M1A and M1 Fail Spectacularly

I once brought it outside when it was pouring rain and had no issue thanks to the grease. When I got home and pulled he trigger group it felt glued to the action!
 
I can't believe this is till going on! Well my first norico m305 was built with all usgi parts with fiberglass stock. Built from a parts kit. I got it cheap at a gun show with mismatched ammo about 250 rounds for like $600. I beat the crap out of it! I cleaned and greased it but she was used and road around on the floor of my old cj5. Never ever did it let me down, but I can say the same thing of my mini14's. Funny, the ones I have now are pampered! Wish I still had that old work horse. Any thing mechanical will fail.
 
Thank god most of us did not have to ever be in that situation in a real conflict but I think that most Canadian soldiers holding a rifle that does not function (with no time to clean it) would fix bayonets and go over the top when ordered with their brothers knowing full well that there would be a few clean unused rifles laying on the ground within a few brief minutes of action. what I did not like about the video is they did not use any modern rifles in their "Red Green" presentation to create any kind of baseline for comparison. I believe that the US military has quite high evaluation standards when it comes to awarding multi million dollar contracts to arms manufacturers even back then. I still do not understand how the Stoner AR 10 and Belgium Patent FN-FAL got put on the back burner way back then. Probably Greed related (lobby power, similar to the Pharmaceutical power down there for the last few years).
 
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