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How many magazines can the m4 or m16 use before they jam?
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The M16 can fire 3000 rounds before it jams. This is because the M16 isn't a spring rifle (like the AK47 or SA80). The carbon is forced up a small pipe down the side of the rifle and released through 2 holes in the breach. This makes the pipe block up when too much carbon passes through and the breach blocks up too, preventing rounds from being loaded into the breach for firing. The M4 is the same rifle, just it's shorter which makes it jam after 300 rounds due to the same reasons. In th US Army there's (on average) only 1 soldier in every 650 who can replace the pipe and clear the breach properly and it takes around an hour to do each one. Other weapons like the AK47 or the SA80 (L85) don't jam nearly as much becasue the spring breaks the carbon up. Hope this helps.
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