How does your M-14 handle in full auto? Always wanted to try that...
unfortunately it is unfired NIB semi-auto version. Interestingly I have fired an M1 carbine in full auto. called an M2 I think.
Fired the M60 and of coarse the M16a1 in full auto while in the military. A few other full autos like a FAL and an Ak47 both are 30 cal and you MUST compensate for the lift... but when I’ve fired my M1 garand and my buddy’s M14 (m1a1) semi, to try to rapid fire is just...inaccurate comes to mind LOL
“How does the m-14 handle in full auto?”
Back in 1968, when I trained on the m-14, the Ordinance Corps had had to make many modifications to allow the M-14 to be useful in full-auto mode. The most obvious was a stock modified to straight-line configuration, like a giant M-16 stock, with a hand grip on the fore-end which was used to hold down the barrel. Both the standard M-14 and the modified full auto version used the same, rather heavy, bipod. There was also a sleeve witch fitted over the flash-supressor which directed the muzzle-blast upward, again to hold the barrel down in full-auto fire. Without these mods, the muzzle climb in automatic fire was such that only the first 2 shots were likely to stay on target, while the 3rd and subsequent rounds would go high and wild.
I have read that this poor performance in automatic fire was due to over standardization. Originally, the M-14 was intended to replace only the M-1 rifle and the M-1 carbine. The BAR was to be replaced by the M-15, which used the same action as the M-14, but had a longer, heavier barrel, the bi-pod, and the upward directing muzzle break. To save a buck, only the M-14 variant was produced, and it was expected to replace the BAR in service as well as the M-1.