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Originally Posted by BB57
The above comment is spot on. An AR-15 does like to be run wet, regardless of what you might hear otherwise.
Pre-Gulf War and even pre-Afghanistan and Iraq I’d hear people claiming the AR-15 needed to be run dry in the sand box to keep it from collecting dust and failing.
That didn’t work out so well but it took an unbelievably long time to kill off the “run it dry” rumors…
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When I served in the Army (early 1970’s) we were taught to run our M16A1’s “dry” but that theory has been debunked since then.