My Cousin was in The Hill Fights in 1967 with the Marines, the Marines with drew the M-16 until Mods were made. It was still unreliable.
“My Cousin was in The Hill Fights in 1967 with the Marines, the Marines with drew the M-16 until Mods were made. It was still unreliable.”
No doubt. Early development and testing of the M16 used an extruded powder and it worked so well the army decided the rifle didnt need cleaning. In fact they didnt even include a cleaning kit. The reliability issues started when they changed to a ball powder with the wrong burn rate. They fixed that 40 years ago.