WalterGAII
Check you facts and read Tom D's post again then read this from the army rifle teams web sight.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>The M16A2 has just recently been developed for competition use. For the past four years the Custom Gun Shop at the Marksmanship Unit has been modifying the M16A2 for competition use. When development first began the M14 was the predominant rifle used in Highpower Rifle competitions. At first the M16A2 was thought to be less accurate and harder to modify than the M14. Today the M16A2 is the premier rifle used by Service Rifle shooters in competition. The Service Rifle Team has produced three consecutive National Service Rifle Champions, won numerous Interservice and National team matches and set several individual and team national records. This is a feat NO ONE thought possible with a M16[/quote]
http://www.usamu.org/servrifle/m16.htm
(emphasis is theirs)
So I guess it doesn’t count that that until recently the army didn’t consider the M-16 that accurate. I guess I was deluded in my previous post, I am truly sorry.
But it seems I remember an article stating that in the early 90s, a new Commander took over one of the rifle teams. He told the team (I am paraphrasing here) “the m-16 is our service rifle, that’s what we are going to use, and if its not good enough then we are going to make it good enough.”
If ordering a military rifle team to change rifles is not forcing, then what is it?
Maybe I dreamed it while in my deluded post above.
Also I have not seen a Bushmaster that I would consider a rack grade rifle. All the ones I have seen have been really nice rifles.
Why is the rifle so accurate. On average I don’t know that the ARs are that much more accurate. "were taking average of all AR types here so lets not get into mine is better stuff again"
1. It probable deals with the caliber, .223 is a flat shooter.
2. There is not a lot of weight tied up in moving parts.
3. There is not much recoil.
4. The rifle weights less than most of the others, not much but still less.
Add all this and it means that after pulling the trigger there is less total force pulling the rifle off target. Making the follow up shot easier. Basically it’s a more stable platform. As we used to say in the Army "Model M-16A1 bullet launching station"
BTW my platoon
always pulled range detail on the qualification range. So we got to shoot up the extra ammo at the end of the day (we are talking cases, the ammo dump didn’t want any live ammo brought back) so I have launched a lot of rounds with an AR type rifle. But I never developed any fondness for it. Standard ammo suffers past 350-400 meters.
I will give you this though when we burned up the extra ammo we never used full auto or burp mode (we considered it unmanly, any fool can run a hose). We used to play a game where the object was to drop all 6 targets (50, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300) before the first one reset and popped back up. You could finish a little faster with a M-16 over a M-14.
[This message has been edited by Alan B (edited January 07, 2000).]