Weapns MTX in Iraq

[Tom Odom]

Carl, check in see if it is OK to have the last 2 rounds in your magazine as tracers. Gives a visual clue that you are about to change mags.
The magazines that have been loaded for months absolutely need to be unloaded and checked. How often? every time you clean your weapon you should do your mags, at least that is what I was taught. How often? Hard question, depends on use and your environment I would say.

Big warning some years ago the FBI issued an alert that Break Free could seep into individual bullets and contaminate the powder. It takes a while to do this but I would not want to chance it. Might be best to check with the manufacturer as this problem may have been fixed.

Slap

I have heard the same thing on WD40 which often gets used as lube on weapons rather than a proper weapons lubricant. As for magazine rotation, I just had a converstaion with our Natick representative here in my office on this issue. He said they did a study about fife years ago that essentially said leaving mags loaded is a way to guarantee feed issues. The study keyed on the springs in that a compressed spring is a spring in constant use; it must be allowed to decompress or it fails after time. I have asked the Natick guy for the study; if not classified or sensitive I will post part or all.

Tom