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December 10th, 2014 at 4:56 pm
You just cursed my buddy. Every time I read one of these “See, AR’s are really ok rifles” stories, proclaiming how fantastic they perform, my buddy’s AR has at least one shooting session ending malfunction.
To which I always retort: “NO WAY! Uncle says ARs don’t malfunction any more”.
December 10th, 2014 at 5:55 pm
I don’t know of too many weapons that would not be reliable after 50 years of constant development…
Hell we could probably do the same to the Chauchat.
December 10th, 2014 at 6:54 pm
I await with great patience, not holding my breath, any suggested improvement on the expedient but crude method used to clear Baker Rifles of powder fouling during long engagements in the war against Napoleon.
Has peeing down the barrel been improved upon in the two centuries of constant development since then?
December 10th, 2014 at 7:31 pm
Yes it has mikee. Now they pee down the barrel BEFORE they load it!
December 10th, 2014 at 8:23 pm
Paul, I hear 1911’s still needs some work.
December 11th, 2014 at 8:06 am
Actually you can have 1911’s that work. They are much like the AR’s in that department. Good ones cost money or are pseudo-custom jobs. Its rare to find a cheap 1911 that functions perfectly. Same with an AR.
Not a huge fan anyhow unless they are double stacks. Got big mitts.
December 11th, 2014 at 9:07 am
The only problems I can recall ever having had with an AR-15 or M-16 malfunctioning were all related to the magazines.
December 11th, 2014 at 6:36 pm
Paul Kisling,
And which “developments” are these that have been done to the AR platform?
December 12th, 2014 at 12:37 pm
Tam, M4 feedramps would qualify.
December 13th, 2014 at 12:37 am
Using the right goddamn powder instead of recovered 20 year old 30-06 powder, chrome lining the barrels, but that’s all for jungle combat. Those were some improvements. It’s a close tolerance peacetime design, and needs support and supply, and be kept clean in the bolt carrier. Unlike the AK47 wartime design, it can hit the broad side of a barn from the inside.
I don’t know what you guys have been shooting, but I’ve been firing ARs since the 80s with no malfunctions, literally none, and that includes all kinds of low budget lower builds and whatnot. I have never, not one single time, needed the forward assist. Maybe I just need to send a couple more thousand downrange with no cleaning to pull a failure out of one. Wait, I’m not going to abuse my rifle to get it to break.