Stainless Steel Barrel Vs Cmv

I wanted your input on how 416r would hold up vs something like 4150 cmv steel barrel.

Stainless steel barrel vs cmv.

Excessive heat can change the metallurgy and warp the barrel and make it less accurate over time but if you are nice to it and and not dropping rounds like john wick then it should last up to 15 000 20 000 rounds. The cmv barrel makes sense when it is only 16 inches long. Stainless steel is designed for corrosion resistance. Cmv stands for chrome moly vanadium and compared to stainless steel its a little less accurate but a lot stronger.

One downside to stainless steel is you cannot beat it up. This chromium forms a passive film of chromium oxide about the outer surface which prevents corrosion by blocking oxygen diffusion at the surface and preventing its spread into the internal structure of the metal. Nitriding stainless vs 4140 4150 cmv barrels. When you go out and shop for a nitrided barrel you re going to see both standard 4150 cmv and stainless options.

I have always heard that stainless shoots better but would not hold up as good under repeated rapid fire not talking about full auto and was easier ruined than a steel barrel. A 16 inch barrel isn t designed for superbly long range. Now you have a sense of what nitriding is and what it s good for. The 16 inch barrel makes it as short as it can be to be a title 1 rifle.