Originally Posted by
MountainRaven
Go watch the M14/M1A, M1 Garand, and AK ones.
And their Mosin-Nagant and Mauser ones.
None of the tests are any good.
There is no consistency in their testing methods.
Everything can malfunction. During our deployment work up, a small pebble got into the barrel extension of the 416 of one of the guys on my team during live fire react to contact drills. It was a catastrophic malfunction, causing the gun to completely seize up, requiring the use of tools to fix. Not the guns fault
I have seen guns freeze, guns seize up from lack of lube (to include during actual contact in Afghanistan), guns extremely dusty (especially vehicle mounted belt feds) - some Norwegian troops also experienced extreme rain and mud, as mentioned above.
The bottom line is that in order to maintain proper operability of your weapons in all conditions, you need to maintain them and have SOP’s in place for when things go bad. Most recreational shooters worry about dirt from shooting - as a soldier on operations, the environment is the biggest threat to equipment.
It's not about surviving, it's about winning!
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