Not so, I was shooting an SLR last week, it actually weighs less than the current togged up version of the SA80.

Dunno, but I'll bet you $$$$ to donuts an SLR wouldn't be.

It weighed less than the SA80 when it was first introduced, OK, ammo weighed more but when you need less what's the problem?

The only fault was that every time you stripped a SLR you cocked up your sighting, but with some of the state of the art sights now avalable I think it would be the dogs at quite long range

Well one things for sure, if you were 600 yds downrange of me and I was chucking 7.62 rounds in your direction, you'd be left in no doubt I was cross with you even if I was missing.

I got a right bolliking for putting a "Single Point" sight on mine in Belfast, then it was wicked at more than 600m, there was a big hoo haa and we were forced to take them off and ths QM paid me the cash for it

Who were you firing at six hundred metres away in Belfast, the Luftwaffe?

Myth. It would take a seriously sh*gged-out hinge pin to achieve that, i.e. the Armourer wasn't pulling their weight. I was in a unit shooting team, I used to clean mine regularly, and the zero never changed.

Oh - and as a "usual suspect on the shooting forum", I'm obviously weird. I liked SLR, but I liked the SA80 more.

Up Castle street

So was I and have fired SLR at Bisley but I would always re zero if posible after stripping even if just a few rounds down the pipe range
In Civvi shoots I used an M14 just because of this reason, and I liked the wood

I repeat a suggestion that I've made before. Trial it in the field. Pick a suitable weapon of larger calibre (that should be fun), train up a couple of sections from a couple of platoons and see how it works out for real. Anything else is largely armchair pub-talk.

At one time I owned a 7.62 Winchester civilian spec M14 with a S&b scope and a Ruger Mini 14 5,56mm Ranch rifle with same scope mounted and though they were both very accurate weapons I know which one I would use for Homo Sapians 7,62 every time

What are AK47 machine guns?

True!

M 14 Enhanced Battle Rifle?


anarchangel.blogspot.c...rifle.html

gdynets.webng.com/ebr.htm

Yes, if you don't clean it.

They have, HK417

Any reports yet? From what I've seen in a 2-minute web-crawl, they appear to be being used as designated sniper or SF weapons; I had general purpose use in mind.

That would be an RPK

Choete industries( If I remember correctly) did some majic black carbon fibre furniture for both the M14 and the Mini 14, on the Mini it realy looked good with the stainless steel abainst the matt black

Yawn, yawn, yawn...