Polymer cased ammo review
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March 27th, 2014 at 5:13 am
good! I contacted them for their blogger beta testing, and they essentially wanted me to buy the ammo AND deliver them a review.
Also glad I didn’t lose a pre-ban fal mag.
March 27th, 2014 at 12:27 pm
Fascinating. How many times have you heard of a tester ducking and covering to fire some new commercial ammo? For me? Never, until now.
The company response was, essentially; “The ammo is totally safe, but if you’re a private user, please send it back rather than using it.”
I would think that if you wanted to know if your ammo were safe for general use, you’d be sure to find some rifles having chambers in the fringe range of the specs (or you’d create them in your shop by modifying rifles with nominal dimensions, taking the chambers to the edges of acceptability) and test it in those. Surely that would be less expensive than sterile, laboratory-grade pressure testing equipment and universal receivers and barrels.
Anyway that’s what we did when designing and testing accessories for the AK. One of the first things we did was to get a bunch of different AK in various conditions from different makers. I mean, duh. Reality and all? Don’t talk to me about your laboratory conditions. Most people don’t shoot in laboratory conditions. The world consists almost entirely of NOT lab conditions.
March 27th, 2014 at 5:17 pm
So it sounds like the company said that fluted barrels were a bad idea (which does seem a bit obvious), but their response to the failure in the second rifle is… well, it reminds me of another company’s response to a similar failure.
Interesting.
March 27th, 2014 at 5:18 pm
Sorry, s/barrels/chambers.