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What training is that? The couple ranges they run per year? I don't know what they're official POI is but the one adhoc POI that I witnessed wasn't to par. I had to go down the line on a MICO range and fix, tighten screws, rotate 68's properly, turn a 68 around, etc.
I'm not trying to bash the STB's and soft skills but it's hard enough getting a line guy to care about his weapon/actually learn how to utilize it.
I wish everyone in the Army wanted to learn their weapon system and get good training on it. That's not the case.
But that is all besides the point. The M4A1 is a step in the right direction.....even though I think the outcome will be typical.
I think this post was correct -Burst and auto are only there for certain situations. If that need arises I'd rather have full auto.
Unrestricted FA strikes me as useful in something like establishing fire superiority in a near ambush and a few other limited circumstances. 99% of the time, it would only travel from safe to semi.
That said, it is stupid-easy to train someone to fire 3 round bursts on an M-16 FOW. That is an easy software fix to replace that atrocious 3 round burst hardware kludge.
My brother saw Deliverance and bought a Bow. I saw Deliverance and bought an AR-15.
The Army didn't have to do a whole new R&D cycle to adopt the M4A1 to replace the M4 -- both are Standard-A (the heavy SOCOM barrel having been adopted in the 90s). All MILSPEC, all in the drawings, Mother Army just had to exercise the contract option.
SOCOM has already done the drawings and safety release for the Geiselle SSA, but it would add somewheres around $175 (retail) per gun.
If the Army were to standardize the 77 SMK, by law they have to buy all of US Army Special Operations Command's requirements -- something Leg Army hates to do.
Automatic rifle qualification with the M16A1 and clothespin bipod was an Army Infantry Advanced Individual Training graduation requirement in the 70s/early 80s before adoption of the M249 SAW. Not rocket science -- they used the same qual range as Basic Rifle Qualification, with the selector on auto.
A LaRue rail isn't more expensive than a RAS. Same is true of the Omega. And a new trigger would do wonders for most soldiers. Ironically good triggers matter the most for the weakest shooters.
Heavier barrel should have longer service life, help keep operating pressures down, allow sustained fire, and have less POI drift when suppressed.
AUTO trigger will have a consistent trigger pull.
Have a standard issue FF rail, and it sounds like a worthwhile upgrade. (I'd think KAC 7'' RAS, seeing as how they're probably not gonna make low pro gas blocks standard yet, if ever.)
Hell, slap an LMT Enhanced carrier, and VLTOR A5 and you have pretty much the perfect standard issue carbine. IMHO.
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We miss you, ToddG.
About time to kill the 3 rdn. burst crap.. should have never came about.. But the DoD/ MIL cut backs on training IE: shoot, move, communicate, estimate range, ect. was the problem in the first damn place. to much touchy freely crap training. The A1s had consistent trigger pull every shot. better front sight (thinner) so it don't cover as much of the Target(s) at longer ranges. STB unit w M4A1s ???? screen door on submarine for the most part. I carried A1s for first 6 years or so but was trained to use FA for special occasions. ambush, assaulting so on.
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