The HCAR integrates accepts Mil Spec collapsible stocks as seen here. You should also take note of the magazine guide to assist with seating a magazine in the weapon. Granted, it was a range day, and we didn’t put them through combat conditions but I saw 5 magazines used between the two HCARs with no misfeeds. OOW offers a 30 round BAR mag and the ones we used during the demo performed flawlessly. I fired both guns and observed no issues with either as over 40 different shooters firing several hundred rounds over the course of the afternoon. Like on the original BAR design, the HCAR has an adjustable gas port. In order to make the suppressor more user friendly it was fitted with a Manta suppressor cover. Additionally, both prototypes were equipped with AAC flash suppressors and readily accepted the AAC suppressor. The 16″ barrel is “dimpled” with ovals to help reduce weight and improve cooling by offering additional surface area. OOW has also integrated Mil Std 1913 rails for sights and accessories. The furniture is all designed and manufactured in house from Selective Laser Sintered (SLA) 3D printed materials. They tell me it’s due to their new buffer. 30-06 you can see that recoil is quite manageable. As this is still a developmental platform, almost anything in that class of round is possible, so long as it makes sense. 30-06 but they are considering other calibers 7.62 is a natural fit but a few others were mentioned as well. Headed by Retired Army Lieutenant General David Grange, Osprey has opened a new facility boasting a 1500m range near Elizabethtown, North Carolina, right down route 87 from Fort Bragg. I was fortunate enough to get a chance to fire the HCAR during the Osprey Global Solutions Range Demo Day. I gave the HCAR a brief mention during SHOT Show 2013.
In fact, they’ve been working on this for a little while now. Ohio Ordnance Works applied knowledge gained from almost 20 years of building semi-auto versions of the BAR to increase the firepower of the Infantry Squad. This modernized version of the BAR is known as the Heavy Combat Assault Rifle. I’d even go so far as to call the BAR the original SAW and its removal from service and subsequent capability gap led to the acquisition of the M249 SAW. Designed almost a century ago by small arms genius John Moses Browning, it served from its inception in 1917 until the early 1970s in the US arsenal and elsewhere around the world for long after. Seeing how today is Veterans Day which finds its foundation in Armistice Day that marked the end of WW I, it’s fitting to offer a story about a modern version of the 1918 Browning Automatic Rifle which first saw service in that war to end all wars.
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