I'm over the A5 system, do you think its worth it?

[vicious_cb]

Are they 14.5 middies? I ask because that’s probably the most undergassed option. I’ll try an A5-2 though and don’t expect any problems.

PMC was stupid smooth though. Wolf Gold feels like a 308 compared to it lol.

I run an A5H3 with 14.5 Hodge barrel which has a gas port a hair smaller than BCM. It runs with everything from wolf .223 to heavy 5.56 loads.

[Wake27]

I run an A5H3 with 14.5 Hodge barrel which has a gas port a hair smaller than BCM. It runs with everything from wolf .223 to heavy 5.56 loads.

I assume that’s not one of the barrels optimized for 855A1?


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[Wake27]

Are they 14.5 middies? I ask because that’s probably the most undergassed option. I’ll try an A5-2 though and don’t expect any problems.

PMC was stupid smooth though. Wolf Gold feels like a 308 compared to it lol.

Yup. One is the ELW-F from their early runs with the original KMR and the other is a newer ELW BFH.


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[vicious_cb]

I assume that’s not one of the barrels optimized for 855A1?


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There were never any different ported barrels in 14.5.

[Wake27]

There were never any different ported barrels in 14.5.

I don’t have the ads off hand but that’s definitely not what vendors were saying. Unless it was only 12.5s but I feel like I would’ve remembered that.


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[WS6]

There were never any different ported barrels in 14.5.

There have been several iterations of the 14.5.

[vicious_cb]

There have been several iterations of the 14.5.

You mean the DD vs FN versions? Ive only used the FN version, afaik the FN's only had 1 gas port size.

[WS6]

You mean the DD vs FN versions? Ive only used the FN version, afaik the FN's only had 1 gas port size.

FN has now had 4 port sizes in the 14.5" length. One of which only 2 or 3 existed, to be fair.

[vicious_cb]

FN has now had 4 port sizes in the 14.5" length. One of which only 2 or 3 existed, to be fair.

Never heard about the other ones, I purchased from the first batch when individual barrels when they became available for sale and the gas ports havent deviated in the 14.5's since then. The 12.5's newest batch are the only ones Ive heard where the gas ports changed.

[WS6]

Never heard about the other ones, I purchased from the first batch when individual barrels became available for sales and the gas ports havent deviated in the 14.5's since then. The 12.5's newest batch are the only ones Ive heard where the gas ports changed.

There have been multiple ports for the 14.5s, although I am not sure who all got them, and how many of each were produced. The very first commercial run was 0.073, as I recall.