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    No, I KNOW you get the good stuff early!

    I just didn't believe the 3 month prior statement. I thought they were saying it went from the drawing board to SHOT in that time.

    Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball...

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    Three months of sleepless nights and long stress filled days sounds about right.

    Magpul is getting crap on another forum with people saying that since the UBR took so long, that the Masada will take years and couldn't have been done anywhere close to three months.

    The end answer is that the Magpul crew busts their collective asses to get things done, but even they run into snags when they are forced to deal with outside manufacturers. I would like to see them available for commercial sales in 12 months or less, and I'm sure they would as well. If the people they deal with are able to meet timetables as forecasted, I'm sure it will happen.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Stickman
    After playing with the Masada a few months ago, clearing rooms, running dry drills, and getting an overall pretty good feel for it, I had a feeling that the Magpul crew had a solid hit on their hands.

    Stick, just for clarification, how could you have "played" with the Masada a few months ago if Magpul only started development three months ago? Did you mean weeks instead of months?
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    It's clean. Grant's got this nice feature built in that tells you when you've got a full inbox too...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Austin_Nichols
    Stick, just for clarification, how could you have "played" with the Masada a few months ago if Magpul only started development three months ago? Did you mean weeks instead of months?
    Stickman was sent a non-firing weapon made from SLS and SLA rapid prototyping materials for photographs. In fact, if any of you have Masada posters from SHOT, that is one of Stickman's photos. The weapon itself is the culmination of years of experience with the AR platform, and months of research and drawings in attempt to make a polymer lower receiver for the AR. The polymer lower was designed, and redsigned, and redesigned again until the project was simply scrapped, and they started from "scratch" a few months back by abandoning the AR platform.

    So, to answer your question, Stickman did indeed play with a Masada, but his didn't have anything but plastic receivers, a barrel, and a trigger. IIRC that Masada was sent to him some time in November only a few days after WE got to play with it for the first time. The internal parts were finished only days before SHOT, allowing us to test fire the weapon before the show.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NickB
    Stickman was sent a non-firing weapon made from SLS and SLA rapid prototyping materials for photographs. In fact, if any of you have Masada posters from SHOT, that is one of Stickman's photos. The weapon itself is the culmination of years of experience with the AR platform, and months of research and drawings in attempt to make a polymer lower receiver for the AR. The polymer lower was designed, and redsigned, and redesigned again until the project was simply scrapped, and they started from "scratch" a few months back by abandoning the AR platform.

    So, to answer your question, Stickman did indeed play with a Masada, but his didn't have anything but plastic receivers, a barrel, and a trigger. IIRC that Masada was sent to him some time in November only a few days after WE got to play with it for the first time. The internal parts were finished only days before SHOT, allowing us to test fire the weapon before the show.

    I had thought Stick had only known for a month or so, that was when he started answering the SHOT show questions with I know something I really, really think everyone is gonna go ape over tinted verbiage.

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    nice photo as always, stick

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lyrch
    I had thought Stick had only known for a month or so, that was when he started answering the SHOT show questions with I know something I really, really think everyone is gonna go ape over tinted verbiage.
    I'm not sure, to be perfectly honest. Stick was told about the project before he received the plastic mock up, and I know he got that at least a month back. Either way, he really enjoyed holding it over your heads.
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    Grant, what did Sabre have that might be of interest?

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    Quote Originally Posted by SinnFéinM1911
    I would have to say, not that it matter, but the Slip2000 new (I dont want to call it modular, but that kinda what it is) cleaning system is the heat. It has a quick release and it is built into there new cleaning rods, and he also has a adapable for current Otis and Mil Cleaning kits.

    http://www.slip2000.com/brushbuddy.html

    Woo Hoo !!
    That is cool!

    I've been extremely impressed with Slip2000 so I'm going to track one of these new kits down.

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