More along the lines of induced failures like the VP9 or AKOU tests, than the high round count stuff from BV or Filthy 14, I love reading about this kind of stuff regardless:
$500 PSA Torture Test
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More along the lines of induced failures like the VP9 or AKOU tests, than the high round count stuff from BV or Filthy 14, I love reading about this kind of stuff regardless:
$500 PSA Torture Test
The AKOU can sure be brutal on a rifle!
The Javelin test seems hilarious.
Some of those can get ridiculous and unlikely.
I expected it to break the barrel at the extension, but guess not!
I really don't understand why the Internet defacto of a good rifle is dragging it, and pouring sand into the chamber. Cool and fun test, but I'd rather hear from the guys running classes on what guns work. Because I don't tobagon my rifle or build sand castles with it. I shoot it, and that's what I expect it to do.
I've seen a he'll of a lot of this type of 'test' over the years and the only firm observation I've made is the the results are never consistent.
To be a real test it has to be similar to what the FBI did with the 1911 trials, this is more entertaining than educational
That's kind of a waste of money and a decent rifle.
I don't think that the drag tests do much besides abrade the high points on the rifle and jack up the optics (MBUS do well here though), myself. I think that throwing the rifle down the side of a hill would be more instructive. High round count stuff is obviously going to take a lot of money and time, so I understand why those ties of tests are not as common.
Yeah, they aren't so good at building sand castles, but maybe ice sculpting? Lawn aeration?
The rifle still functions, even if it looks a little worse for the wear. I was advocating doing a decent clean and apocalypse lube job with dirty motor oil, and then a 200rd mag dump to assess worse case functionality, but haven't seen any plans for that yet.