fenderjp91
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Hello, any one have experience with the SV 308 with high round counts? I wanted to know what the SV barrel life is. Also can you shoot steel cased rounds in this AR?
Barrel life 308 Saint Victor
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TEXASforLIFE
SAINT
Some members on here shoot steel cased ammo and have no issue with it. Most prefer not to. 308win is easy on barrel life over most all other 308win based cartridges, so shoot up many thousands of rounds.
KillerFord1977
SAINT
Thousand + rounds thru my SV .308… prob ~1200 or so.
Zero issues with the Victor.
None, and I ride my hard .. and it gets muddy
Driver Hit a ditch at night while I was riding shotgun on an upper mount above the bed of a off rode buggy. Victor went about 15’ airborne (prob 25’ total air) out of the gun holder. Scratched the gun. Cleaned it out with a bore snake, cleared all the mechanisms . Went back to business. Broke the thermal scope. That was a year ago. Never issues before or after that
The ammo cost required to wear out a barrel especially right now is way astronomical. A new barrel can be had for a couple hundred and a good barrel for around the 300ish range. So if you can afford the ammo to wear out the barrel, replacing it should not be a problem.
Talyn
SAINT
Throat-erosion will occur before any noticeable rifling wear occurs.
All that can happen in a rifle that sees a lot of rounds go through it, but it depends on how picky you are.
Competitive shooters get picky when throat erosion starts affecting accuracy. Some just set-back the barrel & cut a new chamber. But you can't do that in an AR-type rifle due to the barrel configuration.
All that can happen in a rifle that sees a lot of rounds go through it, but it depends on how picky you are.
Competitive shooters get picky when throat erosion starts affecting accuracy. Some just set-back the barrel & cut a new chamber. But you can't do that in an AR-type rifle due to the barrel configuration.
fenderjp91
Alpha
I haven’t heard back from customer service are the Saint Victor barrels cold hammer forged in either caliber
Talyn
SAINT
At least the Saint barrels are.
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