I’m a long time user of Faxon barrels. All made early in their commercial tenure. Huge fan.
But their QC has slipped as of late (past 18-24 months, at least) and they have released a large number of lemons into the wild in that period.
I have a first gen 5.56 18” gunner with rifle gas in my wife’s carbine and 16” mid gas 7.62 gunner in my AR10. Both are amazing and both shoot lights out.
Just calling balls and strikes. I hope they get their sh** together.
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"That thing looks about as enjoyable as a bowl of exploding dicks." - Magic_Salad0892
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I have a Faxon SOCOM 16. The brass was all sorts of wrong because of the rough chamber. I contacted Faxon asking about sending it back to get another or for them to fix it at least. They told me instead to get a honing brush in 223 and honing oil and to fix it myself.
Did it work? Yes. But that ain't the point. They're supposed to not let that get out or at least make things right and not telling a customer to fix it himself.. They used to have a good one until their social media guy quit. Things that make one go hmm.
"That thing looks about as enjoyable as a bowl of exploding dicks." - Magic_Salad0892
"The body cannot go where the mind has not already been."
Thanks for the comments, guys. Taking them in. I have an extra waffle stock around, as well an SL-S. I still want to actually shoot the thing to confirm function before taking it apart again to bed the barrel and (possibly) switch to a standard receiver extension. The UBR is awesome, but I think that going to an SL, if not an M4, stock will still balance well with this setup. We’ll see.
Though a trip to the range has not made it to the top of my priority list (despite having two firearms to test now), I did get the PTG 308 headspace gauges in: GO goes, NO-GO no goes. So all good, and no need to try the FIELD.
As another positive, checking headspace forced me to entirely strip a bolt for the first time. So good experience.
Wow, great job! You could hunt all day without rifle carry fatigue.
I love my Faxon barrels. They’re mostly early ones - I bought my 308 Gunner barrel the first day of release and built an extremely lightweight 16 308 (7.5lbs minus optics) that I hunt with. It is a killer rig that does .6 MOA with FGGM. Easily carried for hours in the field.
That said, I think Ballistic Advantage is the new Faxon. Very high quality, accurate barrels at low cost (sub 1 MOA guarantee).
Last edited by Brahmzy; 07-12-20 at 10:52.
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