The modern G3 comes in two main size variants, the full size G3, with a 17.71 inch barrel, and the G3K or 'Kurz' with a 12.40 inch barrel. All G3s suffer from heaviness and excessive recoil of the 7.62 x 51 cartridge in automatic fire. Remember though that this gun comes from the same genre as the FAL and M14, when the new NATO round was standard, and rifles were being developed for it. They together helped with the realization that in order to have an individually issued automatic rifle, that the cartridge had to be smaller to provide any hope of decent hit probability, not to mention that .308 rounds are simply much heavier in their magazines than that which succeeded them.
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