That is a good qn becos I doubt anyone here ever fired 100 or
more rds in one go before.
Becos we ususally fired less than 30 rds in one go , and there is
bound to have someone in the range to have jamming in their M16
during that one go.
And I do know that ususallly the older the M16 training weapon,the
more jams there will be.
Especially those in schools, those M16 are very prone to jamming,
you are lucky if there is no jam at all during the entire range
practices eventhough you only fire a small number of rds in each
practice.
So it seem that another reason for M16 jamming is wear and tear,
not just carbon build up.
Since it is reported that M16 due to gas blowback , will cause
higher rate of lubricant dry up which then induce higher rate of
wear and tear.
Maybe LL could put up more light in this.
Anyway there is info from the link I provided:
A third way of gaming the testing system involves the level of
lubrication used. One source noted that the first dust test new M4s
had 9,836 jams in 60,000 rounds almost one jam every 6 rounds.
The Army kept working on the test until they figured out a
"generous lubrication" approach that used far more than the
manufacturer recommended, but lowered jams to 1 in 88 rounds.
Even at 1 jam in 88 rds, it mean that every contact, there will
be at least 1 jam or more.
Anyway, I do hope that they will be releasing results of all those
tests.
