WARPRACtice: Meet the M16A1 Assault Rifle 1/2 dynmicpara

This 2-part U.S. Army video is excellent towards understanding the direct-gas M16 assault rifle but it itself offers some flawed information and bad practices. A better Soldier demonstrator should have been used.

1. Wrong Cycles of Operation

The 8 cycles of gas operation are absurdly started at FIRING when NOTHING is going to "fire" if you first don't FEED ammunition into the CHAMBER and LOCK it in. The narration tries to weasel out of this by saying its "assumed that the weapon is already loaded". NOT. You are starting from the wrong cycle. The correct cycles are:

FEEDING
CHAMBERING
LOCKING

FIRING
UNLOCKING
EXTRACTING

EJECTING
COCKING

or "FCL-FUE-EC" as a memory device.

2. The Soldiers demonstrator is one unsafe mo-fo. Every time he can he's putting his finger on the trigger! Even after he's put his weapon selector on safe! The straight trigger finger OFF THE TRIGGER is the best "safety".

3. The Soldier demonstrator unrealistically shows magazine removal and placement back into the ammo pouch and then getting a new one from another mag pouch. Reality is you don't have time for this and if you try to return empty mags to your pouch they are likely to drop to the ground for the enemy to recover them and use them against us. Empty mags should be attached to a snaplink/carabiner by adding gutted 550 cord pull-loops to the bottom floor plates.

http://www.combatreform.com/canteencover.htm

4. The video shows dummy or live rounds being ejected from the ejection port area which is unrealistic. How hard would it be to stop the filming and insert an empty cartridge case without a bullet into the chamber to show what is actually ejected?

5. The dirty direct gas system of the M16 long overdue to be replaced by a gas piston system is shown. You should be convinced after seeing the gas travel animation. Another thought becomes clear:

CLOSE THE EJECTION PORT COVER EVERY TIME YOU CAN TO KEEP DIRT AND SAND OUT OF THE M16/M4.

This should be taught and drilled on constantly to all Soldiers to help the M16/M4 stay clean and functional.

6. The awful BLACK RIFLE camouflage of the M16 is shown. How many Soldiers over the years have been hit by enemy fire and then killed/wounded because of the black color of the M16/M4 betraying their presence and an aimpoint is troubling to consider. There is no reason why the magazines, handguards and buttstock should not be SPRAY PAINTED in a TAN or BROWN color to at least reduce the M16/M4's black to just its middle section and barrel end. These items are inexpensive to replace if some garrison appearance nazi wants rifles to return to black after the war.

7. The lack of an assault sling and collimator "red dot" optics is evident on this early M16 but of course is easily fixed today by numerous add-ons.

Teaching people to be competent with guns requires patience and humility; these virtues can be built on to make morally driven people who will not go along with unjust wars like occcupying Iraq to take their resources. Why do you think the U.S. military opposes its members THINKING?

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[siccfucc]

Does anybody know where i can find a civilian made copy of the M16 A1 today?

[dynmicpara]

We don't have M16A1s hanging around active duty arms rooms anymore. If someone wants one he can buy one on the civilian market sans full auto capabilities.

[IamaRifle]

Yes A1s are still used. If the rifle still works then there is no point in making new ones if you already have the same rifle. It is basically the same rifle and the Army is on a budget. In fact some of the old M14s have been taken out of storage and given to soldiers.

[sekiryu]

I hate all the credit the M16 gets for its "revolutionary" direct gas system. The Swedish AG42 and French MAS49 used direct gas systems decades before the M16.

[Vlaxerman343]

I love the look of these old m16s, instead of these new "high-tec" models, blech

[desertboy7212]

Yea the ak47 was a winner cuz of how much the bad gunpowder and the no cleaning kits made the m16a1 fail if they had good powder and cleaning kits this is the best version of the m16 and the ak47 and it should have like tied. And yea

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V ur right all these cod douchedicks suck hard with no teeth -although world at war is kinda cool-

[IfinduIgetu]

best m16 model ever! Fuck you cod fags you probably don't know what gas operated meens. I know a shit load about weapons if you have any questions on how to fix your gun or anything please message me.

[Yusuf1187]

@camoflaguemonkey The problems were due to our guys not being told how to clean their rifles, and even that it wasn't necessary. The barrel also lacked a chrome lining which made that issue much worse (McNamara's insane decision, probably related to cost). After these issues were remedied in Vietnam, the M16A1 was much more reliable.

[XwarmashineX]

classic picture love it

[camoflaguemonkey]

bottom line

this gun sucks. i dont care what you think. the M1A2 thats a better version. the orignal sucked, jammed when dirty, many of our men died in vietnam becuase of this. and the low ammo

[BlacktailDefense]

Man that guy just can't take his finger off the trigger --- that's NOT a safe habit.

If I tried the same tomfoolery at the local shooting range, the Rangemaster would kick my ass!

[80spodcastchannel]

Oooh Chromed bolt carrier pron

[INKOFORANGE]

personaly if i were to have gone off to the army id rather qualify with an m14 than an m16....rough powerful raw killing power. plus its basically a sniper rifle as far as accuracy and range go. more reliable too. although both rifles do work superbly well

[skmasterhian]

yeap.. the a1 still works fine.. just came back from national sevice.. i used a A1..still accurate,amazing stopping power and most of all acurate.. thank you america!...