dakota.potts
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Hopefully this is a good forum for this thread.
I hear all the time that it's OK to shoot steel cased ammo in Russian or Eastern European guns because they're "designed" to shoot steel cases.
So, debates about steel-cased ammo being good or bad in American guns aside, if you were wanting to manufacture a gun in America that was designed to run a steady diet of steel cased ammo without voiding the warranty or leading to irregular service life, how would you do it? What are the design features that make a gun "designed" to shoot steel cased ammo?
My thoughts:
Dual extractors to increase reliability of primary extraction and take the stress/wear off of a single extractor unit.
Hardening and possibly coating (nitride, titanium, or other) extractors and ejector
Hardened, heavy firing pin spring for reliable ignition
Fluted chamber to help aid in extracting sticky cases and avoid issues regarding buildup in the chamber.
Chrome lining or nitride treating the barrel to combat advanced barrel wear.
If, theoretically, the issue is with guns being designed or not designed to fire steel cased ammunition, it seems like this list of changes would be a good place to start with designing a gun to reliably take this type of ammo.
Thoughts?
I hear all the time that it's OK to shoot steel cased ammo in Russian or Eastern European guns because they're "designed" to shoot steel cases.
So, debates about steel-cased ammo being good or bad in American guns aside, if you were wanting to manufacture a gun in America that was designed to run a steady diet of steel cased ammo without voiding the warranty or leading to irregular service life, how would you do it? What are the design features that make a gun "designed" to shoot steel cased ammo?
My thoughts:
Dual extractors to increase reliability of primary extraction and take the stress/wear off of a single extractor unit.
Hardening and possibly coating (nitride, titanium, or other) extractors and ejector
Hardened, heavy firing pin spring for reliable ignition
Fluted chamber to help aid in extracting sticky cases and avoid issues regarding buildup in the chamber.
Chrome lining or nitride treating the barrel to combat advanced barrel wear.
If, theoretically, the issue is with guns being designed or not designed to fire steel cased ammunition, it seems like this list of changes would be a good place to start with designing a gun to reliably take this type of ammo.
Thoughts?