As long as you aren’t British, they aren’t that hard to make. But, the “conventional vs. bullpup” debate is a separate one from the “intermediate rifle vs. full power rifle” debate for the most part. I know people are going to talk about overall length, but really that’s an argument point that applies no matter the caliber.
Intermediate caliber vs. full power is really a fundamental difference in thinking.
I want to emphasize my above comment was made specifically to avoid the “conventional vs bullpup” debate, because it is a separate one from the “intermediate caliber vs full size”. I can not stress this enough.
The benefit of having a full length barrel in a shorter package looks amazing on paper, but in practice isn’t as big a deal for most purposes.
Bullpups introduce issues like an upper limit on how good the trigger can be because of a needed linkage, and I think more pressing is making something as simple as brass ejection a bit of a head scratcher to make work for both left and right handed people. There are solutions but they aren’t necessary if you just don’t deal with bullpups.
Since AR-15 derived designs are the most popular military rifles worldwide, I’ll mention that the straightline recoil and beefy buffer assembly are appreciated and that impulse can’t really be replicated in a bullpup design.
Now, I feel it in my bones that you want to argue for the merits of bullpups. Maybe I’m wrong but I just get that sense. I genuinely have been a part of so many bullpup conversations and I honestly don’t care about it. Bullpup vs conventional is a boring argument. If you’re still wanting to continue a discussion/debate/internet argument please direct an angry correspondence to the French military about their dropping of the FAMAS for HK416s.
As long as you aren’t British, they aren’t that hard to make. But, the “conventional vs. bullpup” debate is a separate one from the “intermediate rifle vs. full power rifle” debate for the most part. I know people are going to talk about overall length, but really that’s an argument point that applies no matter the caliber.
Intermediate caliber vs. full power is really a fundamental difference in thinking.
why aren’t all rifles bullpup then?
I want to emphasize my above comment was made specifically to avoid the “conventional vs bullpup” debate, because it is a separate one from the “intermediate caliber vs full size”. I can not stress this enough.
The benefit of having a full length barrel in a shorter package looks amazing on paper, but in practice isn’t as big a deal for most purposes.
Bullpups introduce issues like an upper limit on how good the trigger can be because of a needed linkage, and I think more pressing is making something as simple as brass ejection a bit of a head scratcher to make work for both left and right handed people. There are solutions but they aren’t necessary if you just don’t deal with bullpups.
Since AR-15 derived designs are the most popular military rifles worldwide, I’ll mention that the straightline recoil and beefy buffer assembly are appreciated and that impulse can’t really be replicated in a bullpup design.
Now, I feel it in my bones that you want to argue for the merits of bullpups. Maybe I’m wrong but I just get that sense. I genuinely have been a part of so many bullpup conversations and I honestly don’t care about it. Bullpup vs conventional is a boring argument. If you’re still wanting to continue a discussion/debate/internet argument please direct an angry correspondence to the French military about their dropping of the FAMAS for HK416s.
Only ONE merit that matters:
looks cool
No further arguments needed.
I’m sorry lol I only know what call it duty has taught me about guns.