Range Report on M4 Carbine
I’ve had an LWRC Carbine for several years now and it has served me well. I’m not going to brag about how great this thing runs compared to other firearms, all I’m going to say is that this was the gun I really learned about gunsmithing with. I recently stripped the gun down to do a repair after the stock came loose and i lost the rear take down pin detent and spring. I was shooting and noticed that my M4 Carbine rifle stock was starting to unwind and I was a little surprised. I thought I broke the stock for a moment and then I realized that it was just lose. I didn’t have a stock tool with me so i just hand tightened it, but then I noticed the rear take down pin was falling out.
Well, I wasn’t in a gunfight, but I did learn that more than just an optic or a magazine can fail you, you’re gun may just fall apart if you don’t pay attention to it. While I took the gun apart to analyze it a little more I notice that the fore grip that I was using was cracked, it had not broken off on me, but man, did it look like it was close to snapping, there are a great many things to lock down and tighten, spending $1800 on LWRC uppers, doesn’t mean the gun isn’t allowed to have an operator induced failure of some sort or sheer neglect. Everything that can come loose needs to be checked.