Barrett Field Craft. New LW hunting rifle.

Bartledan said:
Fair enough. Reading back, I definitely need to apologize for my tone. I'm sorry.

I've been building machines for a long time, and made a great living doing it. I design them, and I build them. I'm right there on the shop floor. I know enough about manufacturing processes, quality assurance, process optimization, etc. that people pay me a lot for my opinion. Guns are just machines. Simple machines at that, and I know machines. Stainless isn't "sticky". Galling requires pressure and relative motion and similar grades and hardnesses of stainless (or Ti. Ti is brutal) A very small amount of lubricant in dry or wet form will competely prevent galling. IPSC open guns are often stainless and go tens of thousands of rounds.

My all-stainless kimber 84L has had every part reduced in size such that stresses are higher everwhere, and it still works, therefore stainless works. QED. Small shops have to use simplified processes due to a lack of scale economies, that's all, and crmo is easy to heat treat.

If you guys want to ignore me, fine. Please, God, do so. But you can't refute arguments with name calling or ridicule.
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Any thoughts on using one of the berylium copper metals for the bolt head, as opposed to 4140? I'm curious why we don't see more of it, especially around titanium actions.
 
1899 said:
Bump - any Fieldcraft owners with reports yet?
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I've been around one in 6.5CM a bunch now. The owner is a friend of mine and regular shooting partner. They are impressive little rifles. Excellent fit/finish and design. Easy to load for. He's had good to excellent accuracy with a few different projectiles. Settling on the 127LRX and 147ELD, the ones he wanted to use from the start. They seem like a great option in the LW rifle category. I'd buy one in a heartbeat, if they made a LH version.
 
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Bartledan said:
Fair enough. Reading back, I definitely need to apologize for my tone. I'm sorry.

I've been building machines for a long time, and made a great living doing it. I design them, and I build them. I'm right there on the shop floor. I know enough about manufacturing processes, quality assurance, process optimization, etc. that people pay me a lot for my opinion. Guns are just machines. Simple machines at that, and I know machines. Stainless isn't "sticky". Galling requires pressure and relative motion and similar grades and hardnesses of stainless (or Ti. Ti is brutal) A very small amount of lubricant in dry or wet form will competely prevent galling. IPSC open guns are often stainless and go tens of thousands of rounds.

My all-stainless kimber 84L has had every part reduced in size such that stresses are higher everwhere, and it still works, therefore stainless works. QED. Small shops have to use simplified processes due to a lack of scale economies, that's all, and crmo is easy to heat treat.

If you guys want to ignore me, fine. Please, God, do so. But you can't refute arguments with name calling or ridicule.
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i had 2 push feed m70 rifles one blue one stainless. the blue was smooth the stainless sticky. i still have the sticky one. on the other hand i have other stainless rifles that arent sticky and the stickyest ones are cz blued but my smoothest rifles are blued not that i care so much
 
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