Is shooting blanks harmful to an AR upper ?

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I once heard it was bad for an AR barrel & gas system to shoot blank ammo...
Is there any truth to this ?

I would suspect that after a few hundred (or even a couple thousand) rounds of blank, alot of carbon will build up in the gas port & tube... places that are hard to clean.
 
Sniper1 said:
I once heard it was bad for an AR barrel & gas system to shoot blank ammo...
Is there any truth to this ?

I would suspect that after a few hundred (or even a couple thousand) rounds of blank, alot of carbon will build up in the gas port & tube... places that are hard to clean.
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No different then shooting ball ammo, just going to see more carbon becuase if your using a BFA it will trap the carbon and gases in the barrel/tube. Clean it, it wouldn't be a problem... After alot of firing ( I mean 30 + mags ) you can bend gas tubes, pitt the barrel and also warp them.

Use Brake cleaner, and Spray it down the tube and pipe cleaners.
 
No ####, we threw literally thousands of them through our M16s, course, not knowing for certain what the armorer's did to them while in the armory, who knows how often they changed out barrels without our knowlege...
 
I once put 900+ blank rounds through a C9 in 20 min. It was lightly raining but i still cooked the yellow paint on the BFA to a funky tan color. Couldn't switch barrels, only issued one BFA. Cleaned out lots of carbon and It shot great live later in the exercise.

The C7's as well. Blank ammo will wear your upper less. No bullet friction and eventually the bore gets a protective coat of carbon. Just make sure you clean if right after so it doesn't collect moisture. Once you fire a couple live rounds that'll blowout the gas tube. It'll just be really dirty after the next shoot as well.
 
I seen the damage of a C7 caused by blanks was a stupid blasting party to get rid of ammo because they could not return the ammo to Canada.

The BFA was fused on, Barrel I bet was messed up because the gas tube was sitting on the bottem of the barrel.
 
The use of blanks is not in itself bad for the rifle. It is just the way we tend to use blanks,, at full auto,, shooting a whole mag pretty well off in one burst etc. The heat generated is extreme,, and that is the problem.

Our fire discipline tends to be much weaker when we use blanks than when we use live ball,, shooting stupidly long bursts, near continuous fire, haphazard aiming (if at all),,
 
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Shelldrake said:
The use of blanks is not in itself bad for the rifle. It is just the way we tend to use blanks,, at full auto,, shooting a whole mag pretty well off in one burst etc. The heat generated is extreme,, and that is the problem.

Our fire discipline tends to be much weaker when we use blanks than when we use live ball,, shooting stupidly long bursts, near continuous fire, haphazard aiming (if at all),,
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I agree. Blanks won't hurt your upper. Letting your rifle overheat will damage it, be it blank or live rounds.
 
Shelldrake said:
The use of blanks is not in itself bad for the rifle. It is just the way we tend to use blanks,, at full auto,, shooting a whole mag pretty well off in one burst etc. The heat generated is extreme,, and that is the problem.

Our fire discipline tends to be much weaker when we use blanks than when we use live ball,, shooting stupidly long bursts, near continuous fire, haphazard aiming (if at all),,
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Cmon... Its fun.....
 
I watched this Regforce guy remove his BFA and started to shoot twigs and stuff and it has enough force to blow them apart... Shooting C7 w/o BFA and blanks, is good for like playing as a sniper, Let people know...
 
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