The M14 was not a good rifle.

BeaverMeat said:
They U.S. did go backwards with weapons development.
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HUH?!?!?!

Backwords from what weapon? When the M14 was developped, the alternatives were the M1, the M1 carbine and the M2 carbine. The carbine did not even have the penetrating power of, say, 5.56, so are yo arguing the M1 garand is a superior rifle?

I think not.
 
AlexF said:
...but the manufacturing quality was low until TRW finally fixed all the issues...
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Cough... bullsh!t... cough.

ALL USGI M14's that were accepted for service passed gauging and were in spec. TRW used CNC machines and had a marginally lower reject rate. Rejected M14 parts were smelted. Anything accepted by the military was in spec. period.
 
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Claven2 said:
Cough... bullsh!t... cough.

ALL USGI M14's that were accepted for service passed gauging and were in spec. TRW used CNC machines and had a marginally lower reject rate. Rejected M14 parts were smelted. Anything accepted by the military was in spec. period.
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This does not jive with the printed histories I have read, most notably Collector Grade Publications' US Rifle M14. Investigations pulled newly accepted rifles made by Springfield Armory, H&R and Winchester from inventory, and found rejectable defects in rifles from all makers. I seem to recall that for one of the contractors, every single example examined was rejectable.
 
BattleRife said:
This does not jive with the printed histories I have read, most notably Collector Grade Publications' US Rifle M14. Investigations pulled newly accepted rifles made by Springfield Armory, H&R and Winchester from inventory, and found rejectable defects in rifles from all makers. I seem to recall that for one of the contractors, every single example examined was rejectable.
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I would go read Emerson for a better account. When they were talking about rejected rifles, they were talkng about during acceptance inspections, not in service. Also, this was in the first year of production.

To say TRW "fixed" something the other makers could not is patently false.
 
Playing a lot of paintball from my adolescents right up to my late teens I found that weight was a huge issue, what ever I could do to create a more compact unit (gun, tank, hopper) the longer I was able to be aggressive, and effective. I can see how slugging around a 9.5lbs m14 could get tiresome for sure

But I'd never ever trade up my x39 m305 for an ar it's to much fun
 
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