Will the AR-15 be fondly remembered like the Garand?

[John Kepler]

It's the furniture...


In the case of competition shooting, perhaps what drives the bus is whoever is the hottest hotshot armorer just discharged from the Army or Marines.

Bob

Nope! It's the basic engineering. The AR is ALWAYS going to be the more accurate platform due to it's design/engineering.

Besides, the first thing you do to make a consistently accurate rifle is to toss the wood into the fireplace and replace it with some flavor of plastic/composite....even the stuff that sorta looks like wood (laminates) are primarily plastic, or as close to it as the materials people can make it without going to 100% synthetic materials. Wood is something pretty you sit on, not make a firearm out of...just go to a real marksmanship competition and you'll be able to count the "pure wood" furniture on one hand! IMHO, a "pretty" target is infinitely preferable to a "pretty" rifle....in over 45 years of active shooting, most of it in some flavor of competition, I have YET to see a target that was the least bit impressed by the appearance or pedigree of the firearm shooting at it!