Re: To Chrome or Not to Chrome
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: greyhat</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I was under the impression that a chromed barrel was to prevent corrosion from beredan-primed ammunition, and using a chromed barrel actually degraded accuracy. The only beredan-primed ammunition around is only soviet surplus stuff, it's real cheap, but you need to pour boiling water or ammonia down the barrel right after firing or it start rusting. chroming the barrel solves that.
I'm in Canada and we shoot the beradan-primed stuff in the sks's. I don't think you get any down there. So unless your 15 is 7.62x39 then all your doing is negatively affecting accuracy.
This is just what I've been told up here. Chroming the outside would only serve to make it look pimp. </div></div>
Berdan priming has nothing to do with the corrosive primers, although a lot of corrosive ammo came from international surplus like Czech, Yugo, Russian, China, etc. and they used corrosive primers until the late 70's.
A chrome BCG helps cleaning, but my AR cleans easy enough without it and it's reliable. I have a factory Armalite upper and no complaints with cleaning, functioning, but I do notice a differnce in accuracy with the chrome lined barrel vs. others. At the time I bought it, I wasn't in the position to complain because of the 1 day sale that Armalite was having, complete A3 flat top 20" upper to my door for 350 bucks. I'd do it again without hesitation.
