How he gets those magazines inserted halfway down the barrel I'll never know.
Posted on 03/08/2011 11:47:32 AM PST by King_Corey
Humping a 14 pound rifle up a mountain ain’t a picnic. I guess when you need something and have to go to 40 year old stuff in a warehouse somebody isn’t funding the right things. But hey, training for the demise of DADT is well funded I be. What a way to run a war.
Standard military thinking, pick weapon because it is more effective at x range, and then the shorten the damn barrel to decrease the range.
Our guys used to take the M1 carbine when we flew. First thing a newbie did was grab one from one of the White Mice running around. Never jammed, always worked. Not like the Matte Matel specials they issued.
Because they still work.
Do you know what year the B-52 Bomber entered service?
WOW! That don’t look like MY M-14 I humped around with!...............
I was just thinking that if they really are having fights over 500 yds, maybe the old 1903 Springfield in 30-06 might just be a good rifle for maybe half the troops with the rest using something in .308.
Of course a scoped modern bolt action hunting rifle also would seem to make sense for limited use.
Because "New and Improved" isn't necessarily.
How he gets those magazines inserted halfway down the barrel I'll never know.
When Col Jeff Cooper was shown a $3,000 gold plated presentation wall hanging version of the M-16 he replied;
“Why would we want a commemorative version of a rifle we never wanted in the first place?”
It is the same cartridge, you can run a 30/06 in a 308 die and make a 308 after you trim the neck. Same for 270, 243, 25/06, all based on 30/06 brass. Some other wildcats as well.
That M14 looks nothing like the M14 that I first had when I was in Vietnam (thet is, before they took it away from me and gave me that POS M16).
Essentially yes. The M1-A (semi-auto only)is the civilian version of the M-14 and will chamber and digest either ammo marked as 7.65 X 51 or .308 although I am told that the commercial .308 ammo (Win, Rem, Federal, etc. is loaded to higher chamber pressures. I’ve used both kinds and never had a problem.
The M1-A is a sweetheart to shoot. It has probably the best factory trigger I’ve ever shot and the weight and gas operation make recoil very easy to deal with. The only thing I don’t like is the factory scope mount puts the scope up too high to get a good cheek weld. But the thing sure does shoot! I can consistently put rounds in a 12” circle at 400 yards off of a rest. And this is a standard model, not the match grade.
Do realize how old the M-2 .50 cal MG design is? Still the best heavy MG in the world.
Springfield already has a solution, there is little reason to design a completely new weapon.
LOL, older than me.
I LIKE THIS ONE!.......................
Yep. 260 Rem, 280 Rem, 7mm/08 etc.
All the same cartridge head/rim specs. 308 can go into a shorter action.
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