US Soldier Providing

[Lee Enfield]

This soldier is the designated marksman for his squad and/or platoon. The rifle is an M14 in a Sage EBR chassis. One of the gun mags had an article on this on how the Rock Island Arsenal was working overtime getting these rifles ready
For deployment overseas because of the perceived need for extra long range in the mountains of Afghanistan.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Having played with one of those stocks (installed on an M1A) the other day, it was only slightly better than an M3 SMG stock for solidity. (OK it's actually several orders of magnitude better than an M3, but the theme is correct, torsion, side to side & up and down slop).

A shooter would have to consistently preload the stock in some way to have any repeatable long range precision; To my way of thinking, not a situation which could be consistently reproduced in the field...

From a machine rest , I'm quite sure that the accuracy of the individual rifle is increased by shimming the gas system and consistent free floating / tensioning the barrel. The system falls down in the butt stock.

Information

Warning: This is a relatively older thread This discussion is older than 360 days. Some information contained in it may no longer be current.

[jmoore]

Having played with one of those stocks (installed on an M1A) the other day, it was only slightly better than an M3 SMG stock for solidity. (OK it's actually several orders of magnitude better than an M3, but the theme is correct, torsion, side to side & up and down slop).

A shooter would have to consistently preload the stock in some way to have any repeatable long range precision; To my way of thinking, not a situation which could be consistently reproduced in the field...

From a machine rest , I'm quite sure that the accuracy of the individual rifle is increased by shimming the gas system and consistent free floating / tensioning the barrel. The system falls down in the butt stock.

You'd think, but I've found the Sage stock to do wonders for both theoretical and practical accuracy. There's several variants fielded, some being just old M14s installed into a stock, others being rather more specialized, including some with heavy match barrels. There is also a stock extension that utilizes M4 carbine stocks of whatever flavor the user desires.

Hunted with an M39 clone extensively last year from ground blinds, I could actually snooze whilst looking through the scope, so comfortable the system was.


Liked the stock so well that I ended up with two:


But it wasn't something I cared for at all at first. Had to shoot and carry one for a while for the "goodness" to register.