Hello,
I know it's been discussed before, topics have come up before about it, but there hasn't been a definitive, or even general consensus type answer that I could divine out of the situation, so let me ask it once more, so I can make a quick decision about what I need to do:
At what point should a bolt be "married" to it's barrel? i.e. After how many rounds of firing should a once brand new bolt, having been used in a used barrel never be seperated from that barrel? Is it even a round count threshold kind of thing? I've got what was originally a brand new bolt when I got a hold of it, that I threw into a used barrel, but now I'm thinking about swapping barrels out again for another used barrel. At what point, though, should I just give up that idea, and call it quits, and just buy a new bolt for the new (used) barrel?
At this point, the (once) new bolt has less than 500 rounds on it, but I still like to shoot, and I don't see any reason not to shoot while waiting on a new barrel. But maybe there is one...
Opinions?
Thanks,
~Augee