Thread: Supressors.

Originally Posted by Wirehunt

Simple physics would also dictate that the barrel is weakest at the thinnest point. So these fluted barrels don't go lighter than a light profiled sporting barrel or whatever the minimum wall thickness is for the rated pressure they are run at?

If you want stiffer for comp/precision shooting then logic would dictate getting whatever contour barrel (heavy as fuck) you want then welding fins onto it of a fairly serious nature. Or maybe getting it cast like that.

The point is since your talking engineering, if you want stiffer you go heavier OR you change the steel grade. Never ever seen an engineer try to make something stronger or stiffer by doing 'fins', whether you call it fluting or some other name.

Id have thought the fluting would have acted as strengening. More surface area too = harder to bend.. or not? Id have thought that weight for weight, a fluted barrel is stiffer than a straight barrel of equivalent weight.

I'm sure one of you metal experts will set me straight on this.