How Gas Piston Firearms Work

This is a video of how a Gas Piston Operated firearm works. There are many different firearms that use this, but the principal is still the same with all of them. Thanks for watching! SUBSCRIBE!

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[joeyblaze87]

Nice video, I love the sks. No problems with mine shoot it almost every week. Great rifle for a cheap price. And i also subbed ya! =)

[emtffzartman]

@joeyblaze87 They are great rifles for the price.. But I just traded mine in for a German P-38. Thanks for the Sub!

[emtffzartman]

@wordmatthew Keep me up to date, I have not heard one fail yet, but it is like using an electric motor for an alternator.. yes it works in theory, but in practice it may not last as long or add places for problems to arise.

[wordmatthew]

@emtffzartman

Ahh, I see what you mean. If I run into any problems with this one, I'll definitely get rid of it and go back to the DI system.

[emtffzartman]

@wordmatthew Yea. Knew ya did not convert it, but there is something about the AR platform being gas piston that worries me just a bit. the bolt and carrier were not built for that piston system. But they seem to be working, I am a bit of a technical thinker.

[wordmatthew]

@emtffzartman

Yea, the SCAR is one sweet gun! I want one. I actually didn't convert mine to piston, the Model 8 comes as a factory gas piston gun. I do wanna get a .22 conversion for it so it'll be a great, cheap plinking gun

[emtffzartman]

@wordmatthew I have heard a lot of good about them. Glad you like yours. cleaner and cooler are two huge pluses!!!! I am just not a fan of converting a firearm to the piston if it was made as a DI gun. I would buy something like the SCAR that was designed from the ground up as a piston gun. Just my feeling. P.S. I like stag, have shot a few, not a piston AR though.

[wordmatthew]

I just got a Stag Model 8 gas piston to replace my DPMS gas impingment. The Stag actually has slightly less recoil, shoots cleaner and cooler. I REALLY like it!! For me, gas piston is the way to go, now.

Great video!

[emtffzartman]

@Violative911 They are nice weapons. This is the only one I own, but not the only one I have fired. They stay cleaner than the DI AR variant.

[emtffzartman]

@esh325 While you are close. They are a direct impingement gas system. The gas key is not even the piston. The bolt carrier key (gas key) is how the gas is turned down into a chamber. The back of the bolt is really not a piston either, but the front of a chamber that the gas enters. The gas pushes on the bolt its self making the entire carrier group dirty as hell. Thanks for the comment.