Bump loading the AR series rifle

Many years ago I learned a technique for anM-16/M-4/AR style rifle.  Keep in mind this techinque was designed for combat use.  Typical Army Units in the field useally split the early morning up, by having 1/4 unit on perimeter guard, 1/4 performing maintenace(including rifle PM), 1/4 at chow, and the other doing something else (radio watch, ammo dump watch, KP or what ever). (don't try this with a loaded mag until you learn the concept well) Well lets say all of a sudden a couple of Soviet BRDM vehicles show and start dropping off a bunch of angry  half lingcodhalf zombie pigs, and oh crap, you're in a firefight for your life.  You were 30 seconds ago deep ino rifle cleaning when said BRDM's showed up.  You rapidly throw your rifle together. Jump in the fox hole/defensive position.  You slap one of those evil, soon to be banned, over 1 round capacity mags into your rifle, you reach up to pull the charging handle back, and damn it, you forgot to put the charging handle back in...what to do.  Fear not troop!  Old Sarge taught you well.  Take your rifle and slam the butt stock against the back side of your fox hole wall, the force of the rearward motion will cause the buffer spring assembly spring to recoil from the weight/force of the bolt pressing against it.  This will lock the bolt to the rear, as a magazine is already inserted.  Once said bolt is locked to the rear, you should be able to release the catch and chamber a round.  If said weapon jams, repeat this function only drop the mag once the bolt locks back.  For those of you with high end optics, and the death star laser beam hanging off your rails system, this sudden jolt may jack them up badly (which is why I don't hang high end optics and death star laser beams off my Army issued rifles).  I won't promise it won't jack up your stock either.  Army issue stocks have to meet Mil Specs, some of the aftermarket stocks look like they would not stand up to pellet gun recoil. 

Thanks for the 411 ill give it a go

Good info. However foxholes are not as common as the once were. In fact the Army does not qualify/train with them anymore.

Personally I have forgot to put the charging handle back in where I had to go to my post. It takes but a second to pop the rear pin, shotgun the rifle pull the bolt, insert charging handle and go. I have done it while running with a M203 attached where you have to pull the whole upper receiver off.

Also in that situation you buddies to your left and right overlap your sector of fire with their own. Giving you a chance to reload, or clear a misfire. Not everybody shoots at the same time, otherwise everyone would reload at the same time. With two machine gunners you have them 'talk' to each other, its a similar concept with rifles.

Ryan
Iraq 06-07

Good info. However foxholes are not as common as the once were. In fact the Army does not qualify/train with them anymore.

Personally I have forgot to put the charging handle back in where I had to go to my post. It takes but a second to pop the rear pin, shotgun the rifle pull the bolt, insert charging handle and go. I have done it while running with a M203 attached where you have to pull the whole upper receiver off.

Also in that situation you buddies to your left and right overlap your sector of fire with their own. Giving you a chance to reload, or clear a misfire. Not everybody shoots at the same time, otherwise everyone would reload at the same time. With two machine gunners you have them 'talk' to each other, its a similar concept with rifles.

Ryan
Iraq 06-07

Too true, an Old Nam Vet showed me that. It works, and many people don't know about it.  Personnaly myself every M4/M16 would be crushed, I have little use for a weapon that craps where it shoots.  Horrible design, and even more horrible after 40 plus years, we still use it. 

That said where were you over there?  FOB Danger in Tikrit, and on the road to FOB Speicher 3 times a week,  Outpost Midway near on MSR Clemson, Balad  that big class 9 yard down south of Samara (hated going anywhere near Samara, damn near got blown up a couple times near there).

Iraq 12/2004-11/2005
Defender 14

On FOB Q-West. Went to Speicher alot, Anaconda, Diamondback, Warrior, Sykes, Harbor Gate, Suse, etc. Pretty much northern Iraq. Did convoy security and QRF pretty much 6 days a week.

BMO/BMT and Senior parts scrounger for our BN and Laison for Dyna Corp and the Army at FOB Danger.  You come to me I get you into the shop for a quick convoy repair.  Also mountains of reports. and more reports, did I mention reports? 

I used to go to the Can point pulkl an engine, go over to the class IX yard and turn it in and get a new one take back with me.  Its how we kept everything on the road as did.  Slightly shifty but hey what ever worked.  The guys in the Can point were Navy and they never came out of their AC units. I guess they thought if we were crazy enough to pull drive trains in battle rattle in 130 degree heat, you could have it!  Then the guys at the Can point wanted everything washed, and I told them our FOB was bottled water only so they let it slide.  I will have to post pic of "Fat Tony,"
 we all watched the Soprano's back then.  When the 1114's got popular you could not go off FOB in a hill billy Hummer.  So we had  LMTV converted at the Armor shop and then found a wrecked 1114 truck took the turret armor off of it, and mounted it on the top of the LMTV (we had to massage it to fit right).  Once I did that everyone wanted to use that truck.  No one I knew of in 2005 had an LMTV/FMTV with a turret, it was kind of unique.  Kind of my own War Wagon.

Me and my E-7 could be found all over the place in it.  As I was a civilian Paramedic, and a mechnic we had tool chests, litters, radios, flame blankets, tow ropes, ice coolers, ammo out the whazoo, tow bars, snatch blocks, bino's most of it acquired through trades or found in the dump of Speicher or Balad. Had the chance to pick up an AT-4 but I turned it down.  I thought the SF guys had a greater need for it than I did. Now they had the ultimate War Wagon  1025 Humvee with 5.56 mini gun in the turret, 7.62 in the rear with the rear hatch removed and an aviation swing mount 5.56 SAW mounted so the Passenger qould return fire or swing out of the way when not in use. 

Headquarters wanted to use Fat Tony one day, and they were going to mount a short barrel saw on it.  I told them no way in hell.  Damn Short barrel saw didn't even clear the gunners shield, half of the convoys I went on were more about intimidation than anything else.  a Ma Duece can "coerce" traffic to give you the right of way.  One of my guys used to "convince cars that wanted to pass the convoy that a HEMMIT  Wrecker out weighs them by running them off the road or just running over their hood. 

Senior BBQ guy for the BN