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Thread: Regurgitation of AR myths making them "facts"

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    Quote Originally Posted by P2000 View Post
    Possibly the hardest one that I have heard, on several occasions comes from a marine that I respect who served in vietnam. He has a real hate for the platform, and blames the deaths of several of his comrades on the M-16. While I have come to understand the early failings of the M-16(soldiers told the rifle was self-cleaning, no maintenance, no oil, wrong powder in the ammo, ect), it is still impossible for me to argue with the guy. I don't even want to. He saw more during the few years in the thick shit than I could ever in my lifetime. Still, I believe that it is the best platform for me, and because of this site I am knowledgeable of the platform, it's needs and capabilities, and it is uncommon for me to have a single malfunction per 1000 round case of ammo. I only have about 4,400 rounds through the platform, but I have experienced honestly 1 malfunction, a failure to feed that was easily remedied with a rack of the CH. This was the third round fed into my ex rifle after I changed the cam pin, so I even have an excuse
    What was the myth/legend he was claiming?

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    I had almost an identical co-worker at the sheriff's office, until he retired.

    Marine Corps during Vietnam. He's a great guy...he'd do anything for ya. But, he believed a lot of the myths...they could shoot our ammo, but we couldn't theirs..."I saw a guy get shot in the chest and it came out of his lower back." etc...

    He also had a hatred for the AR. It's sad...but understandable.
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    I've heard many of the ones already stated on here, but I got one that is a doozy, heard it from a fellow soldier who was giving a PMI class shortly after attending SARMAC (?) small arms maintenance and repair, something like that.

    Any ways, according to him, the reason the sights on the M16 are angled upwards is because they are incapable of creating perfectly straight barrels so they have the sights inclined to counter the droop in the barrel.

    This was the same guy, along with one other individual who claimed that the M240B shoots the same round as the AK47. They didn't like it when I flat out told them that they were completely full of shit in front of the rest of the group.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mini4m3 View Post
    What was the myth/legend he was claiming?
    I suppose it was that the platform failed him and his buddies in the 60's, therefore it is a bad platform forever.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rero360 View Post
    They didn't like it when I flat out told them that they were completely full of shit in front of the rest of the group.

    i think you should continue this action until it sets in.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hambone View Post
    Throwin' a wrench in the gears here. New to AR's as my post count shows. I know Bushmaster isn't the epitome of AR snobery: that their bolts and BC's aren't MPI. That they don't stake the the gas key or castle nut. But can't any schmo with a brass or center punch do this himself (I did) and has any BCG from them blown apart from having microscopic cracks in it (Due to not being MP inspected?)

    I know they didn't participate in "The Chart" but some of the precious MFG's and smaller guys weren't involved either.

    My myth for y'all is "Your AR wont reliably cycle Wolf/Steel cased crap"

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    Quote Originally Posted by P2000 View Post
    I suppose it was that the platform failed him and his buddies in the 60's, therefore it is a bad platform forever.
    Ah, gotcha

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    wrong thread
    Last edited by Don Robison; 07-29-11 at 22:45.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hambone View Post
    Thanks. I await some serious rebuttal.. With facts
    7 Posts and ya come in swinging and picking fights?

    Sounds like ya got an inferiority complex and somebody said something that got you all Butt Hurt...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Animal_Mother556 View Post
    "I saw a guy get shot in the chest and it came out of his lower back."
    I know that something like that perpetuates the myth of the round bouncing around in the body or whatever, but if he spent a lot of time in Vietnam, or even some, the above isn't very hard to imagine.

    Am I missing something?

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