I was at the range today tweaking the zero on my SBR when I experienced a torn case.
After the above incident I continued zeroing. Just as I was finishing up and getting ready to move to the handgun range, a local agency SWAT contingent showed up and started to set up their tactical rifles. I know that they were SWAT because they had multicam tabs on their multicam BDUs that said "SWAT".
I showed the one guy my broken case... he immediately summoned one of his buddies who must have been the AR expert. He asked me if my chamber was real dirty and I told him that I didn't think it was too dirty. He looked again and told me it was definitely a dirty chamber and that I need to clean my chamber. He told me that with ARs, if you don't scrub the chamber with solvent and a brush every 200 rounds then you will get torn cases and broken extractors.
"No kidding? Thanks man!" I exclaimed and moved to the pistol range. I honestly never knew that ARs had to have their chambers scrubbed every 200 rounds. Learn something new every day.
Later on, the SWAT guy that told me the above and one of his buddies made his way over to the pistol range. I decided I needed to run one last drill then vacate to let them do their thing. They walked out onto the range without calling for a cease fire or anything. They set up targets and the AR expert pulls out a - wait for it - AK pistol and proceeds to blast about 10 rounds all over a silhouette making a large pattern. Without eyepro, of course.
Then he puts the AK pistol away and him and his buddy pull out their Glock service pistols and begin to pop at targets. Without eyepro, of course.
p.s. To all the SWAT guys and LEOs out there - I am not picking on you guys, seriously! This is just one of those amusing anecdotes that I got to experience first-hand. Some of the best performing and most knowledgeable shooters that I've ever met were LEOs. Just goes to show that there are guys like this everywhere... SWAT, .mil, gun store, etc...




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