Thanks for watching guys, check out the accompanying article for this video here - armourersbench.com/2024/11/03/mk14-ebrs-in-ukraine/. Thanks for watching! - Matt
Well no disrespect to Ukraine but when you don’t have a proper military you can take what you can get. It’s literally just like going shopping at a goodwill
they do, dipshit. They are well trained and well organized. They were attacked by a larger nation with more resources while they were in a period of transition switching to be NATO compatible. This is one of the most clueless and uneducated comments I've ever read.
Thanks again, Matt. Sage is a Michigan company! I drove over there a couple years ago and bought a "blemished" chassis. saved a couple hundo. Thanks also to Nuckin' Futz Yuri.
@@TheMsdos25 I'm aware that buffer tube adaptors are available for almost anything these days. Looks like these were made in like 2006... don't think it was very common then.
Carried a MK14 with the 82nd 1st/504th. It was my only experience with the M14 platform and I don’t recall it ever having any severe issues in Afghanistan.
The EBR chassis is ungodly. It's an entirely solid piece of steel that you bolt onto an entirely steel reciever, barrel, bolt, and sights. It's a SOLID block of steel. Unloaded and without optics it weighs 15 pounds. If you actually put optics, a flashlight, or anything else on the rifle you quickly approach the weight of a crew served medium machine gun
I remember the EBR being a mixed bag in the GWOT. Cool legacy but it really was just a stop-gap until they could get enough SR25 and M110. They were stupid heavy, and not as accurate as the sr25 or m110. Desperate times called for desperate measures. Having to try and fight guys engaging across the valleys with PKMs and outside the ranges of an m4 amd m249. Especially considering some of the m240s werent in every single company at the start of GWOT
@@vitoscaletta7151 Nobody has used it in that configuration for at least 15 to 20 years. The variation you're seeing with the metal chassis and rails is a M39 and it is significantly heavier than an m110.
i have Fulton building me a socom16 on a sage chassis. cant wait to get it, i think they are 1 of the coolest looking rifles but i would never carry it for combat. stick to the m4. if i needed a 762x51 rifle i would use the scar heavy or a 14.5 m110. great video as always man.
None of these rifles in this video were built on select fire M14’s. The vast majority of M14 rifles had their automatic capabilities removed in the 60’s. You can spot a select fire M14 by the selector switch on the right hand side just under the rear sight. If there’s just that little nub instead of the switch, you know the rifle is no longer capable of automatic fire.
Lmao @ the Russian troll in this section calling Yuri the RUclipsr cited in this as a Mercenary. The guy moved to Ukraine several years ago and married a Ukrainian but that don’t stop the Russkies from hating on the guy for surviving multiple blown up Humvees.
all acr looking guns in this video are msbs grot, many earlier variations were donated by poland. and no, it's not based on on acr, just looks similiar. It's a piston rifle, made to be modular
They use everything they can get, the US and European countries donated to Ukraine tons of all types of assorted gear. Once this war is over Ukraine will become, once again, an arms dealer paradise.
Those “Mk14 Mod 1s” are clones. Not supplied from the US military, or at least not in that configuration. The USN Mk14 Mod1 was built using the Gen 1 SAGE Mod 1 M14 ALCS/CV-BS, which is extremely rare and visually distinct from the commercially available Gen 3 chassis observed in these sightings. Note the squared off angular portion above the grip vs. the rounded body of the authentic specimen. It’s a dead giveaway. There are several other indicators too, but I will spare you the autistic details. Someone clearly spent effort attempting to recreate the likeness of the Mod1. Seems a bit irrational given the circumstances, though I can certainly empathize with the desire.
May be the case. I have seen those features described in the inverse as indicators. Regardless, if they're all clones it wouldn't be massively surprising, given how much surplus and stuff is floating around but these Mod 1s have an insane level of clone correct effort for a war zone.
@@TheArmourersBench The first image in your article is a great example of legitimate Mk14 Mod 1. (And if you’d like, I can provide an archive of dozens more.) Compared to that rifle, the replicas shown here: -Have the wrong chassis, as mentioned previously. There’s not a single instance of them being rebuilt or purchased with the later generation SAGE. -Have the wrong scope rings. Again, they have substituted modern Night Force Ultralights instead of the appropriate vintage that would have ‘NF’ engraved on top. -Have the wrong cheek riser. The correct 1.25” riser was actually a Magpul P.T.S. part, long since discontinued and near impossible to source outside of a trip to Hong Kong. -Have the wrong TangoDown VFG. This is another obscure detail best compared with your original photograph. BGV-MK46 grips of that era feature an extremely short cable routing channel above the pressure pad socket. Later, the molds were updated to share the same longer channel as seen on the BGV-ITI. The replicas in your video are once again using modern versions not present when the Mod 1 was outfitted. I commend the excellent job of sourcing an appropriate NXS scope and Wilcox mount. Although, without closer inspection it’s tough to discern whether it’s a true NAV-SPEC. Same holds true for many of the other components that are out of view. In spite of the deficiencies, we can both unanimously agree that a significant amount of time and money was expended on these rifles. The Mod 1 is not a cheap or easy project to tackle, trust me. And I certainly appreciate those who appreciate it as much as I do, regardless of nationality or combatant status. o7 to those fine gentlemen.
Thanks for this, very useful. If they are indeed also clones as you strongly indicate then it's mind boggling the effort that's gone into them. Levels I'd never expect in a warzone.
Sucks for them, the thing is a giant piece of crap. I absolutely hated the EMR. I was so happy when they told us ours were getting DRMO'd and we signed for our brand new M110 kits.
Some of those pictures of EBR's are not actual M-14's. They have no selector switch. They have the machine out spot where the switch would go, but those are either Springfield M1A's or perhaps some LRB, or other smaller niche forged modern receivers.
K-2소총이 왜 소형 경량화 한다고 생각할까? 한국군인들이 힘이 약해서? 더 정확하게 빨리 쏘기 위한거지. 한국군은 일반보병도 150미터에서 저격 가능하고 다양한 포복에도 사격이 가능하게 디자인되었는데 참호전에서 총을 접는건 중요한데 총을 접지도 못하는 저런 총으로 참호전을 하니 대책없는거지. K-6만 있었으면 궂이 드론까지 동원하지 않았겠지. 충분히 타격 가능한 거리를 궂이 드론을 날리고 드론병 위치 들통나서 죽은 드론병도 상당한데
@DoIoannToKnow they're both shit. As a democrat, I guess I support kamala, but Trump is probably a better president. I still think they're both shit though.
Everyone I've talked to that owns one here in the states regrets it. Heavy pig of a gun that's finicky with ammo, unreliable in mud and sand, inaccurate, easy to unzero it by bumping it on stuff, the way the ebr chassis mounts is finicky and loosens over time. There's a reason america phased out these guns faster than any other service rifle in history. You have all these nafo cod kiddies thinking it's a good gun but in reality I would hate to be any ukrainian carrying this, and ammo supply is probably a mess too, with them using everything from 5.45 to 5.56 308 54r I've even see soldiers with PCCs.
I have no idea why anyone would be using these things in a warzone when there are so many better platforms in the country. These Mk14's were put together because there was no 7.62x51 semi-auto rifles in inventory and they needed a quick fix until the M110 was done. We had two of them that came from DoD and they were 2moa rifles at best. It's impossible to make the M14 any more accurate, I even tried to use the VLTOR chassis which while made it a little lighter offered no improvement in accuracy. When there are BREN 308's AR-10 platforms, SCAR-17's and HK417's in Ukraine it makes no sense to use one of the pigs. The action is based on the Garand, it's terrible.
We also had two for our unit. There wasn't any issues with either of them. I later found out that smith enterprise got a contract a long time ago to bring them up to standard. That explains why mine was a reliable beast!
I guess my M1A in a bog ass standard Walnut stock will just fuck off then? Thing reliably prints 1.5MOA 10 round groups using Federal Gold Medal Match (the round the M118LR round was based off of). No doubt, the M14 is a finicky rifle to keep accurate, but making them accurate is painfully easy if you know where the common issues are. Op Rod timing, gassing, and the round you are using play a huge role in the accuracy of the system. The biggest one, however, is not removing the action from the chassis/stock if you don't need to and if you do, using the correct torque on bolts or having the correct stock tension are all very important. FWIW, My M1A Loaded has over 4k rounds through it between M80 ball (usually 4 MOA at best) and FGMM/Handloads using 175gr SMK's (1.5MOA 10 shot groups all day long). It's not like I baby her. As for the action being terrible, yeah no. A lot of dead Germans, Japanese, and Italians were taken by "the same action" and they are pretty damn reliable too. Never had an issue with mine. Talked to plenty of guys who carried one during GWOT and none of them ever said anything about them being unreliable. Just don't shovel dirt into the action and you'll be fine... AK has the same problem yet is "world renown" for its reliability. People put too much faith in "mud tests" and "freeze tests" which replicate niche or nearly impossible scenarios that aren't encountered quite so badly in actual combat conditions.
@@Whiskey11Gaming 1.5 MOA isn't anything to brag about, and as I said above, you'll never get a M14 to be any more accurate than that. You can get all up in your feels about it as much as you'd like.
@mountedpatrolman That's 1.5 MOA with a factory SAI barrel which while not complete trash is not a Kreiger barrel or even a Criterion... you can hate the platform all you want, but 1.5 MOA is plenty accurate for the ballistic capabilities of a 7.62 NATO round. That's 15" at a thousand yards which is effectively minute of man.
Do mercs/contractors by default count as volunteers? I would guess it just depends on if the opposing side of these 'volunteers' have a justification/argument for getting them designated as Illegal combatants on the international stage. But honestly International law doesnt mean much to major powers anyway unless its in their favor.
@@_________________404 Its pretty hard to argue hes going for money when with full front line/combat bonuses, hes making slightly above minimum wage where I live. And thats considering he has the full 4k a month from front line and combat bonuses for 12 months straight. Now maybe he just wants an excuse to legally kill and torture people, who knows. But being a merc is highly, highly unlikely
Thanks for watching guys, check out the accompanying article for this video here -
armourersbench.com/2024/11/03/mk14-ebrs-in-ukraine/. Thanks for watching! - Matt
The war in Ukraine is starting to feel like a battlefield bad company 2 server with all the random guns from random time periods.
I miss Bad Company 2, shame it got absolutely destroyed by [russian] hackers.
@@aethertechcan't forget dice either for shutting it down
@@aethertech lol, like the hackers was the reason the game died numbnuts
Well no disrespect to Ukraine but when you don’t have a proper military you can take what you can get. It’s literally just like going shopping at a goodwill
they do, dipshit. They are well trained and well organized. They were attacked by a larger nation with more resources while they were in a period of transition switching to be NATO compatible. This is one of the most clueless and uneducated comments I've ever read.
Thanks again, Matt. Sage is a Michigan company! I drove over there a couple years ago and bought a "blemished" chassis. saved a couple hundo. Thanks also to Nuckin' Futz Yuri.
I guess that answers the question of whether clone builds are useful or just for LARPing.
I mean it is an upgrade for a 1950's rifle.
@@baneofbanesAR variants are just upgrades on 60's rifles.
@@rays.5764 yah I know. Doesn’t change my point.
@@baneofbanes it was a dumb point
There was a point?
I didn't even know the AR stocked variants existed!
Same
Even AKMs and RPG clones (I.E. AirTronic PSRL) have them now. It's basically become an industry standard mounting system at this point.
@@TheMsdos25 I'm aware that buffer tube adaptors are available for almost anything these days. Looks like these were made in like 2006... don't think it was very common then.
@@chickenfishhybrid44 the "M21 EBR" in Modern Warfare 2 from 2009 had the AR stocked variant.
The M1A SOCOM 16 CQB model comes like that
Carried a MK14 with the 82nd 1st/504th. It was my only experience with the M14 platform and I don’t recall it ever having any severe issues in Afghanistan.
Are you that guy in the iconic image with this gun?
The m14 is such a iconic rifle.
It's been a complete failure. We still have so many because no one wants them. We can't give them away.
Shame it's a turd
Visually sure, in other ways, not so much
The EBR chassis is ungodly. It's an entirely solid piece of steel that you bolt onto an entirely steel reciever, barrel, bolt, and sights. It's a SOLID block of steel. Unloaded and without optics it weighs 15 pounds. If you actually put optics, a flashlight, or anything else on the rifle you quickly approach the weight of a crew served medium machine gun
@donwyoming1936 the longest served rifle in the military = complete failure?
get well soon! luv your videos
Thank you!!
started watching recently and love your content, get well soon!
Thank you and welcome aboard!
Just packed my Mod 0 clone for elk this year. Way more fun packing it around without a plate carrier and a bunch of sustainment gear ;)
Great video and I hope you are feeling better soon
That's one of my grail rifles! Great video sir.
Save your money.
Yea, do not buy that crap. Maybe a historical one as a display piece or something.
Great content as always! I always get excited when I see you posted again
I appreciate that!
Yuri is such a freaking legend man
I remember the EBR being a mixed bag in the GWOT. Cool legacy but it really was just a stop-gap until they could get enough SR25 and M110. They were stupid heavy, and not as accurate as the sr25 or m110. Desperate times called for desperate measures. Having to try and fight guys engaging across the valleys with PKMs and outside the ranges of an m4 amd m249. Especially considering some of the m240s werent in every single company at the start of GWOT
I hated mine. I was so happy when I signed for my M110
I feel like the US could really use something comparable to the pkm
I have one and it runs great but she's got some weight. It finally made it to the Russian front where it was supposed to be.
Is there someone in the pic call himself "mactavish" or "roach"?
Who's Soap?
"The" pic?
No
All those heavy metal rails just for a foregrip and bipod. Those poor buggers.
Lighter than an M110
Tbh weight is the the only thing the MK14 has going for it over it's contemporaries
@vitoscaletta7151 Is it really? I had no idea.
Yea its all lightweight alloys@stevenpremmel4116
@@vitoscaletta7151 Nobody has used it in that configuration for at least 15 to 20 years. The variation you're seeing with the metal chassis and rails is a M39 and it is significantly heavier than an m110.
and those rails bent all the time and eventually broke. Thing is a massive turd
Excellent video!
Would you do a video about the diffirent types of optics used on small arms in Ukraine?
I am the first to admit I'm not the best at IDing optics but I will add it to the list! Thanks for watching.
@@TheArmourersBench In this video, it seems like they are using a lot of Acog TA11 with piggyback red-dot`s.
i have Fulton building me a socom16 on a sage chassis. cant wait to get it, i think they are 1 of the coolest looking rifles but i would never carry it for combat. stick to the m4. if i needed a 762x51 rifle i would use the scar heavy or a 14.5 m110. great video as always man.
7:01 I really like my man's OnlyWars patch.
I don’t care if you have a cold!!!! You sound fine… take a break if need be otherwise I am happy to hear any content from you
If I'm not incapacitated I keep to the schedule lol.
The kydex on the fore-end is interesting, don't think I've seen that before. Is it just to make the grip more comfortable?
Are all these select fire or are some of the kit builds semiautomatic? Just curious. I’m far from an expert on M14 variants.
All military M14's made were select fire, though some US units removed it as the ability is undesirable on the rifle.
None of these rifles in this video were built on select fire M14’s. The vast majority of M14 rifles had their automatic capabilities removed in the 60’s. You can spot a select fire M14 by the selector switch on the right hand side just under the rear sight. If there’s just that little nub instead of the switch, you know the rifle is no longer capable of automatic fire.
Really heavy with wandering zero and comic sans
Slowly working towards a truly inline-recoil stock for the m14
If they transferred hundreds or a thousand-plus, it’d still take a long time for a photo to up and be noticed. So, it’s always hard to gauge.
M14 is my fav
Interesting video. Given the longevity of useful firearms, I wonder where these rifles will end up being used in the decades to come.
Lmao @ the Russian troll in this section calling Yuri the RUclipsr cited in this as a Mercenary. The guy moved to Ukraine several years ago and married a Ukrainian but that don’t stop the Russkies from hating on the guy for surviving multiple blown up Humvees.
> Everyone who disagrees with me is Russian bot
Ok buddy 💀
IIRC Yuri was also in a conventional Ukrainian Marine unit, not even the International Legion.
@@_________________404you’re literally going around parroting Russian propaganda.
zigs call any White man wanting to help a mercenary
Who cares? Only paid shills care about what other shills say.
Am I high or some of the photos show guys rocking the Remington ACR?
Yeah I think it is an ACR
Those are mostly MSBS Grots, it's the new polish service rifle based on the ACR
At 1:55 are MSBS Grots. There are only 22 Remington Defense ACRs in existence, I own number 12
@mountedpatrolman 👑
all acr looking guns in this video are msbs grot, many earlier variations were donated by poland. and no, it's not based on on acr, just looks similiar. It's a piston rifle, made to be modular
still no vid about MSBS
This was my favorite rifle in the Call of Duty franchise
I loved this in Battlefield Hardline
Id be interested to see how well those Laru riser mounts hold zero after repeated use
Its an ungodly hunk of steel but I still love it.
Longest standing US service rifle. I personally love my M1A a lot. 🤘🏽
wonder how they do in the trenches
It’s not a rifle made for a trench.
The only rifle that is doing well in the trenches is the AR.
@@baneofbanesIt's more of a marksman rifle. Definetally not standart issue.
@lazynow1just because something can be lethal doesn’t mean it’s good. Near any other modern battle rifle is superior.
No wonder all the sage chassis were sold out oh well at least theyre going to a good cause
i wonder why not the uar 10/ar10 clone
No money. The EBR's are cheap and unwanted as all of US has switched to SR25's and AR10's.
The y have M14's on hand.
They use everything they can get, the US and European countries donated to Ukraine tons of all types of assorted gear. Once this war is over Ukraine will become, once again, an arms dealer paradise.
Just realized that this is basically an American Zenitco M14
I love this! Now has anyone been seen with scar 20 or the ssr version?
I try to learn all the time, but all those acronyms meant nothing to me, so I didn't gain much from this video. Thanks for the effort though.
The acronyms aren't really key, they're simply parts names. Thanks for watching.
m14 my beloved
Those “Mk14 Mod 1s” are clones. Not supplied from the US military, or at least not in that configuration.
The USN Mk14 Mod1 was built using the Gen 1 SAGE Mod 1 M14 ALCS/CV-BS, which is extremely rare and visually distinct from the commercially available Gen 3 chassis observed in these sightings. Note the squared off angular portion above the grip vs. the rounded body of the authentic specimen. It’s a dead giveaway.
There are several other indicators too, but I will spare you the autistic details. Someone clearly spent effort attempting to recreate the likeness of the Mod1. Seems a bit irrational given the circumstances, though I can certainly empathize with the desire.
May be the case. I have seen those features described in the inverse as indicators. Regardless, if they're all clones it wouldn't be massively surprising, given how much surplus and stuff is floating around but these Mod 1s have an insane level of clone correct effort for a war zone.
@@TheArmourersBench The first image in your article is a great example of legitimate Mk14 Mod 1. (And if you’d like, I can provide an archive of dozens more.) Compared to that rifle, the replicas shown here:
-Have the wrong chassis, as mentioned previously. There’s not a single instance of them being rebuilt or purchased with the later generation SAGE.
-Have the wrong scope rings. Again, they have substituted modern Night Force Ultralights instead of the appropriate vintage that would have ‘NF’ engraved on top.
-Have the wrong cheek riser. The correct 1.25” riser was actually a Magpul P.T.S. part, long since discontinued and near impossible to source outside of a trip to Hong Kong.
-Have the wrong TangoDown VFG. This is another obscure detail best compared with your original photograph. BGV-MK46 grips of that era feature an extremely short cable routing channel above the pressure pad socket. Later, the molds were updated to share the same longer channel as seen on the BGV-ITI. The replicas in your video are once again using modern versions not present when the Mod 1 was outfitted.
I commend the excellent job of sourcing an appropriate NXS scope and Wilcox mount. Although, without closer inspection it’s tough to discern whether it’s a true NAV-SPEC. Same holds true for many of the other components that are out of view.
In spite of the deficiencies, we can both unanimously agree that a significant amount of time and money was expended on these rifles. The Mod 1 is not a cheap or easy project to tackle, trust me. And I certainly appreciate those who appreciate it as much as I do, regardless of nationality or combatant status. o7 to those fine gentlemen.
Thanks for this, very useful. If they are indeed also clones as you strongly indicate then it's mind boggling the effort that's gone into them. Levels I'd never expect in a warzone.
Have any M60s shown up?
I've so far seen 1 photo of one.
Damn. The dreaded MOAC.
It's taken over 2 decades to turn the M14 into a more user friendly but still unreliable expensive mistake lol
And its early versions were still probably more reliable than SA80s before HK fixed them lmao
Actually, the Springfield Armory ones are fine.
@@huntermad5668 M1A's aren't the M14s in Ukraine's stockpile, rather are actual contract M14s when SA's namesake was running.
@@DeusMalleus
No, i talked about the rifles Springfield made.
They were tested alongside others and found to be in the whole another level.
Nothing "user friendly" about a crappy rifle with a faulty rail system that weighs almost as much as a m240 once kitted out.
Ukraine has all my favorite cod weapons😅 from in-game gun reviews to real life gun reviews
Battle tested platform with long service history.
Sucks for them, the thing is a giant piece of crap. I absolutely hated the EMR. I was so happy when they told us ours were getting DRMO'd and we signed for our brand new M110 kits.
Have you done any research on vz61 submachine guns being used in Ukraine?, if there is enough evidence of it , thought itd be neat
They're around but they're not super common!
is the person in the first pic wearing armored sleeves?
That has a strong vibe of "We have SVD at home." SVD at home:
They have SVD at home. It is their standard DMR.
It seems almost like every firearm conceived of has somehow found it's way to Ukraine.
Kornet - Anti-EBR Guided Missile
Some of those pictures of EBR's are not actual M-14's. They have no selector switch. They have the machine out spot where the switch would go, but those are either Springfield M1A's or perhaps some LRB, or other smaller niche forged modern receivers.
A lot of M14’s had the selectors removed.
@baneofbanes yes, but you'd see the hole in the side of the receiver. If they welded it closed, it left a very noticeable mark.
OVER 9000!!!!!!!
thank you . ( 2024 / Nov / 05 )
Would have rather taken a modded g3 platform imo
riparoni I feel bad for the guys that have to use these
Noice
Comment for the algorithm
Taking an M-14 and converting it to an alphabet rifle with all the upgrades.
Surprised people arnt getting stung with ITAR for shipping items to ukraine privately
You can only get stung if you get caught.
TET OFFENSIVE
How telling you that I don’t like you without telling you that I don’t like you
👍
Users will have a blast with this old crap on rainy and muddy season
Yuri = BMF!
All I see are Grots ❤
God I feel bad for the boys who have to haul that piece of junk kit.
K-2소총이 왜 소형 경량화 한다고 생각할까? 한국군인들이 힘이 약해서? 더 정확하게 빨리 쏘기 위한거지. 한국군은 일반보병도 150미터에서 저격 가능하고
다양한 포복에도 사격이 가능하게 디자인되었는데 참호전에서 총을 접는건 중요한데 총을 접지도 못하는 저런 총으로 참호전을 하니 대책없는거지.
K-6만 있었으면 궂이 드론까지 동원하지 않았겠지. 충분히 타격 가능한 거리를 궂이 드론을 날리고 드론병 위치 들통나서 죽은 드론병도 상당한데
what... He didn't even mention K2's in here...
🤤
A gun so shit they had to ship it over seas
His voice is giving me a major deja vu to an SCP channel i used to watch a couple years ago but i for the life of me can't figure out what it was.
No way America is gonna let Ukraine down with these shipments!
Let us hope they make the right choice with the election too.
whats the right choice?
@DoIoannToKnow they're both shit. As a democrat, I guess I support kamala, but Trump is probably a better president. I still think they're both shit though.
@@DoIoannToKnow Whatever the Americans think is right.
Everyone I've talked to that owns one here in the states regrets it. Heavy pig of a gun that's finicky with ammo, unreliable in mud and sand, inaccurate, easy to unzero it by bumping it on stuff, the way the ebr chassis mounts is finicky and loosens over time. There's a reason america phased out these guns faster than any other service rifle in history. You have all these nafo cod kiddies thinking it's a good gun but in reality I would hate to be any ukrainian carrying this, and ammo supply is probably a mess too, with them using everything from 5.45 to 5.56 308 54r I've even see soldiers with PCCs.
The M14 has been wanting to fight in Russia for decades
I have no idea why anyone would be using these things in a warzone when there are so many better platforms in the country. These Mk14's were put together because there was no 7.62x51 semi-auto rifles in inventory and they needed a quick fix until the M110 was done. We had two of them that came from DoD and they were 2moa rifles at best. It's impossible to make the M14 any more accurate, I even tried to use the VLTOR chassis which while made it a little lighter offered no improvement in accuracy.
When there are BREN 308's AR-10 platforms, SCAR-17's and HK417's in Ukraine it makes no sense to use one of the pigs. The action is based on the Garand, it's terrible.
We also had two for our unit. There wasn't any issues with either of them. I later found out that smith enterprise got a contract a long time ago to bring them up to standard. That explains why mine was a reliable beast!
I guess my M1A in a bog ass standard Walnut stock will just fuck off then? Thing reliably prints 1.5MOA 10 round groups using Federal Gold Medal Match (the round the M118LR round was based off of). No doubt, the M14 is a finicky rifle to keep accurate, but making them accurate is painfully easy if you know where the common issues are. Op Rod timing, gassing, and the round you are using play a huge role in the accuracy of the system. The biggest one, however, is not removing the action from the chassis/stock if you don't need to and if you do, using the correct torque on bolts or having the correct stock tension are all very important.
FWIW, My M1A Loaded has over 4k rounds through it between M80 ball (usually 4 MOA at best) and FGMM/Handloads using 175gr SMK's (1.5MOA 10 shot groups all day long). It's not like I baby her.
As for the action being terrible, yeah no. A lot of dead Germans, Japanese, and Italians were taken by "the same action" and they are pretty damn reliable too. Never had an issue with mine. Talked to plenty of guys who carried one during GWOT and none of them ever said anything about them being unreliable. Just don't shovel dirt into the action and you'll be fine... AK has the same problem yet is "world renown" for its reliability. People put too much faith in "mud tests" and "freeze tests" which replicate niche or nearly impossible scenarios that aren't encountered quite so badly in actual combat conditions.
@@Whiskey11Gaming 1.5 MOA isn't anything to brag about, and as I said above, you'll never get a M14 to be any more accurate than that. You can get all up in your feels about it as much as you'd like.
@mountedpatrolman That's 1.5 MOA with a factory SAI barrel which while not complete trash is not a Kreiger barrel or even a Criterion... you can hate the platform all you want, but 1.5 MOA is plenty accurate for the ballistic capabilities of a 7.62 NATO round. That's 15" at a thousand yards which is effectively minute of man.
You get what you’re issued in the military.
That's how you know Ukraine is down bad... they're using EBRs 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Click bait
Nope. Thanks for watching.
Master bait
Bro that American is not a "volunteer" 💀 It's called a mercenary.
Retard.
Do mercs/contractors by default count as volunteers? I would guess it just depends on if the opposing side of these 'volunteers' have a justification/argument for getting them designated as Illegal combatants on the international stage.
But honestly International law doesnt mean much to major powers anyway unless its in their favor.
@@dawgwiddaglasses Tf do u mean? The guy admitted himself that he's getting paid. It's just factually incorrect.
@@_________________404 you do know soldiers get paid, right?
@@_________________404 Its pretty hard to argue hes going for money when with full front line/combat bonuses, hes making slightly above minimum wage where I live. And thats considering he has the full 4k a month from front line and combat bonuses for 12 months straight. Now maybe he just wants an excuse to legally kill and torture people, who knows. But being a merc is highly, highly unlikely
Gamechanger 🤡
who is saying it is lmao
No one ever said that
Russians starting to hear voices.
I Still Feel the Scar Heavy is Better Suited to the Task, Please Forgive Me, My Beloved Springfield.
hahahah no way they painted the rpg like a fucking american football 6:22
Baltic countries transferred a bunch of M-14s to Ukraine. They make their own stocks and all the kit and kaboodle for them.
Indeed! I made a video about it a while back.
what a bunch of BS. those rifles should be sold to americans thru CMP.
They're more useful where they are.
Oh cry harder dude.
Those guns are ungodly heavy and were hated by everyone who had one. Good AR-10’s are 1/3 the price, lighter, more reliable, and more accurate.
Nice trophies for Russian troops!