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Heat is much more the enemy of barrels than raw round counts. Henderson is a rental range that caters to tourists wanting to fire fully automatic weapons and basically spray at 25 yards or so. Based on their business model, I'm fairly certain "sustained rate of fire" is not a thing at Henderson. I'm very happy for some of the feedback they've been able to give, but it's not any kind of field testing, it's really more glorified, unscientific long term destructive testing. No one, for example, feels that an M4A1 can only last ~900 rounds, but under the right circumstances...
Given what they do there, it's not surprising that they burned out an unlined match barrel quite quickly, it's not what the barrel was designed for. Lots of full auto means a lot of heat in a short time, and that will wreck a barrel posthaste--10,000 rounds like that is not the same thing as 10,000 rounds of slow-fire, or even rapid fire.
Unless you too are looking for a full auto rental gun that you can bill as "the gun that killed Bin Laden" to hand to foreign tourists who may never get to actually see or touch a gun in their lives but have been brought up on American movies, I would expect your barrel to last quite a bit longer than Henderson's did.
~Augee
Given what they do there, it's not surprising that they burned out an unlined match barrel quite quickly, it's not what the barrel was designed for. Lots of full auto means a lot of heat in a short time, and that will wreck a barrel posthaste--10,000 rounds like that is not the same thing as 10,000 rounds of slow-fire, or even rapid fire.
Unless you too are looking for a full auto rental gun that you can bill as "the gun that killed Bin Laden" to hand to foreign tourists who may never get to actually see or touch a gun in their lives but have been brought up on American movies, I would expect your barrel to last quite a bit longer than Henderson's did.
~Augee
