re: Garand Thumb stress tested a PSA Freedom Rifle and the barrel finally died at 6k rounds...

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was any maintainence done between cool downs.... if not, who lets their rifle continue to fire without any lube.

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The edits are deceiving. They said they basically ran 3 mags, then cooled to ambient temp (30-40 degrees F) then tested and continued firing again. They also did lube a little bit every couple thousand rounds.

I think their main criticism of the barrel was that they expect combat grade hard chrome-lined barrels from FN, Colt, etc to go around 12-15K before they started to lose their accuracy that badly.