Springfield Hellion Bullpup Rifle

[JAKIII]

I was talking with Sven about this a few months ago. Not a coincidence that he dropped this the same day that Springfield announced the new models with the updated safety.

Coworker is a lefty and got the Hellion because you can switch the ejection port from one side to the other.

[Ronin]

Coworker is a lefty and got the Hellion because you can switch the ejection port from one side to the other.

I have mine setup for left side ejection, but when I first ran it, I shot it left handed with the ejection to the right. I only got hit with brass once.

[JaySmith]

Because terminal performance matters. The whole modern obsession with short barrels is due to a market that has never shot anything beside paper, steel plates, and piles of trash. Besides that 55 grain FMJ will penetrate level III steel armor out of a 20" barrel, but not a 16"

Maybe, but even if you hit III armor with a 16" barrel, the wearer is still taken out of the fight. From my research, a 20" barrel provides ~3300fps, a 16" barrel is 3100fps, a 10" barrel is 2700fps. If you're hitting meat, any of those would do the job. Even Sir Kyle of Kenosha's steel case .223 out of his M&P sport with 16" barrel had a devastating effect and did the job against non-armor targets, which is bottom of the barrel. That leads me to believe that anything better than that would likely do the job in most cases.

[Mr_themissile]

You lost me at Springfield

[raxar]

You lost me at Springfield

They just import them, they don't build them.