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    IG has the idea, or find a LGS that has the proper tools to go over this. Think of it this way, what if it is bent? You are going to have to send it back to the manufacturer anyways...
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    Thanks for the information guys, there are a lot of people who really know the numbers for this kind of stuff.

    I've attempted a makeshift press to see if I could attempt to pull it back in a bit. I don't think it did much of anything other than give me bruised palms while pressing on it/cranking the vice.

    I've been in contact with a pair of 'smiths, both with credentials capable to look at the issue and it will probably be in one of their hands by early next week.
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    Holy shit, are you serious? You tried to bend it back yourself? Are you positive it's bent in the first place. I can virtually guarantee that your issue is a ****ing poorly installed hand guard.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AKDoug View Post
    Holy shit, are you serious? You tried to bend it back yourself? Are you positive it's bent in the first place. I can virtually guarantee that your issue is a ****ing poorly installed hand guard.
    This is why I leave this stuff up to the pros. I don't want to mess something up even if I know how to do it. I learned not to use local shops after they couldn't get a roll pin in my noveske lower. I'll build a lower but that's all I trust myself to do. The barrel being bent is a possibility but the rail being off is a bigger possibility.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AKDoug View Post
    Holy shit, are you serious? You tried to bend it back yourself? Are you positive it's bent in the first place. I can virtually guarantee that your issue is a ****ing poorly installed hand guard.
    Hand guard is straight; using a level I was able to verify its straightness on all 4 sides.

    Using a string, I can index through the center of the FH down to the barrel extension. When measuring both sides of the string, there is a bow starting around the gas block.

    I'm at a point of frustration with it, that's why I tried to gorilla it back. In evaluating the cost of repair(which may greatly reduce the longevity or may not even work) versus say the cost of replacing it with a BCM barrel I'm up in the air about what to do.
    Last edited by jwperry; 04-08-13 at 13:00.
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    Take your lumps and chuck the damn thing out the window. Or make a lamp out of it. Get a new barrel from BCM and be done with it.

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    Bent Barrel

    Quote Originally Posted by weez440 View Post
    i have a shotgun in my posession that was ran over by a tractor many years ago and bent the barrell. my dad got it for nothing and ended up taking the barrell off and plugging one end and filled the barrel full of fine sand and plugged the other end. then proceeded to stick it between two oak tree's and pull on it very slowly until he couldn't pull it anymore. the barrel would only go back to where it was straight and wouldn't go anymore. i don't know if this would be safe on a .223 barrel and i am talking about a more forgiving shotgun barrel but i can't see where this thing was ever bent.
    Don't do this...just don't. Reading this was painful. This is crap.

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    Quote Originally Posted by !Nvasi0n View Post
    Don't do this...just don't. Reading this was painful. This is crap.
    I don't get it. It sounds like solid advice to me.
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    I've seen a few bent barrels, not uncommon in Airborne units. Actually quite common back in the day of the A1.

    Get the barrel gauged.

    If it's bent get a new one.

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    As a former unit armorer, I did run across a few bent barrels over the years, they are very uncommon. What I have seen that might be a possibility is a loose barrel. I had one that felt tight, but couldn't be zeroed. I issued the guy a new weapon at the range and looked his over back at the arms room. I took it to support to get gaged, and it was straight. They pulled the gas tube and managed to actually tighten the barrel nut two notches. At the next range, the weapon shot fine.

    So take the rail off and check to make sure the barrel is tight, put a wrench to it, check that it's torqued properly.

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