THE BEST ASSAULT RIFLE

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OH!! THE FS2000, HERE ARE SOME OF IT'S FEATURES:
A civilian-legal, semi-automatic version of the F2000 that first became available in June 2006. The FS2000 is equipped with a 17.4-inch barrel with a permanently attached flash suppressor and 1/7 right hand twist rifling; the bayonet lug was not included on the FS2000 carbines. The FS2000 has an overall length of 29.1 inches and weighs 7.6 pounds when empty. Compared to the M4 Carbine with a fully collapsed stock (29.75" and 6.49 lb empty), the FS2000 is slightly shorter and heavier. The trigger pull was found to vary between 6-11 lbf. The lower hand guard can be removed in the same manner as the F2000 to accept the same variety of accessories. It comes with a Picatinny rail optic rail along with backup iron sights. The rear flip-up National Match-sized aperture is adjustable for windage, while the removable front sight is adjustable for elevation. The FS2000 is not configured from the factory to have a drop-free magazine system due to the friction from the removable dust gaskets. The magazine needs to be pulled out manually. It should also be noted that the rifle does not have a hold open device...the bolt does not stay rearward after the last round is fired. A small number of the early models featured a stepped barrel contour as well as a de-milled bayonet lug. A measurement of the stepped barrel's rifling was as long as the non-stepped barrel, revealing that the stepped barrel is not simply a shorter F2000 military barrel with an extended flash hider. FN Herstal has recalled approximately four hundred early FS2000 carbines in July 2006due to the heavier military firing pins causing slam fires with commercial ammunition. The fixed carbines are equipped with a reduced mass firing pin, captured firing pin spring, and a revised bolt. Some users have experienced light primer strikes and short-stroking with the recalled parts using certain types of ammunition.
There is some speculation that FN Herstal plans to release a variant of the FS2000 with the factory F2000 1.6x magnification scope, and does not include the grenade launcher firing computer.

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The modular design of the G36 is one aspect of the rifle that makes it unique. Unlike many other Heckler & Koch weapons, the G36 can be reconfigured into any of its variants at the unit level with only two special tools. These are a mandrel, one end of which is inserted into the breech of the rifle, and the other clamped in a vise. The other special tool is a barrel wrench to remove and tighten the barrel retaining nut. When the barrel is replaced, a standard torque wrench is used to tighten the barrel nut. When the barrel nut is torqued to specification, headspace is automatically set. The few other tools required for organizational maintenance of the G36 are common hand tools available in any well-stocked hardware store.

From the foregoing it is apparent that while the G36 is not the G11 of the 1990s, it takes advantage of state-of-the-art technology and incorporates superb ergonomics and engineering in its basic design. But while the former infantryman in this writer appreciates the overall "user-friendly" design, the proof of any rifle is in the shooting. To this end, we were afforded unlimited access to all three versions of the G36 at H&K's facility in Sterling, Va. We requested permission to provide some of our own 5.56x45mm ammunition for test purposes. This ammunition was Black Hills 68-grain Moly-Kote Match, Longbow 40-grain Nontoxic Frangible, Olin M193 55-grain ball and South African M1A2 55-grain ball. When we arrived at the range, we found that Heckler & Koch had also brought a variety of ammunition, including Olin M855 (SS109), Federal 68-grain Match and Green Shield 36-grain Frangible. This provided a sample of almost every common type of ammunition that might be encountered by worldwide users of the G36.

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I love my FN FS2000, with 2 points: the trigger is a bit stiff (even after 600+ rounds), and it gets HOT. It does not like wolf ammo, but the South African stuff feeds just fine. It is amazingly modular when disassembling, requiring no tools (unless you take the gas port apart). It ejects the ammo up a tube along the barrel and neatly dumps them right at your feet. The factory sights were dead on right out of the box, but I got a great deal on a used EOTech, and now it rocks!