Man, your first 2 choices completely coincide with mine. These
are the 2 top choice for weapons I would collect and fire where
such a hobby is permissible. I don't like the original FN FAL with
the wooden furniture, though.
I also like the PPSh 41.
I also love the good old M16 very much and it is a joy and comfort
to shoot and hold. The carrying handle with the rear sight built-in
is really clever and a great way to carry the weapon when not in
combat situation. Another great way to carry the M16 is with your
thumb hooked into the carrying handle and your other fingers
clutched around the magazine housing.
The whole weapon is beautifully balanced and is light as a rifle
can ever be. The only thing I don't like is the triangular
handguard on our ancient M16S1 version.
Changing mags is very fast and easy using your trigger finger to
press the mag release and either letting the empty mag fall away
for super-fast reloading or pulling it out with your left
hand.
It is also great for bayonet fighting and as someone said, dealing
out buttstrokes. I saw an M16 buttstroke being performed by one
recruit on a fellow recruit when the 2 got into an argument.
BEAUTIFUL. The guy who received the buttstroke had difficulty
getting up for a while.
All the other things like the charging handle, the easy to reach
selector switch, the bolt-release are all so good they cannot be
improved upon. This must be the reason why the US used it for over
30 years inspite of all its faults.
The new SAR-21 is bulky and heavy, the bullpup configuration is
silly as it is hard to change mags, and all the switches are in the
wrong place. So what if it's short? Unless you ride in a armoured
vehicle all the time the length of the M-16 had never once been a
problem in the ten over years period I have used it.
The accuracy of the M16 is great without a scope and I have no
problem getting marksmanship money at the range. So why do we need
a permanently fixed scope on the SAR-21? Using the scope makes it
slow to find your target in a snap-shooting situation. At least the
SAR-21 should have a good set of secondary iron sights but
apparently the iron sights found on the SAR-21 is a joke.
And then the SAR-21 designers have decided that we will no longer
need to fight hand-to-hand combat. And they have also decided we
should just give up or flee once we run out of ammo or if weapon
jams in a tight situation. That's why the SAR-21 designers have
decided not to put a simple bayonet lug on the SAR-21.
