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Rifles, Reloading, Optics, Equipment
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Caution in the cold
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<blockquote data-quote="RegionRat" data-source="post: 1565206" data-attributes="member: 57231"><p>Not that I would ever encourage people to go out in temps below -40 just to goof off, but it isn't rare for guns and bbls to be used in very cold conditions. Think about those guns on aircraft up at altitude in winter weather... </p><p></p><p>The outside temps on many occasions went between -65 and -100 C and we didn't have issues.</p><p></p><p>Yes, some materials have properties that include a very poor performance after an inflection point with temperatures within the range where humans may still operate. However, the steels commonly encountered for gun bbls are selected with many parameters in the trades. Arctic temperatures are part of the total picture in design requirements for military weapon systems and commercial technology will often follow.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RegionRat, post: 1565206, member: 57231"] Not that I would ever encourage people to go out in temps below -40 just to goof off, but it isn’t rare for guns and bbls to be used in very cold conditions. Think about those guns on aircraft up at altitude in winter weather... The outside temps on many occasions went between -65 and -100 C and we didn’t have issues. Yes, some materials have properties that include a very poor performance after an inflection point with temperatures within the range where humans may still operate. However, the steels commonly encountered for gun bbls are selected with many parameters in the trades. Arctic temperatures are part of the total picture in design requirements for military weapon systems and commercial technology will often follow. [/QUOTE]
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