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That's too rich.
I now have a new desktop wallpaper.
Priceless: Where did you find that?
Roy,
Had to look up your age. Although the Marine Corps adopted the M16A2 in the early 80's, it wasn't until the late 80's that the Army went to that version and wanted to make sure the "fully auto" M16 was still available.
They got rid of fully automatic M16's because they were extremely inaccurate.
Roy,
Had to look up your age. Although the Marine Corps adopted the M16A2 in the early 80's, it wasn't until the late 80's that the Army went to that version and wanted to make sure the "fully auto" M16 was still available.
They got rid of fully automatic M16's because they were extremely inaccurate.
I did not think we used the regular M16A2 rifle in the ROTC class I took...it was around the year 1978, and from what I understood then, and from looking at it then, that it was a regular M16 that was crudely altered, sort of a "welding job" was done to it, the mechanism that switched it from full-auto to semi-auto was "fused" to the semi-auto position permanently.
I also remember the M16 did not have the huge kick of the M1911 45...no wonder they put those 2 trickers on the 45, one needed to make sure you were holding it tight and properly.
Roy,
Had to look up your age. Although the Marine Corps adopted the M16A2 in the early 80's, it wasn't until the late 80's that the Army went to that version and wanted to make sure the "fully auto" M16 was still available.
They got rid of fully automatic M16's because they were extremely inaccurate.
I did not think we used the regular M16A2 rifle in the ROTC class I took...it was around the year 1978, and from what I understood then, and from looking at it then, that it was a regular M16 that was crudely altered, sort of a "welding job" was done to it, the mechanism that switched it from full-auto to semi-auto was "fused" to the semi-auto position permanently.
I also remember the M16 did not have the huge kick of the M1911 45...no wonder they put those 2 trickers on the 45, one needed to make sure you were holding it tight and properly.
Yeah, 1978 would have still been the fully auto M16.
I did not think we used the regular M16A2 rifle in the ROTC class I took...it was around the year 1978, and from what I understood then, and from looking at it then, that it was a regular M16 that was crudely altered, sort of a "welding job" was done to it, the mechanism that switched it from full-auto to semi-auto was "fused" to the semi-auto position permanently.
I also remember the M16 did not have the huge kick of the M1911 45...no wonder they put those 2 trickers on the 45, one needed to make sure you were holding it tight and properly.
Yeah, 1978 would have still been the fully auto M16.
Did they ever solve the "jamming" issue that i heard about with the M16 during the Viet-Nam War? I understand it had the problem in "jungle conditions", and granted that is not much of an issue anymore...Was the later M16A2 made to help solve the jamming issue? I heard about some of the rifles now have this new "burst mode", where around 3 or 4 rounds come out with one trigger pull instead of the whole clip potentially. Does the M16A2 have that burst mode??
I have always been fascinated with guns...some years ago I almost bought a high-end pistol to use at a range near by but never did.
Yeah, 1978 would have still been the fully auto M16.
Did they ever solve the "jamming" issue that i heard about with the M16 during the Viet-Nam War? I understand it had the problem in "jungle conditions", and granted that is not much of an issue anymore...Was the later M16A2 made to help solve the jamming issue? I heard about some of the rifles now have this new "burst mode", where around 3 or 4 rounds come out with one trigger pull instead of the whole clip potentially. Does the M16A2 have that burst mode??
I have always been fascinated with guns...some years ago I almost bought a high-end pistol to use at a range near by but never did.
There were a couple of changes and burst mode was one of them. If you've ever spent time on a range, you'd realize that you'd never really want to use burst mode anyhow. One shot, one kill is a better (and more accurate) use of the weapon.