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The entire internet is mental retardation. The Bear Pit is only a solar system in the Bullshit Galaxy, which is contained in the WTF Universe, otherwise known as the Ultimate Honeytrap.

Noveske DDF Barrels

A while back, I posted about a CHF barrel I had that would hold .8-1MOA even from my meager hands for about 12 rounds. From there on out, it would grow about 1MOA for each 5-7 rounds fired (not rapidly either). When doing a 6x5, I'd be lucky to keep the last 5 of a 30-round mag in a 5" circle at 100y.

While I have made some impressive first, second, third round hits on targets at distance that should be beyond .223/5.56 much less this non-precision setup. However, I (and I'm sure some others) would find its shifting to be unacceptable even outside the scope of a gasser.

What I think some fail to realize, is that if an individual wishes to do a days worth of shooting/training, they are at the mercy of either:
a) allowing the gun to cool to acceptable limits...i.e. time management
b) understanding where the gun is in the cooling cycle and working within those limits.

As always, there is a complete failure to grasp nuance and go full-retard to the "do 5 mag dumps" as well as ignore much less what is the purpose.


Just for fun, I'll leave this here, from a peer of mine that likes doing stupid accuracy shit with bullet hoses:


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Perhaps if one was on a rooftop in Najaf...
I thought my post was dripping with irony, but a 40 round string isn’t out of the realm of possibility for a 2 gun, 3 gun, “practical carbine,” or run and gun competition stage. To speak nothing of a carbine training course. And, wasn’t Noveske a SEAL or something? I’d suspect his experiences colored the goals of the company.

Improperly stress reliever barrels will not only open up as they heat (which I would expect of any barrel), but they will also start to string shots, change mean point of impact, and throw wild flyers. This probably isn’t an issue if you’re hunting pigs and you only get a hand full of shots. Or, if you’re sitting at a bench on a square range and can shoot at a slow cadence.

But, when you pull up to the comp stage, it is what it is. Double tap 15 and targets ranging from 15-300 yards with an aggressive par time and you’re heating your barrel right up. Then there’s the 2 day carbine course that says “bring 1000 rounds.” Bring gloves too, b/c that barrel’s gonna be hot. And yeah, there are environments where gunfire spawns targets.

Current Surgeon vs AI Action

Here’s a nice little timeline of that day from the ol iPhone photo bank. The conditions driving out, the conditions there, a few of the pieces of brass during while we were laughing out asses off that this gun was still working, and then the aftermath of how many primers that rifle ate and didn’t skip a beat.

I like Surgeon actions and love impact actions, but they WILL NOT run with an AI when the conditions are shit. I’ve shot matches where my rifle was caked in mud and it didn’t stop working when others were struggling to get a single round off.

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Current Surgeon vs AI Action

The AI comp trigger is a bix n Andy and they are money. They won’t require replacement if you pierce one single primer like a TT.

If you run them at a few ounces though and don’t maintain them at all and let them get packed full of gunk they’ll have issues just like anything else. Just about anything mechanical will fail from lack of maintenance.

The only AI that I have ever seen fail at a match was my own after I pierced enough primers with high pressure ammo and small primers in my large pin AXMC to finally jam the firing pin up with pieces of primer cup. I knew this was a problem with large pins and I fucked around and found out.

On another note I was shooting another AX one day years before that with very hot loaded ammo in heavy rain and it was blowing the primers out of the cases and several went into the bolt lug recess and that gun was literally eating primers and did not stop functioning. They are beasts and there’s really nothing else that even gives them a run for their money.
XTSP manufacturers the AI comp trigger.