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AR15/10 Rifles
Ruger SFAR 308 first impressions
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<blockquote data-quote="Okanogan" data-source="post: 2643909" data-attributes="member: 90397"><p>You certainly put more effort into reading the SFAR manual than I did, not that it is a bad thing.</p><p></p><p>I don't know why the SFAR would be any more susceptible to cooking off rounds than any other AR platform, which I think have a relatively low risk of occurrence. I'm not a dump multiple 20/30 round magazines kind of guy but obviously others have done it with other AR platforms, and I have yet to hear any first accounts of cooking off a round in an AR. That doesn't make me an expert though.</p><p></p><p>I shot 5 round groups at the range in about 2 minutes and then let the SFAR cool with the chamber empty and bolt open. Overheating the barrel is hard on your equipment and not good for accuracy. If nothing else, letting a round sit in a hot chamber for a while is likely to change the powder temperature and have the potential to increase pressure. I think if you use your equipment in any kind of reasonable fashion such as what you've described, you don't have to worry about it. The Ruger instruction to unload the firearm and chamber when you're done shooting sounds like good advice though for a number of reasons.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Okanogan, post: 2643909, member: 90397"] You certainly put more effort into reading the SFAR manual than I did, not that it is a bad thing. I don't know why the SFAR would be any more susceptible to cooking off rounds than any other AR platform, which I think have a relatively low risk of occurrence. I'm not a dump multiple 20/30 round magazines kind of guy but obviously others have done it with other AR platforms, and I have yet to hear any first accounts of cooking off a round in an AR. That doesn't make me an expert though. I shot 5 round groups at the range in about 2 minutes and then let the SFAR cool with the chamber empty and bolt open. Overheating the barrel is hard on your equipment and not good for accuracy. If nothing else, letting a round sit in a hot chamber for a while is likely to change the powder temperature and have the potential to increase pressure. I think if you use your equipment in any kind of reasonable fashion such as what you've described, you don't have to worry about it. The Ruger instruction to unload the firearm and chamber when you're done shooting sounds like good advice though for a number of reasons. [/QUOTE]
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