[where's_the_Outrage?]

In Blackhawk Down there is the story of the Soldier that picked the M-14 as his weapon, the other guys thought he was stupid to carry that extra weight. Until they got in a firefight where the enemy hit by a 7.62 stayed down while the some hit with a 5.56 kept coming.

[Riley]

You might be thinking of Randy Shugart or Gary Gordon. They didn’t ‘pick up’ anything, one or both were issued M-21s, the Army sniper accurized version of the M-14 -if my memory is still working right.

Lovely rifle, by the way. It ain’t gonna happen for me, but I’d have loved to have had one.