Posted: 3/7/2011 9:13:46 PM EDT
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Forward assist broke locking up the bolt carrier group.
It is the little tiny roll pin that holds the lever that little lever in place that pushes the bolt carrier forward. Pin sheared right off, lever came loose locking the bolt carrier group up. 
I will call Bravo and see if they can send another one of the little pins out. Never had this happen before. For now I took the forward assist out of a backup rifle and put it in my bravo upper. |
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Uh...that is a Forward assist failure, not an upper failure...
The forward assists is a useless item, and we'll see 1-3 a year go down. The problem is the pawl pin can drop into the lower receiver and glom up the works. We stopped teaching the use of the forward assit prior to Desert Storm. There is absolutely no reason for it to be there, except that it is required by the mil spec |
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Uh...that is a Forward assist failure, not an upper failure... The forward assists is a useless item, and we'll see 1-3 a year go down. The problem is the pawl pin can drop into the lower receiver and glom up the works. We stopped teaching the use of the forward assit prior to Desert Storm. There is absolutely no reason for it to be there, except that it is required by the mil spec It is in the upper I ordered, therefore it was the upper that failed. If it would have been a tragic ejection port cover failure, it still would have been the upper that failed. I heard of that happening, an ejection port cover coming loose. Scary stuff. I was sad. Depressed. You do not know man, you were probably in your happy little world smearing vagisil on your bolt carrier group, or putting 40,000 rounds through your upper without problems, but for me it was real. I was sitting in my office doing a function check when my bolt carrier group was stuck in about the half way back position. It was jammed. If zombies attacked that minute, I might have to use my pistol instead of my Über sweet Bravo rifle. Thinking quickly I did a tactical roll out of my office chair right. Why right instead of left? Because if I went left I would have to use my tactical Stanley FUBAR to hack through the wall and I would end up at Lowe's buying drywall (again). So I rolled right, and went into the other room where I had laid out a backup AR-15. I retrieved it and ran back to the office. Why did I not low crawl? Because low crawling is good if maybe you are getting shot at, but with zombies, you just want to get to your next position. Obviously I made it back to the office safely because I am typing this. So, I did. I pulled the forward assist out of my backup rifle and put it into my #1 rifle. It was that real, man, that real. Know what else? I e-mailed Bravo and in a few hours they had a replacement part shipped out to me. I do not know if they tactical roll right in the service department, but it sure seems like it. Good people. I am glad they like America. North Korea can lick it. I think the forward assist is mostly useless. I got into a heated debate a few years ago with someone here who was convinced it is not a weapon without the forward assist. I am talking the guy was maroon to think it is not a weapon without a forward assist. Can you believe some of the stuff that used to fly around here? . I do thank you, sir, Mr. Pat Rogers, for one special thing- convincing the world it is OK to lube your M-16/ AR-15. Good article. I liked reading it. Thank you Bravo Company! |
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Uh...that is a Forward assist failure, not an upper failure... The forward assists is a useless item, and we'll see 1-3 a year go down. The problem is the pawl pin can drop into the lower receiver and glom up the works. We stopped teaching the use of the forward assit prior to Desert Storm. There is absolutely no reason for it to be there, except that it is required by the mil spec It is in the upper I ordered, therefore it was the upper that failed. If it would have been a tragic ejection port cover failure, it still would have been the upper that failed. I heard of that happening, an ejection port cover coming loose. Scary stuff. I was sad. Depressed. You do not know man, you were probably in your happy little world smearing vagisil on your bolt carrier group, or putting 40,000 rounds through your upper without problems, but for me it was real. I was sitting in my office doing a function check when my bolt carrier group was stuck in about the half way back position. It was jammed. If zombies attacked that minute, I might have to use my pistol instead of my Über sweet Bravo rifle. Thinking quickly I did a tactical roll out of my office chair right. Why right instead of left? Because if I went left I would have to use my tactical Stanley FUBAR to hack through the wall and I would end up at Lowe's buying drywall (again). So I rolled right, and went into the other room where I had laid out a backup AR-15. I retrieved it and ran back to the office. Why did I not low crawl? Because low crawling is good if maybe you are getting shot at, but with zombies, you just want to get to your next position. Obviously I made it back to the office safely because I am typing this. So, I did. I pulled the forward assist out of my backup rifle and put it into my #1 rifle. It was that real, man, that real. Know what else? I e-mailed Bravo and in a few hours they had a replacement part shipped out to me. I do not know if they tactical roll right in the service department, but it sure seems like it. Good people. I am glad they like America. North Korea can lick it. I think the forward assist is mostly useless. I got into a heated debate a few years ago with someone here who was convinced it is not a weapon without the forward assist. I am talking the guy was maroon to think it is not a weapon without a forward assist. Can you believe some of the stuff that used to fly around here? . I do thank you, sir, Mr. Pat Rogers, for one special thing- convincing the world it is OK to lube your M-16/ AR-15. Good article. I liked reading it. Thank you Bravo Company! Holy Crap!!!!! LMAO!!!!!  
tfod FTW! |
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They shipped it, and even e-mailed me to let me know it shipped - suck off North Korea.
I do not know if my postman still tactical rolls right, so it could be a couple days. I think she used to because she is smoking hot. You ever have a smoking hot tactical female postman? I do. One time I ordered some stuff from another vendor, two day shipping. Came from Michigan, which is like way far away. Two days later, it was about 9am and raining hard. I am talking like lots of rain where UPS shows up in a brown boat, heavy rain. Do you think come 9am in the thick of the storm was my tactical hot female postman with my upper receiver? Nope. It was a substitute tactical female postman. I am not sure how hot, but she had my stuff. That is what was cool, you know? |
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My postman is a pussy. Whenever I get Priority Mail and he hears my dogs go nuts when he rings the bell, he cowers and puts the package on the ground. Before I can open the security door, he asks if he can just leave it and does a tactical white flag frenchie surrender roll left while backpeddling to the Jeep. Dude must be a force-on-force airsofter faggot.
I need a hot female mailman that will pet my dogs and deliver my shizzle at 9am in a torrential downpour. |
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My postman is a pussy. Whenever I get Priority Mail and he hears my dogs go nuts when he rings the bell, he cowers and puts the package on the ground. Before I can open the security door, he asks if he can just leave it and does a tactical white flag frenchie surrender roll left while backpeddling to the Jeep. Dude must be a force-on-force airsofter faggot. I need a hot female mailman that will pet my dogs and deliver my shizzle at 9am in a torrential downpour. Wow dude, I am sorry your postman is a douche. He needs to take more classes. If he took classes, he would become a super bad ass more than a man, but less than a really butch lesbian with a broken pool cue warrior queen. Seriously, you can just go take classes and instantly become like super bad ass you will think you bathed in AXE spray on deodorant bad asses. I can put him in touch with some training. We can break him of the force on force airsoft, but it will take a lot of time and effort unless he just goes and takes a class. I know the greatest instructor ever. He trained the people who guard the people who guard the people who used to be penpals with someone who went to school with a guy who knew Rachel Aliene Corrie and a PLO terrorist named Jimmy. That is right, this dude trained some pro-Palestinian terrorist whack jobs. His style is for real, although in fairness, it is obviously lacking when it comes to anti-bulldozer tactics. If that is not certs, then you are looking for breathmints, you know? So we put your mailman into the classes, and all of a sudden he becomes a super bad ass and you can have your Bravo products handed to you, because I am telling you, this stuff is awesome. Two dudes I know so loved my rifle they made ones just like it. We called them the twins and now the triplets. I am loving it. Bravo For the Win!!!!! Seriously, I love the triplets. want me to send you pics? |
Dear Bravo, Thank you for sending the pin, also thank you for all the schwag in the box too! As you can tell, supplies are low. We are almost out of whiskey. We had to fix bayonets. This may be our last stand unless we lower our standards and drink the Jack Daniel's. Substitute postal carrier brought the supplies, not worth posting pics. Thank you, Bravo Company!!!!!!!! |