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<blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 3781026" data-attributes="member: 5412"><p>Most of the reliability issues with the M-16 comes from its issue with the military in the 60's when they were not issued with cleaning kits and the powder was changed from the stick powder the rifle was designed to fire with to a ball powder that changed the cyclic rate of the automatic weapon among buffer weight issues, and do on.</p><p>Rifles would only fire about 1000 rounds before the BCG would be covered in a sticky mess, failing to function after that. A lot of Americans lost their lives doing a field strip clean during a firefight. The issue was solved with cleaning kits, training, and new ammo issued.</p><p></p><p>The congressional committee that went to Vietnam to investigate the M16 failures tragically discovered that a Marine was killed in combat because he was the only member of his squad with a cleaning rod obtained by writing home to his family and requesting a cleaning kit.</p><p>He died running up and down the line while using his cleaning rod to unjam his fellow Marines’ rifles.</p><p>Vets came back with a distrust of anything in that platform although later in the war, the rifle was proven reliable.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://archive.org/details/M16IchordReport1/M16%20Ichord%20Report%201/[/URL]</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.pewpewtactical.com/m16-vietnam-failure/[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dennishoddy, post: 3781026, member: 5412"] Most of the reliability issues with the M-16 comes from its issue with the military in the 60's when they were not issued with cleaning kits and the powder was changed from the stick powder the rifle was designed to fire with to a ball powder that changed the cyclic rate of the automatic weapon among buffer weight issues, and do on. Rifles would only fire about 1000 rounds before the BCG would be covered in a sticky mess, failing to function after that. A lot of Americans lost their lives doing a field strip clean during a firefight. The issue was solved with cleaning kits, training, and new ammo issued. The congressional committee that went to Vietnam to investigate the M16 failures tragically discovered that a Marine was killed in combat because he was the only member of his squad with a cleaning rod obtained by writing home to his family and requesting a cleaning kit. He died running up and down the line while using his cleaning rod to unjam his fellow Marines’ rifles. Vets came back with a distrust of anything in that platform although later in the war, the rifle was proven reliable. [URL unfurl="true"]https://archive.org/details/M16IchordReport1/M16%20Ichord%20Report%201/[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.pewpewtactical.com/m16-vietnam-failure/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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