Re: George showing some GAP love........
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Big_Joe</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Direct Gas is by default more accurate then gas piston. </div></div>
By default, huh? OK. Maybe that's the case. Is there an observed percentage of accuracy improvement?
I could understand that type of modification for bench rest shooting competition to see who could print the smaller group on paper at shorter ranges. But with an existing .5 MOA rifle that has had the engineering put into it to improve the reliability to the degree POF has, going back to a far dirtier, hotter, chamber doesn't jive for real-world, or tactical application. I say that after seeing how many shooters can't accurately follow each buffet of wind call for each shot, seeing the shots moved feet either direction by the wind. It's not an easy skill to master, and is definitely perishable.
So with accuracy already down to .5 MOA, the wind calling ability is the far greater factor than greater accuracy of the rifle, itself.
I'm not trying to be critical of this particular rifle. It does look very nice. I'm just trying to understand why they did what they did to that system.
When we torture test the POF's along side other DI systems, the POF's keep running long after the DI rifles gum up and fail. So it seems to me this modification would be appropriate only for an experimental application where the sacrifice in reliability advancement is worth the negligible gain in rifle accuracy. I assume I'm probably missing something, or these guys wouldn't have spent so much money and effort making these mods. But that's why I ask.
Ask not, learn not.
