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Section 9: Military Weapons Subject: M14 Msg# 1187820
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I find it amazing that the M14's dominance ended at a BBQ water-melon blasting party with Colt and the US Air Force.
Ya know, for being the junior service The Air Force has an outsized influence on the development of mainline infantry rifles. Since I've actually had a variant of the M-1, the Scout, I can attest that it wasn't that unwieldy. Felt recoil... was there and if I were in an all day firefight, I'd want a massage afterward and probably some icing down, but then I'd probably be meaner and fighting harder. |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: Yeppers! I never understood the whininess that came out of the Pentagon about the M14 being to difficult to fire on full auto. I have fired a BAR on full auto, and I didn't find the .30-06 too difficult to handle that way. It just takes a little technique, which can't be that difficult to teach? Just imagine if we had kept the M14, and the AR15 whithered on the vine. Today all the 25,000,000,000 AR15 fans would all own semi-auto M14s. I guess they would call it the AR14? |
