Originally Posted by
Kain
You got a link for info on that? I honestly have never heard that particular comment in regards to the AR FOW.
At any rate, I still am not of convinced that checkering, or molding, or whatever we may wish, within reason, to aid in using it to push the carrier forward would create an added risk of collecting fouling, or carbon. At least no more than the groves for the FA already there which are viewable from the ejection port as it is. I mean, the guns I have seen go down due to carbon build up wasn't due to it being on the carrier, or bolt, but it packing the receiver, and that was after thousands, upon thousands, of rounds. Those were also auto loading shotguns that run in my experience a bit dirtier than the AR. There is also, or at least was, a SR15 somewhere around here that had been run long enough, I want to say like 20K rounds, mostly suppressed too, that was so filled with carbon that it was oozing from between the upper and lower, and the guy was still shooting it. At that point I am not sure carbon build up is something that I would be concerned with.