Or, alternatively, how many jumps before you trust you parachute?
Don't overthink it - make sure the rifle functions with the ammo you want - it feeds, chambers, ejects, locks back on empty mags, and allows you to insert a full mag under a closed bolt and feeds the next round with fail.
Then keep it clean and lubed for self-defense, being dirty doesn't help function. Myself, anything that is loaded in my safe, on my person, or positioned for self-defense is cleaned after it is shot.
That may be overboard, but I wouldn't trust a 200 round dirty pistol or rifle with my life. Remember, when the rifle malfunctions in us, the darn thing worked just before it malfunctioned.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President... - Theodore Roosevelt, Lincoln and Free Speech, Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 47, Number 6, May 1918.
Every Communist must grasp the truth. Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party Mao Zedong, 6 November, 1938 - speech to the Communist Patry of China's sixth Central Committee
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