WVsig
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Straw Man with an implied ad hominem fallacy! haha. Attack a position the opponent doesn't hold. Then, vilify them with implication that the opponent desires to see massive destruction and possible loss of life. Sorry, no one should buy into the logic that watching MAC's tests equates into a twisted desire to revel in destruction. Ok, ok. Maybe I've watched Monster Jam once or twice - haha.
Don't forget other motorsports like rock crawling, organized drag racing, mud bogging, or off roading. People break and wear out all kinds of parts more expensive than a gun just trying to go as fast as they can or attempting to traverse obstacles in the name of performance, accomplishment, and fun....AND the incredibly vast majority of people go home intact.
MAC doesn't even do destructive testing. The firearm still functions after the gauntlet. He just washes it out under the water spigot.
What he does is test the limits of one criterion, in this case the ability for a firearm to cycle. Does this cause accelerated wear? Probably. But so does testing the limits of a sports car.
If anything, MAC takes something that is incredibly reliable, and in Mythbusters fashion, asks "What does it take to make it fail?" There are varying results, but the generic answer is willful sabotage.
Sorry what MAC does is a complete and total red herring... since we are clearly into logical fallacies. He sets up an arbitrary criteria which he sells as a reliability test. He then shoots pistols under those conditions until they fail or don't fail and declares them reliable or unreliable. The test and the method are flawed. Therefore the conclusions are flawed. They leave the real discussion of real world reliability somewhere in the weeds. I get it that you like to watch them but they are complete theater. There is no substance.
Again you seem to know that if you are in the end of the world scenario where your side arm of choice is something you are going to depend on to keep you alive you are not going to subject it to anything like MAC does in his "tests". I would argue that in such a scenario you are going to treat it with greater care than you do in normal times because your life depends on it. That is why a good bug out bag has some form of CLP and cleaning kit that can keep a gun running. Pushing it further in such a time if you survive you are going to be doing a lot of battle field picks if your skills allow you to survive. If you survive an encounter odds are you are no longer going to be relying on one gun. LMAO
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