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Originally Posted by ziadel
I wont argue that the mag capacity was a bit on the small side....
But too heavy? I dunno about that, the M14s lack of weight made it unusable in fully automatic mode.
How heavy would you have made it?
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Well, I wouldn't have made the M14 full auto. The advantage of the M14 was that it was lightweight, reliable, and had the detachable 20 round box mag. Not suited for jungle combat, mind you, but a great gun still used today. I had a few in A-stan for the sharpshooter role.
Full auto was a stupid idea in the first place on the Garand platform. The E3 model of the M14 was a joke at best.
We had the M60 for full auto suppression. Did a decent job, I think. I'm not a fan of the M60: I had to use it in Afghanistan recently and it is not the most well designed automatic weapon of any era. Too many pieces and the barrel change is cumbersome to say the least.
I still feel that the 7.62x39 round is superior to the 5.56x45 for modern short range combat. The 7.62x51 is a near perfect GPMG / designated marksman round. All these rounds have a niche in modern warfare.
Big bullets do a good job of making big holes. Law of physics. (/rant)