SCAR

Posted on August 8, 2008 | Comments Off on SCAR

It still comes in 5.56 mm, (but there’s also a 7.62 mm version) but the new combat assault rifle is gas-operated, has a softer kick and other features that seem to make it superior to the old M4. The SFs like it, anyhow.

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  1. jdallen's avatar jdallen | August 8, 2008 at 4:59 pm |

    Did you mean the M-14? It was the 7.62 we trained with, never saw a real M-16 til we got to Nam but once – I couldn’t hit anything with it in the five or ten rounds we got to shoot.
    I got pretty good with it in Nam, though. Familarity breeds, ya know.
    We did have a couple of guys that used 14’s though – always bumming gun ammo from me. Chapped my hide pretty good.

  2. Dick Stanley's avatar Dick Stanley | August 8, 2008 at 5:37 pm |

    The M4 is, essentially, a sawed-off version of the M-16, carried today by most American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s 5.56 mm, of course. We used M14s in training, in the States, in 67-68, but only M16s in Viet Nam in 69-70