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Spot on! Small point, but some AKMs are milled receivers. On the chrome bore, there are a lot of guns that intentionally don’t chrome or melonite/nitrocarboriz
by SlowRobotAhead 8y ago
Spot on! Small point, but some AKMs are milled receivers.
On the chrome bore, there are a lot of guns that intentionally don’t chrome or melonite/nitrocarborize, but it’s typically precision guns. Oddly the HK MR556 doesn’t, but that’s probably also penny pinching as you said.
As it were, Sullivan is still around, and still working on the AR15 design. He just worked on a new carrier design that’s longer with a sliding mass for Surefire.
- int_19h 8y ago> On the chrome bore, there are a lot of guns that intentionally don’t chrome or melonite/nitrocarborize, but it’s typically precision guns. Yep, but we're talking extreme precision at that point, the kind that is rarely needed for military firearms. So, like, .338 LM bolt action rifles for extreme ranges, maybe? I know that e.g. M82 is chrome-lined, as are most DMRs. For civilian guns, it used to be very common to skimp on chrome for cheap ARs. In the past few years, nitriding got cheap enough that it is more common than nothing even in the lowest market segment, but even so there are other hold-outs like Ruger (AR-556) and Del-Ton that still do neither.