Here’s What Gen Scales Thinks The Next Infantry Rifle Should Look Like

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Here’s What Gen Scales Thinks The Next Infantry Rifle Should Look Like
By Jared Keller
on May 17, 2017



Retired Army Maj. Gen. Robert Scales hates the M16 family of rifles, and he won’t stop until everyone knows it.

Scales has spent the last few years railing against the standard-issue infantry rifle as little more than a lighter but less effective version of the infamous M16 model that left so many American troops dead in the jungles of Vietnam (In response to Scales’ condemnation of the M4 in the pages of The Atlantic in January 2015, Task & Purpose’s Christian Beekman mounted a vocal defense of the rifle).

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As a former Infantryman, I was never issued an M14.  However, I did purchase an M1A and LOVE the rifle.  There are bullpup frames that will accept the M14 barrel and trigger group.  The 7.62 x 51 is far superior in reach and punch than the 5.56.  Stand off distance is also very important.  During Vietnam, the jungle reduced the average sight / stand off distance to a couple dozen yards.  In desert and arctic warfare, the engagement ranges are much farther and need a heavier round with more powder to reach out to 600 yards.