Last edited by Alpha-17; 04-30-24 at 09:19.
--British veteran of the Ukraine War, discussing the FN SCAR H.It's f*****g great, putting holes in people, all the time, and it just puts 'em down mate, they drop like sacks of s**t when they go down with this.
“Standard” and”civilian” pressures are 80k psi. I think logic can reveal why we don’t see much of that commercially.
I’ve heard that, but don’t know if it’s true. My point was that the SAAMI spec for max pressure (or max average…don’t remember?) of .277 Fury is 80kpsi. Just wanted to clear up that any civilian ammo can also be full-flavor, potentially, because that seems to be a common misconception. Xcaliber barrels has a warning about this, but I suspect most companies aren’t going to sell a complete rifle that can’t handle at least some of the 80kpsi stuff for liability reasons, nor are they going to tell potential buyers to only shoot handloads in order to stay under 55kpsi or whatever.
It’s also worth noting that this is a new proprietary cartridge that exists roughly halfway between .264 and .284, but uses similar or same case geometry as 7-08 and .260. The obsession with splitting those hairs could have been for monetary reasons, or safety ones. Because there is nothing this cartridge can do that those couldn’t have, with the same pressure ceiling. But .270-08 previously only existed as a (promising) wildcat. Even if we take the requirements at face value and attribute neither incompetence nor malice in that direction, there was never really a need for completely different dimensions than already exist for other cartridges, but there may be a practical need, if indeed this much power is required for future combat engagements.
Last edited by 1168; 04-30-24 at 18:32.
Saint John was there (from SIG).
Mike did confirm that barrels are DONE-ZO by 10k rounds. Not sure how many MOA that is.... sounds like a lot more than the 2.5 they all are supposed to start at.
Puts to bed the earlier bragging I heard from some that the barrels would "easily last 10k rds".
Still interested to see what SIG is using to get to 10k. I suspect it's a lined barrel (a la 240/M2).
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