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Question:

How long will a rifle with a barrel made of either iron,bronze,silver,gold,copper,aluminum effectively last?

Let's a say an M16 or an AR-15 or an M4 that has a barrel made out of those metals instead of chrome-steel and nickel? How will it affect the rifles performance in terms of accuracy or distance of projectile?

Answer:

Kidyou have a class coming up in school that will cover physical sciencestry to stay awakeIf you failed it last yeartry to stay awake while you repeat it next year Any of the metals you listed would not tolerate the heat from any modern smokeless cartridge and projectilenor most of the blackpowder loads from years agoFolks tried bronze and iron in the earliest days of gunpowderthey did not work very well and wore out, burned out or blew up with regularity.

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