sigh...Read up on the amount of armorer shop maintenance needed to maintain less that 1 moa accuracy on an M-14.
I was on a state shooting team for 3 years. M-14 is the AR-10’s b*%&h. Spec-ops have been using the SR-25 series rifles for years now. They have mucho dinero to pick any weapon they want to use. They picked an AR-10 variant over the M-14...
M-14 is a great rifle, my M1 Garand is a great rifle. For the work in Trashcanistan I’d want an AR-10 variant. Why don’t any shooters winning at Camp Perry use the M1A anymore?
Thanks for confirming my analysis. I was hoping not to have to get into mechanical engineering geekspeak.
Because they use a 5.56 with a heavier bullet.
For the same reason Navy match team shooters were still using Glenn Nelsons supurb match Garands into the late 1980s and early '90s, then finally switched to the match M16A2NM [and Mark Twelve Mod X, but that's another story]
If you shoot the NM course four or five, sometimes six times a day, your scores will be appreciably lower the last time or two you go at it. With the lighter and lesser-recoiling 5,56mm, that's less the case, though shooter fatigue and burnout remains a problem to be overcome.
Now when I can pull off four runs a day, I shoot the first one with a Garand, the second with an M14M, and the last two with an M16 variant. I've even been to an Appleseed shoot, where a kindly and well-intentioned instructor somewhere between 25 and 30 years of age did his best to *teach me how to shoot* the M16A1 I'd brought along that day. Ho ho ho.