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The M 16

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May have been better in the original French version but the translation is very difficult to read as the terms used to describe the various parts of the rifle are wholly confusing. Given the the errors in captioning and lack of original content I haven't have had much use for this book except for the truly beautiful photography some of which look to be original, or not previously released, pictures.

I'm not trying to belittle this work since Jean Huon is a well known gun scribe in Europe but there are many better books that cover this subject matter.

I hope to learn at least one thing from each book I read and this one did not let me down, I finally saw how the "grenade launchers" I see sold here and there fit on the muzzle of the M16 between the flash suppressor and the end of the barrel threads. It's an ingenous system.

Jean, if you're reading this, I truly wish you would have used a better translation service and the one you contracted didn't have a clue what you were writing.

This is the worst gun book I ever bought. I have never been more disappointed, as I was really looking forward to reading this. This guy does not even call the parts of the gun by their correct names. And everything is in metric. As the headline reads, a complete waste of time and money. I did not buy this from Amazon, but honestly, I hated this book so bad I felt everyone should be warned!

If only I had read the previous reviews before I bought this book... I'm always looking for good AR-15/M16 books and thought this one "looked" good. When I got a good deal on this, I bought it. My heart sank the moment I received it and noticed the main photo on the front cover was a reverse. I thought to myself, "how could anyone put a reverse picture on a book they're supposed to know about"? Unfortunately, the cover was only the beginning. There were reversed pictures through out the book. And as stated by a previous reviewer, the terminology that is used for several parts is so obscure, that I had to re-read several times to try to understand just what part he was referring to. That and the fact that nearly everything is measured in millimeters and kilograms, makes for a very difficult book to keep reading.