[Imal]

No other accurizing on the M-14? Wow.

As for the M-21 system, I am not showing my age. I am young, YOUNG I tells ya! Just a little behind the times is all...

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

The M-14 was a fine weapon in it's time. However since then, technology and development has made vast improvments.

A fixed bolt action like the M-40A1, (Rem 700 BDL built to Match specs.) will always out perform a semi-automatic/automatic any day.

Even newer, finer developments of the fixed bolt design, have pushed the Sniper art form to much higher levels.

The 14 had it's place and has a loyal following, but I personaly, prefer being able to stick a round through a keyhole at 1,000 meters; Something a 14 couldn't even dream of doing.

[Criminal Number 18F]

I am old enough to have handled, but not shot the M21 (sniping was a teammate's job, not mine). It was already a bit long in the tooth and we were looking for something else -- this was in 1981. The answer was the M24 which was developed by SF during the eighties.

The M21 required unusual special handling. You could destroy its accuracy just by cleaning it like a regular M14.

There is an M25 which is a slightly modded M14. Not sure about the mods. It isn't widespread.

The only one of them that has sub-MOA accuracy is the M24.

The M107 is not super accurate. It is, however, powerful. I think an M2HB is probably more accurate, if scoped and firing off the T&E.

I keep seeing stuff in magazines that supposedly is in use by SF in the field... heh. There are some highly imaginative writers out there. For instance we did have one HK PSG per Group in the 1980s... it was in the foreign weapons arms room, so that weapons men could get proficient with it. Likewise FPKs and SVDs (which turbo-stink and just stink, respectively).

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F