FN America to Discontinue All SCAR Models

yep gotta save the rest for the communist world war coming.

Ok so please excuse my longwinded hyperverbal halfwit response here: but i had skin in the game at one point so....now.. I have waited and held my tongue on this issue as someone who tried ("attempted" more like it) to carry a SCAR-H in a not-quite-CQC version in a once-in-a-lifetime-"pilot program" that contracted civilians and former SOF to work in Baja to assist SEMAR and FES (Navy) and the first was Mex MC (Mex Marines) with municipal issues. Even "my Mexis" as I lovingly called my devil perros, were eager to get trigger time on that SCAR. It was a NIGHTMARE FOR US ALL TO USE. And this was the recirprocating variant but that wasn't the issue. They (the armorers at TItanGroup/L-3 Harris in San Diego) had designed their upgrade program for the multitude of manufacturers' ARs (including the 3-4x SCAR-H's CQC--or our midsize if you want to be technical, with barely a 11" barrel) to be light and durable and nothing else. (AGAIN IF YOU READ ALL THIS I APOLOGIZE, I got a TBI that causes me to maybe over explain simplistic points that can be summarized easily)

Now before the KAC SR-25s arrived, along with the earliest versions of the Wilson Combat ARs which I felt we should have been using for the U.S military (in .300 HAMR obviously, vs this 6.8mm nonsense), and the SR-25s in 7.62? They recoiled similar to a WC Lightweight Protector-series rifle in that .30 cal adjacent arena (while the SCAR's recoil was horrific in any fight over 200m because follow up shots were impossible to keyhole or group close--forgive me, I'm not a gunfighter by trade, just a thing I fell into because I spoke fluent spanish and had prior jobs working with SOF and 7th SFG was busy so they went private imho) but that 7.62 CQC model is something no one wants to hump or worry about, and the Controlled Chaos? Of the.300HAMR at the right velocity? If you tweak it? It will bust through body armor like the ARC and .277 Fury/6.8mm can, no problem, and you don't need a tungsten steel penetrator with a plasma beam laser cannon driving it and blah blah blah....but point is, they couldn't shave enough weight off the 7.62 legendary and iconic battle carbine to make it worth it.

We had lots of SOCOM folks, mainly the infamous JSOC types, though these were drug addicted fellas, one was a childhood friend of mine, and the three fmr Delta fellas on our team, ALL were not in peak condition....some were hooked on opiates and benzos (xanax) and had their careers yanked for minor infractions like tearing an achilles tendon and then having attitude with a Sqdn commander or something similar...but they ALL had their own customized SR-25 ECCs "minis" that were only 14.5" like my next "official" duty rifle would be (this was late 2010-2011ish in Baja btw, and the Zetas were even working alongside Cuban intel guys, maybe not active but they hit us a lot in La Paz, southern Ensenada, and especially in what is now the infamous Michoacan) but the ARs rarely got used unless we knew weren't getting arrested, and so they were utilized against the TCO proxy groups that would hit our Yukon convoys like something out of Sicario, except it wasn't "cool" as the movie was, and it lasted 15 seconds vs 15 minutes...Plus I suffered multiple TBI after we were peppered and hit a Jersey barrier (and I was ejected through a ballistic glass windshield somehow almost unscathed minus the brain injury).

The SCAR nearly cost one guy (an New Mexico PD guy who was moonlighting with us) his life, though it would ultimately be taken by a coward who gutshot him months after the SCAR malfunctions. Now....Let's be clear, the SCAR did great mountain-to-mountain work in the AF/PAK theater for two decades I'm sure. I'm not a veteran of the GWOT exactly, so I don't speak from experience. I carried a cheap, crummy DPMS Panther AR-15 (a $700 rifle! because I was on a waiting list for my 6.5 Grendel platform I had negotiated with our people and it was made by none other than LMT which I was very excited about). My DPMS was so much better than the SCAR-H that it was laughable. I had a crappy K-can on the end, so even my suppressor was of poor quality. My red dot (with only 2.5x mag) was a UGT and was like 65$ at the time, but it's 150 now...but then it was trash. But it kept it's zero during our DFEs (what you guys call a TIC) and it never failed me. The baffles UGT uses rival the KAC cans imho...But the SR-25 ECC battle carbines that replaced the SCAR carriers? They were tack drivers and brought serious hate to those opposing the Mexican Marines and the the multi-deployment seasoned operators-turned-FID side hustle-security "SMEs". And my LMT 6.5 Grendel never "confirmed" hit any bad guys, though I squeezed enough on plenty and that's a big round to send poop into the trousers of anyone, especially a chubby out of shape local thug doing petty errands with a revolver for the Tijana DTOs. Now, my last point I'll make is this.. If FN discontinues the SCAR, and this NGSW or whatever in .277 keeps having complaints, I'm telling you to get the super easy to swap uppers etc for the .300HAMR and 5.56mm from Bill Wilson. His rifles never failed me either, same with CZ pistols. None ever had a single malfunction in the dirtiest parts of northern Baja.