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Dust_Devil · August 13, 2005, 03:50 PM

There had been some preview commercials for the new TV series, "Over There" that showed a quick close-up view of a soldier shooting an M16 rifle, where the rifle was pointed to the left and the ejection port was also on the left side rather than the right side where the ejection port normally is.
I know that some M16/AR15 rifles are built with the ejection port on the left side for left handed shooters, I'm just wondering if the rifle in the commercial was actually a left handed model, because I would think it would be rare that out of all the M16s used for filming of a television series that they would come up with a left handed model. So I'm thinking was the shot in the commercial some type of reversed camera shot where it was actually a normal right side ejection M16 pointing to the right, but the camera shot made it look like it was pointed to the left.

August 13, 2005, 03:50 PM	#1
Dust_Devil Senior Member Join Date: August 5, 2005 Location: Arizona Posts: 235	M16 in 'OVER THERE' commercial preview There had been some preview commercials for the new TV series, "Over There" that showed a quick close-up view of a soldier shooting an M16 rifle, where the rifle was pointed to the left and the ejection port was also on the left side rather than the right side where the ejection port normally is. I know that some M16/AR15 rifles are built with the ejection port on the left side for left handed shooters, I'm just wondering if the rifle in the commercial was actually a left handed model, because I would think it would be rare that out of all the M16s used for filming of a television series that they would come up with a left handed model. So I'm thinking was the shot in the commercial some type of reversed camera shot where it was actually a normal right side ejection M16 pointing to the right, but the camera shot made it look like it was pointed to the left.