Originally Posted by
Zak Smith
The other thing I don't like about the AR10 is the huge reciprocating mass necessitated by the design. It's got to be 3-4x the weight of the recip mass in the AR15. All that slamming around does not help with sight picture reacquisition, or spotting one's own hits. In comparison, an M14 with its light bolt doesn't move at all.
I am looking forward to the SCAR-H as a viable modern 308 platform...
I think you forgot about that operating rod that is attached to that light bolt. Figure in ALL that mass and you are no lighter than an AR10.
I've shot M14's in full and semi auto and fullauto G3's. The G3 handled better than the M14's by far, Heavier weapon, heavier bolt mass and could be held on target and a full mag dumped, can't say the same with the lighter M14.
My buddies Armalite AR10T runs great on South African, but then again I've yet to come across one bad round in the couple thousand I've shot of SA as well.
The only issue we had with his Armalite was a loose gas key. Cleaned and reinstalled, retorqued and restaked and it's been running great.
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