{"id":20345,"date":"2022-06-04T08:08:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T13:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/04\/2-gun-with-new-us-army-weapons-sig-spear-and-m17\/"},"modified":"2022-06-04T08:08:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T13:08:05","slug":"2-gun-with-new-us-army-weapons-sig-spear-and-m17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/04\/2-gun-with-new-us-army-weapons-sig-spear-and-m17\/","title":{"rendered":"2-Gun With New US Army Weapons: SIG Spear and M17"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f4gst0QoMw4?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday we looked at the new SIG Spear\/M5 in detail, and today I&#8217;m taking it out to a 2-Gun match to try on the clock. The most suitable pistol pairing would naturally be the other recently-adopted new US Army weapon, the M17 pistol (in this case, a commercial M17).<\/p>\n<p>The Spear\/M5 is a really great rifle to shoot. It&#8217;s soft-shooting (granted, with the down-loaded training ammo) and very accurate. The suppressor is effective and doesn&#8217;t cause any gas blowback into my face whatsoever. That said, it is also both heavy and specifically front heavy. Is it the right choice for today&#8217;s US Army? I don&#8217;t know; time will tell. Personally, I think I can say I would rather have the M5 than an HK 416&#8230;but I&#8217;d rather have a modernized (lightweight) M16A1 than either of them.<\/p>\n<p>As for the M17, my troubles hitting with it were me, not the pistol. The pistol shooting requirements in this match were particularly challenging, and I wasn&#8217;t quite up to them. The repeated failures to go fully into battery were annoying, though.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Illumined Arms for the loan of the rifle!<\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>Forgotten Weapons<br \/>6281 N. Oracle 36270<br \/>Tucson, AZ 85740<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/ http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com Yesterday we looked at the new SIG Spear\/M5 in detail, and today I&#8217;m taking it out to a 2-Gun match to try on the clock. The most suitable pistol pairing would naturally be the other recently-adopted new US Army weapon, the M17 pistol (in this case, a commercial&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/04\/2-gun-with-new-us-army-weapons-sig-spear-and-m17\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2-Gun With New US Army Weapons: SIG Spear and M17<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":20346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}