![]() ![]() an old Mercedes or BMW inline 6 is going to just chug along for a long time without any oil, while a modern Mercedes or BMW, or really any modern engine with variable valve timing, lifters, and/or advanced timing/valve control will probably seize up rather quickly). I liken it to watching someone doing a video on "how long with each car brand run without oil?" Like it's absolutely interesting and does show the quality of engineering and where the weakest link is (i.e. ![]() Garand's video is extremely informative and interesting, bit it's much like Ian & Karl's Mud Test videos they're very much pegged to the "extremely unlikely scenarios" side of the scale and are literally pushing the weapons to the their limits in situations they are not normally expected to be in often. If you're going to go from hot to cold maybe set the weapon vertically and consider leaving the magazine out of the gun (I wonder if having the bolt open would help?) and give it a good bonk before using to bust off as much ice as possible. I wouldn't soak it in water or drop it in snow and let it sit for a few hours after firing off a few magazines. To the OP I would say that most platforms will do fine in cold weather as long as you're being reasonable with handling the weapon. It seemed a lot of the weapons failed because specific fire control mechanisms ran into issues (safety levers, trigger mechanics, magazine catches, etc.), I do wonder how many of the guns would have the same failures had they been stored vertically so that there wasn't as significant amount of ice build up in their more tight toleranced sections. I am sure tight tolerances play into this a bit, but in the case of the M14 I think part of the problem is that the stock it was mounted on had the cutout for the selector which allowed water to just soak the trigger mechanism and freeze it practically solid. So they'd get in the habit of just leaving rifles outside so they don't experience drastic temperature changes. This was what a friend who operated in some frozen places mentioned, that it's not so much soaking the gun in water or freezing it in a block of ice but just going from indoors to outdoors would cause enough condensation that the gun would freeze over. ![]()
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