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Milspec is written in near lawyer.
Did you know that according to MIL-C-71186 an M4A1 carbine has to put ten rounds inside a 5" group on a 22x16" rectangle with rounded corners at 100 yards using iron sights to be accepted?
This is firing M855 ammunition certified to hold about 0.6 MOA from a test barrel.
I'm kind of appalled at the standard here, actually. I was expecting it to be a lot tighter. Like 2 MOA tight.
My PSA barrel can, you've seen the pictures, pull 2 MOA.
MilSpec, with firearms, always has meant "Goon Certified, Goon Approved." CivSpec has always been higher, tighter, better, more expensive...
ReplyDeleteIf it hits a body-sized target, it's MilSpec. If it pecks the eye out of a turkey at 200 yards, it's CivSpec.
MilSpec is for the average soldier, the normal user. CivSpec in the military gets you snipers and top-tier spec ops operators.
It's why I break out laughing in pain whenever some media mouthpiece spouts Milspec or Military Grade as sooo much better than a hunting rifle. No. All MilSpec says is it is designed to be used, abused and still mostly work.
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ReplyDelete"Milspec" = "the very lowest specification for quality or performance that is acceptable".
ReplyDeleteJust for grins, my BSA International MK II target rifle (.22LR, 14 pounds of British wood and steel) had to put ten rounds into a 1" circle at 100 yards - and repeat three times - using match ammo and a machine rest, using the very nice match sights. Otherwise, it stayed at the factory until corrected.
Of course, it's also a Martini-Henry action single-shot, made for competition, so I guess I can accept MIL-C-71186 using a semi/burst/full-capable mag-fed repeater in a much more serious chambering.
(Not that Shaky McBanhands here can pull off the BSA factory minimums on my best day, without a giant vise holding the damn thing.)