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Billet receivers may have tighter tolerances, leading to a better fit of components and potentially better accuracy. Billet will usually be slightly heavier to make up for the lack of compressed metal grain.

Experience in Vietnam showed that forgings of were extremely prone to corrosion in humid environments. The T6 in T6 refers to the type of heat treatment used on the aluminum.

It involves heating, quenching, and heating again. This strengthens the aluminum alloy considerably. They list this specification on their manufacturing website. Not many manufacturers specify their buffer tube materials. In many cases, such as with less expensive rifles, the manufacturer may say the receivers are T6, but the buffer tube may be in order save some money. AR carbine receiver extensions should be 1. If going the rifle buffer route, then disregard these dimensions and simply worry about the material.

The BCM rifle above mentions M4 feed ramps on both the barrel and the upper receiver. The M specification called for feed ramps only on the barrel extension alone. This worked fine with the relatively lower pressure rifle gas system and its more moderate cycle rate. That said, you need to pay attention to the combination of rifle and carbine ramps between the barrel and receiver.

A rifle-ramped barrel on a carbine-ramped upper leaves a distinct lip that will jam the rifle. In this configuration, the tip of the bullet gets stuck under the lip. Your options are rifle-to-rifle, carbine-to-carbine, or carbine-barrel to rifle-receiver. To date, the M16A2 and A4 rifles in the inventory still use the rifle ramp configuration.

Nearly everything is using M4 Ramps, including most of the civilian market. If you want to know more about barrels, I highly suggest checking out my article on AR barrels. BCM, for example, goes out of their way to have their barrel steel certified to the spec.

That increases costs, but proves a known quality. Some manufacturers, like BCM, do this on every bolt and barrel they sell. Of course, that raises costs.

Other manufacturers might do it on a few barrels from each batch. Yet others might not do it at all. I have seen one manufacturer state that the value of MPI is greatly diminished without doing the HPT first, so keep that in mind when you see only one or the other. I have also seen another manufacturer of very high-quality rifles, KAC, state that they no longer do these tests out of concerns that the test actually shortens the life of the component.

This rifle has a 5. What you need to know is that a 5. For that reason, most people look for a 5. It allows tolerance for cheap surplus ammunition. Lucky Gunner did a great study in looking at the truth to all of this.

However, be advised that it is a fairly new process, and the temperatures that the barrel must be heated to are pretty high. The long term effects of heating the barrel in such a manner are not well understood. An F-Marked base means that the shelf of the front sight is the correct height for detachable carry handles. Keep in mind that nearly all rear sights made today are designed to work with F-marked front sight bases. Taper pinning means that the barrel and front sight base are drilled on the bottom to match The front sight is secured by wedging steel pins through the sight and grooves.

This is the most secure way to attach a front sight or gas block. First, any removal of material from the barrel in such a non-uniform way could result in changing the harmonic vibration of the barrel during firing, which means decreased accuracy.

That is why a lot of match rifles have clamp-on gas blocks. Secondly, taper pinning is unique to the front sight or gas block you are using. You cannot simply remove the base and put another one in its place.

Quality manufacturers not only pin the FSB in place, but they also make sure that it is straight. Some budget brand ARs have the FSB pinned, but it will be crooked, and there is no fixing it once the pin holes are drilled.

If you want to swap to a new gas block, I suggest shaving down the FSB rather than trying to refit a different one in its place. The bolt is made from Carpenter tool steel. Always remember that government contracts typically go the cheapest path that meets their reliability needs. The bolt should be shot peened, which increases the resistance of the bolt to fatigue.

The same pros and cons apply. A t ool steel extractor simply means that the extractor is better than soft pot metal. That means that the carrier is the same dimensions and weight as the original select fire design. This does NOT mean that your rifle will fire fully automatic. The AUTO refers more to the weight and dimensions. You can see the difference below. You should only consider them for lightweight operation in competition rifles- and even those styles like the JP LMOS are much better designed.

Staking is the process of indenting fastening screws in certain key areas to prevent the fastener from backing out.

You should not see anyone using Locktite or other thread lockers on these areas- they should be staked into place. This includes the bolt carrier gas key, two screws staked twice each, and the castle nut of a carbine buffer tube. I could go on and grab some ads from other web sites for comparison, but I want to leave that up to you. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. The information here would have melted the servers in The debates were furious and frequent.

No testing and no YouTube to profess from the mountain top the merits of this and that…until it happened. The only thing I can offer to this article is that chrome lining tends to be HRC 73 Rockwell Hardness C-scale and nitride tends to produce a surface hardness of Hey Mark!

I knew about the hardness for chrome lining, but not the softness of nitriding. Your question about and regarding throat erosion is a good one, though. I know in knives … Read more ». The temperature for that is around to degrees F.

Nitriding for rifle barrels happens around to degrees F. Another very helpful article for me. Thanks for that! When will it arrive? Zip Code: Update Delivery Dates. Made in USA. Notify Me when available. Add product to Wish List. The Competitive AR the ultimate technical guide takes an indepth look at every system component and rifle configuration in a total of 30 segments.

To help answer the questions of what to get and what to do, this book features detailed segments on a dozen different project rifles. I also took a look at the other end of that spectrum and evaluated two factory-built target rifles. That's not all that's in here, of course, because each and every major system and component set gets its own separate segment: magazines, bolts and carriers, gas system, triggers, stocks, forends, sights optics too , even firing pins!

There's a huge handloading segment, as you would expect A lot has changed over the past few years, and here's the low-down on what's working and what's not.

It can be easy. Also, there are several cartridge alternatives now, like the Grendel, and all are featured in this segment. Was the information on this page helpful?