More RRA/DPMS/BM/etc in circulation than Colt/BCM/DD/etc?
Do top tier shooters generally make smarter ammo choices?
Do top tier weapons (5.56 chambers, milspec steel, FA carriers) stand up better to bad ammo?
Just trying to get an idea on why I can’t recall hearing about half of a BCM upper receiver shredding away but it seems almost weekly another lower tier gun has blown up.
Is it even ammo related at all? You don’t need an overpressured round if your rifle was built out of spec and the headspace has finally given enough to allow 58,000psi of hot gas to go somewhere other than down the barrel.
One of the girls I work with, Capt. in the Army for a psy ops NG unit, had her Rock River at the range today and the bolt kept locking up in the forward position with a round chambered. Couldnt pull the trigger or move the selector switch. She had been letting a few other coworkers shoot it and tried to blame the malfunction on them at first. Funny stuff. I have never seen this happen before and that bolt was a son of a bitch to pull back and extract the trapped round. She is shooting ammo from Summit who I know nothing about. I told her it probably wasnt safe to shoot that rifle anymore so she stowed it. Monday I am going to have to let her know that rifle is garbage and it is time to get a new one.
Another major issue is people shooting 5.56 ammo in a .223 chamber. Most shit rifles have a .223 chamber regardless of their markings on the rifle or their claims of “mil-spec.”
I’ve read reports lately(last year, maybe longer) of some really shitty ammo from various manufacturers. EAG has even stopped allowing certain brands/variations in their classes. While the recent “kabooms” may be ammo related, like most things, it’s probably a combination of stupidity that leads to the issues.
There was a guy at the LaRue 3-gun who had his JP (I think it was a JP) rifle go down due to ammo. I guess he went for a double tap and the first round was a squib, the second sealed the deal. He said that he rolled his own.
He was lucky that he didn’t get hurt. The carrier was split in two inside the receiver, lots of carnage. I wish I would have taken a picture, but I think that would have been a jerk move…the guy was upset. The LaRue Stealth he bought on sight made him feel better though.
Starting to see a lot more AR’s go down like that though.
I think it’s this and the people who blow up nice rifles probably know why it blew up and are less likely to publicize it on the internet.
I personally know a guy that blew up an MRP upper because he was shooting some cheap reloads he got off a guy that was selling them because they were too hot…
There are far more of the economy and sport/hobby guns than the better. Not unexpectedly, they will be seen more in problem stats.
Overcharged rounds and shooting into a bore obstructions will destroy even the best guns. The better guns/components are more likely to survive threshold events, however.
Shooting 5.56 ammo in a .223 is a bad choice, but produces accelerated wear, stoppages and malfunctions, and small parts breakage rather than catastrophic destruction (kB!) of the gun.
Over the last few years, manufacturers have been cranking out ammo and at a furious pace, and issues have become more frequent. What was once squarely in the domain of the low-end and gun show reloaders is now in the mainstream.
You’re going to recommend that she scrap an entire rifle because of a single type of malfunction, caused by a type of ammo that most of us have likely never heard of?
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Don’t think that I’m taking this too seriously or are otherwise trying to knock you, but bad call amigo.
Yep last one was a Noveske with a blended pistol /rifle powder reload I do believe!! I don’t care where it’s on the tier that would blow any rifle!:eek: I do believe they were also SBR’s -seems like the shorties like to blow!:rolleyes:
While RRA rifles may not be the best, my agency has been using them for almost 10 years with thousands of rounds down range with no problems whatsoever. We have 14 of the CAR UTE models.
