1 posted on
02/07/2017 11:26:27 AM PST by
w1n1
To: w1n1
I know people criticize the M14, but it is one accurate rife; it rugged; and it will fire with all sorts of gunk in the chamber.
I think it would have been a great rifle for a conflict with the Soviets in Western Europe, but in SE Asia, the M14 was simply out of its element.
2 posted on
02/07/2017 11:35:01 AM PST by
quadrant
(1o)
To: w1n1
The top of my wish list has a Ruger Mini-14 Tactical “Ranch Rifle”. Short money and just a damned nice piece. Someday. Have to get out of MA first.
6 posted on
02/07/2017 11:48:59 AM PST by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted. It belongs to the brave. - - Ronaldus Magnus Reagan)
To: w1n1
If the tests hadn’t been rigged against it, we could have fielded the world-proven FN-FAL instead.
7 posted on
02/07/2017 11:55:07 AM PST by
M1903A1
("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
To: w1n1
I’m pretty fond of my SOCOM - an M-14 based carbine of sorts. The only thing I changed on mine was to toss the plastic-like stock for a nice wood stock. Guns should sport wood.
8 posted on
02/07/2017 11:56:45 AM PST by
meyer
(The Constitution says what it says, and it doesn't say what it doesn't say.)
To: w1n1
When the US Army decided to try out a small .222 Special bullet the Winchester company designed the first rifle to fire it. It looked like a M1 Carbine. Armalite won the bid with their M-15 rifle, now the M-16.
To: w1n1
I love my M1A. Just wish it wasn’t so damned heavy. It was much, much lighter when I was 35. Don’t know when it gained all that weight.
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14 posted on
02/07/2017 12:18:57 PM PST by
Lurker
(America burned the witch.)
To: w1n1
32 posted on
02/07/2017 3:03:12 PM PST by
Buffalo Head
(Illegitimi non carborundum)
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