08-21-2014, 12:12 PM
cory Wrote:We could go 0.6" under the hand guard and in front of the gas block, but fluting would be out of the question!
FWIW I suspect that the barrel would be much more susceptible to barrel harmonics.
What sort of FoS are you getting at that point?
What pressures are you using?
I like a FoS = 2. That's just the conservative engineering side of me talking. Engineers like it safe.

