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Rockwolf66 06-01-2011 07:02 AM

Fn scar 16s
 
Today a friend of mine showed me his new toy, a FN SCAR 16S.

The Good: It shoulders comfortably and it handles well.

The Bad: Haven't had a chance to range test it yet.

The Ugly: It's finiky about what magazines you shove in the well. Several magazines that the Kel tech fits perfectly do not engage the magazine catch on the SCAR. This means that when you shove one of several types of magazines into the well( Orlite, Tapco, some sheetmetal magazines) they just drop out. This isn't good especially for a weapon that costs boocoup bucks like a SCAR.

Excalibur 06-01-2011 11:31 AM

Get some magpul P-Mags

k9870 06-01-2011 01:14 PM

Sturmwerghre had a video on how you have to modify pmags for a scar since they will damage the gun in stock form, he owns 2 of them. his shooting re view showed sub moa with standard ammo.

Reach 06-01-2011 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by k9870 (Post 29752)
Sturmwerghre had a video on how you have to modify pmags for a scar since they will damage the gun in stock form, he owns 2 of them. his shooting re view showed sub moa with standard ammo.

i saw that, excellent.
yeah, that sucks that they only take what mags they want to. kind of puts an ugly blemish on a great expensive gun.

MT2008 06-01-2011 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Reach (Post 29755)
i saw that, excellent.
yeah, that sucks that they only take what mags they want to. kind of puts an ugly blemish on a great expensive gun.

All I can say is...that's info that I'd be really glad to have before I dropped $2K+ on a new rifle.

Rockwolf66 06-01-2011 08:29 PM

You're telling me. It's not my rifle but it hurts to think that a rifle that is supost to have a STANAG magazine well does not take STANAG compatable magazines. Something is really wrong with that.

The reason my friend got the SCAR is the fact that he ordered a DPMD with all the trimmings and after six months of delays got a call telling him that he had another six months of waiting comming. So he cancled the order and bought the SCAR because the local gunshop had one in and it had the features that he wanted and then some.

Personally if I was him I would have sent the M1A in to the shop to get it turned into a MK14 clone.

Yournamehere 06-01-2011 08:56 PM

It's not unreasonable. Those mags were designed specifically for the M16 when they were invented, and then they became a NATO standard later on, and all a manufacturer has to do is get the size specs for the magazine well down and tune their proprietary (keep that in mind) bolt to not interfere with it. Magpul deviated from a standard STANAG magazine pattern too, so it's not going to be perfect for everything.

"Universal" almost never means "perfect". I'm glad that the problem is acknowledged by a guy like Stumgewehre, looked at objectively and fixed in a simple manner.

Rockwolf66 06-01-2011 11:13 PM

Does anyone have a link to Sturmgewer's webpage on the SCAR?

predator20 06-01-2011 11:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Rockwolf66 (Post 29769)
Does anyone have a link to Sturmgewer's webpage on the SCAR?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIFuVd7-HFs

Rockwolf66 06-02-2011 03:08 AM

Thanks mate,

I also found the SCAR16S Disassembly video and hopefully I can figure out why some magazines will not catch in the weapon tomorrow.


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