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Upgraded M-14.

Don't know if it was the "official" upgrade or just one that the armorers worked on. Had a bedded stock, great trigger, stock relieved up front, good scope. We shot known ranges to landmarks in the target area.

Spotting scope was something we got from the Squids (Navy guys) at Go Di Hah.

We configured a home-made silencer for it. Wasn't that good, but was much better than nothing. As far as bullet crack, he loved to shoot when resupply birds were working in the area. Lots of helo noise.

If I remember, he would also turn off gas cylinder. That would make it manually operated, but that was fine for this application.

We tried to get NM ammo, but could not. He liked to de-link M-60 belts for ammo. Thought it was better than conventional 7.62 ball. No idea if it was, but he thought so, so we went with it.

We also recovered a high powered automatic electric 40mm grenade launcher from a downed Cobra. Worked great. Mounted it on a modified Ma Duce tripod. It shot the same projectile as a M-79 chunker, but threw it about 2 klicks. Great for H&I and Slopes in the wire/treeline. We also laid it into known targets, then shot it at those targets if anything was seen there later. A short burst would drop 10-30 rounds in target area, so worked well.

Only problem was, it was somewhat wind sensitive at max range and time of flight was until sometime Tuesday! If they heard us shoot it at them, they could have a quick PAVN Commanders Call and staff meeting to decide which way to run, publish written orders and di di the area before projo got there! :~)