These failure/ wear numbers seem really high...
No, I don’t have empirical data except for firing tens of thousands of rounds out of AR platforms and never seeing a bolt failure. But that is not scientific.
But it seems to me that everything from barrels to bolts need to last for more than 100 30-round magazines on a combat rifle. I get that we haven’t had ww2 and that even in Fallujah, likely no one fired 3000 rounds. But what army would stick with a rifle that fails at 3000 rounds?
The numbers seem odd.
Interesting thread...
Sirhr
No, I don’t have empirical data except for firing tens of thousands of rounds out of AR platforms and never seeing a bolt failure. But that is not scientific.
But it seems to me that everything from barrels to bolts need to last for more than 100 30-round magazines on a combat rifle. I get that we haven’t had ww2 and that even in Fallujah, likely no one fired 3000 rounds. But what army would stick with a rifle that fails at 3000 rounds?
The numbers seem odd.
Interesting thread...
Sirhr
