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MadMax · January 28th, 2012, 05:12

My favorite Armalite turned out to be S&W's Whisper. Typically I find most Armalites pretty similar. Various models will have little tweaks like ambi features, or more recently Magpul furniture as standard features. When it comes down to brass tacks, I find them to offer roughly similar shooting performance. I can really only appreciate the differences when I shoot offhand. On the bench it's pretty hard to miss anything at 100yd with a 5.56 with irons really.

That S&W Whisper was something else. Suppressed 0.300cal subsonic pressed into a cartridge of similar length to 0.223. The suppressor was quite light which made for a light overall build. Shooting offhand or modified olympic was easy with such a light build. The recoil was exceptionally light. It kind of felt like I was shooting a pellet gun. Ballistics probably weren't as nasty as standard NATO (it's supersonic), but the 0.300 round was a heavy 208 grains. After a day of blasting skull cracking shoulder kicking rounds, the stable S&W Whisper was a relaxing treat. I was rippling off rounds downrange in fairly quick pairs, rewarded with a lot of pings from the steels. I think the noisiest emanation was the rapid cycling of the action. Quite a lot of mechanical racking sounds, but nothing like the crack of the usual assault round.

January 28th, 2012, 05:12	#4
MadMax Delierious Designer of Dastardly Detonations Trader rating Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: in the dark recesses of some metal chip filled machine shop	My favorite Armalite turned out to be S&W's Whisper. Typically I find most Armalites pretty similar. Various models will have little tweaks like ambi features, or more recently Magpul furniture as standard features. When it comes down to brass tacks, I find them to offer roughly similar shooting performance. I can really only appreciate the differences when I shoot offhand. On the bench it's pretty hard to miss anything at 100yd with a 5.56 with irons really. That S&W Whisper was something else. Suppressed 0.300cal subsonic pressed into a cartridge of similar length to 0.223. The suppressor was quite light which made for a light overall build. Shooting offhand or modified olympic was easy with such a light build. The recoil was exceptionally light. It kind of felt like I was shooting a pellet gun. Ballistics probably weren't as nasty as standard NATO (it's supersonic), but the 0.300 round was a heavy 208 grains. After a day of blasting skull cracking shoulder kicking rounds, the stable S&W Whisper was a relaxing treat. I was rippling off rounds downrange in fairly quick pairs, rewarded with a lot of pings from the steels. I think the noisiest emanation was the rapid cycling of the action. Quite a lot of mechanical racking sounds, but nothing like the crack of the usual assault round. __________________ Want nearly free GBB gas?