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<blockquote data-quote="swampratt" data-source="post: 2932475" data-attributes="member: 15054"><p>Yea a terrible brain fart.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?p=5424409" target="_blank">http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?p=5424409</a></p><p>Quote:</p><p>The M14 in issue condition is known as the worst performing rifle we ever fielded. I worked product engineering for the Army Small Cal Lab at Picatinny Arsenal and I had engineering responsibility for the M14 until the Chief transferred me to the Dover Devil MG project. While there my board was adjacent to Julio Savioli who was the draftsman for the M14 rifle and his name is on all the drawings for it. Al Cole was engineer in charge of the M14 and he was also a friend. Savy (as we called him) was a wealth of information on the M14 and had all kinds of stories about it as he not only did the drawings, he was in on the field testing.</p><p></p><p>First off consider the requirement facts from the engineering files from the government weapons production efforts.</p><p></p><p>1. acceptance accuracy for 1903 Springfield was 3" at 100 yards.</p><p>2. acceptance accuracy for M1 Garand was 5" at 100 yards.</p><p>3. acceptance accuracy for M14 was 5.5" at 100 yards and was waivered continually as it could not meet that.</p><p>4. acceptance accuracy for M16 series is 4.5" at 100 yards.</p><p></p><p>From SAAMI we have a recommendation of 3" at 100 yards and it is up to the vendor whether he wants to meet this or not.</p><p></p><p>H&R also made M14s and M1s and the contracts were shut down due to poor QA.</p><p></p><p>The M14 if rebuilt correctly and very few can do so is capable of acceptable accuracy. For instance the Army MTU rebuild program with rifle fired from machine rest was 10 shots in 4.5" at 300 yards. Some would go to 3" but rarely. A good bolt gun will shoot in 2" at 300 yards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="swampratt, post: 2932475, member: 15054"] Yea a terrible brain fart. [URL]http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?p=5424409[/URL] Quote: The M14 in issue condition is known as the worst performing rifle we ever fielded. I worked product engineering for the Army Small Cal Lab at Picatinny Arsenal and I had engineering responsibility for the M14 until the Chief transferred me to the Dover Devil MG project. While there my board was adjacent to Julio Savioli who was the draftsman for the M14 rifle and his name is on all the drawings for it. Al Cole was engineer in charge of the M14 and he was also a friend. Savy (as we called him) was a wealth of information on the M14 and had all kinds of stories about it as he not only did the drawings, he was in on the field testing. First off consider the requirement facts from the engineering files from the government weapons production efforts. 1. acceptance accuracy for 1903 Springfield was 3" at 100 yards. 2. acceptance accuracy for M1 Garand was 5" at 100 yards. 3. acceptance accuracy for M14 was 5.5" at 100 yards and was waivered continually as it could not meet that. 4. acceptance accuracy for M16 series is 4.5" at 100 yards. From SAAMI we have a recommendation of 3" at 100 yards and it is up to the vendor whether he wants to meet this or not. H&R also made M14s and M1s and the contracts were shut down due to poor QA. The M14 if rebuilt correctly and very few can do so is capable of acceptable accuracy. For instance the Army MTU rebuild program with rifle fired from machine rest was 10 shots in 4.5" at 300 yards. Some would go to 3" but rarely. A good bolt gun will shoot in 2" at 300 yards. [/QUOTE]
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