The rifle is pretty genius on a lot of levels.
It looks like if you have an AR15 armorer's wrench, vise blocks, and headspace gauges, you will be able to swap barrels with just a few minutes' work. Hopefully Ruger sells enough of these to spawn a number of choices for prefit aftermarket barrels.
The way the handguard mounts is also pretty cool. The barrel threads into the receiver until your bolt reacts properly to the go/nogo gauges. Then, you tighten down the barrel nut to keep the barrel in place. THEN, you thread a "handguard nut" over the actual barrel nut, and the handguard nut is what you mount your handguard onto. As far as I can tell, the handguard nut is for all intents and purposes a standard AR15 barrel nut. Hopefully you'll be able to swap the handguard nut for one of proprietary barrel nuts that ship with BCM KMRs, Geissele rails, etc.
I should stop buying guns for the year, but I'm very seriously eyeing one of these rifles in 6.5 Creedmoor.
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