Re: Anyone else buying guns, or ammo with stimulus check?
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 12:04 am
I bought an assembled pistol lower with pistol length receiver extension and spring/buffer which I bought as a middle finger to DiFi on the day she filed her new AWB. And then last night, I bought:
1. a carbine length BCM buffer tube, and a BCM H2 buffer.
2. a 16” Ballistic Advantage Performance Series 5.56 Hanson Mid-Length Barrel with Pinned Gas Block.
3. a 15” black Strike Industries Gridlok Complete Handguard.
The upper parts will be used with an Aero upper receiver that is currently barreled with a SOLGW barrel that has given me nothing but trouble. (Their QC sucks.) The Gridlock handguard will be replacing an inexpensive MOE handguard. I’ll be using a MFT Battlelink Minimalist stock I've had laying around, and I’ll be topping it with a 4x32 ACOG that I had already mounted on the Aero upper. Then the lower I had been using can go back to use in my 18” DMR.
I’ve been told that SOLGW's QC and customer service is first rate. That has not been my experience with this barrel—which came with an F-stamped A2 front sight block already installed, minus either a sight post or its detente. When I attempted to use a spare sight post and detente I had in a parts box, I couldn’t get the detente to go in its hole. The hole was too small. SOLGW was more or less incommunicado and won’t take CS phone calls. I returned the barrel to Primary Arms where I’d bought it, and they sent me a replacement. The replacement barrel turns out to have palpable burrs on the M4-style feed ramps, and the gun would jam on about every 2nd or 3rd round .... and this was with 3 different loads in 2 types of magazines. I won’t be trusting SOLGW to fix it. They’re incompetent. My former-gunsmith and machinist son is going to clean up the feed ramps for me, and I’ll try that barrel on some other build.....or maybe I’ll just sell it.
But I couldn’t in good conscience recommend SOLGW to anyone who asked me.
1. a carbine length BCM buffer tube, and a BCM H2 buffer.
2. a 16” Ballistic Advantage Performance Series 5.56 Hanson Mid-Length Barrel with Pinned Gas Block.
3. a 15” black Strike Industries Gridlok Complete Handguard.
The upper parts will be used with an Aero upper receiver that is currently barreled with a SOLGW barrel that has given me nothing but trouble. (Their QC sucks.) The Gridlock handguard will be replacing an inexpensive MOE handguard. I’ll be using a MFT Battlelink Minimalist stock I've had laying around, and I’ll be topping it with a 4x32 ACOG that I had already mounted on the Aero upper. Then the lower I had been using can go back to use in my 18” DMR.
I’ve been told that SOLGW's QC and customer service is first rate. That has not been my experience with this barrel—which came with an F-stamped A2 front sight block already installed, minus either a sight post or its detente. When I attempted to use a spare sight post and detente I had in a parts box, I couldn’t get the detente to go in its hole. The hole was too small. SOLGW was more or less incommunicado and won’t take CS phone calls. I returned the barrel to Primary Arms where I’d bought it, and they sent me a replacement. The replacement barrel turns out to have palpable burrs on the M4-style feed ramps, and the gun would jam on about every 2nd or 3rd round .... and this was with 3 different loads in 2 types of magazines. I won’t be trusting SOLGW to fix it. They’re incompetent. My former-gunsmith and machinist son is going to clean up the feed ramps for me, and I’ll try that barrel on some other build.....or maybe I’ll just sell it.
But I couldn’t in good conscience recommend SOLGW to anyone who asked me.