Originally Posted by
ndmiller
I've always inspected the bolts after every few shooting sessions when cleaning, but haven't really seen any issues to even know what I was looking for. I also didn't know about the way to see hairline cracks quoted below from the article, so may have been missing them all along. Is this widespread knowledge I just missed or a nugget of military SOP?
Will try this before going out again, I've got bolts with 5-20K rounds and not even sure when failure is likely to happen.
When I was in, they taught us BMW-CLS
Broken
Missing
Worn
Cleanliness
Lubrication
Spring tension
If you keep that in mind while going through your BCG, no matter what the round count is; you should end up with a functional rifle.
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