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cmichael22
11-08-2012, 09:40 PM
that in extreme cold conditions or extreme heat conditions it is bad for polymer guns, but no effect on steel? When I mean extreme I mean a person can be outside but it is either just really cold or really hot.

TucsonMTB
11-08-2012, 09:56 PM
Nope!

APSKahr
11-09-2012, 07:53 AM
No, not for your definition of extreme.

340pd
11-09-2012, 10:08 AM
The plus side of polymer is it is much more friendly on the hands in extreme heat and cold.

cmichael22
11-09-2012, 04:45 PM
Yea thats true yea someone told me like if you live down south and on a really hot day you leave your gun in your car its bad for it and if you live up north and on a cold day you leave your gun in your car its bad also but was not sure if that was true.

krazman
11-09-2012, 06:44 PM
It's worse than bad! Someone can break into your car and steal it!!!
kraz

BigDinFL
11-10-2012, 06:56 PM
Yea thats true yea someone told me like if you live down south and on a really hot day you leave your gun in your car its bad for it and if you live up north and on a cold day you leave your gun in your car its bad also but was not sure if that was true.


HUH?? Seriously?......Dude, you need better friends to tell you things actually grounded in reality..............

TucsonMTB
11-10-2012, 07:49 PM
Uhm . . . don't feed the trolls! :D

cmichael22
11-10-2012, 07:53 PM
Ha hows he feeding trolls?

Scoundrel
11-10-2012, 10:01 PM
TucsonMTB, he's just young (19) and very inexperienced. He's asking questions instead of just going with rumors, and that's a good thing.

Just be glad he's not using txt-speak.

cmichael22, extreme heat and cold will melt things or make them brittle, and the same is true for guns. but the temperatures needed to do either one are higher than guns typically are subjected to.

I would not put a gun, whether it be polymer or metal, in a freezer for a week and then pull it out and shoot it before it returns to room temperature.

Likewise, I would not leave a gun in direct sunlight. I don't know whether a polymer gun would suffer damage just from being on a car dashboard or under the back window on a hot day, but nobody in their right mind would do that to a gun anyway, metal or polymer.

cmichael22
11-10-2012, 10:09 PM
Thanks yea if I did leave it in my car it would be in the glovebox.

PYROhafe
11-10-2012, 11:06 PM
These guns aren't "plastic" like some people want to believe. They are highly engineered polymers that are more than capable of handling and containing very powerful explosions. The temperature "extremes" the average person is going to put them through is no where near enough to cause harm to the gun.