thewillweeks
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So, I bought my first AR a few months back, without a dust cover. The Colt LE6900 as some of you will know has no dust cover, no FA and no option to install a dust cover. It's an "accuracy" version so they left those off. Anyway, It was good enough for my hunting needs and the occasional in home confrontation I could see happening so I grabbed it for $850. I'm well aware of the discussion about who actually made it and all that jazz, but I'm going to call it a colt for now because it is stamped Colt.
Regardless, we're getting ready for deer season and I wondered how well it'd handle a little dirt in it since it didn't have the cover. So, first was dropping it in the dirt and dumping dirt on every open area. It functioned just fine after this so I popped it open, filled the trigger area with dirt and blew it out, and dumped dirt on the bottom of the BCG and blew it out. And then tried to go back to shooting.
It fired fine for about 5 rounds and then began to short stroke, which wasn't all that surprising, I'd dumped dirt in the guts. So, I performed the standard pull and wipe, took about 30 seconds and slapped it back together. Tried again, still short stroking/FTF. However, anytime I pulled the charging handle all the way back it'd slap the round in just fine. So...I got curious and pulled the mag of TULA 223 I'd been using and swapped in my brass case ammo...and TADA . Ran just fine, no more short strokes/FTF, and after 5 rounds I swapped back to TULA and ran with zero more issues for the rest of practicing.
So, TULA may be fine for practicing and such but don't expect it to function the rifle when the rifle becomes dirty (Which makes sense, takes more gas to function it fully then and the TULA is kinda anemic from what I hear).
(Sorry, no pictures this time. It was a spur of the moment test so no thought was given to taking pictures.)
Regardless, we're getting ready for deer season and I wondered how well it'd handle a little dirt in it since it didn't have the cover. So, first was dropping it in the dirt and dumping dirt on every open area. It functioned just fine after this so I popped it open, filled the trigger area with dirt and blew it out, and dumped dirt on the bottom of the BCG and blew it out. And then tried to go back to shooting.
It fired fine for about 5 rounds and then began to short stroke, which wasn't all that surprising, I'd dumped dirt in the guts. So, I performed the standard pull and wipe, took about 30 seconds and slapped it back together. Tried again, still short stroking/FTF. However, anytime I pulled the charging handle all the way back it'd slap the round in just fine. So...I got curious and pulled the mag of TULA 223 I'd been using and swapped in my brass case ammo...and TADA . Ran just fine, no more short strokes/FTF, and after 5 rounds I swapped back to TULA and ran with zero more issues for the rest of practicing.
So, TULA may be fine for practicing and such but don't expect it to function the rifle when the rifle becomes dirty (Which makes sense, takes more gas to function it fully then and the TULA is kinda anemic from what I hear).
(Sorry, no pictures this time. It was a spur of the moment test so no thought was given to taking pictures.)