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Posted: 7/19/2004 9:17:10 AM EDT
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Are Titanium firing pins worth the extra cash? Thanks |
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Dupe. What is with the large volume of dupe threads lately? www.castle-hams.com/forums/topic.html?b=3&f=118&t=195108 |
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I say it is worth the extra cost. The cost of added safety! I have a 10” barrel M16 and the titanium has the faster locking time which is nice on the 10” barrels. The short barrels very sensitive to bolt bounce and locking time. Also if you ever had a slam fire on your gun you don’t forget that right away. The titanium is much lighter and helps prevent slam fire. I would say on a M16 run titanium for safety and reliability but on a AR15 Chromed steel is just fine. |
How safe is it when the chipped Ti Pin pierces the primer?
WHY? 1) the 'faster locking time' is measured in milliseconds (so it's insignificant) 2) the THEORETICAL advantage is the extra 0.01 MOA increase in accurace for MATCH guns - do you think you'll see a difference in a 10" carbine?
?? None of which has any relavance to how fast you can move the firing pin 0.2".
Sorry I haven't heard of slam fires in the AR since the problem was cured in the early 1960s. The only ones I've heard of were from reloads (primer seated too high) and one where the rifle was so filty the pin was stuck. Neither issue would have been cured with a Ti Pin.
?? Both of which are decreased when using the Ti Firing pin. Let me guess you sell these overpriced 'magic charms' to all the wannabe commandos right? |
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Titanium I thought was stronger and lighter then steel. A titanium firing pin chipping (to hard). If titanium can chip, why can’t chromed steel firing pins chip also? So they manufacture clams titanium increase locking time how does it then, (weight of titanium)? And for slam fire I have done this with factory loads and yes during some of my reloads using soft primers and the primer being to high in the primer pocket. No I do not sell titanium firing pins, and no I do not work in the firearm industry. All I was doing was giving a little advice from what I had observed. I wasn’t try to make anyone angry over this was just my advice on this subject.hinking.gif |
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see response in other thread Are Ti Pins worth the $33? Mods can we get a lock on this duplicate thread? |
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