I’m not sure if updates belong here, but...
I ordered four of these 16” HBAR profile, carbine length gas, parkerized finish barrels from peacegeek on 3/11/19 and received them yesterday but only just got a chance to crack open the package a few minutes ago.
https://www.peacegeek.net/product-p/ws-00245.htm
I imagine these are the same barrels as the $25 unfinished barrels that were mentioned previously in this thread (that were already out-of-stock when I saw them posted here), but these are parkerized and only $10 more.
They were very well packaged. Individually protected within tubular plastic mesh netting and then inserted into a heavy duty compartmentalized bubble wrap sleeve.
So far I have only visually inspected them for obvious defects and pin gauged the gas ports. 3 of the 4 gauge at 0.065” and one at 0.066”. So far not bad.
Only two of them are mine; due to the shipping cost I went in with a couple buddies on the order to spread that out a little. I’m looking forward to assembling them on a pair BCM blem uppers I’ve just received (No obvious blems stand out on them either, which is the same experience I’ve had with them previously - IMHO they’re one of the best values in uppers available today, and, at least when I ordered them a few days ago, shipping was free [for orders over $110]).
I have plenty of other “nice” guns, so I’m building them completely from take-off, used “market place”, and clearance parts. I think the only thing I need that I don’t already have is a single gas tube. Unfortunately, while debating building these uppers and looking at my spare parts bins, I mistook a mid length tube for a carbine. I’ll have to find a cheep tube somewhere where shipping doesn’t kill the deal.
I’ll post another update when I get them together and get a chance to shoot them.
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