I think it's aesthetic thing

Well, have you ever accurized a battle rifle? Its not the easiest thing.

So, you're confirming that this was a bad idea.

A battle rifle does not equal a DMR rifle

And it was pushed into DMR service

Standard M14 > EBR looks wise

The EBR was a bad idea

All around

It's like accurizing a FAL

It was pretty impressive to me at least that they took shit that was put in storage in the 80s and within 20 minutes per rifle produced a 1.5moa weapon that could be issued to a soldier

Sure. that's a logistical feat.

You’re taking a 3-4 MOA gun and kludging it into a 1.5 moa gun and expecting it to stay like that

But the problem is that it didn't stay that way

It was such a shitshow before. You'd ask for m14 and get m14 with single magazine covered in dust lmao

You need consistent performance in soldiers' hands

Something that is field servicable and durable

@keldoclock yes because you asked for an M14

Ask for more mags

Done

Tada you have a battle rifle

Says right in the ebr manual not to do anything but clean it &

What's your point?

Im just saying that if you carefully put it back together and maintain the tolerances the accuracy is maintained

It's a military rifle

You damn well better make that thing boot proof

Fielded in a desert country

where everything just gets filled with sand

If a system is so fragile that removing the action one single time ruins everything, it's not appropriate for military service.

It was a 'let's do what we can do ASAP with what we have' and at the end of the day it was not a successful experiment.

I think you have perhaps too high expectations for military weapon

As long as it functions reliably some degradation in performance during lifetime is not really a big deal

...

Are you some kind of idiot?

this is a DMR rifle

It's specifically put into a position where there is a requirement of performance

M14 is shit

If it no longer performs, then it's just a big heavy battle rifle with less capacity than the guy next to you

Iron sight SVD for every russian soldier

🙆

To get what you describe out of M14 platform would require a run of new parts, new tooling etc. U.S. military wisely decided to use accurized m16 for DMR and buy precision parts from KAC and similar companies instead of building a whole new factory to make M14 DMR weapons

I’d like to point out there’s a story of a SSgt requesting an M14 for Iraqi freedom “just for the hell of it” and stacking some bodies with it.