The concept is excellent, but has concept been turned into practical application? If you can't buy the reloading components, It can never be brought to its full potential.
Etronix rifles used ammo with electrically fired primers. Not off the shelf regular ammo.
Hence one of the reasons it didn't catch on.
Etronix rifles used ammo with electrically fired primers. Not off the shelf regular ammo.
Hence one of the reasons it didn't catch on.
AFIK the Etronix system was designed to use current over the counter ammunition it has been tested and proven that a sufficient electrical discharge will cause a standard cartridge to fire just like the Browning system
remington website said:Model 700™ EtronX™
Here's how the Model 700 EtronX works: The electronic fire control has no moving parts other than the trigger. No sear to be released. No firing pin to strike the primer. Instead, an internal electrical circuit sends a charge through the system to our electrically responsive primer