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Posted: 2/18/2006 4:04:46 PM EDT
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If that is the case then ever weapons course and certification I attended for over 21 years in military is teaching it wrong...because without a doubt there are a few things they pound into your head. 1) cotter pin can only go in one way and must be below surface of carrier 2) Must scrape carbon off bolt and clean gas tube on carrier 3) make sure the slots in gas rings are not aligned or you may not get complete cycle with gas leaking 4) make damn sure the charging handle is all teh way forward and snapped into place before firing or you might tear your cheek open when it cycles. Now tell me what other lies I was fed for all those years? |
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Brock, he's right. Take off all but one gas ring and go shoot. I bet it works. I don't think the Colt guys would be teaching that in the armorer course unless it were true. Perhaps the military has carried on the tradition since the early failures of the rifle. I remember getting that line of bull when I was in as well, but that doesn't make it true, just perpetuated. |
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yep....that is why I am asking...what other traditions and urban legends are still being taught that are no longer valid. Maybe it was to teach attention to detail and make sure the troop was breaking down their weapon and checking it out...LOL Oh well...I will still misalign mine on purpose...old habits die harder than myth....LMAO |
| I had always bought into the doctrine of aligning the rings, it made sense at the time. In the last couple Colt M16/AR-15 armorer classes it was explained to me. I often doubt what I'm told until I try it for myself, so I tried lining up the rings and it still worked. But guess what, I still stagger them after cleaning. It's just habit and it can't hurt anything. |
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yep, i always wondered about it but did not want to risk checking it on the range qualifying or in the field under fire....so I figured it definately wont hurt to turn them so why test fate?! LOL I am going to do it with my own when she arrives just to thumb my nose at the first weapons instructor that made me lay in pea gravel in the rain because I thought I shot well enough and did not want to do what he told me...LOL |
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