I love that old BS line about needing to constantly clean the AR because it "craps where it eats". Nonsense. I'll skip rehashing the long arguments that everyone who cares has already heard and just say that I'm an incredibly lazy gun owner. I clean most of my rifles every couple of trips to the range, and by "clean" I mean run a bore snake through it twice and wipe off whatever I can reach without disassembly. My ARs all run like Swiss watches. As an experiment I allowed one of my ARs (a lightweight build which I run 3-gun and other matches with) go all season without any real cleaning. In fairness, this unit has a nickel boron coated BCG. Over 2,000 rounds later it was doing just fine. I finally gave it a good cleaning because I was in a wet, muddy match and everything I owned was a soaked and gritty mess. Even I couldn't justify putting a rifle away like that.
July 8, 2015 at 5:12 AM
Anonymous said...
Anyone who wants to be shot with 5.56 please raise your hands!
July 8, 2015 at 11:09 AM
Anonymous said...
Must run rifle wet. If not, change to gas piston. Problem solved, next.
July 8, 2015 at 11:34 AM
Anonymous said...
Mark lll - won't confirm nor deny your experience, suffice it to say lots of those alleged problems due to not cleaning were early field models............ Anon @ 1109, perhaps you should have said anyone who wants to be shot raise your hands. I'm certainly not volunteering - for any caliber. Which brings me to: not being a reloader, is there a significant difference between the 7.62X35 (.300 Blackout apparently) and 7/62X39? Evidently there must be since the former seems to be a more preferred round than that rooshun one...........Mile, perhaps you should have someone do an article on the pros and cons, might make a difference in choice for prospective buyers, especially due to the latter round being much easier to acquire.
July 8, 2015 at 12:51 PM
Anonymous said...
If you are going to cuss McNamara, cuss MacArthur while you’re at it. If he hadn’t insisted on the M1 being re-chambered to 30-’06 because of his precious stocks of ammunition (which were depleted within 6 weeks to 6 months in 1942, depending on how you count), .276 Pedersen would be THE American cartridge, even today. The M1 would have been lighter, even with two more bangs in the en bloc, and easier for all sizes of GIs to manage. The M14 would have hung on a lot longer, and the move to a lightweight rifle in the 60’s would have kept the .276.
July 8, 2015 at 6:10 PM
Anonymous said...
4120 rounds thru an AR and has not YET been cleaned other than a wipe down and punch the bore...the secret to running an AR is keep it hot and wet...like a 17 year old cheerleader after homecoming...it'll keep on running like a timex...
"Dutch special forces to buy carbines chambered in 300 BLK. Robert McNamara is still dead (but the 5.56 goes marching on)."
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I love that old BS line about needing to constantly clean the AR because it "craps where it eats". Nonsense. I'll skip rehashing the long arguments that everyone who cares has already heard and just say that I'm an incredibly lazy gun owner. I clean most of my rifles every couple of trips to the range, and by "clean" I mean run a bore snake through it twice and wipe off whatever I can reach without disassembly. My ARs all run like Swiss watches. As an experiment I allowed one of my ARs (a lightweight build which I run 3-gun and other matches with) go all season without any real cleaning. In fairness, this unit has a nickel boron coated BCG. Over 2,000 rounds later it was doing just fine. I finally gave it a good cleaning because I was in a wet, muddy match and everything I owned was a soaked and gritty mess. Even I couldn't justify putting a rifle away like that.
July 8, 2015 at 5:12 AM
Anyone who wants to be shot with 5.56 please raise your hands!
July 8, 2015 at 11:09 AM
Must run rifle wet. If not, change to gas piston. Problem solved, next.
July 8, 2015 at 11:34 AM
Mark lll - won't confirm nor deny your experience, suffice it to say lots of those alleged problems due to not cleaning were early field models............
Anon @ 1109, perhaps you should have said anyone who wants to be shot raise your hands. I'm certainly not volunteering - for any caliber.
Which brings me to: not being a reloader, is there a significant difference between the 7.62X35 (.300 Blackout apparently) and 7/62X39? Evidently there must be since the former seems to be a more preferred round than that rooshun one...........Mile, perhaps you should have someone do an article on the pros and cons, might make a difference in choice for prospective buyers, especially due to the latter round being much easier to acquire.
July 8, 2015 at 12:51 PM
If you are going to cuss McNamara, cuss MacArthur while you’re at it. If he hadn’t insisted on the M1 being re-chambered to 30-’06 because of his precious stocks of ammunition (which were depleted within 6 weeks to 6 months in 1942, depending on how you count), .276 Pedersen would be THE American cartridge, even today. The M1 would have been lighter, even with two more bangs in the en bloc, and easier for all sizes of GIs to manage. The M14 would have hung on a lot longer, and the move to a lightweight rifle in the 60’s would have kept the .276.
July 8, 2015 at 6:10 PM
4120 rounds thru an AR and has not YET been cleaned other than a wipe down and punch the bore...the secret to running an AR is keep it hot and wet...like a 17 year old cheerleader after homecoming...it'll keep on running like a timex...
July 9, 2015 at 2:41 PM