The Rescue Rod is a clamp for AK-style full length monolithic cleaning rods, that seamlessly intigrates onto a Picatinny rail; giving you the tools needed on the gun to clear a catastrophic malfunction.
It was a somewhat uncommon practice in Vietnam, particularly during the early fielding of the M16 to tape a cleaning rod along the triangular handguard to keep it handy to quickly clear a flash hider full of mud or dislodge a stuck case from the chamber in a firefight.
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Why not just make it fit the standard collapsible M4 cleaning rod?
The T handle section jiggling
Electrical tape fixes that
Gi rod also fits. But its a multi peice rod that is more likely to break and is loud
Fits but I’d imagine would be thinner and rattle
Loctite and electric tape fix both of those.
Probably because taking the cleaning kit out and assembling the rod when your in a situation that you NEED to get your rifle back up immediately would be a bad thing.
Not an endorsement of this item, just giving the logic behind its existence.
The point of the mount is so you don’t have to dig through your bag. It’s at the ready already.
Thank you for restating my comment lol.
Taping cleaning rods to handguards was pretty common about 20+ years ago with people who used Sims. I’m not sure if that is still common practice with the improvements in that technology.
Sims are still common. Big Army Infantry might use them once a training cycle.
It still does it, used it last year lol
jam city with simunitions for some reason
You see several pictures of SAS members back in the day with the cleaning rods taped to M16s. I think it’s a novel way of having something at the ready.
I realize it’s unrelated, but what’s the mount just ahead of the rescue rod?
For when you need to take a quick shot with a blank and cleaning rod at a howler monkey slinging poop at the patrol