Another jaw-dropping meltdown video, this time of an entry-level AR-15 upper receiver. Posted on 08/16/2017 6:00:14 AM PDT by w1n1
Another jaw-dropping meltdown video, this time of an entry-level AR-15 upper receiver.
The guys over at IraqVeteran8888 have, hands down, one of the most entertaining YouTube channels on the Internet. With great reviews, the always laughable "We'll Shoot Your Stuff" series, and educational videos, IraqVeteran8888 has some truly fantastic content.
However, the videos that never fail to please are the "Meltdown" series. The recipe? Take one gun everyone loves. Add a fully-automatic capability. Stir in a ridiculous amount of loaded magazines and drums. Shoot the bejeezus out of the gun that everyone loves until it fails, hopefully while catching fire in the process.
For the guys out there who are wondering how a PSA AR-15 M4-pattern el cheapo upper receiver stands up to a torrent of full-auto love: sit back, grab your popcorn, and thoroughly enjoy this delirious deluge of delightful AR-15 destruction.
I'll admit, I didn’t think the inexpensive upper would stand up as well as it did. See the cheap AR-15 meltdown footage here
Who knew that the gas tube would be the first to go on an AR?
Actually I was impressed that the rifle did as well as it did for the money. For a normal shooter this is a pretty good bargain......I would not go to war with it!!!!
It’s not made to shoot full auto.
It's only marginally entertaining.
BTW, halfway through the vid he had already fired more rounds than I have fired in any of my ARs.
440 rounds to failure. It bears mention that a grunt’s “basic load” is one in the well and six in the vest, 210 rounds total. I don’t think this sort of display is pointless because there’s still a lot of gun “experts” with their minds in a 1960s time warp who won’t hesitate to tell you what a POS the AR is. Even bottom feeder ARs from PSA and Spike’s now are substantially more reliable than the original M-16s were.
There’s a YouTube video of a MilSpec M-4 being run to melt-down and the first thing to go on it is the gas tube, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzfm4pYhIyY
He went (IIRC) ~800 rounds before melt-down, but he was only running on 30-rd STANAG mags, so there was a brief pause every 30 rounds. Even after it can still be run in single shot mode by cycling the charging handle.
Run an AK like this and the first sign of distress also will be the hand guard catching fire (or melting). So the OpRod assembly also gets seriously hot, it just doesn’t have a gas tube to melt.
To: smokingfrog
“It’s not made to shoot full auto.”
Apparently it’s not made to not shoot full auto either.
Gas tubes are not sorted by inexpensive and premium. If that failed, how is it the “inexpensive upper” is what allowed the Failure? That is the implication.
From what I understand it’s designed to fail first.
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Milspec M-4’s that the military uses are full auto capable, but you are taught to shoot 3-round bursts, not spray and pray. A true combat capable machine gun will have a barrel that can be changed-out before it gets too hot.
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