Did your gun ever jam on you?

39mto39g · #1 04-17-2006, 05:01 PM

The first time I ever fired my weapon in anger it went something like this. BAM, BAM, BAM, Click. Click????? what the hell is Click.
I had to take that thing apart and remove two rounds that were in the same place and time, while being shot at. June 1967 Jammed M-16 what a novel Idea. My first thought was to get a M-14, but I settaled for a 45 instead. One thing for sure I would not be without a working gun ever again. A couple months latter they repalced the aluminum bolt with a cast Iron bolt, My 16 never jamed again. A few months after that they took my three prong flash suppressor and replaced it with a solid round one, Now how am I to open c-rat cases?
Ron

DMZ-LT · #2 04-17-2006, 08:35 PM

Pulled the trigger in 1971 and it didn't go off. I needed it to go off. Hit the forward assist and it went off. I carried an AK a lot after that.

Bill Farnie · #3 04-18-2006, 04:23 AM

My gun has never failed me but my rifle ... yea once like my Homie ... It was the magazine that was the problem but that was the only time my whole tour.

This is my rifle
This is my gun
This is for killing
This is for fun

39mto39g · #4 04-18-2006, 04:27 AM

The gun will kill just as dead as the rifle.
I never did understand that thing that the Army had against the use of the word Gun instead of weapon or rifle.
I went to the weapon shop and bought a shotgun yesterday.
That don't sound right, what I did was go to the Gun shop.

Ron

Stick · #5 04-18-2006, 05:15 AM

Carried an M-14A3. Never failed me 'cept if there weren't no mo' bullets. Used a 60. Same-same as 14. Never failed me and you don't miss with an automatic but it sure can get hot.
Let's see, ain't the 16 made by Tonka or Mattel toys?

Packo · #6 04-18-2006, 05:46 AM

Hey Ron,

Gun....has no rifling in the barrel. A "rifle" does. Therefore, Army rifles have rifling so they aren't guns. Unless your shotgun has a Damascus twist.....which I doubt...it is a gun because the barrel is not rifled. Probably a bit over your head but what do I know...I'm an ass.

Pack

exlrrp · #7 04-18-2006, 05:48 AM

I never had a weapon jam on me in combat. iN my 6 months in the 101st, I bet I cleaned that sucker 3 times every day. i may not have fired as many as most as over half this time I was an RTO.
They gave us a whole new issue when I joined the lrrps. (My clothes were hanging in rags, a la 101st style) First they gave me a a brand new m16--it worked great. Then they tookj it away and gave me a CAR15, not new. It jammed on almost every magazine I fired on the range.
Fortunately right at that time, we were in with SF advisers. I bought an M2 for I think, $50, along with some 30 round magazines. Thats what I took out most of the time thereafter. There was ammo all around for these, same as M1 carbinesThe hard part was getting the ammo pouches.
Up to about 100 meters, the M2 was about as good as an M16, it didn't have much punch after that, not accurate much beyond that. But if we had 100 yards start, we always ran anyway.
And it never jammed. It was a good gun, and here I agree with Ron---been in lots of gun stores but never one that called itself a weapon store or a rifle store. Just Weapons?? Rifles R Us? Nevr seen it.
Stay good
James

DMZ-LT · #8 04-18-2006, 05:52 AM

Shouldn't tell this but one night we got a probe on our NDP and I was in a hole with a 60. I pulled the trigger and nothing happened. I opened up the belt and made sure it was being fed right. Still nothing. It was dark but I field stripped it and put it back together and still nothing. I field stripped it again and still nothing. The probe was over and I hadn't fired a round. After I calmed down I looked at the 60 and the safety was on. I didn't tell anybody.

exlrrp · #9 04-18-2006, 06:08 AM

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Originally posted by DMZ-LT Shouldn't tell this but one night we got a probe on our NDP and I was in a hole with a 60. I pulled the trigger and nothing happened. I opened up the belt and made sure it was being fed right. Still nothing. It was dark but I field stripped it and put it back together and still nothing. I field stripped it again and still nothing. The probe was over and I hadn't fired a round. After I calmed down I looked at the 60 and the safety was on. I didn't tell anybody.

John
Maybe that was just God telling you there were friendlies out front
Stay good
James

#10 04-18-2006, 08:35 AM

Well exlrp you and I kinda share the same experince. The night the Tet offensive broke out. I was on Guard Duty in Tower #1 on our compound when the sierra hit the fan at 3:10 a.m. This is the first time I came under fire in Vietnam. I was a true FNG didn't know what was happening, didn't know the green and white tracers coming toward our compound was incoming, didn't know the thumping I heard was mortar rounds coming out of a tube. When it finally registered what was happeing I was scared shitless. A SSG named Davis climed up the ladder to the tower and was yelling at me to use the M-60 that was in the tower, I was so scared that all I could do was grab my M-14. I pulled on the trigger and nothing happened. Remembering immediate action from basic on the range I had ejected 4 rounds before I realized I did not take the safety off.