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To: alloysteel

Carbon build up was a problem in the M-16 back in RVN! 40 years and no progress?


7 posted on 02/21/2014 4:12:35 AM PST by Makana (Self-esteem is the new intelligence. - Greenfield)
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Wasn’t that partially related to the use of a different gun powder when they ramped up ammo manufacturing? You would have though they would have learned . Maybe they m-4s were being over lubed?


12 posted on 02/21/2014 4:23:39 AM PST by bt-99 ("Get off my Lawn")
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40 years and no progress?

Its an enclosed, direct impingement gas system. It is designed to foul.

19 posted on 02/21/2014 4:56:34 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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