Crow Hunter
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Guys. Think about what you are saying.
If you get something between the locking lugs and the barrel extension on ANY rifle, it won't work. It doesn't matter of it is piston or not.
The MAIN advantages of a piston is the fact is generally insensitive to barrel length because the piston/expansion chamber relationship remains the same irregardless of its positon relative to the firing chamber and since most of them have operating rods that travel in easy draining raceways, they can be fired quicker after being fully submerged. (No problems with an incompressible fluid in a gas tube).
There is an tertiary advantage of not having the lubricating agent being dried out by exhaust gasses.
The dust cover....
Seriously dude, that is a stretch. The AK also has a dust over (the safety) which if you leave it off and bury the rifle in mud operating handle up, can cause a malfunction because of the dirt that gets between the hammer and the firing pin or limits the rearward travel of the BCG and prevents picking up the next round. Is that because it is suceptible to dirt too? What about the Stg-44? It has a nearly identical dust cover to the M-16 FOW and it is a piston....
A piston will NOT make a gun fire when dirty.
If you get something between the locking lugs and the barrel extension on ANY rifle, it won't work. It doesn't matter of it is piston or not.
The MAIN advantages of a piston is the fact is generally insensitive to barrel length because the piston/expansion chamber relationship remains the same irregardless of its positon relative to the firing chamber and since most of them have operating rods that travel in easy draining raceways, they can be fired quicker after being fully submerged. (No problems with an incompressible fluid in a gas tube).
There is an tertiary advantage of not having the lubricating agent being dried out by exhaust gasses.
The dust cover....
Seriously dude, that is a stretch. The AK also has a dust over (the safety) which if you leave it off and bury the rifle in mud operating handle up, can cause a malfunction because of the dirt that gets between the hammer and the firing pin or limits the rearward travel of the BCG and prevents picking up the next round. Is that because it is suceptible to dirt too? What about the Stg-44? It has a nearly identical dust cover to the M-16 FOW and it is a piston....
A piston will NOT make a gun fire when dirty.