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hen joined the Army and was issued my first M-16,

I thought it was the deadliest rifle ever invented.It

was the blackest, most evil looking thing ever. It was pure

badass. I was in love sure, I had jams here and there

but that was due to the dirty blank ammunition, right? I

cleaned my rifle to the point of surgical instrument clean

and lubed it exactingly according to the gospel of my Drill

Sergeants. When I went to fire it with live rounds and

found that I would get an occasional jam. Well, this is

because it was an old rifle used by hundreds of raw

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fter training I went to a unit that had an Armourer

hat believed any jam was a personal insult to him

so he used special tools he got from a jewelers and

polished every internal bearing surface to a mirror finish.

I thought the parts were chromed. I thought that THIS

was how an M-16 was supposed to be like. Perfectly

smooth and slick in every function from trigger pull to

magazine ejection and everything in between. No I

dont remember having any jams with it but then again,

his obsessive compulsive Armourer always insisted upon

checking the rifle and detail stripping and cleaning it

when ever I was on down time. Not just my rifle but

every rifle in the unit. If you did get a jam, he would be

inquiring as to what you did to his rifle! But this guy was

unique and so were his rifles. When I went to a

different unit, the rifle I was given was regular Mil-Spec

and I had jams for the rest of my time in service. I just

hought, well, these are old worn out rifles Not a new

customized rifle like I used to run. I had convinced myself

hat new AR-15s wouldnt jam like this.

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I was very wrong. I found this out the hard way with

he acquisition of a Bushmaster XM-15A2. It ran

flawlessly for the first 20 round box of ammo *sigh*

Slowly, suspicion built. Then suddenly realization hit me

like a truck load of Clue. The AR-15 sucks. Crap, my little

brother was right. I used to argue with my brother about

Rs vs AKs, myself being a full fledged AR-15 Apologist.

But he was right Both rifles use an intermediate

cartridge. Neither are full sized rifle rounds. To debate

he rifle based only on the caliber is wrong. Proof you

can get an AR chambered in .243 but it is still an AR

with all of the normal AR problems. The Design is

critically flawed. Oh, but the AR is so ergonomic!

Ergonomics are a plus but whats the point if the gun

doesnt even go Click!?!

Lets look at some details.

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The AR-15 sucks by design. If you lay out the blue

prints of the rifle you discover that the design is

fundamentally flawed. The design uses tolerances that

are way too tight for a combat weapon. It is ammo

sensitive to the point of being finicky. It uses soft alloy

receivers and is fed from flimsy magazines that are too

weak to operate properly when loaded to full capacity.

hen there is the gas system. The rifle defecates where it

eats thanks to its direct gas impingement system.

Compounding that bad idea, we have the use of a tiny

gas tube and a horrible breach design that is impossible

o clean properly without dental tools and the patience of

a dentist doing a root canal. The gas tube itself can warp

or break from overheating due to sustained firing. I know,

Ive seen it happen and Ive done it myself. When the gas

ube glows brightly at night to the point its lighting your

immediate area this is not good it could go pop any

moment here. If your gas tube had any weakness in it

before its only going to be worse now. If it doesnt

break now it will have a greater likelihood of breaking in

he future.

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The extractor design is puny and weak, but worse

et is the spring loaded ejector. The ejector plunger

can get stuck with the smallest of particles of brass or

copper from the ammunition. A jam from a stuck ejectoris a special kind of jam that double feeds the next round

causing a wedge that prevents further movement of the

action regardless of how hard you try to pull on the bolt

handle. To clear it, you have to drop the magazine (if you

can) and slam the butt furiously against a hard,

unyielding object preferably Eugene Stoners head.

(the designer) Unfortunately when you start slamming the

rifle like this, you can bend the rifle at a couple different

points or you can just break stock. Its a roll of the dice.

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Lets talk about field stripping for a second.At first it

starts out not too badly. Push out a pin and the rifle

breaks open like a shotgun allowing you to pull out the

bolt carrier assembly. Wait, be careful not to lose or

damage that T shaped charging handle it is made out

of relatively soft aluminum compared to the bolt carrier.

fter the bolt carrier is out, you need to disassemble it.

here is a firing pin retaining pin, then the firing pin, then

he big rotating bolt pin Now, you can pull out the bolt.

Dont loose any of those pins, if you do, you are screwed.

Now gotta take that little bolt and drift out the little

extractor pin careful not to let the spring fly. Then there

is the ejector and its little pin and spring.


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Now that you have all of these things taken down clean

hem. While cleaning you will notice that in a great many

hard to reach places you have a black deposit that must

be removed. This is carbon. This is the defecation that I

mentioned earlier. It hits the metal flaming hot and under

pressure. Do you know what heat and pressure does to

carbon? Turns the shit into diamonds thats what it does.

his black carbon is so hard that it has to be scraped off

with a tool. Oops not too hard you dont want to

scratch the parts. You can use your firing pin, but its not

he best tool for it and you dont want to damage the

firing pin that would be a bad thing.

Be certain that you clean out the insides of the bolt

carrier where the gas tube is and the surfaces where the


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firing pin operate. More carbon there and on the firing

pin its self. You can easily go through a dozen or so pipe

cleaners in the bolt and carrier system. Once all the parts

are cleaned and inspected and properly lubed, it can all

be reassembled. All of this might take you about 45

minutes to an hour if you want your rifle to Pass

Inspection. Now there is the rifle its self.

here is the lower receiver and trigger group. More

pipe cleaners and some Q-Tips to get down in there.

fter the lower is done, its time for the upper receiver.

You have the main tube portion that is hard to reach all

he areas in there then the charging handle raceway

which is even more interesting. The gas tube needs to be

cleaning as well. Pipe Cleaners, high pressure solvent

injectors, harsh language all required to clean that.

Once this is done now you are in for a special treat. The

chamber. The AR-15s chamber is shaped like a retarded

star and you have to get behind the lugs in there.

Strange brushes, pipe cleaners, language that would

make a drunk Irishman blush all required to get the


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chamber clean and none of it allow you to get the

chamber perfectly clean.

fter this chamber of tortures, you can now do the barrel

like a normal rifle. There you go. Put it all back together

again and then wipe the whole thing down and your

done. Through the entire process you have let an entire

movie play, eaten some dinner, and drank about 4 and a

half Cold Ones. Your Drill Sergeant would no be proud.

ry doing all this in the field, during bad weather

conditions, stress, hunger, fatigue, the threat of death,

and no Cold Ones not much fun is it? Now remember

his the phrase It functions well if its cleaned properly.

You will hear that a lot about the AR-15. In fact, in

regards to the AR-15, you will ALWAYS hear that. So get

used to it. Youll hear it again. The flaw is the rifles gas

system. Should the gas system be redesigned to use an

operating rod and gas piston to push the bolt carrier back

that would be 75% of the rifles problem, 20% the lack of

a fixed ejector, and the last 5% is the chamber and

locking lugs design that makes it such a chore to clean.

he only plus for the ARs gas impingement system is

hat it has fewer parts. Supposedly, this makes for a

more accurate rifle system than one which utilizes an op

rod like an M-14/M1 Garand or an op rod attached to a


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gas piston like an AK. However, the problem is that

because the hot gasses are blown back into the action,

only certain propellants may be used lest the system

suffers total breakdown due to carbon pollution. This was

he problem which led to way too many U.S. casualties

during the Viet Nam war. Going to the Garand or

Kalashnikov type action will produce a gun which is morerobust and less sensitive to the type of powder in the

ammunition. However, the tradeoff is weight and more

moving parts. Supposedly this means less accuracy.

Funny how the M-21 sniper rifle system uses this type of

action. Go figure. Admittedly the M-21/M-14 is a higher

maintenance gun than the AR, and this is one of the

reasons why ARs are superceding the M-14 in matches.

he other reason is familiarity with the rifle since ARs

are so popular and are the US militarys service rifle,

more people know the AR than they do the M-14.

Not only can the AR jam so easily, but it doesnt even

make a good club.

Im going to catch a lot of flak for this piece The


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R-15 has many advocates and I have just pissed them

all off to the man. Ill get emails about this here are

what they are going to say Well no the first thing that

are going to say is that I dont know what I am talking

about I wasnt enlisted because I dont publish my

unit Well, I dont publish my fucking credit card number

either dumbass. So other than personal attacks (whichI get the most because they cant attack the idea, they

have to attack the man) here are the arguments:

1) The M16 is so accurate!

nswer: Accuracy isnt the number one requirement of an

assault rifle and does you little good if the gun doesnt fire

when the trigger is pulled.

2) It works fine if you clean it!nswer: A service rifle should still work fine even when

ou dont have the time to clean it. Like when people are

shooting at you. If it gets too muddy you should be able

o open the action, piss into it to rinse the mud chunks

out of it, and be back in the fight.

3) Its very light!

nswer: And it breaks! However this very light AR-15 is

no longer light when you add in all the extras that are the

style these days two white lights, vertical fore grip, full

length rail for your short compact optical sights

lasers AM/FM tape deck There is a whole Gun

Industry Sub-Industry revolved around the AR-15. There

are so many accessories the AR is nothing more than a

Black Barbie Doll for Boys. You can dress it up for a night

on the town or a day at the beach in your little pink

convertible its fabulous! By the time your rifle isdressed out like one of the guys from the Blackhawk

Industries ads its no longer very light. It now weighs as

much as an M-249 SAW.

4) Ive fired blah, blah number of rounds through MY AR,

and it works fine.
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nswer. Not while on your belly in the dirt crawling

hrough God knows what. Punching holes through paper

argets at the range is fine the AR-15 is a great little

.223 target rifle. But a fighting rifle it is not. As long as

ou do your part

his is a WEAPON Not a Bench Rest comp-rifle. A

weapon gets used and abused not treated like aFaberge Egg. Doing your part should include pissing

into the action to rinse the mud out of it and not much

more.

You like the AR? Fine.Enlist and try it out where it is

supposed to be used. One thing to think about The AR

was designed back in the 1960s, when people smoked a

lot of pot Not saying that Stoner smoked dope, but it

would explain a few things. Since that time there have

been dozens of different military guns designed all over

he world. The designers of these weapons had the

advantage of being able to look at what else was out

here and pick what they liked the best. So my question

is, over the last forty some odd years, how many new

military rifles have come out using the AR gas system?

(The .308 version of the AR-15 called the SR-25 or AR-

10 doesnt count) How many have come out using apiston? How many have a spring loaded ejector vs. a

fixed ejector? With some form of gas piston or op rod

since the AR: K2, G36, SAR, Valmet, Sako M90, Sig 550,

FNC, Galil, Tavor, AN 94, FARA 98, Aug, INSAS, AR

70/90, AR 18, Stoner 63. Im not sure if it is Singapore or

aiwan who has built a copy of the M16, but it even has a

gas piston! Ive probably forgotten a few as well. Who

else has used direct gas impingement in their designs? Icant think of any at the moment.

The best way to improve the AR-15 is to unscrew

the front sight, and put a new gun under it. - Kevin

McKlung, aka Mad Dog.

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5.56MM is another name for .223 basically. In essence,

its just a big .22 rifle. You can even fire .22 LR through

he AR-15 accurately with an adapter bolt mechanism.

here are those that say that 5.56MM is plenty powerful

enough for combat and even inflict more wound damage

han a 7.62X39MM or even the mighty .308. This is

completely untrue. Just because you saw a graph thatsome guy drew with MS Paint that illustrates a wound

channel in ballistic gel doesnt mean that what you saw

with the truth.

Well under 100 meters No. No it doesnt. The .308

fires a bigger, fatter, heavier bullet with a greater power

charge behind it. The .308 has a greater range do its

remendous ballistic advantage at any range. Muzzle to

1,000 yards out well beyond where a 5.56MM weapon

can effectively engage.

You want to talk power from the ARs hyper velocity?

hen how come police tactical units are using 5.56MM

weapons because of the reduced risk of over

penetration?

ust about any .308 load (WARNING: Graphic

Exaggeration Ahead!) will blow a big enough hole

hrough a person to toss a cat through, so dont even go

here about 5.56MM ballistics. Especially when your

alking about the shorter 16 inch barreled versions of the

R. When you shorten the barrel of a rifle, your reducing

its velocity and the only thing the M-16 has going for it is

elocity. After chopping it down, your velocity is now just

average. Lets be quite frank there are some .22LR

loads that can almost catch up to it.

FACT: AR-15/M-16 based rifles SUCK. The Army has

done its damnedest to make people think they dont

but lets not take my word for it lets take it straight from

he horses mouth. Read THIS. If the AR is so great, how

come they have been trying to replace it? Why has the
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Special Forces just awarded a contract to FN for their

new SCAR rifle? Why? Ive told you why. Ive yet to get

an email from a real combat veteran who has seen more

han a single instance of action who thinks the AR-15/M-

16 family of rifles is a good weapon. Even when I was in,

here were XM-X or some designation rifle trials to

include new variants of the M-16, one of which was theflat top, and apparently that won Even though it was

still the lowest scoring rifle in the mix according to the

grunts they let play with them. Reading this article, you

find a nice little phrase about using an operating rod to

improve the reliability because like I have said, it self

pollutes. It shits on its own dinner plate. I like the XM-8,

but Id like it better if it was in .300 Whisper.

PS:

I wrote this piece a long time ago It has garnered me

more flak than anything else I have ever written. It is

linked to many discussion forums all over the net where

people who disagree with my opinion elect to voice it

hrough personal insults and asking questions to their

forum but not to me. Thats fine. I dont consider myself

o be taken to task by zit faced, roll-playing, counter-

strike addicted pussies.

hat REAL SOLDIERS have to say about the M-4/M-16:

3rd ID soldier: I know it fires very well and accurate

when] clean. But sometimes it needs to fire dirty well

too.

25th Infantry Division soldier: The M4 Weapon in the

deserts of Iraq and Afghanistan was quick to malfunction

when a little sand got in the weapon. Trying to keep it

clean, sand free was impossible while on patrols or

firefights.

82nd Airborne Division soldier: The M4 is overall an

excellent weapon, however the flaw of its sensitivity to dirt


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and powder residue needs to be corrected. True to fact,

cleaning will help. Daily assigned tasks, and nonregular

hours in tactical situations do not always warrant the

necessary time required for effective cleaning.

75th Ranger Regiment member, SOCOM: Even with the

dust cover closed and magazine in the well, sand gets all

inside on and around the bolt. It still fires, but after a

while the sand works its way all through the gun and jams

start.

he 507th Maintenance Company, ambushed outside

Nasariyah in 2003 during the opening days of the ground

invasion of Iraq, might concur with all of the above. The

post-incident report released by the US Army had this to

say:

Dusty, desert conditions do require vigilance in weapons

maintenance However, it is imperative to remember

that at the time of the attack, the 507th had spent more

than two days on the move, with little rest and time to

conduct vehicle repair and recovery operations.

he last word will be left to SOCOMs Major Chaz

Bowser:

We buy new laptop computers every few years across

the gamut, so couldnt we do the same with our single

most important piece of military equipment? . Waiting

for a leap-ahead technology based on a kinetic energy

weapon platform is a waste of time and money, so we

need to look at what is out there now. What the Army

needs is a weapon that is now ready for prime-time and

not a developmental system. The requirement comes

from the field, not from an office in some garrison activity,

not from some consultant and definitely not from a

vendor.

Lets do this quickly without all the bureaucracy typically

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The Declaration ofIndependance

The Broken World

Tags: AR-15 Guns M-16 Rifle Shooting

can make a decision who hasnt floated a retirement

resume with a gun company and make the decision

now. Just look how fast we were all issued the highly

coveted black beret or the digital uniform. Find that

recipe card, change out the word Velcro with battle rifle

and that may be a start to finding a solution [DID: which,

he acknowledges, could be Colt's M4 if that's what the

competition shows]. Our men and women deserve much

better than we are giving them, and shame on us.

25 comments for Why I hate

the M-16/AR-15 Rifle

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Muhr02/07/2011 at 1:00 am

No matter what year it is, or how many

times you do it, shooting a hornets

nest with a pellet gun is fun.

Mattitude02/07/2011 at 10:11 am

Counter Strikewow, that really dates

this piece. Does anyone even own this

game anymore? George, I dont know

why you even bring this up again
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Reply

considering ARs are Crusaders bread

& butter. This horse needs to be 6 feet

under.

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Ogre02/07/2011 at 11:57 am

This was written, what? 8

years ago or more now?

Why bring it up? Well, thats a

good question. I guess it goes

to show the faith that I put into

Crusaders guns. Their

reliability is above anything

else Ive seen in other ARs.

You see, with the other guys

ARs its all about whats ON

the AR. With Crusader, you

put on whatever you want

but Crusader is all about

whats IN the AR. There is a

fundamentally huge

difference. This is why a

Crusader is better. I wouldnt

have been a part of Crusader

if it was any less.

Kristopher02/07/2011 at 12:16 pm

Still true today. Crusader is

just selling what its
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customers want.

I have three ARs ( a DCM

rifle, a Cavarms plastic in

6.8 SPC, and a lower

dedicated to a .50 BMG

upper ) but the

emergency rifle I keep

loaded and hanging from

coathook is an AK that I

built from a Romy parts kit

for under $200.

I know that regardless of

what else happens, that AK

will shoot.

My truck gun, which takes

even more abuse, is a

Mosin Nagant carbine

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Zach02/07/2011 at 10:21 am

Let the poo storm commence.

Ogre02/07/2011 at 12:07 pm

Worse than it has been for the

last many years? It goes in

cycles some times I hear

nothing about it, then suddenly
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I get a bunch of emails about

it. Some from You Dont Know

Nothing types, and others

from professional soldiers and

contractors who serve in front

line, point of the spear units,

who know what makes a goodfighting weapon and those

guys generally all say that the

M-16 isnt it. Quite simply, if it

was all that, then why would

SOCOM have bothered with

the FN SCAR?

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Kristopher02/07/2011 at 12:03 pm

The only other rifle I c an think of that

uses gas impingement is the French

MAS-49.

Clint02/07/2011 at 12:25 pm

I enjoyed this article long ago, and

again nowhowever I dont see value

in saying Crusaders are the only ARs

which focus on whats inside. IMHO

you would be better off claiming status

among other premium quality brands

like Colt, BCM, and Noveskeunless

you are tweaking the platform ala
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KAC

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Mattitude

02/07/2011 at 12:50 pm

Kristopher, you can add the FN49,

Swede Ljungman (sp.), Egyptian

Hakim & Rashid to the list of DI rifles

but they are all mid-century designs.

Nothing wrong with an AR for 95% of

the shooting population, but for people

whos lives depend on itwell I would

think they are the experts on what is

best for them instead of someone

pretty much dropping whatever in thier

laps and telling them to have at it.

George, trust me when I say that I

believe in Crusader but I just dont

want this to turn into a contridiction or

something that is thrown up in your

face and forcing you to explainyourself. I just dont want to see this

affect Crusaders business in any type

of negative way.

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Mamba 1-002/07/2011 at 3:55 pm

Not the FN-49 unless they

stuck that operating rod/piston in

there just to add weight or fill

empty space.
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Kristopher02/08/2011 at 12:58 am

OK and the other two are

just Ljungman knockoffs.

So you have just two other

direct impingement rifles, a

french, and a swede ( +

copies ), all of which were

abandoned after a decade

or so.

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Mattitude02/07/2011 at 6:14 pm

Okscratch the 49, you got me on

that one.

Mister_V02/07/2011 at 6:46 pm

Amen. I went through basic training

late 2008 and was not pleased by what

I saw. The rifles we were trained onwere so carbon fouled that they had all

but given up on keeping them clean.

The procedure we were taught was to

douse the insides in CLP and use the

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carbon off the bolt as possible, which

wasnt much. It works if you keep it

clean? Thats fine until you realize that

a complete GI cleaning kit is a mythical

creature on the order of bigfoot,

except that some people claim to have

actually seen bigfoot. My flight had tomix and match to have functional kits

for even half of us and cleaning

brushes worn down to olive drab

tongue depressors were the norm. I

would have no confidence in this

weapon if I were issued one and, in my

opinion, the sooner we replace it the

better.

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Jesse Henry02/27/2011 at 3:38 am

I got out of the army in 1970. This was

well known, even then. What politicshas kept the thing going all this time?

Ive forgotten the numbers so Ill make

them up: In the late 60s, an AK cost

about $40.00. An M16 cost $850.00.

Who got all the graft? The M16s

persistence must have a political

explanation. Has any book attempted

to explain it?

Ogre02/27/2011 at 10:10 am
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An AK is also a dirt simple rifle

designed to be made with

simple tools. The AR, not so

much. Its complicated and

requires special tooling to

manufacture. The American

Way is to go with the moreexpensive weapon system.

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Ted06/30/2011 at 6:37 am

Dump the M-16!!! its high time it went

away. There are many other guns

better than it for cheaper. You shound

never have to clean a gun every ten

mins, and the 16 fails in that. I have a

Valmet M76, 1000rds in it, no cleaned

yet, works with reloads, any bullet

type.

Ogre06/30/2011 at 5:15 pm

I used think the same way In

fact, I wrote the Why I hatethe M-16/AR-15 article that

became the bible for AR

Haters.

But you know, my Crusader

tweaked Rock River has never

ever jammed on me. And
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Ive not cleaned it in over 3000

rounds not since Spring of

2010.

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deeg08/24/2011 at 9:08 pm

thank you! i have used this article to

win many debates on this subject lol

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Sharp09/06/2011 at 7:20 am

I also own a Rock River AR. Ive been

lazy lately and havent properly

cleaned it in over 1,000 rounds. Never

has it jammed. I shoot mostly budget

range ammo, too.. Amreican Eagle,and even some steel cased Russian

stuff.

HCross09/18/2011 at 5:44 pm

Tell it like it is Brother. Im right there

with you and have been for years. My

SHTF gun is an M14 and if I need

something really accurate Ill use my

M24.


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Semper Fi

SSGT Ret.

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Ben Lacasse10/03/2011 at 1:02 pm

When are you gonna write an article

like this about the M9

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Enzo10/19/2011 at 10:16 pm

Ive been saying this since my Army

days. I love it how AR people get an

AR and then say I went out and shot

200 rounds and didnt have any jams.

WTF? Did you expect some jams after

only 200 rounds? If it cant fire 200

rounds without a jam it is a piece of

shit.

David09/20/2013 at 4:33 pm

I agree with you the design is flawed

and they have been issuing the AR for

way too long with no significant

alterations. One thing I have heard is

that the ORIGINAL 5.56mm cartridge

powder for the AR burned very clean

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Then Du-Pont came and made a

powder that was cheaper but burned

poorly with lots of carbon build-up. Just

something to think about as far as why

Eugene Stone designed some of the

parts the way he did. However aside

from that there were still design flaws.

With so many different guns to choose

from I think Its time the Military lay the

AR aside. Like you said

[paraphrasing] a dolled up AR doesnt

do you good if it wont fire!

Joe11/22/2013 at 2:42 am

As a combat vet Marine Infantryman

that has fired thousands of rounds

through the M-16 family of weapons I

can honestly say that I disagree with

much of what was written in this article.I know for a fact that Marines in WW2

had their issued weapons jam. And

yes so do current issued Firearms.

The problem is mostly due to:

A. Bad magazines

B. Bad ammo

C. Worn out springs

An AK with the above 3 listed factors

can and wilp jam. Ive seen it.

There are however undoubtably better

systems. The ARAK21, the TAR21 and

X95 Tavor immediately come to mind.

Before I deployed with 1/5 to

Afghanistan I made sure that all of my

fireteams weapons had:
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Good mags, good springs, and new

extractors. We did fine.

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MadOgre11/22/2013 at 8:47 am

You sound like a much

younger infantryman The

Platform has improved

greately from the time this was

first written. Since that time

was a half owner in a

company that made AR-15

type rifles. I now own one

particular AR that has had a

stellar record of reliability.
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