I was issued a "just as good" Bushmaster in 2008. Our 40 hour certification course was several thousand rounds. We also shoot roughly 1000 rounds a year during our quarterly training/qual days.
My Bushmaster broke several times. Springs and actual parts in the trigger group died. It also ate gas rings every 1500 rounds or so. It had a tight chamber and would pop primers on hot high round count days when we were using actual M193.
I never had to actually shoot that gun in a real world event, but I religiously trained handgun transitions when I carried that rifle.
My rifle wasn't the only one with that issue either
Pretty much all of them exhibited problems when pushed hard. So much so that the department traded them out for Colts after 4 years at a large loss. The Colt I got was great for over 10 years and 14k rounds. We recently switched the 11.5 DD rifles with suppressors.
C co 1/30th Infantry Regiment
3rd Brigade 3rd Infantry Division
2002-2006
OIF 1 and 3
IraqGunz:
No dude is going to get shot in the chest at 300 yards and look down and say "What is that, a 3 MOA group?"
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