By: Becker

Becker — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 14:11:41 +0000

This looks like the bolt assembly and firing pin of the M-16, civilian AR-15 (not automatic for the information of all you gun grabbers, who don’t have a clue.) In the army we scrubbed these parts with a brass tooth brush and bore cleaner. Then put on LSA oil before re-assembly. If these were not absolutely clean, oiled, and kept clean, in the 1st M-16s, they would jam at the worst possible moment and leave you looking from you rifle to ” Charlie,” and back again. The quickest thing you could do was to take out the magazine,take the round out of the bore, “field strip,”by tapping the rear bolt almost out and opening it like a single barrel shotgun. Disassemble bolt assembly, clean quickly,re-oil, re-assemble, slap in a fresh magazine, lock and load and pray to God it would fire. They say the new A-4 is just as good, at not jamming, as the AK-47s were. I hope so because many a GI were killed when his A-1 jammed, and if was dark it was twice as bad.( Learn to do this in the dark.)

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By: Becker