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Posted: 1/30/2013 8:02:17 AM EDT
| Got a new ar and looking for your guys opinions on bresking it in. How many rounds between oil and cleanings.....shooting foriegn ammo over us and anything else you guys might have good ideas on! |
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Got a new ar and looking for your guys opinions on bresking it in. How many rounds between oil and cleanings.....shooting foriegn ammo over us and anything else you guys might have good ideas on! NIB rack grade carbines proving test. not a break in. I like to shoot 500rds on the first day Then the next another 500rds. If it doesnt have any problems I will use it for SD.. I dont clean it until after the 1000rds are fired. Keep the carrier /bolt lube with oil and it should run a long time. Ive found foriegn SS109 or 5.56 55gr Ball to be just as good. Now a high end match Grade SS barrel I would use the mans. advice. 
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I like the replies just shoot and keep well lubed!!! Forgot one other thing... on the lower it says cal. .223-5.56 and on the barrel it just says 5.56 if I understand things correctly this means I can shoot .223 and 5.56 thru my gun correct? The barrel is marked with what the chamber is, yours is 5.56; you can still shoot .223 in it. The Ammo Oracle (whats left of it) 
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I like the replies just shoot and keep well lubed!!! Forgot one other thing... on the lower it says cal. .223-5.56 and on the barrel it just says 5.56 if I understand things correctly this means I can shoot .223 and 5.56 thru my gun correct? Yes, your GTG shooting .223 out of a AR that is chambered in 5.56mm All my AR's are chambered in 5.56mm , but 5.56mm is all I shoot out of them. |
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Shoot whatever you want out of it. Steel cased isn't bad. What WILL happen is if you are rattling off rounds with steel cased ammo and you leave one in the chamber and then put your gun on safety and put it down and then come back to it, even over 30 seconds or a minute, whatever, you will have a stuck case. So the next round you fire will shoot but then fail to extract.
If you're slow firing you won't run into this issue. If you're mag dumping you will. |
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Shoot whatever you want out of it. Steel cased isn't bad. What WILL happen is if you are rattling off rounds with steel cased ammo and you leave one in the chamber and then put your gun on safety and put it down and then come back to it, even over 30 seconds or a minute, whatever, you will have a stuck case. So the next round you fire will shoot but then fail to extract. If you're slow firing you won't run into this issue. If you're mag dumping you will. I read over 30 threads on steel casings yesterday. You made it a lot more clear in three lines. .223 ammo is hard to get, and I got a good buy on 200 rounds of Russian with steel casings. I feel better about using it now, Shoot slow, or empty chamber before stopping. Right? |
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