^^^apparently a lot of officers and nco's agreed with you, in 1965 many, many stories of ''every excuse under the sun was used to delay the issue of the M16 by line units, just short of insubordination." As the dirty chamber, jamming issues continued to surface...one Marine battalion commander remarked, 'once it gets hot and dirty, you basically have a muzzle loader' (referencing the cleaning rod used to knock out the stoppage). As tested, the M16 performed well with DuPont 8208 stick, Olin's ball powder sustitute got grunts killed. The M16A1 forward assist, in '69 was an attempt to solve the problem, which of course it didn't, nothing but religious cleaning did fix the problem....which was hard to do when laying down high volume fire in the military's tactic of the time, 'fire and manuever'.
I hated the M16, since was a POS! It reminded me of a Daisy BB gun. When shooting tracers, it was evident that the bullets were tumbling. Never had a chance to put it on paper. But I hated the M16.
I loved the M14. It was much more accurate, more powerful - nothing to dislike about the M14.
