Why I learned to like the AR-15.

The first "AR" I ever shot was an M-16 during the small arms firing school before the National Matches at Camp Perry. It was a bone stock M-16A1 and we fired at 200 yards. Getting it sighted in took a few shots and then it was like a laser beam that went "Spronggggg" every time I pulled the trigger. The coach told me to not put any pressure on the sling because it was mounted to the barrel. But it could stack those bullets in on each other. I wondered then why they didn't shoot them in the matches if they were so accurate and was told they just didn't carry to shoot the 5/600 yard stages with the 55 grain bullets. It was the next year the Army team showed up with M16A2's and dominated the service rifle competitions. They used the heavy match bullets and had put a free float tube under the handguard to attach the sling to. I bought a new Colt that same year. I still have it and it shoots small groups and has accounted for a crapload of game. Biggest bodied deer I have ever killed dropped from 1 55gr soft point into the lungs.