Read the rest at Breach-Bang-Clear: www.breachbangclear.com/site/10-blog/329-infantry-science-and-the-lowly-rifle-are-we-riflemen.html
I’ve just been thinking, for the last week or so, that once I find time to start reviewing again that I want to do one of Jeff Cooper’s books. I’ll take this reference as an omen