User blog comment:Cfp3157/Guerilla Warfare Tourney Round 1: Lloyd Bharat vs Marcus Bright/@comment-5559147-20130128072452/@comment-5559147-20130129031038

Fair point about muzzle velocity, though I haven't been able to find a source on the ARX muzzle velocity. As for range Wiki ( not always the best source, but what I could find ) says the max effective range on both is 600m. So as you said very little difference. As for my votes it has nothing to do with looks. It may seem that way to you, but if it does. Its because all you can look at are the numbers, not realising that the design of a weapon can and does impact its functionallity and by extension its lethality. Lets try it this way, though I still doubt you'll get it. Which do you think is more likely to hit and disable a target a longer range weapon with a more powerfull round, but lacking a buttstock and sites or a weapon with less range and power that has full stock and sites? As for "it has been used for a long time." this does tell us something about a weapon. For instance how many pistols have come and gone from service sense the hi-power was adopted. All the potential replacements, many of them having been tested to replace the hi-power and, decided against. Its a weapon that has seen combat all over the world in every theater and enviroment. Beat up and pushed and still highly regarded. Even the M4. An AR varient which I am not a huge fan of has faced combat in a multitude of enviroments and had years to work out the kinks. Some thing that can not be said for weapons that are only a couple of years old and have not seen much real action. Truth is it seems your edges are based soley on numbers at which weapon is newer, completely ignoring that these weapons are being used by humans in a combat enviroment.

Now to the attack on my weapons choices. They are not the most outdated, I could have chosen crossbows and muzzle loaders, maybe next time. Honestly I chose them because they were interesting and different. Sure I could have chosen the Glocks, P90s, SCARs, Minimis, and Barretts, but I wanted some thing different. For me me it was more about the reading, research and writing. Then the winning. Frankly I know I don't have much of a shot at winning, ecspecially with this crowd, but I'm okay with that.

Anyhow I'll let you get back to learning all their is to know about weapons from Call of Duty. It's got to be tiring after all.