Frag Out! Magazine
Issue link: https://fragout.uberflip.com/i/958224
HK433 HK417 organization with AR platform is irrelevant (what if they train on Mauser K98 – then what?) because they join the armed forces, so they will use what is issued. 2. Change to the AR-style. Yes, these are one of the most popular firearms in the world. The HK416 rifle is a primary weapon in POLSOF and is very popular among civilian shooters. AR platform is considered by many as determinant of ergonomics in rifles. Pros of such solution is that you really want to set selector on full auto and it cannot be done accidentally even under enormous stress. Disadvantage is harder setting safety off than rifle with 45 degree selector and that to change to full auto weapon grip has to be changed. Some of the people that are strongly used to AR platform say that without looking they can say what fire mode weapon is put on and this is off course true. 3. Leave selector the same, but change the throw between positions. Smaller resistance between safety and single fire and stronger before going full auto. In theory is can protect from accidental "under stress" full auto mode – question is, how big that stress could be that this kind of "protection" turn out not working. Theoretically, because as far as I know, nobody decided to introduce weapon system with that solution. Maybe it would be worthy to release test series? All in all, under technical point of view it should not be complicated much – matters of adequate choose holes that set the selector levers. Only danger is that during use that type of solution could worn out and difference of resistance between the positions can stop to be noticeable. 4. Leave the resistance, change setting from S-S-F to S-F-S. De facto, it would be great of comeback to AK platform where strong pull of selector lever downward resulted in single fire mode. Many years ago during basic training I immerse myself into secrets of AK construction (yes AK, not AKM – my first service rifle was AKS rifle from 1959!), I asked question why safety lever work that way, my instructor responded that this is indeed FIREARMS