The M14’s flash suppressor actually makes a really awesome pinging sound when it’s fired. Can’t really hear it here, but a lot of other M14 videos you can hear the high pitch ping of the flash suppressor resonating.
@@bencetakacs7600 I love it when screamingly insecure people try to call other people "beta", like they didn't just out themselves. Your muscle mirror pic ain't fooling anyone, cupcake. Take a lap.
Originally yes, my father who fought in Vietnam with the M14 said he preferred using stripper clips instead of carrying loaded magazines. Sure you can reload a lot faster via removing the box magazines and loading a new one, but the extra weight in the form of empty or loaded magazines you’ll have to carry on long marches will add up. Easier to toss the empty stripper clips when you reloaded or top off your weapon over having to continue carrying an empty magazine that also takes up valuable space in your pack.
I do not see a selector switch or cut-out on the receiver and stock, so I'm thinkin' this is a Springfield M1A , or a Polytech M-14S (Both are semi-automatic versions of the M-14). Transferable, select-fire M-14s are pretty rare and super expensive. ;)
Does the shoulder brace actually do anything or was it just a "let's see if this will work" thing like the BAR waking fire hip brace? I've been wondering about these for a while
I used an M-14 in Iraq. When you lay in the prone position without any body armor on and no gear the brace works fine. When in combat though no it's completely impractical.
@@andersons470 I was issued it that's how I came to use it. Infantry were issued one per squad as a Designated Marksman Rifle. Also Google search is wonder.
@@andersons470 I used it by putting it to my shoulder and squeezing the trigger. M-14's were used in Iraq and Afghanistan as Designated Marksman Rifles usually one per Infantry Squad.
If you leave that box standing upright, you can just slide the stripper clip onto the ammo. If you're going to handle the ammo anyway, might as well load it into the mag.
How the m14 was made: Gun engineer: WHAT IF WE COMBINE THE GARAND WITH THE CARBINE?!, other engineer: THATS A GOOD IDEA. (M14 is born) also i love the gun.
I had once back in the Day, "Polytech M14S"... I absolutely LOVED it. It was a tack driver out to 500 yards with iron sights (standing position!). Sadly, it got stolen and I never saw it again... :(
No, that is the FAL, which the US didn't adopt basically because "it isn't made here" and the Ordnance Board was lied to about how much M1 Garand tooling could be reused.
@@zombieresponder as much as I love the G3, you're right. The FAL is the AK of full power rifle cartridge battle rifles (except actually good and not overhyped commie garbage)
ARVN used the good ole 30 06 from the start of the war in 55' till about 67-68. It served them well but was crapped on by the AK and SKS in close quarters.
Ammo was issued on stripper clips in cloth bandoleers. They could be used to, "top off" a magazine if it was in the receiver, or put a stripper clip guide onto the magazine for easier loading. ;)
The M14 fires a 7.62×51mm NATO (or .308 Winchester) cartridge. The AK-47 fires a 7.62x39mm cartridge. The former is also much straighter-walled than the latter, which is why the M14 magazine is straight while the AK's is curved.
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