Talk:United States Marine Corps Designated Marksman Rifle

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'...led to the USMC opting to retire the M14DMR from service in favor of the 7.62 mm Mk 11 (SR-25) and 5.56 mm Special Purpose Rifle (United States Navy Mark 12 Mod 0 Special Purpose Rifle) rifles from Crane. However, at this time, new DMRs are still being issued and units are deploying regularly with the weapons system'

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Additions & Subtractions
Cleaned the article up some. El Jorge 07:34, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Simplified the Specifications Section. Tr1290 19:08, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Major cleanup
I have added the WP:MILHIST Infobox Weapon template to the article and made a general cleanup for style, formatting, spelling and links. I have also added the formal name of the DMR (Rifle, 7.62-MM, M14, DMR) to the lead. —Squalla 00:57, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

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M21
How did the rifle differ from the M21, which was also based on the M14? Were they simply different attempts to achieve the same goal with the same basic hardware? -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 20:41, 5 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Good question. I don't have a clue, but our Designated marksman and Designated marksman rifle articles both explain some of the differences between the roles and basic weapons, and how they contrast with the sniper role and weapons. Hope that helps until someone with experience comes along. - BilCat (talk) 20:52, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Couple years late but: The USMC DMR does not start from a National Match M14 like the M21 does; it takes a standard M14 and replaces the barrel with a Krieger barrel, uses a McMillan fiberglass stock with a pistol grip (compared to the M21's walnut stock with no pistol grip); and uses a variety of optics (the M21 could only use the Adjustable Ranging Telescope sight). The M25 is a bit closer (in that it uses a fiberglass stock and can fit a variety of optics) but still, they were different attempts to achieve a similar goal with the same basic hardware, but operating under the logistics and acquisition constraints of two different service branches. The Army was able to make do with, generally speaking, better quality M14's and had the benefit of the Army Marksmanship Unit's maintenance and rifle upgrade programs allowing them to make fewer changes to existing M14's; in contrast, the USMC's M14's were in much more "used" condition and thus had to have pretty much every part replaced. ⇒   SWAT Jester   Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat! 22:06, 23 June 2024 (UTC)