https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2017/10/how-to-clean-and-maintain-ar-15-rifles/ from AccurateShooter.com Sat, 04 Jul 2026 23:02:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.26 https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2017/10/how-to-clean-and-maintain-ar-15-rifles/comment-page-1/#comment-51804 Thu, 08 Dec 2016 03:57:08 +0000 http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/?p=54727#comment-51804 First of all, the M-16 system is amazingly resilient and forgiving of mistreatment. That’s a very good thing because this video is about as good an example of just how an operation running an inventory of these guns for rent can skimp on the maintenance on these rifles as I’ve seen. I’ve done the armorer work for similar inventory endurance exercises expending thousands of rounds through rifles for police training exercises so I have some idea about what to look for. I was somewhat disappointed in the video as it does not delve into informing the viewer what the telltale signs are that the gun is beginning to degrade under heavy use that would indicate its time for a PM cleaning. Instead, it mostly gives estimates of how long you can go until you “have to” to something. It’s a parameter for a business planning becasuse you pay for inventory cleaning time by the employeee hour. Yeah you can stretch it but there’s really no reason to. As robust as the M-16 series is I would not abuse a personal rifle, owned or assigned, to this degree of abuse if I didn’t have to. There are better cleaning methods and practices.

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