What is the possibility if any, of shooting out a chrome lined barrel while shooting it? I guess how many rounds could you shoot at one time before the barrel is ruined, or is that not realistically possible?
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What is the possibility if any, of shooting out a chrome lined barrel while shooting it? I guess how many rounds could you shoot at one time before the barrel is ruined, or is that not realistically possible?
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All depends on the volume of shooting.
For most people, they'll never really wear out an AR barrel.
Quite another story if you train/shoot alot or are lucky enough to have a legally registered M16 lower and copious amounts of ammunition.
Thats kind of what I'm trying to get at. Do you think a barrel would be ruined if you shot lets say 2k rounds in an hour or less full auto. Or would it take more than that?
63 magazines x 30 rounds each = 1890 rounds
63 magazines x $15 each = $ 945
1890 rounds @ $0.33 each = $630 plus tax.
Add 12 bucks for a can of Break Free.
Add $300 for a new barrel.
So it's going to cost $1900 bucks for that one hour. It better be hellish fun.
In an AR type platform, firing 2,000 rds in an hour you'd almost certainly have to worry about the weapon cooking off due to the heat, and it wouldn't be doing your barrel any favors.
Back in 2004 I experienced a cook off in an M4 after firing about 14 mags in a row on 3 rd burst. Not a fun experience and very dangerous.
Cook-off, smook-off. That was a ND.:D
When you did that, was it in a battle? I'm tring to figure if in a realistic situation if it would happen. I would be in semi auto though. Your saying 420 rounds back to back in three round burst may have been bad, but do you think it ruined you barrel? Or do you think if it cooled down it would be gtg?
I would say after it cooled down it would be gtg. Did it put some wear on the barrel hell yeah. But say it was a military issued rifle which is a hammer forged barrel. I believe they have a barrel life of close to 30,000 rnds down the tube. But as said in a previous post your accuracy slowly begins to decrease over time. And the more its fired the quicker that accuracy decreases.
From what I've seen with M16A1s and a couple M4 is that the gas port starts to eroad and the gun starts to FTE more when heats dumped in it. I have seen pretty shot out barrels that still shoot up till the rifle gets hot.
I have never had a change to shoot M16A2 that much to see if its any different but I would guess not.