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AR-15 vs M1A (and MAS 46/59) mud and sand tests
The results kind of surprised me. The AR-15 showed to be the most reliable of the rifles tested. So much for the M14/M1A's legendary reliability, with it unable to fire even one round without jamming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYfGq1yk66Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrPjlcJ3rtY&t I'm curious as to people's thoughts here. I'm not posting this to demean or discredit the M14, I'm just legitimately surprised by the result. I honestly expected more from the M1A. |
I think the M14's performance since it is a relative of the M1 Garand system has been exaggerated just like the M1 was. Like any weapon, you get it too dirty and it can fail.
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I have a feeling that rail over the action of the M1A wasn't helping much.
Then again, this is why during WW2 they issued soldiers with gigantic condoms to put over their rifles to protect them from this kind of thing, leading to that almost-certainly-untrue story about Winston Churchill ordering for them to be labelled "medium" to frighten the Germans. |
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https://www.google.com/amp/www.thefi...m1-garand/amp/ On another note: I think it’s easy for Americans to deify the primary service weapon of wars that we won, and hold corresponding negative views of service rifles used in wars we lost. This is why the M1 is held in such high regard, while the early M16s (used in Vietnam) are derided as garbage, for instance. I think there’s a weird psychological tendency to associate outcomes of wars with the quality of the main weapons used by the grunts in those wars. |
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I think that's how all guns get their reputation from 3rd hand accounts that becomes legend.
How revolvers, despite their obvious downsides, are heralded as unjammable people stoppers. Or how AKs are the most reliable rifles in the world, etc We got 1911s vs everything, and it goes on |
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Mind you, apparently the North Vietnamese thought the AK was a piece of junk and wished they could get those high-tech Yankee rifles instead. |
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