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I havnt seen the annimation for a long time now but are you missing the part where he taps the bolt release? Or perhaps he simply jars the weapon enough. Slapping the magazine in hard enough will automatically send the bolt forward.

The bolt is held back very weakly and in all my experiance with the M16, its bigger brother, the bolt was easily sent forward without the bolt release. Simply hitting the side of the weapon anywhere typically works, or as i said slapping in the mag hard enough.

They may have left it out since its not a big detail that you wont notice when playing. It also saves time on the reload, something i wont complain about after waiting the 30 minutes it takes to reload in America's Army.

the forward assist is what I thought the charging handle was, we call the charging handle cocking handle

I get those mixed up as well, i normally just call it the bolt. Anyway that seems to be a flaw with the m-16 if thats the case. If a hard slap can fire the bolt forward then another slap could set the fucker off. ed:

Id prefer to tell the weapon when I want to load a round into the breech and not have it do it automatically.