That guy is an idiot.

LOL! Yeah, I'm sure going to take the advice of the RATS tourniquet assholes

^ This

Perfect

If the guy didn't tell us that he's a 28 year green beret I would have guessed 28 year old neck beard from the way that article is written.

Dragon Skin?

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look at this gem of a comment. Good thing this guy is here to set us straight. Standard is 4moa... bullshit. It should be sub 1 moa with rifles that are beat to fuck by joe snuffy but still work somehow.

AR fanboys are just people who have never had to maintain and fire a weapon in shitty conditions. Our friends the Kurdish YPG/YPJ hardly have any cleaning gear. Most don’t have it and run a diesel soaked piece of cloth through the bore with no understanding of the effect on accuracy. The elements in Syria make AKs and PKMs fail, so without constant maintenance an AR doesn’t stand a chance. Most people involved in this discussion and weighing in (myself included) have never experienced anything close to Viet Nam or what those jungles do to a weapon. Let’s be real most of you are just talking out of your ass and defending your purchases. The only thing that really sucks about AKs is the stock sights. Most veterans who think AKs suck are the guys who have seen all the outdated shit that’s been buried or otherwise hidden in caches until it was needed. The more modern stuff with optic rails riveted in make for a much better weapon when you add a sight that was designed for the weapon. Now I do have one argument for the author about the height of sights on modern assault rifles. There’s reason for this and if you think about having to drop into the prone and take a shot with sights mounted super low to the bore axis, it would be shitty difficult with body armor and helmet. It helps in all kinds of offhand positions. Most AK or SVD mounted optics are not going to allow for a good cheek weld. Most combat situations don’t allow for a whole lot of fundamentals of rifle marksmanship to be applied. Do consider that. The greater an angle at which the sight and bore axis intersect, the more easily a practical battle zero can be acheived (36 meters and 300 or 400 meters AK74 BZO for example) As a Marine armorer I witnessed 3 brand new FN M16A4’s shear off bolt lugs just from firing blanks and if I recall correctly all 3 of these happened in the first 3 months of the rifles showing up. The whole system just flat out sucks and if you don’t think so you’re fooling yourself. Now a semi auto .243 cobbled together from surplus RPK47 parts at the Molot Oruzhie Zavod, there’s a real weapon you can rely on. It gets the ammo in an out of the weapon as well as the projectile down range with intent and purpose, is no longer than an M16A4, and shoots sub MOA with an outdated 4X PSO copy from Belarus. For those of you who don’t know what you’re talking about, the standard of accuracy for the M16 series of rifles in every branch of the service is 4 MOA before the rifle needs to be overhauled. Our department of defense has shitty standards for the people who need to rely on these weapons and they’re long overdue for replacement with an AK74 or 100 series AK, but most Americans are too retarded to build an AK properly. Any idiot can build an AR, or mess up an AR build but the average person doesn’t know the first thing about building an AK. They just know they’ve been told by ignorand and biased folks that it’s a “shitty commie gun” and will just keep squawking that old bullshit like a parrot until they either die or have a serious enough AR malfunction to see for themselves. The first AK I was issued in Syria was a 1958 type 3 from Kazanlak Bulgaria and that beat up old workhorse still held a 3 inch group at 100 meters with Irons and ran cyclic 800rpm (no hammer retarder) no problem. Mind you that’s one of the first Bulgarian AKs with both proof stamps from Izhevsk wokers who were supervising and the actual circle 10 Kazanlak stamp from the workers there. That AK might have rusty brown grooves running the entire length on the left side of every land of rifling, but whoever has that rifle now can probably still depend on it unless it got blown to bits. An M4 wouldn’t put up with 1/10th of the shit that poor AK has seen and if you think otherwise have fun being retarded.

Here's another one.. 50% stoppage rate. ROFL What kind of fucking idiots shoot at his range, and with what kind of bullshit??

My personal anecdotal experience is that when preppers (not combat vets) shoot on my range and other ranges, they experience around a 50% stoppage rate. That’s anecdotal.

I think the author of article was more focused on concerns of failures during a firefight

This.  Dude had very few valid points.  Most were very ignorant observations and/or opinions.  He has NO real concept of how the weapon operates or it’s design.

I’m no operater, but I shoot regularly with a hundred or more government weapons on the line.  Some are brand new M4’s and ancient A4’s with everything in between.  These are combat matches/training where the weapons get hot and dirty.  VERY few stoppages occur and almost no breakages.  The worst I’ve seen is a weapon going burst on semi.  Most all stoppages I’ve seen are corrected by the application of CLP or a different magazine.

IMHO the Green Beret is full of shit.

LOL...exactly

Needs his own theme song

and rope.

I used to carry a spare parts kit years ago.  Ruined the firing pin driving in a FSB pin that walked out.  Still use it as a punch.  That’s it.

He's the RATS guy, of course he's retarded.

That and it’s fairly labor intensive to drill and pin a FSB straight.  It cost the manufacturer more to build.

It's the guy that invented RATS. lol

“ The history of the AR-15 is a history of band-aids”

/thread

AS SOON AS IT GETS SAND IN IT,  IT STOPS WORKING

The SR-15 is far superior.

Article has AIDS.  The writer is obviously on the spectrum.

Weapons break - often not from shooting them, but from being carried everyday.  Things like bent front sight posts, bent barrels, broken/crushed stocks.

My AR15 is so fucking boringly accurate and reliable that I dont even have that much fun shooting it anymore

Once again someone uses military experience to build cred while spouting absolute nonsense about guns. I really hate this. I have a friend at work who served in Gulf War 1 and 2, and he is super cool in all other respects, and I absolutely admire him and respect his service- But he knows fuckall about guns and still does the old ".45 will blow limbs off" routine...
Why does this happen?

Author of this article also says that the "M4 is the same as an AR15" which gun grabbers will love I am sure. Bummer.

Just finished a lower for a Larue upper.  Nice feeling.

now a 300 Blackout upper is on tap as I decorate the Larue with an optic and a few other items.

The author tried to invoke a level of expertise, but the more you read, the more it is apparent that he doesn’t know anything about AR15’s or firearms for that matter. It was like sitting in a gun store while the “Vietnam Vet” in the corner spews his tripe about how awful the M16 was.  The only thing lacking was that they are produced by Mattel.

Learn how to use it - extensively. That is what Basic and AIT for Infantry is for. When you sleep, eat, and PT with one, then you are experienced and prepared.

Not Fudd rifle slingers who casually walk to a deer stand once a year.

No sling, loaded, one in the chamber, safety as you see fit, carried at the low ready, expecting to see a shot at any time. Movie stars are not a reliable indicator of how to use one.

Head to head? M16 has the body count over all others in modern history. There are reasons for that inherent in the design, like, a last round bolt hold open so you don't have to insert a mag, retract the bolt, watch the mag fall out . . . use the correct method Stoner designed into the rifle and your reloading malfunctions decrease. Drop mag, insert new, slap bolt hold open, round chambers you are ready to fire. No fuss no muss.

Only 1 in 100 is now military trained and experienced in handling the M16, which means 99 people who might have an opinion on them are not DOD qualified to comment. Take what the average Bubba says about guns - regardless of how many his credit card can carry - and reflect on which battlefield rifle has piled up the most bodies.

That is your choice. Accepting a lesser one is your fail.

lol.

Almost any issue on an AR can be fixed by everyday household tools and a $50 parts kit.
They are cheap and parts are plentiful, they are accurate and reliable.
They are the perfect "prepper" rifle.

Those are rookie numbers, step up your game....

That article hurt my brain so much,that I am no longer mentally capable of determining if this is a legitimate use of "literally" or not.

As such, I'm going to second this post.

Spare parts. The AR’s can be easily found, anything else, not so much.

So... your a green beret. Um.
Helllllooo fuck face.
Yup every exmil dude thats a prepper. Thinks that puts them at expert status to give prepping advice...lol.
Ive met my fair share of ex mil condor clad wise food promoting thumb shooting experts who couldn't figure out how to do basic field craft or wipe thier ass with out a copy of FM 87-4594570 " selective wiping techniques for basic infantry " stapled to the shitter door.

Im an AK guy.
But own an AR....
Every platform has problems..

Now..go visit my blog for a free bug out bag list

I'd rather have an AR than any of the others you listed.

IF SHTF, parts availability would become an issue sooner or later as well.  

SOME SAY THE STAR CHAMBER PROVIDES ACCURACY! IT DOES NOT!

EXTRACTOR UNABLE TO EXTRACT LIKE UNBALANCED PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT!

SHIT ON WHERE I EAT!

GAS TUBE BARELY TUBES GAS! HARDLY EVER!

PREPPERS CANT HANDLE THIS COMPLEXITY!

GOOD POST OP. NOT RETARDED.

Several times I have wanted a 5.56mm boltgun for functional accuracy. (No "dime sized" 3 rd groups @ 500 yds but at least 1-2 MOA) Everytime I end up building an AR which is just as accurate with faster follow up shots.

I believe there should be an AR in every household. (That doesn't contain a "leftist.")

Ease of finding replacement parts, cost, availability of ammo.

Bullshit.
I could find spare parts to build 15 rifles just in my neighborhood.

AR, all day, every day if SHTF

Suppressed, 10.5"ish barrel, and my LPVO, lights and lasers and I'm good to go.

If I'm on my own I'd cache the other ones around.

I bought a Field Repair Kit I've never needed.

This is an example of why you shouldn't listen to someone just because they were in the military.

I bet if i search around my work bench, I could come up with a complete set of springs or two, with the exception of the buffer spring. Those are a little harder to launch and lose.

@CoolEarl

Who the fuck is saying that... exactly?  Name one.

No, it's short shorts and a FAL.