#Barret

TFB’s Pete recently wrote about the European Sniper Competition, hosted by the U.S. Army in Germany.

Thanks to Kei Kimura for sending this our way. His friend made a 1:1 scale replica of a Barret M82A1 out of cardboard. In Japan this art form is called “Papercraft”. Usually papercraft are made of sheets of paper cut, folded and glued into shapes. This is made of cardboard understandably because of the size and weight.  It takes a bit of set up but the action works and ejects the casing out. The audience are more than ecstatic when they see it work.

On the last day of SHOT Show, my friends from Malaysia invited me to go shoot with them. They hired a local outfit called Shoot Las Vegas. We were picked up in an H2 Hummer from the Venetian lobby/pick up area.

OSS has a unique suppressor design. It is not a baffle design but something along the lines of a jet turbine. There are coils that allow the gas to expand in a different method and flows out the front of the can. This design allows the gas to vent away from the muzzle and so you do not get the stereotypical increase in pressure in the bore or the gas system. Which usually results in higher rate of fire and gas blown back into the shooter’s face. In some instances the OSS suppressor has removed gas and pressure to decrease bolt velocity.