Alright, time to get real.
I literally went through all of my AR pistols,Carbines, rifles, parts bins and yanked every carrier key, extractor/spring/pin, firing pin, gas ring I had and rebuilt them all whether they needed it or not. I know for a fact that the Colt and Daniel Defense stuff was probably just fine but way back in my mind I thought "what if it's not? How many rounds do I have on that extractor?".
This was no small feat and it wasn't cheap I used FCD gas key bolts, Colt gas keys, DD extractors, Sprinco springs, etc(22 BCGs in all) and my rational mind says this was a pointless and expensive sperg moment but I couldn't help myself. I have a decent collection for my family and myself and plenty of spares but I just couldn't let it go. It literally got me up from a sound sleep and had me online ordering parts a week ago and checking tracking numbers twice a day until I had all the parts sitting on my table so I could do this and now I'm actually thinking about unloading and stripping down over 200 loaded magazines and putting new springs and the latest followers in them because I know there's probably at least 2 sheety black ones hiding in there that I missed however many years ago.
I haven't had a weapon or magazine related malfunction for all of 2021 but I only got to shoot about 4k total for the year because of this friggin kung-flu nonsense but still I'm not seeing any particular moment that inspired this dicey behavior and I'm a little weirded out.
I'm not an uptight guy, I leave guns dirty, I'll hose down a new Noveske with So-Sure in a nanosecond, I'll even eat roadside horsemeat tacos south of I10.
This is new territory for me, am I okay?
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