• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    Mags are often designed to hold rounds in multiples of 5, so ten, twenty and twenty five can be found for some guns. 3 round burst is common, so a rifle having a 3 round burst and a magazine in multiples of 5 is super normal. Many US military automatic rifles like the M4 also fire 3 round bursts. 20, 30, and 40 round magazines are available for the M4. French ain’t got nothing to do with it having non-multiples of 3 in all magazine sizes. Also, the FAMAS has an available 30 round magazine…which is divisible by 3.

  • BigFig@lemmy.world
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    Be careful, last time I saw french jokes on Lemmy some but hurt frog came out of the woodwork and exploded in the comments

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    Except…

    This works as a tactile feedback that your mag is empty.

    Wine at lunch is just one of their secret weapons.

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      I’ve heard this before, and believed it to be a practical design for a while, but when I started shooting, I realized that you can definitely tell when you’ve ran out of bullets in the mag because the bolt typically locks back and feels distinctly different than a normal cycle

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        The rifle pictured is a FAMAS, and the bolt does not lock open after the last round.

        Though you’re not totally wrong, fewer bangs than you expect on the last trigger pull is pretty easy to notice.

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        In a combat situation, with other explosions and shit going on around you, it’s easier to feel two pops instead of three or whatever than to notice your bolt locked after three pops.

        It’s designed for war, it’s not a toy for the range.

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          Fair enough. They should’ve installed a little speaker that went, “sacrebleu! You have run out of ze bullets!” instead. I think that would’ve been more noticeable than just two pops instead of three.

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            Should probably change the sound of the gun firing to sound like croissa-a-a-ant so we can tell them apart from American gun which of course just play country music.

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            It’s hard to figure out who is out of bullets by counting pops, it’s easier to aim at the guys who’s gun just yelled “Sacre blue”

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              It depends. If you’re fighting the French and hear, “sacrebleu”, you may just think one of them is starting a sentence.

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    Ha. Looks like besides the 25 round mag, a 30 round is available. As is single shot mode.

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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    Once you’ve pulled the trigger for a three-round burst, your hand becomes free and you can change the mag while the first round is still being fired. Duh.