General GunTuber thread

[HumptiDouji]

Did Kyle testify to performing any cleaning or maintence on the rifle? I don’t remember him doing so. If he didn’t all the rifle would have had on it is factory lube/preservative which often doesn’t do much or cooks off. It’s also not uncommon for guns to become more reliable as parts wear into each other and interferences are minimized by wear.

All of which is moot, because the point of the assist is to positively resolve a set few stoppages when they happen. Nebulously referring to something about lubrication, break-in, cleaning, magazines, or whatever, isn't all that relevant next to the fact that the assist did exactly what it was supposed to do in the event of this kind of failure.

You can say that it's user error or a lack of planning, perhaps you're even right, but the Jam Button allowed the kid to fix the situation, which Karl's go-to advice would not be able to do.
Karl relies on untested conjecture, then acts like a bitch when someone demonstrates why he's wrong, he didn't have the wherewithal to actually try it out and see if the extractor would engage the rim of the cartridge or not as to actually verify his own advice.

If he's so damn confident in his position, you'd think he would try at least that.

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

How much actual shooting do you do and what kind? I ask because regardless of the focus or discipline; people who actually shoot generally don’t care about theoretical stuff to this same degree. And if they do it’s something like PRS shooters performing the ritual of accuracy to appease the machine spirit of their bolt guns.

Acad....I mean serious gun shooters please respond.

 

[UVB-76]

How true are those marketing claims anyway? That certainly sounds interesting but it's the kind of thing that makes me raise a skeptical eyebrow.

Seems to me it's one of those situations where one technology works well in one thing, and the brand that invested in it is trying to branch out by applying it everywhere.
They name-drop the Oak Ridge National Laboratory all the time, and they publish their report. In it, the reduction in friction when two steel surfaces are treated is 75%. The brand claims 85%. Hmmm. This is also data for steel on steel, there's no data published regarding steel on aluminum. The photos of the wear marks show that there's great reduction in wear, but there's still wear after just 60 seconds of testing. I don't know how deep into the metal the surface treatment goes but at some point it will wear out, you can't add calcium atoms to the lattice structure all the way through and leave the strength properties of the metal untouched. How to prevent the surface from wearing out? Lube.
To know if it's a complete scam we'd have to test several thousand rounds through multiple rifles just to make sure, when the average Anderson buyer will not ever fine enough rounds to notice a problem.
If anything, this type of surface treatment sounds useful if you need to run a bearing inside something like a sealless pump where the liquid being pumped is also used to lubricate the bearings - and you might want to pump a liquid that's not a good lubricant. So it probably works in the right application, but I don't see the point in it in firearms. Other parts would need the lube anyway and the lubrication would protect the coating for longer than if it ran dry.

 

[AGPinochet]

Enough sperging at Russ, allow me to bring up some twitter drama that happened a couple days ago that caused a lot of butthurt and pants shitting.
On April 29th, The man who makes SRA Trannies seethe more than anyone else Lucas Sneedkin posted video of a shitpost drill larping as a hitman, leftoids lost their shit.

https://twitter.com/LucasBotkin/status/1520180728411086850?s=20&t=ruTY1Vtr99rE6PxTdBjqJg

Here are just some reactions, including one form Jarrod the of Tranch.
Some internet fag also "doxed" his range

https://twitter.com/EnbridgeandCo/status/1520835373244370944

 

[TerminalTryHard]

Lucas is scrawny little Twink but everytime he sends the alphabet people and commies into a tism fit I can't help but like him a little bit.

Is the gear they make any good?

 

[Archie_Kimkicker]

No idea who would ask this question. Maybe he just felt like talking about it.

 

[SinistralRifleman]

That's why I used the past tense when talking about it and have no doubt the new, stronger, spring will fix the issue. I also have no doubts about the sincerity of you standing behind your product or the way you personally conduct business with your customers, Russel. I think it's just ironic when arguing about rifle quality and need of a forward assist that the WWSD 2020 rifles and even the 2017 one with the GWACS lower with its grease gun mag cutout has/had similar (confirmed) parallels of needing to be held correctly to avoid mag ejection. This is in addition to the supposition of Kyle's rifle needing to be held correctly that would also necessarily apply to the WWSD as well in terms of general AR-15 principles.

CAV-15 MKII lowers have issues with the mag catch binding because of the grease gun mag cut out. The 90 degree angle of the mag catch arm could drag against the 90 of the slot and make the button much harder to press or impossible. Beveling the feature on the lower would resolve this.

I’ve never heard of mag dropping in CAV-15 MKII unless the mag catch button area was fucked and allowed it to pivot under recoil. When this condition exists it’s because the part ejected poorly and that hole got oblonged on the way out.

As for the KE Ambi mag catch prior to release I tested them in .308s, shorty machine guns, and the WWSD config. They didn’t drop mags in testing for me or anyone else. I have some of the customer returned mag catches in my personal guns and I can’t replicate the problem with them.

Testing the new springs I got smaller statured people to deliberately limp shoulder it, and shoot it off the shoulder entirely to validate that they work.

And yes my point is that a combative rifle should be able to function from all sorts of unconventional positions including off the shoulder, supine, and weird angles.

 

[AGPinochet]

Is the gear they make any good?

I've never heard anything bad about anything Trex ever made or had made with the exception of the AC-Uno which they unknowingly contracted out to a prominent Con-man that the FBI has put out PSA's regarding. Other than that criticisms of their gear are mainly that it is that some pieces are slightly more expensive than other companies (for example the AC-1 is around $40 more than a Ferro Slickster but the AC-1 has a different style of cummerbund that some may find useful). Also I have nothing to back this up but I feel that Trex is in stock a hell of a lot more often than Ferro is. Some also found their earlier Sidecar Holsters uncomfortable but those are out of production and a personal problem.

 

[Full Spectrum]

I’ve never heard of mag dropping in CAV-15 MKII unless the mag catch button area was fucked and allowed it to pivot under recoil. When this condition exists it’s because the part ejected poorly and that hole got oblonged on the way out.

My apologies. I may have misremembered from a 2020 video on the new molds you guys were making or may be overstating a concern of mag ejection from that video. Those videos were great and I liked all the details you put in. I can really tell you genuinely care about these lowers. Since I'm getting possibly the LAST commercially sold CAV 15 MkII would I be able to easily notice a sign of this poor ejection?

 

[Ghjkl63]

Enough sperging at Russ, allow me to bring up some twitter drama that happened a couple days ago that caused a lot of butthurt and pants shitting.
On April 29th, The man who makes SRA Trannies seethe more than anyone else Lucas Sneedkin posted video of a shitpost drill larping as a hitman, leftoids lost their shit.

https://twitter.com/LucasBotkin/status/1520180728411086850?s=20&t=ruTY1Vtr99rE6PxTdBjqJg

Here are just some reactions, including one form Jarrod the of Tranch.
Some internet fag also "doxed" his range

https://twitter.com/EnbridgeandCo/status/1520835373244370944

weird how supposed anarchists are upset at this assassination larp.
gg to that guy using osint to doxx a publicly listed facility tho

 

[SinistralRifleman]

My apologies. I may have misremembered from a 2020 video on the new molds you guys were making or may be overstating a concern of mag ejection from that video. Those videos were great and I liked all the details you put in. I can really tell you genuinely care about these lowers. Since I'm getting possibly the LAST commercially sold CAV 15 MkII would I be able to easily notice a sign of this poor ejection?

Push forward on the button rather than in. If it allows the mag to drop you know the mag catch hole is elongated and it can happen under recoil.

You can fix this by bending the screw portion of the mag catch so it sits angled forward thus not allowing the motion under recoil.

 

[Antarctica]

Lucas is scrawny little Twink but everytime he sends the alphabet people and commies into a tism fit I can't help but like him a little bit.

Is the gear they make any good?

I have their Orion outer belt and it's actually pretty good quality. Can't really speak for any of the other stuff. I'v been considering buying their Sidecar holster, but leaning more toward a Tier 1 concealed. Haven't decided..

 

[quaawaa]

How true are those marketing claims anyway? That certainly sounds interesting but it's the kind of thing that makes me raise a skeptical eyebrow.

According to Battlefield Vegas, they're not true, though theirs was on a full auto lower:

There is company that has an AR system that has some "parts don't need lubrication" and that failed before the end of the first day. I don't think some mfg's understand that people REALLY use their weapons and when you're rocking full-auto all day they NEED lubrication. My armorers and RSO's were laughing when it seized it up because we knew there was NO way it would last on our range.

Source

 

[HarblMcDavid]

You're definitely on the right path of thinking. The scss doesn't have any more adjustment than a normal buffer system, however. You can change the weights in a regular carbine buffer to the same extent as the scss. Adjustable gas blocks generally work, but in rare cases they get seized up.

There's also the problem of users not knowing how to adjust for gas properly. Or swapping from one load to the other might not be totally reliable. When you have the milspec port size and full power loads, it generally just works without having to fiddle with long Allen keys to adjust the tiny set screw.

I'm also in the process of doing some testing for a video to show extra variabilities of ejection patterns that chart mentions beyond simple gas system variables and buffer configuration. The real fun begins when you start testing the common advice and try to find ways or variables it doesn't account for.

To be clear, I wouldn't advocate the JP design specifically, it's just an easy point of price comparison and I have experience with it. Even being an allen key design I literally just cranked it down and backed it off a shot at a time until the ejection was proper and never had a problem with it since.

Something more like the XCR type 3 system would be better for the average joe: just a dial with numbers, you pick a number, push down the detent with a cartridge tip, release on the number, and it works or it doesn't for a given load. Granted that's a piston design but the concept of how it adjusts is what I'm getting at, it's not like any of this is mechanically complex or something that precludes a DI system.


Unrelated, it's super funny how Karl clearly believes he's being gangstalked by farmers, like, nigga, turn off the screen

The cartoon crusader pfps are coming from inside the cuckshed and he sounds like a spooked deer.

 

[Shaka Brah]

According to Battlefield Vegas, they're not true, though theirs was on a full auto lower:

Source

That makes sense, and it fits with my suspicion. It seems like a laboratory-only type of statistic to me. There's just no way to have a surface treatment be so totally slick that it works perfectly without lubrication or a lot of TLC (especially once it gets hot).

 

[Kendall Motor Oil]

I don't think some mfg's understand that people REALLY use their weapons and when you're rocking full-auto all day they NEED lubrication. My armorers and RSO's were laughing when it seized it up because we knew there was NO way it would last on our range.

Devil's advocate: basically no one fires full auto and thousands of rounds per day. That's an edge case in US consumer firearms manufacturing.

 

[White Devil]

Devil's advocate: basically no one fires full auto and thousands of rounds per day. That's an edge case in US consumer firearms manufacturing.

BFLV is basically known for taking guns to their maximum endurance. It was never meant to showcase normal firing schedules, just what each gun can take before failure.

 

[SinistralRifleman]

Their reports on optics failures are some of the most interesting stuff IMO.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

No idea who would ask this question. Maybe he just felt like talking about it.

This seems like an old timer sort of thing. The sort of thing that my grandad's generation would have debated over.

 

[HumptiDouji]

BFLV is basically known for taking guns to their maximum endurance. It was never meant to showcase normal firing schedules, just what each gun can take before failure.

It's neat still that you can actually learn a few things from what's just dumb fun entertainment.