Impressive. I forwarded this to my son and his brother-in-law, Paul. Paul, who is currently stationed with the Army in Germany, responded with the following conversation he had with his infant daughter:
Initially I was pretty impressed, so like a good parent I previewed it prior to showing it to my daughter. I found no flaws.
Maddie was initially impressed but had the following comments.
Negatives -Did not conduct an initial functions check or check to make sure the weapon was clear -Failed to do a PROPER functions check at the end of her reassembly -Failed to make sure the gas rings were properly aligned
Positives -Good muzzle awareness throughout her sequence -Broke the weapon down to include disaasembly of the extractor(normally not done) -Good use of the "wrist flick" to ensure the bolt carrier assembly was both properly assembled as well as postioned to engage the extracting handle
Had a good discussion with Maddie on her last "negative" I am not convinced you need to check for gas ring alignment, Maddie out that since the AR-15/M-16/M-4 series rifles use a gas impingement system rather than a short stroke op rod that the gas ring alignment is the most important part of the assembly.
At that point she wanted a formula bottle so we curtailed the discussion.
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that was awesome! she was so excited that she did it!
Jeff,
Impressive. I forwarded this to my son and his brother-in-law, Paul. Paul, who is currently stationed with the Army in Germany, responded with the following conversation he had with his infant daughter:
Initially I was pretty impressed, so like a good parent I previewed it prior to showing it to my daughter. I found no flaws.
Maddie was initially impressed but had the following comments.
Negatives
-Did not conduct an initial functions check or check to make sure the weapon was clear
-Failed to do a PROPER functions check at the end of her reassembly
-Failed to make sure the gas rings were properly aligned
Positives
-Good muzzle awareness throughout her sequence
-Broke the weapon down to include disaasembly of the extractor(normally not done)
-Good use of the "wrist flick" to ensure the bolt carrier assembly was both properly assembled as well as postioned to engage the extracting handle
Had a good discussion with Maddie on her last "negative" I am not convinced you need to check for gas ring alignment, Maddie out that since the AR-15/M-16/M-4 series rifles use a gas impingement system rather than a short stroke op rod that the gas ring alignment is the most important part of the assembly.
At that point she wanted a formula bottle so we curtailed the discussion.
Paul
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