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Barrel Life - key factors?
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<blockquote data-quote="FAL Shot" data-source="post: 573334" data-attributes="member: 27328"><p>If you have a hard chrome lined military barrel, it should exceed this chart by quite a bit. I was told my hard chromed barrel on my FAL was good for tens of thousands of rounds if I treated it reasonably well. The receiver has a design life of 80,000 full power rounds, so the barrel should last a rather large percentage of that.</p><p> </p><p>Hard chrome lined barrels have far less fouling than standard barrels, that is a fact. My FAL barrel copper fouls very slowly then cleans up in a jiffy. I had similar experience with a chrome lined Colt AR-15 barrel. I have shot both rifles to 200 rounds without cleaning at the range with only light copper fouling afterwards, somtimes in rapid fire with a very warm barrel.</p><p> </p><p>The chart seems to say better to stay away from slow powders if max barrel life is important.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FAL Shot, post: 573334, member: 27328"] If you have a hard chrome lined military barrel, it should exceed this chart by quite a bit. I was told my hard chromed barrel on my FAL was good for tens of thousands of rounds if I treated it reasonably well. The receiver has a design life of 80,000 full power rounds, so the barrel should last a rather large percentage of that. Hard chrome lined barrels have far less fouling than standard barrels, that is a fact. My FAL barrel copper fouls very slowly then cleans up in a jiffy. I had similar experience with a chrome lined Colt AR-15 barrel. I have shot both rifles to 200 rounds without cleaning at the range with only light copper fouling afterwards, somtimes in rapid fire with a very warm barrel. The chart seems to say better to stay away from slow powders if max barrel life is important. [/QUOTE]
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