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my suggestion is if you want to learn to fire the m16/ar15 before you go in is dont. Your better off knowing nothing and letting you PMI mold you into the shooter you have to be. You may pick up some bad habits that may carry on to the range if and when you make it to grass week and the shooting range. But if you have your heart dead set on getting one, get a gi issue sling and a crap load of ammo. You wont be messing around with any type of add ons till after boot and infantry school. Unless they really changed things since i went through jan of 2003
WTF????? No A2 in boot?
To OP, I was in your same position 2 years ago but i already had a AR and magpul's first dvd. For me , it did nothing but help. Im a range coach now and want to be a CMT if i ever pick up.
My biggest problem is remembering that most Marines arnt "gun people", and dont know but what they are taught. So I cant say "cycle the action" and have them understand that, but rather have to say "slingshot the charging handle"and similer things.
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Thats total BS. I qualified with an A2 from Reagan's era in 2007. That thing was so worn and silver and such a POS everytime I went to port arms the handguards would fall off (Which for some reason gave the DIs a hard on) But I'm now a 3rd award expert, it didn't hurt.
Save the A4s for SOI. Boot camp deserves rifles with some history behind them.
Anyway, I would not get anything for a rifle until Ive shot the rifle in a dynamic environment. how do you know you'll need a VFG or that light won't get in the way of your sling until you've used it?
Replace "That's total BS..." with "Back in my day, we had to make do with...," and you'll have an easier time of getting the gist of the statement.
Boot camp rifles are generally pretty beat up from all the scraping and BS cleaning practices, plus getting flung ass over teakettle onto concrete barracks decks by enrage Drill Instructors when they find them unsecured, or any number of heinous offenses committed by recruits.