
Originally Posted by
C4IGrant
From conversations I have had with various companies, I would say that they failure rate is around 3%.
C4
I'm curious what round count you would peg the 3% failure rate to occur by. I'm pretty confident that over 95% of all AR's out there now haven't seen round #1001 yet (all but one of mine included, sadly), and I'm assuming the types of failures that would be highlighted and caught early by HPT/MPI testing would increase drastically as the round count got over 5k, and catastrophic failures (I'm assuming bolt lug or separation at the cam pin hole).
The discussion on this really should be an academic one, but it's the internet, and we're cheap: fact remains that to see wear related failures on rifles it usually costs at least the original cost of the rifle in ammunition to really expect part failures, which among the population of completed ARs is the exception, not the rule.
Virtually anybody with the experience to budget their rifle AND the rounds they expect for it to see immediately realize the false economy of cheap barrels and BCG's, and just go exclusively with stuff from the half dozen top end manufacturers.
What makes me the most curious is how many original sources there are for bolts. CMT as far as I know makes a large amount of them, and they get used by lots of other companies (but emerge in many unique flavors - cheap, MPI tested alone, HPT/MPI).
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