The AR-10 was being produced in a few countries overseas, but the U.S. YouTube The AR Heads to ColtĪt the end of the ’50s, ArmaLite’s parent company, Fairchild, was in a little financial trouble and they were pretty much done with the AR rifle project, which had been rejected by the military. 223 Remington as an identifier, so that it wouldn’t mixed up by somebody in the marketplace, though they had no intentions (at the time) of commercially (producing) it.”īut, at the time, the AR-15 was still just an exploratory project for the Army that didn’t ultimately lead to any gun sales for ArmaLite, as the Army’s recently adopted M14 was finally in production. “I said, ‘I have no objection going away from a standard cartridge case if that’s what you want to do.’ So they did and that became the.
They were looking for penetration on a steel helmet at 500 yards and also go through a 10 gauge steel plate at 500 yards. “So they came back with a cartridge with a slightly larger chamber size that alleviated getting the pressures up that high-they could put a little more propellant in, and different types, slower burning and get the velocities that I was asking for to get the penetration. “Then we went to Remington and Winchester and asked for quotes for loading this bullet up into commercial cases, and they (gave us quotes) but then they hesitated on delivering any, because what happened was, we were getting pressures up a little higher than they would have liked. So they took my prints and built up a bullet and we took it out, loaded it up and fired it in a conventional rifle and found out it would do just about everything they were asking for,” Stoner said of the advent of the. “I designed up a bullet and went over to Sierra Cartridge bullet company, close by in California and they said sure, we’ll build you one. Stoner wasn’t only tasked with down-scaling the 7.62 NATO AR-10, but with inventing a new small-caliber, high velocity cartridge as well. Eugene Stoner got his start in the aircraft business before moving to gun designing, which exposed him to a number of cutting-edge, lightweight building materials. military’s standard rifle round since the mid 1960s. 223 Remington / 5.56 NATO cartridge design, which has been the U.S. Not to mention the fact that Stoner also came up with the. The squad support machine guns of today, like the Knight’s Armament LAMG (made by a company Stoner co-founded) owe much of what they are to the design of the Stoner 63 and Stoner 86 machine guns.
Many of today’s semi-auto rifles are either directly based on, or use principals established in Stoner’s designs, including the iconic AR-15 and AR-10.
Samuel Colt is also frequently in that group, though his greatest firearm achievement wasn’t produced until after his death-but that’s a discussion for a different story. When you start talking about the greatest gun designers in history, there are four names that spring to almost everyone’s mind immediately: John Browning, Mikhail Kalashnikov, and Eugene Stoner. Behind him are AR-10 prototypes and variants of the ArmaLite AR-5 survival rifle, which he also designed.
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