Torture Test...

[venemous]

My 15-22 has approx 10k rounds through it. After 5k or so with many FTE's and quite a few failures to feed and an OOB, I sent it back. Since I got it back it has been 100% perfect. After a 425 rd range session today I decided I'm going to run the heck out of it until it fails.

No cleaning. Minimal lubrication. See how long it goes.

Round count since cleaning: 425
150 550 bulk
100 Mini Mags
125Fed Automatch
50 Blazers

Prior to today it was cleaned spotless and lubed with Rem oil.

 

[grimreaper21]

What were the 3 letters of the serial?

 

[chuck s]

Why are you doing this?

-- Chuck

 

[arizona98tj]

.....I'm going to run the heck out of it until it fails.

No cleaning. Minimal lubrication. See how long it goes.

Is this how you maintain your automobile too?

Doing this is probably OK for both the rifle and the car. Maintenance and lubrication are highly over rated.

 

[Lian]

Why are you doing this?

-- Chuck

the same reason the guys at pistol-training.com did their torture tests to their HK P30 and HK45 pistols.

to see how durable it is, what fails and when, etc etc.
any gun will perform perfectly in perfect situations... but good guns are made to run and run and run.

the HK45 and P30 did like 7k+ rounds between cleanings.

 

[grimreaper21]

if you feel like buying another one after it fails, then feel free to run the experiment, albeit an expensive one.

 

[venemous]

What were the 3 letters of the serial?

DTH

Why are you doing this?

-- Chuck

Curiosity. Back in the day I had run a few thousand rounds through a stainless 10-22 without cleaning it with no apparent ill effects. Cleaned it up once I started getting FTE's and some light strikes.

 

[venemous]

Bah... scratch it, the more I think about it, the worse the idea sounds. Looking at it I can see how a good buildup of gunk could cause it to fire OOB. Not something I'd care to experience again.

 

[SpudShooter]

Well let's assume you were planning to wear extra safty gear while embarking on this dangerous mission

I have run more then 4 value packs through my ruger between cleanings several times, these days everything stays clean and lubed, you never know when the next time you will be able to, ya know?

In fact back when daddy bought the 3 of em almost 15 years ago what made him decide on the ruger was seeing a man bring one into the gun shop that the owner said just wouldn't fire anymore, it was nearly a decade old and the man had never cleaned it. What a good gun for a teenager

edit: And with the new FP design S&W if using OOB's should be non existent, but lets not try

 

[VooDuuChild]

That's how I broke in my Walther P22 (not quite as extreme). I did plan on cleaning it sooner (never did a pre-fire cleaning when it was new), but then it became a test. I shot around 1150-1200 rounds through it (remember, ten round pistol) and the slide finally started slowing noticably. It sometimes wouldn't chamber the first round and needed a nudge. BUT, every round would go pop after that. I had two FTF's (re-loaded, rotated and fired no problem) and I think one FTE during the duration.

Of course, these would have been much worse results if I hadn't been using CCI Mini Mags.

I say run it hard, put it away wet. Keep notes and report back! (I clean my 15-22 about every five six hundred rounds)

 

[corpulent]

So. . . treat your tools harshly until they fail/explode, and then expect warranty service to fix it for you?

Meh, I'd rather take care of my things. What will you learn, except to NOT do what you did?

The guys doing web/tv torture tests get free guns, what do they care if something bad happens? Do I need to know if my gun will function after being frozen in carbonite? After being tossed in a swimming pool and run over with the lawnmower?

Nah.