OT - Shooting Underwater?

Roadkill · 07-31-2002, 12:49 PM

Sir, with all due respect, that's just something I have always tried not to do. I can only relate to personal experience, but M16s did occasionally work after being submerged in Vietnam. I never fired one underwater but sure have fired one with water and mud in the barrel and everywhere else in it. I've also dunked one in a creek to wash the mud off after crawling in a rice paddy,shook out the water and it worked. The 4th Inf in the Delta dealt with that much more than where I was.

RK

07-31-2002, 12:49 PM	#10
Roadkill User Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,634 Thanks: 1 Thanked 28 Times in 17 Posts	Sir, with all due respect, that's just something I have always tried not to do. I can only relate to personal experience, but M16s did occasionally work after being submerged in Vietnam. I never fired one underwater but sure have fired one with water and mud in the barrel and everywhere else in it. I've also dunked one in a creek to wash the mud off after crawling in a rice paddy,shook out the water and it worked. The 4th Inf in the Delta dealt with that much more than where I was. RK