ive got a $130 Plumcrazy Lower, and a $400 Rock River upper. a whole bunch of the GI issue OKAY mags. works flawless.
been reliable for over 2000 rounds.
been reliable for over 2000 rounds.
Sounds good, but "reliable" is a nebulous word and is damn near useless.
"Reliable" means one thing to a guy who shoots a couple hundred rounds a year on a flat paper target range, it means something else to a guy who shoots 500 rounds a day on a dynamic shooting range, and altogether something different to a guy who straps on 300+ rounds, with more in the truck, and heads towards the sound of the guns in a strange land.
Sure, a $510 AR might run...but will it run when you take it up to it's sustained rate of fire, keep it there for a long period of time, get it hot, dirty, bang it around, and still keep slamming mags in it?
If you don't need to do any of that, then it can still be 'reliable' for you, but not across the full spectrum of possible use.
So, what is your sustained rate of fire and time qualification that all guns must pass to attain the reliabilty status?
GTG posted it for the M4. It's not my standard, it's Milspec and it isn't uniform across all types of guns. Know your equipment.
For my piece of mind, reliability for an M4/M16 type is not blasting off a couple mags at the range and putting it back in the safe every other weekend. If that works for a given user, cool, but it isn't enough to bestow the "reliable" tag to an entire brand or type of rifle and advise others that said rifle is "reliable".
GTG posted it for the M4. It's not my standard, it's Milspec and it isn't uniform across all types of guns. Know your equipment.
For my piece of mind, reliability for an M4/M16 type is not blasting off a couple mags at the range and putting it back in the safe every other weekend. If that works for a given user, cool, but it isn't enough to bestow the "reliable" tag to an entire brand or type of rifle and advise others that said rifle is "reliable".
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