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Posted: 2/27/2011 2:31:53 PM EDT
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Hello All,
I am new to the forum and new to the world of AR's. I tried to find an intro page with no luck (maybe someone can point me in the right direction??) To get to the point, I recently picked up a beautiful S&W M&P 15x and was slightly concered at the range this morning. I fired a magazine of 30 rounds (Federal 5.56 bulk 55 grain FMJ) with about a second between each shot, layed the rifle down for about 3 mintues and fired my handgun, then ran another 30 round magazine through with about one second between each shot. I then notice a small amount of light smoke coming through hand rail and the barrel was extremely hot. I comptley understand the hot barrel, however the smoke concerns me. Is this normal? The gun was striped, cleaned, and lubed prior to shooting. Thank you for any help and I am looking forward to learning much much more on this forum. |
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The smoke should just be the oil burning off the barrel...Same as if you change the oil in your car and get some on the engine and it burns off from the heat.
You shouldn't have any issues...Myself and many others here have shot way more rounds a lot faster than what your desribing. Welcome to the site BTW...Look at the top of this forum through the AR15 FAQs and you will learn a lot. |
| Your barrel is not overheated until it cooks off the chambered round, at which point you better get the mag out of it. That's one thing that people don't think about when storing guns loaded - that in case of a fire, you could have numerous guns popping off and reloading themselves to do it again. Fire/Rescue people don't like that - a lot. |
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Wow. What is the purpose of that? It was a post sample machinegun that was owned by an SOT that allowed his license to lapse. He could either cut the gun up per BATF regs or he could abuse the crap out of it and have some fun before cutting it up to BATF regs. |
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Your barrel is not overheated until it cooks off the chambered round, at which point you better get the mag out of it. That's one thing that people don't think about when storing guns loaded - that in case of a fire, you could have numerous guns popping off and reloading themselves to do it again. Fire/Rescue people don't like that - a lot. This deserves to be quoted. I spent 8 years in Fire/Rescue and I can tell you that is NOT a good feeling to see a semi-auto cooking off in a fire. Loose rounds I could deal with (no that I even wanted to do that) but those that reload.....:( |
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