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I think if you want to knock price you compare apples to apples. I remember looking at the BCM Jack thread and people were posting the retail prices to build it instead. I suppose their motivation was to show how "overpriced" it was. Instead they were screwing up the actual prices of the components and incorrectly assuming you could actually acquire the BCM lower and BCG and other parts needed to have a gun.
I only say this because 1. would you be able to clean the baffle stack like DD says you can on theirs? 2. Would the suppressor integrate properly with a 12" DD MFR to fit under and allow the same 16.1 OAL? 3. How well would a, IIRC, 1/2-28 can thread onto a 300BLK barrel? and do you foresee any problems from using .308 projectiles through it???
I may be an idiot, which I am often called, so bare with me. But isn't an integrelly surpressed rifle a rifle with the barrel being the surpressor? This just sounds like a sbr with a welded surpressor. Isn't that something different?
It looks to me that the integral component here would be the gas block attachment. With a pistol length gas system, and a 10.3" barrel, the suppressor would enclose a good portion of the barrel back to the gas block. I think the OAL of the suppressor may have been misstated in the article when referring to the additional length of the rifle.
Yes and no. Integral simply means the suppressor is permanently affixed to the barrel. That makes it a one stamp affair instead of two. Many integrally suppressed guns gave bleed ports drilled into the barrel to keep the bullet subsonic. That wouldn't be necessary on a 300BLK. The supersonic rounds would still be supersonic and the subs don't require bleed off.
.300BLK rounds are not cheap compared to 5.56 and not so readily available (meaning, if there was not a crack-head run on-guns stupidity like right now). Even if you can easily afford this rifle, your stomach will be turning when you run into the ammo availability issue, especially if you plan on shooting at least 200+ rounds per month.
I have a friend who opted for .300BLK and he either scrounges to find decent boxed rounds or reloads his own, more of the latter.
DD may have timed this release wrong or they just wanted to cash into the craze and pulled this thing off of whatever back burner it could have been sitting on before December 14.
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