BCM Filthy 14 ??

AR/M4 AR General Discussion
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Anyone have a link to the Filthy 14 40,000+ round torture test I have been hearing about…did a google search and could not find any current valid links ?

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http://www.swatmag.com/content/issues/view/october_2010

this link is pretty much the whole article cut and paste

http://www.slip2000.com/art-swat2.html

Hope this helps

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Here you go…Filthy 14.

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Thanks guys…

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Or you could just order something from BCM. They’ll send you a new copy of the article every time. :wink:

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Love this BCM video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_4CskJJxvY

and this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_-9cICE9cg&feature=related

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FYI: Talking with Pat this weekend, Filthy 14 has over 43,000 rounds on it and still shoots 1.5 inch groups at 50 yards. It will be rebuilt.

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I’ve got copies of this in just about every room in the house!!!

Perhaps I order too much from BCM?..

Thanks Roger for the update on Filthy 14. I bought an upper exactly like it, mostly on Pat’s testimonial.

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Thank you for the update, Roger.

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I had an opportunity to T&E this weapon a couple of years ago, before it hit 30K rounds. It shot very well, no malfunctions or issues, and it ate everything I fed it over three days in AZ. I showed me three things, one how much an improvement the 14.5 mid gas system is over the carbine gas M4, what a great optic the T1 is, and that Slip 2000 is a great lube.

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Filthy 14 was a 16" midlength

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Yeah… the 14.5 middy is a little more finnicky.

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I thought it was a 14.5 with the perm attached A2X? Guess I gotta re-read the article

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The EAG Tactical carbine/upper offered by BCM has a 14.5 with a permed A2X. Filthy 14 was a 16" with a A2.

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I was going to say the same thing.

BTW I have the 14.5 mid and I keep hearing they are “finnicky.” I have never had a problem. What’s the deal?

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They don’t run well with low powered ammo or heavier buffers. They still run, but you can get some failures to lockback on an empty mag, etc.

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same here, what is the problem? i’ve taken it through a couple of classes and put alot of rounds through it. with no problems as of yet, except for the bad lever which i dumped and it runs like a champ.

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never mind…thanks.

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Hell yeah, over! By 5000+ rounds…! :smiley:

I was at the Gadsden Carbine 2 class, last week. #70 and #77 have 12k and about 9k on them, respectively, and they SMELL. There are other T&E guns for EAG student use, with what lot of folks would erroneously think of as a blasphemous amounts of rounds sent downrange without a single cleaning. Bear in mind, Filthy 14 just happens to be the one with the most.

There were 14 soldiers at the class I just attended. I about dropped a deuce in my shorts laughing at the exclaimations of shock and horror when Pat pulled the BCG out of #70 to show them. Looked like it had wind-drifted dunes of wet, black sand on it…

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I just want to say that is crazy. At .25cents a round that is almost $10,000 of ammo.(I’m guessing they did not shoot wolf in this gun) I wish they had taken pics when they cleaned it or when the bolt broke. I’d also love to see what an exstractor looks like after 13k rounds.