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Old September 21, 2000, 08:46 PM   #1
Jim V
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Join Date: January 31, 1999
Location: SE Michigan - USA
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I have a friend who is the owner of a 1917 browning water cooled that he has converted to 8 m/m by using a Maxim barrel. A couple weeks ago we had it out (along with a bunch of other machine guns) and ran 7,500 rounds thru it in 2.5 days. When my friend was cleaning the gun he found that 8" of rifling was gone from the MUZZLE end of the barrel. The barrel had been new when he converted it to fit the Browning. Has anyone seen a machine gun barrel wear out from the muzzle end before? He checked the throat erosion and there was only 3 points difference from when the barrel was installed. The remaining rifling is sharp and the guns shoots as well as it did when we started.

A good part of teh ammo was cupro-nickle jacketed if that would make any difference.

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