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Thread: New Defence Force rifles need firing pins replaced

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    Quote Originally Posted by Walker View Post
    From contact on the 'ground', a small batch of pins were incorrectly heat treated, so instead of suck it and see the whole lot are being replaced gratis. Those bigger companies still make the same sort of mistakes but will just say 'so what?' On the world stage NZ's requirements are less then some private security companies.
    Oh and the reason for the 1:7 twist is for the 223 tracer round.
    Dam that's right 1:7 twist is for tracer. Twist is about the length of the bullet.

 

 

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