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Posted: 7/24/2004 3:52:26 PM EDT
What is a good way to quiet the buffer spring on a M4 or CAR stock? I saw on here that someone said to "overlubricate" it with grease, that will help with the wear & tear on the buffer tube and it will quiet the spring considerbly. I let a AR newbie shoot one of my M4geries and he told me that because of the noise from the buffer spring when fired, he thought it sounded like some kind of Mattel toy gun and therfore he did'nt like it and was not impressed at all.  ( Jackass!) That was his first time firing a AR (and the last time he fires mine) 
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This question comes up a lot. The best thing I can say is that a Tubb CS buffer spring will reduce the 'sproing' noise. I wouldn't 'overlube' the spring, all that lube is unnecessary and will only attract dirt and gunk. The best thing to do is live with it. I don't even notice the spring noise anymore. |
If you were just using your rifle for competition it might not cause a problem. Since the sproing won't hurt anything I don't see the benefit of greasing the spring. If for some reason you needed to use the rifle for more then just competition, the grease will attract dirt and cause more problems then the noise would. |
| I use Tetra grease on my buffer spring and clean the spring and add fresh grease every few hundred rounds or whenever I get a chance. If it was after over 1000 rounds I would not worry I just do it when I get bored. It has NEVER caused a malfunction nor do I see how it possibly could. It is 100% OK to do this in my opinion. Just use enough grease to make the grating noise of the spring when charging and the "sproing" sound go away and you will have no reliability issues despite what many of the arm chair commandos like to "imagine" will cause reliablity problems in thier theoretical reality which exists in cyberspace and not in the real world. |
| looks like we're in the minority devl member.....but then again i used grease on m14's, m3a1,mp5k, etc...LSA and CLP attracted more sand and grit than the grease did... survived ft bragg sand and texas creeping dust....just cant see spending money to make the buffer quiet when army issued gun grease works fine for me.... |
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