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Kat Stevens said:Then I'm wrong. I give, do it the book way, all the time, no deviations.
...you should see the hospital corners on my bed too! :blotto:
Kat Stevens said:Then I'm wrong. I give, do it the book way, all the time, no deviations.
Me too Kat, but vingar all ways got it clean but get the oil in fast.Infanteer said:...you should see the hospital corners on my bed too! :blotto:
jwsteele said:The rifle is nearly impossible to make impeccably clean but is easy to make clean for the purposes of inspection. Just watch how your section commander wiggles his fingers in it and then do it yourself later and see where he's finding the junk. Clean those areas really well the night before and just before inspection give it another wipe down and do a pull through on the barrell so if he looks down it he can't see anything. For field inspections it's most important to have a really clean and smooth working bolt. And after blasting off a magazine of blanks...your weapon will not be clean again unless the staff gives you a solid hour to clean it. It never hurts to amnesty bush those stupid blanks either.
gun plumber said:The bore and chamber are chromed(which will still rust if neglected,but is resistant)
Hoover said:If the dude wants to throw away his blanks, let him. Cause he's going to be cleaning his weapon twice as long as me and my buddies while we are off on the town..
This thing gets dirtier when you don't fire it!! Putting a mag of rounds through it might even be better than a coat of CLP!
Hoover said:If the dude wants to throw away his blanks, let him. Cause he's going to be cleaning his weapon twice as long as me and my buddies while we are off on the town..
This thing gets dirtier when you don't fire it!! Putting a mag of rounds through it might even be better than a coat of CLP!
jwsteele said:Well pardon me for causing such a fuss..... In regards to amnesty bushing the blank rounds...I don't see the big deal. I hate firing them. All they do is make the weapon incredibly filthy and it feels like firing a cap gun. It's really not a big deal.
Wesley H. Allen said:I am biting!
The days of a 'spotless rifle white glove inspections' went out of service with the FN C1/L1A1 SLR.
Wes
JSR OP said:I would love to agree with you on this point, but about the only thing you got right is the white glove isn't used, or at least I haven't seen it. These are still the days of the spotless rifle, at least while on course. Instructors will keep looking and finding carbon, and troops will always be looking for ways to get rid of it. Troops will try all kinds of inventive ideas to try to get that "spotless rifle". Bad ideas or not, these "tips" are passed from course to course, buddy to buddy, and parent to child. Some of the idea work, some people swear by, some are right out in left field.
With any luck, these rifles that are used in the schools over the years, and treated to a variety of cleaning experiments, won't be used in an actual theater of operations. Can't say I would want to depend on one of them.
Hmm... for some reason, I can't help but think of my rubber rifle at CFSCE... Man I hated that thing, but at least I didn't have to clean it!