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Originally Posted by SIGTWO
Spoke with a project engineer at federal who desgined the the t-223 ammo. George advised that in the past the ammo had a thinner jacket and could fragment out of a hot barrel, meaning over 200 rounds fired in a short period with high barrel heat. The round was redesigned with a heavier jacket. He also said that any round exsposed to high barrel heat was subject to fragment due stress induced by round being exspoed to high heat along with sudden ignition of same. That being said the total circunstance of the round being fired and what was going on at the time,type of weapon, what conditions barrel temps and the age of the ammo. All of this could and would factor into what the performance and the out come of how the round performed down range. With out being there and running a test with varibles and a constant and not knowing lot numbers date of manufacturing.The ammo in question is the t-223-e. Federal is looking at the rifling of the departments gun cutting the jacket after extended firing periods. Also they are testing the ammo from the range that day to try and duplicate same.
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Gene Econ
And they are attributing it to your training? He, he, he.
Ditto on what Gene said.
Very very poor excuse by Federal.... geez who would ever think that a .223 barrel might get real hot
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I've see and shot AR's that were glowing red and never had an ammo problem.
Karl, you and your men should stop using this ammo immediately, at least until Fereral pulls it's head out of its ass. Sounds like this ammo should have never hit the market.
Team Sergeant