Indians For Guns

hks2056 wrote:The Ishapore factory uses special alloy steel manufactured by SAIL for making rifle barrels.The same steel is used for INSAs and 7.62 SLR. The hammerforging machine is AUSTRIAN brand STEYR.It spews out one barrel every two minutes.Feeding of barrel blanks is automatic into the cold forging machine.Considerable effort goes into production of blanks before they are fed into machine.Steyr hammer forging machines are used by all armaments factories the world over including the Chinese who are the most notorious copycats and acknowledged most accomplished experts in reverse engineering.I asked the Director rank officer who was incharge of rifle section at Ishapore two questions.First was if they supply spare barrel with the INSAS rifle to Services. The answer was no.The second question was if they have received back any INSAS rifle for replacement of any worn out rifle barrel. The answer was again no. After chrome flashing the barrel becomes virtually in destructible. He reckoned that the barrel would retain tight grouping upto firing of one lakh cartridges. Interestingly ISHAPORE produces its own carbide dies for the forging machine at one third the cost of imported carbide dies. The carbide die is about seven inches long including the chamber portion.The material used for barrel and bolt is the best.It should be remembered that all metal components manufactured inside the factory are from the best raw material. Quality of out sourced parts of weapons is suspect.The reasons of below par quality of outsourced components if any is all too well known to every one and need not be spelled out in this forum.From newspaper advertisements one can know which components are out sourced.The weakest and poorest part of 30-06 rifle is the alloy body which is die cast and not made in house.The bolt and barrel are of best material. Just like a car the rifle is a sum total of all its components.The package has to be seen in totality and reckoning can not be done merely on bolt and barrel. Surprisingly the buffing and polishing of individual components is not done before the rifle is assembled. Thus the action and trigger are not slick enough.Fit and finish can certainly be improved.Otherwise it is a very satisfying and well engineered product.It will outlast the life of any licence holder even if he or she fires five rounds from it every day (365 X12).

prashantsingh wrote:When I reached home and checked it out. I was shocked to see that the cartridge doesn't fit in.
Went back to the dealer and he checked with the latest model. The result was the same.
Took the cartridge to a friend who has a winchester 3006 and it fitted in perfectly.
Looks like I can only chamber a particular type of cartridge for my rifle or only IOF ammo .

SS wrote:
Coming to the point- i got A-Zoom snap caps in 3006 many months ago. The bolt slides in with the snap cap but doesn't close! No idea why.

Vineet wrote:Parshant you might be having problem because the Serbian ammo (ppu) is inferior in quality when compared to S&B.