Military service turn you off of military style rifles?

My military service did not turn me off to military weapons. Those weapons were right for the job. They were designed and built for a specific requirement.

I do not buy military type weapons simple because they do not meet my current requirements which is not military oriented. There is a huge selection of commercial weapons in pistols, rifles and shotguns meeting my most severe perceived home defense and/or personal carry needs.
 
when you do something or use a particular item almost daily for a job, you never want to touch it once your outside of work. For example, i love working on cars and for a couple years i worked a garage and when i was not at work, i refused and did not want anything to do with a car. Doing it everything, just took all the fun out of it. Now that i no longer work in a garage anymore, i enjoy doing it again
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There might be something to that, too... I service swimming pools for a living, I sure as hell don't want one! ...and I don't swim in public pools anymore. :p
 
You do have to clean the M-14 and its design with its easily disassembled gas cyclinder assembly makes it much easier to do a thorough job.
 
Not really.

Service had me shoot new guns but while I took to ARs the Berretta has some of the worst ergonomics of any pistol I have ever shot. Carrying a 92 every day for years made me kind of hate it more. While the opposite was true of my M4.

I agree on the full auto rentals though. That is a huge waste of money.
 
Navy has the big guns! Or they did on the battleships. Now 5" is biggest?

I am so familiar w the m4. Feel like I should buy one but dont want to! What problems we have in America!
 
I was turned off the platform after my M16 constantly jammed on me in the 80's. Maybe I have been biased from my past experience. I don't see much of a difference from the M4's vs. the M16 as far as bolt design.
Are the M4's built differently now and can handle living day in and day out in a sand environment? My personal experience with the M16A1 turned me completely off the AR platform.
 
I shot the M16A2 in basic and never fired one again in 23 years in the Army/Navy. I did fire the M9, M60, M2 (turret mounted) and tanks (1 time, I worked on them and saw how they beat the crap out of the crew (Sheridan and M60A2) and didn't want any part of that). I didn't want a M16 clone until a couple of years ago when I figured if the SHTF a magazine fed gun might be a good idea. I don't really enjoy shooting it and for sure am no Tacticool guy, but I've got one. Now the 1911, that's a different story. I love that gun.
 
I own 2 AR-15s and a Beretta 92FS.
Somehow, I own my M4 and M9 magazines that I was issued in the military.
Everytime I load one of those magazines and squeeze a trigger, I remember my past time serving with the finest warriors of my time.
Something about owning a rifle and handgun that I can disassemble, clean, and reassemble in the dark feels so right to me.
The memories make me appreciate my daily life in a way that probably only another veteran could ever understand.
 
I served for 24 years using the M16 and variants. I am a dod police officer and am still required to carry the M4. I always thought the govt supplied us from the lowest bidder. It wasn't until I started collecting milsurp bolt actions that I found out what I was missing. There is no greater satosfaction than taking one of my old war horses to the range. The feel of wooden stocks in the hand and the odor of linseed oil is wonderful.
 
In my country we were issued SLR(FNFAL) rifles. What a pile of junk. Front and rear sights on different halves of the rifle so when the hinge pin started wearing you could not hit anything as the two halves slopped around out of alignment.
Once I got to drive M!!3's I got an M16 that had a "bad" change lever. Every time I was on the range I would "accidentally" fire full auto sighting groups and get my arse physically kicked!
The M113 had .50 and .30 Brownings in a little turret. I had loved the .30 since I was a kid and saw WW2 footage of a U.S. soldier running across a field firing one from the hip.
After I left the military I started collecting guns. I bought a SLR. Fitted a tight hinge pin and cut several inches off it's annoyingly long barrel. I still have it. I could not afford a M16 so settled for an original AR10 which was a fantastic rifle until I weakened and swapped it for an Australian Automatic Arms .223 SAR. I bought a .30 Browning which I used to use in public displays and reenactments with blanks. It was a fun toy till I had to sell it to feed my children.
I have always considered my military weapons to be friends? and never lost interest in them, although today, I tend to play with my .44 magnum S&W revolvers(3" and 8 3/8"), Ruger .44 semi auto rifle and Contender .44 rifle and pistol. I just like the stumpy fat cartridge that fits everything! That Ruger .44 rifle is fantastic. So light and small like a M1 carbine, but with an authoritative thump when fired and hilarious when fired as rapidly as I can. I just wish it had a box mag. Hmmm....
 
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