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7/10/2025, 10:43:21 PM
>>63964531
Well allow me to facilitate your tumescence further, anon.
Quad stacks really need to be coupled with constant recoil, and for the same reason - to push the rifle more into the realm of an LMG and vastly improve the usefulness of full auto fire. That was kinda the whole point of assault rifles in the first place. An m4 with a cyclic rate of 850 rpm will last only 2.1 seconds in full auto before the mag runs dry. And that’s with sharp spikes in recoil energy as the BCG bottoms out on the receiver at the end of each stroke. Constant recoil smooths this out, spreads recoil energy over a longer period of time, and slows down the cyclic rate. Compare the AR to a hypothetical rifle with 600rpm full auto and a 75 round mag. This one’s stream of full auto fire lasts 7.5 seconds, and is more controllable and accurate on top of that.
As for “why quad stacks instead of drums”
That’s cause quad stacks are the most mass and volume efficient way of carrying and feeding ammunition. For a sense of the difference in weight, compare the Magpul d60 (20.5oz) to the Surefire 60rd quad stack (~7.5oz IIRC). The Surefire also occupies a smaller volume. Quad stacks are also just as easy to carry as double stacks, whereas drums might actually be the solid with the worst possible shape to fill a volume, lol. They’re impossible to carry.
Picrel was surefire’s comically long 100rd quad stack. Was discontinued not long after launch, but they kept making the more manageable 60 round version for some time, until discontinuing that one as well sometime in the last couple years.
Well allow me to facilitate your tumescence further, anon.
Quad stacks really need to be coupled with constant recoil, and for the same reason - to push the rifle more into the realm of an LMG and vastly improve the usefulness of full auto fire. That was kinda the whole point of assault rifles in the first place. An m4 with a cyclic rate of 850 rpm will last only 2.1 seconds in full auto before the mag runs dry. And that’s with sharp spikes in recoil energy as the BCG bottoms out on the receiver at the end of each stroke. Constant recoil smooths this out, spreads recoil energy over a longer period of time, and slows down the cyclic rate. Compare the AR to a hypothetical rifle with 600rpm full auto and a 75 round mag. This one’s stream of full auto fire lasts 7.5 seconds, and is more controllable and accurate on top of that.
As for “why quad stacks instead of drums”
That’s cause quad stacks are the most mass and volume efficient way of carrying and feeding ammunition. For a sense of the difference in weight, compare the Magpul d60 (20.5oz) to the Surefire 60rd quad stack (~7.5oz IIRC). The Surefire also occupies a smaller volume. Quad stacks are also just as easy to carry as double stacks, whereas drums might actually be the solid with the worst possible shape to fill a volume, lol. They’re impossible to carry.
Picrel was surefire’s comically long 100rd quad stack. Was discontinued not long after launch, but they kept making the more manageable 60 round version for some time, until discontinuing that one as well sometime in the last couple years.
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