House fire rifle risks

[RichinVA]

Lol come on guys �� PSA is a bare minimum company. Wouldn't put them as top tier, but I'd put them as a starting point if someone needed a rifle. Rather have a PSA than nothing. Rather have a PSA than a DPMS. DPMS over Olympic.

Sold all my guns last May. Rebuilding the collection, but kids come first for Christmas

I wasn't pro or con for PSA, just thought the comment was funny..........................

And I agree with everything you said, especially about the kids. A man with his priorities in the correct place.

[Jpoe88]

Once this thing is running and I have a pistol back in my hands, I'll dig into a custom build.

[strambo]

I'd shoot it! I was in a bad house fire today...since I work as a large property claims adjuster. Firearms in a typical "gun safe" will be toast due to the combination of water damage and smoke even w/o high heat. Or...the cost to have a pro restore them would exceed the value, hence non-salvageable anyway. That said, I'm sure that rifle will work just fine cleaned up.

[Gunfixr]

Looking at the pics, it's fine.
If you look, you will notice your barrel and the little connecting bar for the kns pins have the same appearance. Both are steel.
I had a guy bring in probably 10guns to go over and do what cleanup I could to them after a house fire. The steel on almost all of them looked like that.
Notice it's black, with white (or silver, bare steel color). Heat discoloration will be dependent on temp, but would be blue, purple, straw (real bad), etc.
The temper isn't really changing until you get hot enough to start changing colors, which is hot enough to remove plastic.

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[Spin Drift]

Lol come on guys �� PSA is a bare minimum company. Wouldn't put them as top tier, but I'd put them as a starting point if someone needed a rifle. Rather have a PSA than nothing. Rather have a PSA than a DPMS. DPMS over Olympic.

Sold all my guns last May. Rebuilding the collection, but kids come first for Christmas

You're buying kids before rifles?

I've got both, rifles are waaaaay cheaper than kids!


It's a joke, just a joke…

[Travis B]

I'd throw that gen1 SOPMOD on on arfcom EE and see what those idiots would pay for a stock with "battle scars."

[1911-A1]

As we used to say in my aircraft maintenance days...

"It's good, fly it."

[Pappabear]

Temperatures in a house fire can exceed 1800 degrees, so if it was a really bad fire all the polymer parts would have evaporated. It's likely the rifle in question wasn't in a room or area of the home directly affected by heat/flames. I would be more concerned with it being a PSA.


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Roger that

That thing did get a little toasty!

PB