My observations:So its cool to shoot ass steel ammo through your nice AR and blow the barrel out of it in 6K rounds because =you save enough to buy a new barrel.....and then replace all the parts in the BCG as well.
Steel might be real but in ammo it is suckage.
- Current Bushmaster is not a nice AR. A nice AR would have faired better in the testing.
- 6-10k rounds in a few days time with minimal cleaning is asking ALOT from a rifle. A longer time frame with shorter cleaning intervals could produce longer life in those guns.
- A replacement Bushmaster barrel is not $250. It's way less, possibly almost half that.
- If you buy 6000 rounds of steel case at $180 per case (pre-Covid) versus $280 for brass case, you saved $600. You could buy a really good barrel for $200, rebuild the BCG for like $30. You'd still have $370 leftover. Now you can buy 2000 more rounds of steel case.
My point is, if a person is just looking to keep training costs down, steel case makes absolute sense. Yes, it is not as good as brass case, definitely not disputing that. But if I can train with 8k rounds of ammo versus 6k rounds of ammo, for the same dollar amount spent, why wouldn't I do that?
*Obviously if someone reloads, that could change some numbers around, so I could see an argument there to use the brass case instead, but the number of people who reload are less than those who don't.
And my final point. Who is going to shoot that much ammo in their AR over the next few years?? I bet none of us!
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