What are the parts of a M1 and M16 rifle?
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Here you go...It will start you on the way...\nhttp://www.m1garandrifle.com/Garandparts.htm\nhttp://www.sogarmory.com/
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The US Army is actually making the transition from the M-16 to the M-4 which is a variation of the M-16.  Both rifles are produced by Colt Manufacturing and Fabrique Nationale Manufacturing Inc.
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Sniper rifles:\nRegular 'sniper' rifles. Including scoped variants of regular weapons, dedicated designs, dedicated marksman variants, etc..\n\nAccuracy International Arctic Warfare Magnum \nAccuracy International Arctic Warfare Police \nAI AE \nAI Arctic Warfare / L96 \nAlex \nAMP TS DSR-1 \nArmalite AR10 \nBarrett M98 \nBeretta M501 \nBlaser 93 Tactical \nCheyTac Intervention \nCZ 700 \nEDM Arms Windrunner \nDakota Longbow T-76 \nDragunov SVD \nEnfield L42A1 & Enforcer \nEnfield No. 1 \nErma SR-100 \nFN 30-11 \nFN Police Rifle \nFN SPR \nFR F2 \nGalil Tzalafim (Galil sniper) \nHK MSG-90 \nHK PSG1 \nIMI SR-99 \nKAC SR-25&#92;Stoner SR-25 \nKnight SR-25 (see SR-25) \nMauser SP66 \nMauser 86SR \nM14 \nM16A2E3 (designated marksman accurized assault rifle) \nM21 \nM24 SWS \nM40 USMC sniper rifle \nM93 Black Arrow \nParker-Hale M82 & C3A1 \nPGM Ultima Ratio \nPGM Mini-Hecate .338 \nRAI / RAP model 300 \nRemington 700 \nRemington 700 PSS \nSako TRG \nSavage 10FP & 110FP \nSIG SG550 Sniper \nSig Sauer SR66 \nSig Sauer SR86 \nSig-Sauer SSG 2000 \nSig-Sauer SSG 3000 \nSIG SHR 970 \nSIG STR \nSSG-82 \nSteyr Scout Tactical \nSteyr SSG \nSteyr SSG 69 \nSVU \nSV-98 \nSV-99 \nTactical Ops Tango 51 \nTCI SR-89 (bull-pup sniper rifle) \nType 88 \nVapensmia NM149S \nVSK-94 \nVSS Vintorez \nWalther WA2000 \nZastava M76 \n[edit]\nLarge caliber:\n(.50 caliber and larger. Mainly for anti-matériel, counter-sniper, etc. work)\n\nAI Arctic Warfare .50 \nArmalite AR-50 \nBarrett M82A1 \nBarrett M82 \nBarrett M90 \nBarrett M95 \nBarrett M99 \nBlack Arrow M93 \nKSVK 12.7 \nM500 \nM600 \nM650 \nMechem NTW-20 \nOSV-96 \nPGM UR Hecate II \nRT-20 \nSteyr IWS 2000 \nSteyr .50 HS \nSVN-98 \nTor (WKW Wilk) \nTruvelo .50 \nZastava M93 \nI hope this helps
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Are you looking for current or historical?\n\nhistorical, look at the Springfield Armory website\n\ncurrent, look to Jane's
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as a small arms instructor for the navy i know the are two semi(single shot) and full auto for the a3 for the m16a4 there are 4 semi auto, burst and full
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http://coltmfg.com has a way to get info on the weapon
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Bound's hubby here:\n\nThere are three types of triggers that can be found on a target rifle. These are a single stage trigger, a two stage trigger, and a set trigger. \n\nA single stage trigger is a type of trigger that has very little play (movement) between when the finger first puts pressure on the trigger and when the sear releases. Some target shooters (such as myself) prefer a single stage trigger on competitive AR15-based target rifles.\n\nA two stage trigger is the type of trigger that is most commonly found on a military/service rifle. When the finger is placed on the trigger, there will be a large amount of play as the trigger moves from the first sear to the second sear. The second sear actually releases the hammer. By NRA rules for service rifle competition  the trigger must be able to hold either 3 1/2 or 4 1/2 pounds before the hammer is released (I get the weight for service rifle and service pistol confused, it's one or the other). The two stage trigger is the one found on the Springfield rifle, the M1 Garand, the M14 and the AR15/M16. \n\nThe other type of trigger system which Christopher (above) describes rather well but with the wrong name is a set trigger. This trigger system was found on muzzleloaders and you saw it in "Quigley: Down Under" on Quigley's Sharp's rifle. This trigger system has two triggers. The first (forward) is squeezed like a regular trigger to prepare the second trigger for firing. The first trigger does not release the hammer. Once the second trigger is set it acts much like a "hair trigger". The second trigger, when set, releases the hammer with just a little bit of finger pressure on the trigger. \n\nVirtually all modern commercial rifles that are not copies of military rifles have a single stage trigger. Military rifles are standard with two stage triggers. You would be hard pressed to find a set trigger system on a modern rifle today. \n\nHere endeth the lesson! \n\nGood luck.
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Bound's hubby here:\n\nTry Numrich Arms at the link below.\nIt will give you the page of parts for the Glenfield 75.
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your "hold over" has several varibles,  caliber, bullet weight, temp, etc etc etc  software is available to answer your question.\nhttp://www.huntingcorner.com/ballistics/ballistics-chart-rifle.html
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Here is a very nice world war 2 weapons site. The site is divided into sections (rifles, machine guns etc..) for every major nation involved. It even shows a picture of the weapon discussed
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M1A2 is about $5.6 million \nm2a3 is about $3.1 million
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Bound's hubby here: \n\nWhen I purchased my M1A, I also purchased the SA 6x40 Government Model scope. I like the rangefinding / distance compensating recticle. I generally use my M1A in competition, using iron sights only, so I have not shot this scope much. \n\nI find it is a quality scope. The one draw back, is that the range compensating recticle is calibrated using 168 grain Match loads (equivalent to Military Match M852). I prefer the heavier 173/175 grain Match loads (M118/M118LR) ... but for government work, the scope will put these rounds close enough to where I need to place them. \n\nI would not rely on the range compesating recticle for long range precision though. That recticle will place the bullet on target, but not with pin-point precision! It is better to have a target quality scope and shoot it to establish zeroes at the distances you plan to shoot. \n\nGood luck!
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If you can find them at all, your best bet would probably be www.gunsamerica.com   You may also be able to get the part from www.gunpartscorp.com  Good luck.
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Both the XM8 and the OICW have been scraped. The problem of these to models of weapons was really cost vs. benefits. Simply put, the benefits of putting these models of weapons into production just wasn't enough to make up for the cost. All of the benefits of these models can be replicated by add-ons to the current weapons platform, the M4A4. However, The SCAR has recently been put into service as an SF weapons platform. Major selling point was the ability to convert from 5.56 to 7.62. Thats all i know hope it helps. HOOOAAAHHH!
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Unhappy.\nHowever there are many different and important factors to keep in mind. The 556 is a small round. Its actually a 22 caliber round.  It is very light weight. Much less then the 7.62x51 (308 winchester). However the 556 is meant to be fired at full auto. The 7.62x51 (by which i will refer to as the 308) is much heavier much more powerful and has too much recoil for full auto. The 308 is still used as a sniper round, even though several others are much better, such as 30-06, or several other (e-mail me and i will tell you why they use the 308) and the 308 is the ammo used for the M240 light machine gun. the 208 is the perfect round for the light machine gun. Say any different and my brother will mix words with you. \nWhatever the government says, the 556 was designed to penetrate soviet body armor. It mushrooms when passing through body armor and actaully has more shock value (due to increased surface area) despite going through the armor. It takes too many hits to take down an opponet and wastes too much ammo. Its really a shame, because there are civial loads of 556 (teachnically 223, because they are on the civilan market) that have much heavier bullets and have far greater stopping power.\n\nthe 6.8 is too dangerous.  Say you are a Marine Force Reacon guy, or Amry Ranger and you are shooting these great 6.8 bullets and killing every enemy. No problem, right? But wait.... You have run out of ammo. you can not resupply from friendly troops, and no one has 6.8 anywhere. You are screwed.  \n\n6.8 is battering M16's to death too. its way too powerful for the gas operating systems and the recievers.\nIf we had new guns built to stronger tolerances then 6.8 would really be great.
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None that I know of make direct comparisons/contrasts.\n\nI can help you out a lot more than TheWiseOne, as his answer contains many inaccuracies.\n\nContrary to what the WiseOne stated, the M1 Garand was adopted as the standard US Army infantry rifle in 1936 and was standard issue when we entered the war.  The USMC still had a predominance of '03 Springfields, as they didn't receive new equipment until after the Army.  I find it odd that the WiseOne denigrates the Springfield for being "obviously dated and had been used in World War I.".  That's funny, because the standard infantry rifle the Germans used during WWII, the K98k, was simply a newer, shorter version of the Gewehr 98, the Model 1898 Mauser rifle, developed before and used during WWI (the Springfield used the same action as the Mauser by the way).  Both were fine bolt-action weapons, but couldn't compare with the M1 because of their slow rate of fire (the US was the only army in WWII to have a semi-automatic rifle as it's standard infantry weapon).\n\nThe primary sub-machine gun of the US Army during WWII was the M1928A1, M1, and M1A1 versions of the Thompson sub-machine gun.  A fairly heavy weapon, accurate at short ranges, and it had a lot of stopping power due to the fact it was chambered for the .45ACP round.  From 1944 onwards it was slowly phased out and replaced by the M3 Grease Gun.  It was cheaper and far simpler to mass produce than the Thompson.  Contrary to what the WiseOne states, both used 30 round box magazines (although 20 round was available for the Thompson).  The German MP-40 (the famed Schmeisser, although Schmeisser had no part in it's design) was chambered for 9MM Parabellum.  It was lighter and had a slightly lower cyclic rate than the Thompson (but a bit higher than the M3).\n\nComparing the MP-44 and the BAR is like comparing apples and oranges.  The MP-44 is the ancestor of the modern assault rifle, and was used as such.  The BAR is analagous to the M249 SAW that the US Army currently uses.  The MP-44 was a good weapon, with decent accuracy and range, and a cyclic rate high enough to provide fairly heavy firepower.  Very useful in urban fighting.\n\nThe BAR was a great weapon, heavy, but provided very good, accurate firepower for platoons.\n\nI don't know what "tiny Walther pistols" WiseOne is speaking about.  The standard German sidearms of WWII were the Parabellum-Pistole (popularly known as the Luger) and the Walther P-38.  Both were chambered for the 9MM Parabellum round, and both were fairly accurate.  The P-38 was easier and cheaper to make, and more tolerant of various environmental conditions.  The M1911A1 Colt .45 was a fairly good pistol, not particularly accurate, but the .45 ACP round provided good stopping power, and it was fairly reliable.\n\nThe German MG-42 was an excellent weapon, the best of its' class during the war.  It was the basis for the postwar design of the US M-60 machine gun.  I don't know what the WiseOne is speaking of when he mentions "and other lamer machine guns" when speaking of the US.  The primary US light machine gun was the .30 Browning.  It's sustained fire rate wasn't as good as the MG-42, but nevertheless the air-cooled version was a more than competent, if not very good weapon.  The standard heavy machine gun of the US was the Browning M2 .50.  This was an excellent weapon, best in it's class, and is still in use today by many countries. The M2 was just as accurate as the MG-42, and had greater power and ranger. Then again, pretty much any weapon designed by John Browning turned out to be excellent.\n\nThis following statement is absolutely wrong:\n\n"American planes were better than German planes by the time we entered the war, as the RAF killed off many of their better planes."\n\nThe best American fighters of the war at the time of our entry were the P-40 and F4F.  Neither one was anywhere near as good as the
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TOW rocket launcher (Tube launched Optically sighted Weapon)\n\nStinger Missile\n.50 Caliber machine gun\nM16A2 rifle\nM1911 semi-automatic pistol\netc etc