Hk417

Saent

"The HK417 is a battle rifle designed and manufactured in Germany by Heckler & Koch. It is chambered for the 7.62x51mm NATO (.308 Winchester) round. Similar in internal design to the HK416, the HK417 is a gas-operated, short-stroke piston design, claimed to be more reliable than the original direct impingement operation of the AR-10 design due to less fouling in the receiver.[1] The early prototype HK417 utilized 20-round magazines from the H&K G3 rifle family, which did not feature a bolt hold-open device. Later prototypes, however, switched to a polymer magazine with bolt hold-open. The magazine is similar to the G36 series transparent magazine, except without the pins for holding more than one magazine together.

In addition, a well proven 50-round, low profile drum magazine developed by HK for the HK21E machine gun can be fitted to the HK417 for use in support and sustained fire applications.

The HK417 is designed more for use as a "designated marksman" rifle than an assault rifle, with its increased cost and accuracy weighed against decreased rate of fire and magazine capacity (although fully automatic fire is selectable).

The HK417 is currently only available to government and military organizations."




Information taken from Wikipedia.

I was looking at this for a while and thought it'd be awesome as an alternative to the Scar Light or M4a1 for long-range gunning with a 20" barrel.



Hopefully my image link will work.. not sure.

If not, here's a link to the wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_%26_Koch_HK417

And here's a link to the picture I liked most:

http://img209.imageshack.us/i/416417wmka7.jpg/

-Saent

Saent

Just realized I posted in the wrong section... I can't delete it though.

omgtheycham

You are one of those peeps huh? Why do you want this gun? Cuz you have too much time in your hands.