Full auto vs. 3 round burst

I proved the accuracy of burst fire to my company commander about two years ago. With one ful thirty round mag, 25 meter m16A2 zero target , foxhole sandbag rest position I fired the entire mag on 3rd burst. The final result 10 shots clusters in the 4cm center mass of target the rest no hits on the paper much less the target. Full auto is for ambushes and CQ combat, and then you need FULL auto.

Just my $.02 worth

Later
Daren
 
Hearing you guys talk makes me understand why the story in "Blackhawk Down" happened. (Not saying that it's your fault...it's the training.)
 
Wow ... some of these training stories are sad. I've fired more full auto as a civilian, going to training classes and renting.

Hope Bush is more logical about the military, or we could end up killing a lot of decent, naive kids who think they're soldiers.

Regards from AZ
 
Any of you guys ever read Hackworth's columns? http://www.hackworth.com

I went back through the archives of his "Defending America" columns, and you'll get mad enough to stay warm on a cold day. I truly love his term "Perfumed Princes" in referring to the Pentagon Generals...

He's bitching, today, about the same problem I saw when he was a young soldier and I was on Occupation Duty in Old ColdRear in 1954. And none of what y'all are talking about has changed since Kipling wrote about the British "Tommy" in the late 1800s.

Politicians never learn; political generals have forgotten. It's the same thing for LEOs and the political appointees we call police chiefs.

And too many good kids die because of these cretins.

Art
 
A technical note about the execution of the burst fire concept in the M16A2:

The M16A2 uses a rotating cam for burst fire. The cam rotates each time the rifle fires (or the action is cycled by hand), even if the rifle is set to "SEMI". This creates two problems:

1) The rifle has three different trigger pulls in semiauto fire -- not a good thing for precision shooting.

2) The first burst fired can consist of 1, 2, or 3 rounds, depending on how the cam happens to be positioned. Getting one "BANG!" when you're expecting three is... disconcerting.
 
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