Charlie98
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Honestly part of the reason I asked this is because I was talking to someone about buying a used HBAR and he was insisting selling it for $1300. He bleated endlessly about the quality of Colt AR-15, and I didn't mention that I was in the military and was actually issued two different Colts while in service. I'm probably going to catch a lot of crap for this, but I really found the S&W M&P Sport to be much more accurate and generally higher quality than both weapons I was issued in military service. I don't know if it was stress or what, but my performance with this rifle I borrowed is superior to the ones I had in the army
Still, everyone talks about Colt like they're God's Gift to shooters. I do like Colt, but I'm just not seeing the shock and awe because a Rock River National Match LAR-15 A2 literally shoots sub MOA with all the holes touching at 100 meters with open sights from a kneeling position. I have no experienced that accuracy with colts.
It is not fair to compare an issue M16/M4 to a National Match rifle... off the shelf or otherwise... they are two very different firearms. My issue M16A1's (yes, I'm that old...) were sloppy, banged up, loose fitting, and certainly a parts mix-master after years of service. Colts are good rifles, but they are also a mechanical device, assembled by humans... so they are not always perfect. When I was in the Army, I never had a Colt... always GM HydroMatics and a single H&R... but they were all made under contract and were interchangeable with the Colt as far as I was concerned.
Civilian AR's are something else entirely.