I agree with you, but only for shooting from a bench. I pretty much always use a 20 round mag for that. In any other situation, I'll take the extra 10 rounds, please.Liberty wrote:I'm not sure the 30rnd is an improvement, at least for non military combat situations. Darn things are just too big and get in the way. 15 and 20 seem ideal, but that is just me, YMMV.
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- Fri Jan 05, 2018 12:19 pm
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- Fri Jan 05, 2018 1:49 am
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Re: Can't bring ammo into California
The standard US military magazine for the M-16 was originally 20 rounds, but that doesn't really mean much. The military has a long history of hamstringing the troops to save a buck. Research why the cavalry was using single shot rifles at Little Big Horn while the Indians had repeaters.
Robert McNamara and his "Whiz Kids" were trying to do everything on the cheap. The 20 round mags were probably seen as a way to keep ammunition costs down. Pretty much all the problems with the original M-16s were them trying to cut corners... Not chrome lining the chamber & bores, not issuing cleaning kits, etc.
Today, which is the only measure that matters, 30 round magazines are the standard. Pretty much anything you can name had lower standards 40 - 50 years ago, if it existed at all.
Robert McNamara and his "Whiz Kids" were trying to do everything on the cheap. The 20 round mags were probably seen as a way to keep ammunition costs down. Pretty much all the problems with the original M-16s were them trying to cut corners... Not chrome lining the chamber & bores, not issuing cleaning kits, etc.
Today, which is the only measure that matters, 30 round magazines are the standard. Pretty much anything you can name had lower standards 40 - 50 years ago, if it existed at all.