Posted on 01/07/2021 9:55:26 AM PST by Onthebrink
Easy to maintain? Whatever. Any cheap ass POS that necessitates an anti-jam plunger and carries with it a few tens of thousands of dead Americans is no friend. Our love affair with the AR is ridiculous no matter how many silly toys you glue to the rail.
It absolutely did suck at the time. It was a super finicky weapon when first released and Vietnam was about the worst place (maybe outside of a desert environment) where a weapon that finicky could have been deployed. Problems like you mention were extremely common and resulted in some major R&D work to make it better. The A1 was better. The A2 was a huge improvement.
What made the M16 great were decades of fixing all the problems that made it a terrible weapon to start. That and its versatility. You can reconfigure that thing 17 ways to Sunday without much effort.
I wasnt talking about silly furniture. I didnt say it was the ‘best’ rifle. No rifle is. You need two or three at least to meet the variety of needs (game, CQB, long range precision, etc). What I said was versatile, and I explained that from the stand point of being able to easily and relatively cheaply barrel with caliber of choice, swap uppers, change out barrels, customize to ones liking for weight/length, etc. I run mine as light as I can build them. No useless furniture.
Ft Ord AIT. If I remember correctly the farthest target was 400 yds, not meters, iron sights.
Jeez, why didn’t you just ask for a time out to clean your weapon?
Having fired and used both.
The AK is not a better system.
“M14 for the win.”
I had an M14 for my 1st 6 months, then they took it away and gave me an M16, @#$%^& M16”
Here is a quick clip of an M16 carbine variant and an AK type gun. Makes one wonder.
I have lived by an M16 variant since 1983 and I can say having used all sorts of modern and AK guns, I’ll always pick up the M16 variant over all else, assuming ammo is there too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX73uXs3xGU
I think.300 Savage was more equivalent to the 30-30.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYfGq1yk66Q
Longish but informative.
Seems that if you must have a “go bang” every time rifle in 762x51, then maybe an AR10 clone....
Having survived a few nasty events in my day, with an AR based weapon and having seen friendlies with AK platforms have catastrophic failures, I’ll sick with teh AR.
That said, i compete with a bolt gun for long range, across the course with an AR15 service rifle and games with M1, M1 carbine and M1903a3.
When things go bump, it is the AR carbine I reach for....sometimes in 556, sometimes in 450 Bushmaster.
Actually, the .300 Savage is MUCH more powerful than the.30-30 WCF in every standard load & at any distance.
The .300 SAV only SLIGHTLY inferior in power to the 7.62x51NATO (AKA: .308WCF), according to the former chief engineer at Springfield Arsenal. = His office admitted (about a decade ago) that the reason that the USA did NOT just use the .300 SAV unchanged was that they did not wish to pay royalties to the original designer.
Yours, ex-cadet
Of course. That is why it is ubiquitous.
Nothing.
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