![]() The barrel on the SL8-1 is a heavy contour 1-in-7-twist tube, tapering from 0.84 inches at the chamber to 0.79 inches at the muzzle. An adjustment tool-HK’s rifle equivalent of a Swiss Army knife-is included. The grip drops to a point 3 inches below the trigger guard, and the blocky buttstock is adjustable for LOP. The stock lines are very unusual, with an angular, cut-forward forend showing only 6.75 inches of barrel. It’s a light gray color with a contrasting black adjustable cheekpiece and buttstock. The SL8-1 diverges from the G36 in a number of ways, of course, starting with the thumbhole stock. The gun we tested weighed 8.6 pounds with an empty magazine. The barrel was 20.8 inches long, with a sight radius of 19.7 inches. Overall, the gun measured 38.6 inches in length and was 2.4 inches thick. ![]() The barrel is hard-chrome plated and cold-forged with the chamber. The barrel rifling is a right-hand 1-in-7 twist. 223 Remington, employs a single-stack polymer magazine that accepts 10 rounds. The chrome-plated bolt is machined with six locking lugs. It houses a Stoner-style rotating bolt, cam piece, firing pin and firing pin retaining pin. It uses a short-stroke, piston-actuated gas operating system with a rotary locking bolt. The HK SL8-1, which we’ve seen selling for a dealer price of $1,200 from SOG, (800) 944-4867, is mostly constructed of a carbon-fiber reinforced polymer. The bolt assembly and barrel account for most of the metal in the G36 rifle, making it, and its civilian counterpart the SL8-1, lightweight and very corrosion resistant. The G36 makes heavy use of synthetic materials, including the receiver. Unlike earlier HKs, the G36 uses a gas system similar to the Armalite AR-18. The SL8-1 is a child of HK’s G36 assault rifle, though they are cosmetically very different. 223 was introduced into the commercial market in 1999. Tested and currently fielded with special units of the German Armed Forces (including the new NATO Rapid Reaction Force), the G36 is now available to U.S. The barrel of the G36 can be exchanged by unit armorers to create a Rifle, Carbine, or a light support Variant using the same common receiver. The G36 is a modular weapon system in caliber 5.56x45mm NATO. The HK gun showed lower velocity readings across the board, as much as 278 fps slower.ĭuring NATO’s ground deployment in Kosovo, the year of 1999 marked the first time since World War II that German soldiers were in combat, and they were using the newly developed Heckler & Koch G36 5.56mm rifle. We scoped the gun with a IOR Valdada 2.5-10X42mm riflescope carrying Weaver-style clamp-on rings. For the chronograph data, we used an Oehler 35P unit attached to a printer. The HK buttstock was too deep for the Protecktor bunny bag, so we used a pair of sandbags to keep the buttstock from wiggling. We fired on a hot, muggy, overcast day that, thankfully, had light 6 o’clock tailwinds, which made reading the wind easy and swept away mirage. 223 weights to ensure we got a mixture of bullets that would likely serve in many conditions.įor the accuracy section, we shot five five-shot groups of the PMC 223B 55-grain Pointed Soft Points, Winchester USA full-metal-jacket 62-grain rounds, and 69-grain boattail hollowpoints from Federal, the Gold Medal Sierra MatchKing loading. So we tended toward the upper end of the. However, the SL8-1 doesn’t carry a “varmint” description, and HK’s literature doesn’t cite a specific use for its rifle. Bullets for these divergent uses can range all over the. Our ammo selections included a range of bullet styles and weights. The SL8-1 is a grey polymer-stocked unit that sells for $1,249. What struck us as unusual was the marrying of a heavy barrel or other heavy componentry to what was originally a lightweight field rifle configuration. Heckler & Koch is marketing a variant of its G36 assault rifle as a heavy-barrel accuracy rifle for the U.S.
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