Today we are out at the range to compare the Angstadt Arms MDP-9 to the classic H&K SP-5. We will do a bunch of runs on a course of fire that incudes precision targets, spinners and stars, and see which of the carbines comes out ahead! Plus, as a bonus, some shooting with a suppressor and subsonic ammunition…
Conversion
Merrill Breechloading Conversion of the 1841 Mississippi Rifle
Lot 1171 in the September 2020 RIA Premier auction. James Merrill of Baltimore had his hands in several Civil War era firearms – rifles built from scratch, conversions of the Jenks carbines, and also conversions […]
Semiauto Rifles
Vintage Saturday: Legislators
Photo from the May 1940 weapons testing at Fort Belvoir. From left to right, Senator Lundeen (MN, Farmer-Labor) with a Johnson rifle, Rep. Snyder (PA, Democrat) with an M1928A1 Thompson, and Senator Thomas (OK, Democrat) […]
Semiauto Rifles
How to Identify a Real M1A1 Carbine vs a Fake
Looking for a light and compact weapon to equip its new Airborne units, the US military adopted the M1A1 Carbine in May of 1942. This was mechanically identical to the existing M1 Carbine but with […]
That spinner is such a big variable all by itself that it kind of makes any gun comparison meaningless.
Yeah I think to be statistically valid you’d need to shoot the spinner many many times.
Odd conclusion to arrive at considering you were more than 3 sec faster with it and it had no malfunctions.
The HK that is.