21 Facts About M14 rifle

The M14 rifle was used by the US Army, Navy, and Marine Corps for Basic and Advanced Individual Training from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s.

The M14 rifle remains in limited service across all branches of the US military, with variants used as sniper and designated marksman rifles, accurized competition weapons, and ceremonial weapons by honor guards, color guards, drill teams and ceremonial guards.

T44 prototype M14 rifle was a conventional design developed at Springfield Armory as an alternative to the T47.

T44 was tested in a competitive service M14 rifle competition conducted by the Infantry Board at Fort Benning, Georgia against the Springfield T47 and the T48 a variant of Fabrique Nationale's FN FAL.

Springfield Armory records reflect that M14 rifle manufacture ended as TRW, fulfilling its second contract, delivered its final production increment in fiscal year 1965.

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However, it proved to be an impossible task to replace all these weapons; the M14 rifle was deemed "completely inferior" to even the World War II M1 Garand in a September 1962 report by the US Department of Defense comptroller.

Fiberglass stocks were produced to resolve this problem, but the M14 rifle was discontinued before the fiberglass stocks could be distributed for field use.

The M14 remained the primary infantry rifle in Vietnam until it was replaced by the M16 in 1967, though combat engineer units kept them several years longer.

The M14 rifle remained the standard rifle for US Army Basic Training and troops stationed in Europe until 1970.

In 1969, tooling for the M14 was sold to Taiwan and later many rifles were exported to Baltic countries and Israel.

The M14 rifle is used to shoot a large rubber projectile to another ship when underway to start the lines over for alongside refueling and replenishment.

In 1967 the Springfield tooling and assembly line for M14 rifle production was sold to the Republic of China, known as Taiwan.

M14 rifle was first furnished with a walnut stock, then with birch, and finally with a synthetic fiberglass stock due to the moisture in the humid jungle environments of rural Vietnam causing wood to swell.

Standard M14 rifle rifling has right-hand 1:12 inch twist with 4 grooves.

M14M is a semi-automatic only version of the standard M14 that was developed for use in civilian rifle marksmanship activities such as the Civilian Marksmanship Program.

M21 and M25 are accurized sniper models of the M14 rifle, assembled with more care and precision than is standard.

The M14 rifle has select-fire ability, a threaded barrel for a muzzle device, a topmounted M1913 rail for optics, and an operating rod cover.

Each completed production M14 rifle was proof fired, then tested for functioning by firing three rounds.

In 2003, Smith Enterprise Inc created its version of the M14 Enhanced Battle Rifle known as the Mk14 Mod 0, type SEI.

The M14 rifle used a medium heavy-weight 18-inch barrel and was used as a basis to create the US Navy's Mark 14 Mod 0 with Springfield Armory, Inc being tasked to supply the necessary machinery in cooperation with the Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division.

M14 rifle produces several variations of the basic rifle with different stocks, barrel weights, barrel lengths, and other optional features.