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Originally Posted by WallyWarrior
Cheap rifles shoot cheap ammo the best. Lower tolerances I’m sure.
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You are absolutely correct!! I am sure I will get trashed on this forum, but I have A LOT of experience with this style of rifle. Lots of time behind different brands and styles of rifles, with close to a million rounds sent down range., all in a former life.
An AR-15/M4 style rifle is a battle rifle, plain and simple. It was designed to be just that. The MilSpec minimum was 1.5 MOA for the original design. Most all of the reputable companies then built them to be at or around 1 MOA in accuracy. Sub MOA rifles can be built, but come with higher tolerances and less reliability depending on ammo and ambient conditions. Rock River is one of those finicky rifles. Very accurate, but do not like dirt, extreme cold, extreme heat and may or may not eat all ammo types. With so many new companies stamping out, or machining gun parts, and people building their own, each will function differently. For those newbies, an AR gas gun is a dirty gun, no matter what ammo you use. You should get very good at cleaning all the important parts on a regular basis, as reliability will suffer if you don't. Don't get me wrong, you can get them really dirty and they will still function, depending on the tolerances.
We had to re lube our M4's in Asscrapistan daily in the summer. I have never seen an environment that would literally cook the oil right off the components, whether you fired it or not. And the baby powder moon dust permeates everything.
Right before I left, we were issued prototype .300 Blackout piston guns, which we ran suppressed. So much easier to keep clean when running a can. I loved them so much, I waited for them to hit the civilian market 3 years later, and bought a couple.