I never had any reason to look into Tungsten, but after acquiring my Ruger PC Carbine, it gave me a reason to check into it.
Anyhow, the weight of that little rectangular block of Tungsten in the PC Carbine's bolt assembly is quite the little heffer.
Well, Tungsten is about 2.5 times heavier than steel.
So, if Ruger would have tried achieving their current overall bolt assembly weight by only using steel, the bolt assembly would have obviously needed to be made bigger or longer, (or maybe both).
Their receiver would have also needed to be bigger or longer to accept it.
So, while maybe the whole dead blow weight thing has some validity... I believe their biggest reason for incorporating the Tungsten weight into the bolt's design, was simply to help them in being able to make a smaller bolt assembly and receiver.
I was surprised to read that Tungsten is almost as heavy as Gold, bring right their in that weight range.
And as for lead, it ain't even close... Tungsten's much heavier!
Cool stuff 👍😎👍
Anyhow, the weight of that little rectangular block of Tungsten in the PC Carbine's bolt assembly is quite the little heffer.
Well, Tungsten is about 2.5 times heavier than steel.
So, if Ruger would have tried achieving their current overall bolt assembly weight by only using steel, the bolt assembly would have obviously needed to be made bigger or longer, (or maybe both).
Their receiver would have also needed to be bigger or longer to accept it.
So, while maybe the whole dead blow weight thing has some validity... I believe their biggest reason for incorporating the Tungsten weight into the bolt's design, was simply to help them in being able to make a smaller bolt assembly and receiver.
I was surprised to read that Tungsten is almost as heavy as Gold, bring right their in that weight range.
And as for lead, it ain't even close... Tungsten's much heavier!
Cool stuff 👍😎👍