Catastrophic Weapons Failure
Carl,
Something out of the Armstrong Institute regarding chambered rounds:
Now that you mentioned having SigArms for a sidearm, I wanted to point out something that was recently discovered with LEs using Sig and Glock 9mm weapons.
In the article, LEs typically chambered the same round in the morning, and unloaded the same in the evening, only to reload the same round on the next duty day. What that tends to do to the round is constantly slam the bullet home when the slide goes forward, effectively changing the headspace. The LE in question recently had a catastrophic failure that Sig nor Glock will guarantee as a weapon's failure. The round exploded inside the chamber sending half the slide and some of the bullet down range, but the LE escaped unhurt.
Practice 'top round' rotation and mark them so that you know just how many times the round has been chambered.
This assumes you're chambering a round with the start of your duty day, and clearing the weapon at the end.
If you folks are sharing weapons, this may be significant as each person ends up chambering and clearing a round each day.
If anyone is interested in the article, please send me a PM.
Regards, Stan
Catching up on your blog...
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Originally Posted by
carl
Roger that on Arty8's advice. Thanks to all again.
Nice post Carl!
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There were hundreds and hundreds of people going through CRC prior to going overseas. Most were military people but many were civilian contractors, about 40 percent. The civilians were headed over to do a variety of things ranging from passing out socks to police advisors to mechanics etc. Most were men with a scattering of women. There weren't to many young people. The young ones were the military. The civilians were mostly old guys like me. One police advisor I met was 69 years old and the average age was probably in the mid 40's. That is one thing I've noticed over the years looking at photos. It seems that a lot of the people who choose to go overseas are older; the classic examples being the Vietnam fighter pilot who joined a Guard unit to be a infantry squad leader at 53 and the military doctor in his 70's. I wonder if this differs from other wars.
There was one group with more than a few women in it but just as many old guys. They were the interpreters. It looked like a meeting of the Rotary Club in an Arab neighborhood in Detroit had decided to volunteer en masse; a most remarkable group of people. One of the women I talked to had children at home and another was a grandmother. Both had decided to go overseas for patriotic reasons. They wanted to help out the US in an hour of need. There were no guarentees about the conditions they would work in either. They said they were as likely to go out with troops on patrol as be on a big sprawling base, granny or young mother status notwithstanding. They went where they were told and they went to help the country.
Ain't that a remarkable thing. And ain't they admirable people.
Hmmm. I don't have an interpreter but...
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Small_Axe
Okay, I re-read it. And to me it still sounds like he's talking about the AK's '.30 cal round' in general. People percieve things differently. Stan's lucky you're here to interpret his words.
"The Chinese AKs we could "obtain" in Zaire were just friggin junk. Even the ammo..." seemed pretty clear to me.