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I didnt say you couldnt shoot thousands of rounds without lube.....like Chris Rock said...."you can drive a car with your feet if you want to....that doesnt make it a good F'ing idea". Thanks For the link though....I guess I was hoping on more input from users instead of people arguing back and forth about metallurgy and car parts, and internet studies, and how bitchinn their chrome BCG's work, and how the manufacturer's site says this....so it must be true. I was interested more for ease of cleaning....and stated that that would make it worth the extra 100 bucks to me if it was true. For whatever reason my search function only allowed me to search the last 30 days...and it didnt turn anything up on the subject.....so sorry if i dug up a dead horse
eh, like i said, you can run it for thousands for rounds with out lube... no ill effects. the NiB is basically ambivalent to lube or not. Itll work the same either way.
and yes, cleaning is a snap. I regularly run a few hundred rounds of silver bear through and then wipe it down with a paper towel and its clean. No scraping or soaking in brake cleaner or whatever. Although a quick spray with brake cleaner does the same thing... just washes right off.
So yeah, if cleaning is your main concern, buy it.
Phosphate ones aren't hard to clean in the first place, but cleaning my NiB BCG is a snap.
I have the coated upper receiver too, cleaning is just as easy. Plan on someday getting one of their barrel extensions as well, just for the cleaning ease.