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Anonymous Fri 21 Dec 07:32:34 2018 No.88328 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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Anonymous Wed 25 Dec 05:39:37 2019 No.94740 View Reply Original Report

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Anonymous Wed 25 Sep 18:56:22 2019 No.93623 View Reply Original Report

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Anonymous Sat 25 Jan 2020 17:20:36 No.95248 Report

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Anonymous Sat 25 Jan 2020 18:09:08 No.95249 Report

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Anonymous Sat 05 Oct 15:47:33 2019 No.93796 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jan 2020 22:12:31 No.95109 Report

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Here's an SP1 rifle with the later style of birdcage flash hider.

The M16 would turn out to have a couple of complications when adopted and issued during the Vietnam War, and by complications I would mean enforced user error.
Mainly, after the rifle was adopted, the loading of the 5.56mm cartridge was changed, using a different powder (to save money), this powder would actually up pressure by a good bit, which would increase muzzle velocity, but also increased the cyclic rate of the action by about 200rpm more than normal, which would lead to a number of catastrophic problems.

With the action running too fast, issues you could look forward to happening would be the hammer following the bolt into battery, meaning it wasn't cocked after the last shot and pulling the trigger did nothing.
The bolt could slam into battery before it had a chance to pick up a cartridge from the magazine, leaving you with nothing at all in the chamber, meaning pulling the trigger would do nothing.
What else could happen would be that the action would open up slightly too early, which could lead to delightful things like the extractor slipping off the rim of the cartridge and not pulling the case out of the chamber, then trying to feed the next live cartridge into the ass of the spent casing, or worse, it doesn't slip off and instead tears off a chunk of the casing (which won't come out because pressure in the chamber is still too high), which still leaves the rest of the case in there and makes it bothersome to try to get it out.

Worst is that the extractor claw gets a good solid grasp on the rim of the cartridge, and extracts only the ass of the cartridge (as in it tears of the entire head of the fucking case), leaving most of it still in the chamber, then spitting out the stump of what was once a 5.56mm casing. Now you're REALLY up shit creek because you need a special armorer's tool to get that shit out, and nothing is gonna happen when you pull the trigger until you do.

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jan 2020 22:21:45 No.95110 Report

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I've been told the story of the M16's initially single use magazines before, and I've heard it repeated from people I would consider reliable and knowledgeable on the subject, but with some cursory searching online, I've been unable to actually find anything to corroborate it. I've always taken it for granted that it's true, but I suppose the possibility is good that it actually isn't.
There are some myths about the M16 which don't quite die, such as the idea that the gun was made by Mattel (it wasn't), that Mattel made the original plastic furniture (they didn't).

What I could find which would argue against it would be that the original magazines issued in US service didn't tend to behave quite right out of the box, and would consistently be used loaded with just 18 rounds. These magazines had followers made out of aluminum, which you wouldn't see with later designs. This magazine was phased out eventually for a better one with a follower made out of plastic.

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Anonymous Fri 24 Jan 2020 11:42:52 No.95224 Report

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Enter the M16A1, quite a lot of changes were done to it, and the end result was a very dependable and reliable rifle.
First and foremost, the recoil buffer is made heavier, what this does is it slows down the cyclic rate resulting from the overpressure ammo, it's now normalized and timing problems are eliminated, no longer will the hammer follow the bolt into battery, no longer will the action try to extract too early, no more will the action outrun the magazine, and premature wear is a thing of the past.

Another change is that the chamber and bore of the barrel is plated with chrome, this was an excellent improvement, as not only did it protect the barrel from corrosion, it extended the lifespan of the barrel, made extraction under harsh conditions much more reliable, and it made the barrel very easy to clean.

That's another thing, by the way, though the M16 had been touted by the Army as being self-cleaning, and no cleaning kits thus being issued, this was realized as a terrible error, and thus the M16A1 has a compartment in the stock where you would find an included cleaning kit.
There's this idea that the M16 had this problem of constantly needing to be cleaned, but in reality this is not true, the lack of being able to clean your rifle in the field is obviously a bad thing, but you can actually ignore cleaning the AR15 for tens of thousands of rounds.
What would likely be an issue over time would be the dirtier nature of the new gunpowder combined with the high humidity of Vietnam causing corrosion in the chamber and thus risk possibly very difficult extraction problems (sometimes referred to as 'cartridge swelling' in some sources).
With a protected barrel and a cleaning kit, this was no longer a problem, and with a normalized cyclic rate, it would be extremely unlikely get horrible problems like case head separation.

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Anonymous Fri 24 Jan 2020 14:24:29 No.95225 Report

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Further improvements with the M16A1 from the M16 include things like the forward assist, situated behind the ejection port.

The forward assist is a springloaded plunger which you can use to press forward on the bolt-carrier with, there's a series of serrations cut in the A1 bolt-carrier to allow for the plunger to interact with it. The idea with the forward assist is that since the regular charging handle on the M16 isn't directly connected to the bolt and only lets you pull it rearward, there's no simple way to push the bolt forward aside from letting the spring do its job and push on it, which in some circumstances aren't enough.

The forward assist is actually a rather controversial feature, some will argue that it will only make malfunctions worse, and this isn't untrue, if used at incorrect times, the forward assist will be of no help and can make *some* things worse, it's however my opinion that there are situations where the forward assist will be the right choice of action. A common criticism is that if the bolt is just a nudge from going into battery, there's something in the way and you need to take the gun apart and address that, but fact is that there's more reasons than foreign bodies obstructing the chamber to cause the bolt to shy just out of going into battery, such as dirt and worn springs, or even a damaged magazine.
In some situations, disassembling the gun to inspect the bore isn't something you have the time or opportunity to do, and being able to force the bolt into battery so you can fire right now is more important than the risk of damage to the rifle or further malfunctions (malfunctions which may temporarily be continuously solved by the use of the forward assist).

This makes the forward assist a very contextual feature, but I would very much rather have the ability to manipulate the bolt forward than not being able to at all.

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Anonymous Sat 25 Jan 2020 17:20:06 No.95247 Report

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Here's an old M16A1 with a modern day MagPul plastic magazine inserted, these magazines are good, and this rifle as pictured would likely perform flawlessly.

Yet more improvements the M16A1 features over the M16 would be for the outside of the magazine well to be machined in such a way as to provide a raised 'fence' around the magazine release, as it wasn't entirely unknown for someone to accidentally bump it and drop their magazine on the ground, protecting it on the sides like this leaves it just as accessible for the operator as before while minimizing the chances of hitting it accidentally.
Further, the flash hider was replaced, the M16A1 actually did use the three-pronged open flash hider as you saw on the M16 and SP1, but this thing could be inconvenient, as in the Vietnamese jungle it wasn't unknown for the prongs to snag on vegetation and other things, if at enough speed potentially deforming or breaking the prongs off. Eventually they were replaced by a closed front slotted 'birdcage' design, as you still see today.

An interesting note is that the original bolt-carrier group on the M16 was actually chrome plated, presumably to combat corrosion, more is that the A1 does not have a chrome plated BCG, and once the A1 was rolled out, they would actually go back to any M16 currently in the field (as soon as it came back to whatever armory it ended up in) and replace their BCGs with the A1 style, hence you will sometimes also see forward assist serrations on these rifles in spite of them not having a forward assist plunger.
I don't know if M16s in inventory would be given M16A1 recoil buffers, but assuming they would stay in inventory and have changes like the BCG swapped out, presumably they would go through the effort and expense to make the rifle function with issued ammunition, even if these rifles would probably be issued to rear echelon units, sold off to police departments domestically, or given away as foreign military aid.

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Anonymous Tue 25 Jul 01:36:11 2017 No.65854 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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Anonymous Thu 06 Jul 03:35:40 2017 No.64552 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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Anonymous Sat 04 Jan 2020 04:57:09 No.94823 Report

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Anonymous Sat 18 Jan 2020 11:40:02 No.95085 Report

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Anonymous Sun 19 Jan 2020 04:14:31 No.95093 Report

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2020 16:44:20 No.95142 Report

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Anonymous Sat 25 Jan 2020 07:18:00 No.95235 Report

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Anonymous Mon 25 Nov 21:55:26 2019 No.94457 View Reply Original Report

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/vip/ has a long way to go before it's as cool as [s4s]. we don't even have our own official anime series.

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