How am I putting out false info? I had major issues with steel and it seems other folks have as well. No need to go crazy boomer on me
. If I had a over gassed or a buffer and spring issue I would have the same failure to extract with brass too. I could give 2 shits about years of industry testing with garbage ammo, I’m not/can’t running it in my rifles. As far as having extra extractors in my range kit…I did and had to use them because of the shit ammo you are propping up.
Not going crazy on you, but this issue has been beat to death a thousand times on every gun board in the universe.
Firstly, I think you lack some knowledge as to how the AR functions and how different parameters affect their operation.
Let's put this issue into perspective, shall we?
Millions upon millions (possibly billions) of rounds of steel cased .223/5.56 ammo have arrived on our shores and have been sold to the public.
Millions of AR owners have used millions and millions of those rounds successfully over the course of the past 20+ years with a very, very small minority of issues seen by a few.
The cost/savings incurred by using the less expensive steel cased ammo has allowed more people to train and shoot more ammo, dollar for dollar. I seem to recall about a $100.00 savings per case between steel and brass. That $100.00 per case savings buys a lot of extractors (even though they'll unlikely ever be needed).
Those issues encountered by the very few
can and are usually traced to an issue with the rifle.....NOT the ammunition.......sorry, that is just the fact of the matter.
The AR rifle is just a mechanical device and given the fact that the vast and overwhelming majority of them produced (I'd say 99.8%) can digest steel cased ammo speaks volumes to the viability and usefulness and value of steel cased ammo.
The goal posts changed time and again.
First it was "The lacquer coating is melting off and sticking up the chamber" That was disproven. (Although the industry changed its coating which was a marketing thing not due to any defect in the lacquer coating. I recall the poly coating was cheaper so it was a win win for the manufacturers.
Then it was "The Poly Coating was melting off and sticking up the chamber" That was disproven. There are videos of people using a torch on the poly coating trying to melt it off ( I've done the experiment myself.....it doesn't melt).
Then it was "The steel will wear out your chamber" That was disproven. There is no contact steel to steel, it couldn't possibly wear the chamber.....the ammo is coated remember?
Then it was "The steel case will wear or break your extractor" That has been disproven a million times by the mere fact of so many people using the steel cased ammo without breaking their extractors.
The guns that do break extractors have other issues and are either over gassed, under buffered (too light of a buffer spring or too light weight of a buffer, or their chamber dimensions are out of spec......you can bet the farm on it.
Buy some gauges or send the rifle to a gunsmith that has gauges and have it gone through.
Then it was "The steel cased stuff is "underpowered".....Really??? compared to WHAT? That statement could be made about any four different brands of ammo in any caliber.
Pick four different mnufacturers and take a box of each through a chronograph. They all differ to some degree.
Bottom line is,,,,,,you shoot what you think you need to shoot in your rifle, but do not state that steel cased ammo breaks extractors.....it's underpowered remember?