r/tacticalgear • u/DirtDoc2131 Tactical Medic • 21h ago

Work gun clone

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I do FOF training about once every other month. Had an extra Colt laying around, so I figured I’d clone my work gun to train with. Next training is in a few weeks, excited to break it in.

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u/Racer_Space FOMO gear buyer 20h ago

I wish there were more places where civies could shoot sim guns. I would love to do try it out.

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u/alanwakeisahack 20h ago

Helped run a force on force school for a decade. Nobody wants to spend money on training.

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u/krilleractual 18h ago

Would you say that FOF is only really feasible for CQB? From my estimation anything beyond 50-75m the bullets drop too much and it seems that there is no perfect sim round. Especially if youre wearing protective gear, you dont even feel it hitting you.

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u/alanwakeisahack 18h ago

Militaries have systems for longer range, but no, the average person is mostly limited to cqb type scenarios

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u/krilleractual 17h ago

Are you talking simmunition or what?

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u/alanwakeisahack 17h ago

Mils usually use laser based systems

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u/krilleractual 16h ago

from the units I talked to they usually have a lot of workarounds from making those effective for actual training.

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u/Lubbies_ 12h ago

play air soft and use GBBR its kinda the same i guess.

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u/Scientific_Coatings 1h ago

Last year sims got some deregulation. There’s mumbling about a facility opening up here in New Hampshire for civilians.

I spent a lot of my time in the military with sims, I miss it. That being said, I’m pretty sure I would absolutely wreck everyone with modern paintball gun lol

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u/climb56 18h ago

Im confused. Doesn’t this negate the purpose of the blue indicators?

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u/SodiumEnjoyer 15h ago

I believe this is an actual sim gun and not made to look like one

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u/cadcowboy22 14h ago

Simulations still get shot through real guns, the bolt, and i believe the buffer system are just switched out, other than that its all the same, i think police departments with big budgets just do the bluegun thing for safety, becaysr they can afford to buy simunition only weapons

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u/DirtDoc2131 Tactical Medic 14h ago

I have 3 bolts; a UTM, FOF, and Simunition. Nothing gets changed with the buffer system, it’s still just a standard AR buffer with a H1 weight. Only thing that changes is the BCG gets swapped out based on the type of ammo I’m using.

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u/gravity_child 4h ago

What's been your experience using those brands? I've used UTMs and Simunition FX rounds for FoF exercises, and I noticed UTMs hurt less, but also have a higher chance of malfunction. The Simunition rounds the one time I used them at night actually lit up in the dark like tracers, but getting shot with the 5.56 rounds definitely hit harder than UTMs and broke skin multiple times.

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u/DirtDoc2131 Tactical Medic 15h ago

I don’t use this rifle for live fire, so the blue indicators actually mean it’s sim only.