December $487 prefit group buy, several barrels are a go

[NICKJ]

I got my barrel action delivered yesterday

 

[TNHighlands]

Mine shipped this week and is arriving on Thursday.

 

[hereinaz]

I have been busy shipping as I can. Most all outstanding orders are waiting for cerakote or DLC bolts. Both should be done this week, maybe next week at the latest for Cerakote.

There were a couple of situations with shipping and deadlines from suppliers that held me up. Not an excuse and I won’t blame anyone but me. That added some delay to times I quoted.

I did screw up on three custom single barrel orders, but offered to make them up by paying for rush from Preferred or immediate refund. This one really sucked and I owned it, tried to correct the best I can.

I am working out how to structure barrel and barreled action sales going forward to never repeat the same screw up. You can see I pulled all barrels off the site, and am not selling except a few one offs until I get through this chaotic situation.

I have tried to stay up in all the texts, emails and messages. This weekend sucked cause I was sick for four days.

I finished three more barreled actions this evening, and they will go out. I have the others laid out.

If you want to know your status, please reach out. I’ll send a pic of your order sitting in a box and tell you what I need to ship.

To quote: Forrest Gump, that’s all I got to say about that.

 

[MThuntr]

Hey crew... what COAL are you seeing for the 6NSI and 108ELDM from this group buy?

I feel like mine might be cut short and just want to see what kind of numbers they're getting. Maybe it's my naive knowledge of the cartridge or user error so I wanted to see what numbers people were getting before burning powder

 

[TradLife406]

I have been busy shipping as I can. Most all outstanding orders are waiting for cerakote or DLC bolts. Both should be done this week, maybe next week at the latest for Cerakote.

There were a couple of situations with shipping and deadlines from suppliers that held me up. Not an excuse and I won’t blame anyone but me. That added some delay to times I quoted.

I did screw up on three custom single barrel orders, but offered to make them up by paying for rush from Preferred or immediate refund. This one really sucked and I owned it, tried to correct the best I can.

I am working out how to structure barrel and barreled action sales going forward to never repeat the same screw up. You can see I pulled all barrels off the site, and am not selling except a few one offs until I get through this chaotic situation.

I have tried to stay up in all the texts, emails and messages. This weekend sucked cause I was sick for four days.

I finished three more barreled actions this evening, and they will go out. I have the others laid out.

If you want to know your status, please reach out. I’ll send a pic of your order sitting in a box and tell you what I need to ship.

To quote: Forrest Gump, that’s all I got to say about that.

You do the Lords work

 

[lefthandedasian]

You're doing the best you can with what life is throwing at you. Despite some hiccups I think the majority of us appreciate everything you are doing for our community!

 

[TradLife406]

Excited to see that zombie green 223 ai pipe. You have a teaser pic?

 

[Foster_65]

I have been busy shipping as I can. Most all outstanding orders are waiting for cerakote or DLC bolts. Both should be done this week, maybe next week at the latest for Cerakote.

There were a couple of situations with shipping and deadlines from suppliers that held me up. Not an excuse and I won’t blame anyone but me. That added some delay to times I quoted.

I did screw up on three custom single barrel orders, but offered to make them up by paying for rush from Preferred or immediate refund. This one really sucked and I owned it, tried to correct the best I can.

I am working out how to structure barrel and barreled action sales going forward to never repeat the same screw up. You can see I pulled all barrels off the site, and am not selling except a few one offs until I get through this chaotic situation.

I have tried to stay up in all the texts, emails and messages. This weekend sucked cause I was sick for four days.

I finished three more barreled actions this evening, and they will go out. I have the others laid out.

If you want to know your status, please reach out. I’ll send a pic of your order sitting in a box and tell you what I need to ship.

To quote: Forrest Gump, that’s all I got to say about that.

@hereinaz
can you please check your pms. Sent a couple starting 4/1 regarding a barrel. Kinda in a holding pattern until I hear from you and time is ticking as I’d like to take this rifle on a hunt in a couple weeks.

 

[hereinaz]

If you have clickers in the 6 PRC, I need to get them back to Preferred. I think it’s a barrel issue and need them to check. I will have to reach out and get an RMA form for you.

Please PM, email or text me your name and address. I will give instructions. In the subject, please use 6 PRC Clicker RMA so I can find them.

I have this barrel if one of you want one proofed out. It has 50 rounds on it. here are the last two groups I shot with it, 4 rounds are 108 ELDm and the 5 are 115 DTACs, both over 3100 fps in 20” pipe. No load development or seating depth work. It’s hot and crazy mirage prone with my 12x SWFA.

Here is the scoop of what I did with the one test barrel. No problems with clickers, so I don’t think it is the reamer.

I bought Quickload, ran numbers, and just spent hours testing a barrel with 4 kinds of brass, and ran 106, 108, 110, and 115 all over 3200 fps using N565.

Opening the bolt on the hottest loads got stiff, but no clickers. I got pressure signs (bright ejector swipe, flat primer, loose pockets) on ADG brass with with the 115 DTACS at 3200 and 59.5 N565 which is definitely not recommended! It just was stiff to open.

I used different neck sizing dies, didn’t make a difference

 

[Foster_65]

If you have clickers in the 6 PRC, I need to get them back to Preferred. I think it’s a barrel issue and need them to check. I will have to reach out and get an RMA form for you.

Please PM, email or text me your name and address. I will give instructions. In the subject, please use 6 PRC Clicker RMA so I can find them.

I have this barrel if one of you want one proofed out. It has 50 rounds on it. here are the last two groups I shot with it, 4 rounds are 108 ELDm and the 5 are 115 DTACs, both over 3100 fps. No load development or seating depth work. It’s hot and crazy mirage prone with my 12x SWFA.

Here is the scoop of what I did with the one test barrel. No problems with clickers, so I don’t think it is the chamber.

I bought Quickload, ran numbers, and just spent hours testing a barrel with 4 kinds of brass, and ran 106, 108, 110, and 115 all over 3200 fps using N565.

Opening the bolt on the hottest loads got stiff, but no clickers. I got pressure signs (bright ejector swipe, flat primer, loose pockets) on ADG brass with with the 115 DTACS at 3200 and 59.5 N565 which is definitely not recommended! It just was stiff to open.

I used different neck sizing dies, didn’t make a differenceView attachment 1054082View attachment 1054083View attachment 1054136View attachment 1054137

I will send pm with info but am really interested in your test barrel. Pm sent with info. One thing to note, I didn’t get clickers until brass was fire formed. After the first sizing I got clickers unless it was a reduced load.
Appreciate you looking into this issue

 

[hereinaz]

Yeah, it makes sense clickers came after formed.

Here, I reloaded the same cases and shot them hot multiple times. I got the pressure signs and no clickers. I even loaded some brass from another barrel to try to induce it.

I loaded 4 ADG pieces 4 times. I went with 59.5 grains of 565 and 115 DTACs the last two rounds of firings—it’s definitely too hot a load. DO NOT USE THAT CHARGE. Heavy bolt lift but no clickers. If I went up half a grain it probably would have stuck. I got ejector swipes and loose primer pockets on those.

 

[Foster_65]

Yeah, it makes sense clickers came after formed.

Here, I reloaded the same cases and shot them hot multiple times. I got the pressure signs and no clickers. I even loaded some brass from another barrel to try to induce it.

I loaded 4 ADG pieces 4 times. I went with 59.5 grains of 565 and 115 DTACs the last two rounds of firings—it’s definitely too hot a load. DO NOT USE THAT CHARGE. Heavy bolt lift but no clickers. If I went up half a grain it probably would have stuck. I got ejector swipes and loose primer pockets on those.

Well that’s good news. Hopefully just an issue with mine.