New meaning to smiley face
 

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rk :)

.. must be using Wal-Mart ammo, that little smiley guy shows up everywhere.
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Is that an M14? I thought the army phased them out during Vietnam. KFS

My son just ended a year in Mosul with 3 1-2 Stryker Brigade, where he was the 'door guy' with an M-4 equipped with a grenade launcher.

He called me after he first got over there and said, all excited, "Our Snipers are using M-21s just like yours". -- he had never appreciated any rifle of mine that wasn't black. This one is a far way from just like mine.

Mine is built on a pre-ban M1A1NM. This one is an M-25 with selective fire. It has a McMillan fiberglass stock (M-25), while mine has a walnut stock (M-21).

Currently, in inventory, all services have access to the M-21 or M-25. These are specially selected (for their accuracy), M-14s of the 60,000 to 80,000 M-14s still in inventory (of the few hundred thousand that Clinton didn't torch), which are rebuilt and accurized by Army, Navy, Airforce or Marine armorers.

This particular example utilizes what appears to be a brookfield or perhaps A.R.M.S mount, Leupold MKIV bases and rings and a Bosch&Lomb 10X scope (the Navy uses Leupold MkIV 10x scopes on A.R.M.S. rings on either an A.R.M.S. or a Brookfield mount). The Navy uses them for Sniper-Spotters for their bolt gun guys; but the Army, Airforce and Marines use them for front line sniper/counter sniper duties. Those are Butler Creek Scope Covers this smiley face is painted on.

And as Forrest Gump would say: "and that's about all I know about that"

In summation, the M-14 has, and continues to be, a viable option for the sniper community.

When I was on a MSO (minesweeper) back in 1963, the M14 with open sights was being used to explode floating mines. TH

Tom, not much has changed. My brother and his crew were "popping mines" in the 90's with M14s and M21s (modified M14s), off of a sweaper, during a flair-up between Equador and Peru, where each was mining the other's waters and the United States offered to help (both countries), clear the mines. Glen