Better than M4, but you can’t have it

[Stan]

Not convinced. In our Army mixing dummy with live ammo, under any circumstances , is regarded as a major breach of safety. Definitely would not consider ever advocating your approach in our battlespace or in front of an Aussie,

Mark

Why would one mix dummy ammo with live to practice for a failure instead of practicing training and sound doctrine that was intended to preclude failure ?

Best listen to a Soldier named RTK:

Now I get it.

Here's the deal. There's a right way to clear a weapon malfunction and then there are a ton of shortcuts.

Outside a paintball range, shortcuts get people killed.

In our line of work, on the two-way live-fire range, good training, done the correct way without shortcuts, means the difference between Joe coming home with his unit and Joe coming home in a box to be met by an escort in Dover, Deleware.

Failing to observe the chamber during a misfire could precipitate a rather nasty and catastrophic weapon malfunction.

This is not a sporting event we're discussing and second prize is Dover via C141