The rear sight is an enlarged military aperture sight, with a. 125-inch wide blade post with tritium insert. The muzzle brake is a great addition to the rifle, but the iron sights are enhanced as well.
The overall length is a very compact 37 inches, and the weight of the rifle is 8.8 pounds unloaded. The carbon steel barrel has a 1:11 right-hand twist, with the proprietary muzzle brake adding another 11⁄2 inch- es or so. The muzzle brake does increase the muzzle blast, especially with the shorter barrel, so any shooters standing next to the rifle when it goes off will definitely know it. I shot the rifle offhand at 100 yards on a B17 silhouette target, and follow-up shots with the rifle were fast and easy. The other great effect of the muzzle brake is recoil control. Combined with the gentler shooting characteristics of the system’s gas operation, the muzzle brake creates one of the softest-shooting rifles I’ve shot in some time. Many shooters may think the lighter weight of the SOCOM 16 CQB rifle will cause an increase in recoil, and that would be true if it weren’t for the very effective muzzle brake installed at the factory. Chronograph results from my Oehler 35P were that the velocity loss is only about 60 fps from the normal length 22-inch M1A barrel. 308 cartridges, but the trade-off to that shorter barrel is a gun that is lighter, more maneuver- able and portable, and just as accurate. The shorter barrel causes a slight loss of velocity from the. On first glance, the SOCOM 16 CQB’s most noticeable feature is its 16-inch barrel. RANGE TIME WITH THE SPRINGFIELD SOCOM 16.Other stock colors are OD Green and Black. The rifle was shipped wearing the MultiCam® stock, but another stock in Flat Dark Earth was included in the box. When the package arrived, I was pleasantly surprised to see Springfield had sent me the rifle with two stocks.
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Here, we were able to get into the mechanical functioning and design of the gun and how to turn the plain vanilla M14 into an extremely ac- curate match-grade rifle.Įarlier this year, I was fortunate enough to review the Loaded M1A (LOCK & LOAD: Springfield Armory Loaded M1A, February 2016 S.W.A.T.), so I was anxious to see how the SOCOM 16 CQB configuration compared. The next time I got the opportunity to see what a great rifle the M1A/M14 is, I was attending the Army National Match Gunsmithing Course at Rock Is- land Arsenal.
Accuracy of these guns went sub-MOA for five shots at 100 yards with good ammo. The M1As 58 with Match barrels, excellent triggers and glass-bedded wood stocks.
The course lasted a week and included night firing with what was then state of the art in night vision-the AN/PVS-2. The course of fire was very well set up and ranges were fairly short, around 175 yards, since this course was primarily for law enforcement. Since I was a member of the Unit’s Pistol Team, I was able to attend the course during the off-season. Two senior NCOs, who had extensive experience in sniper and counter- sniper operations in Vietnam and ran a very popular course primarily for local law enforcement, staffed the CS section. The unit had three sections: a competitive pistol section, of which I was a member a competitive rifle section and a counter sniper (CS) training section. Army Marksmanship Unit #1 in Fort Meade, Maryland. I first used the M1A when I was assigned to the U.S. OF my Top Ten favorite we used were all Match-grade M21s, FEATURES rifles that I’ve shot and worked on in my life, the M1A has to beat the top of the list. In this article, Steve Sieberts reviews Springfield Armorys SOCOM 16 CQB rifle.
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