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Thread: The new barrel paradigm....GP LW CHF / P MW SS

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    Thanks for the info, KD!

    Quote Originally Posted by Kyle Defoor View Post
    weight (it's not pounds at this stage it's ounces) and remember that balance has a factor here too.
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    If a heavier telestock like the UBR would help balance the rifle, would you accept the added weight? Which factor is most important to you- overalll weight, or balance?
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    I have been looking for that "do it all" carbine for a couple of years and have settled on a modernized recce upper from BCM with the ION SS barrel.

    I'm looking forward to getting it out to the range with my 1.5-5X to see what it'll do.

    Based upon the info I see in this thread I made a good choice.

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    I think you did, some do not like to chase the accuracy aspect of ARs but if you happen to than you should have a ton of fun with your new 16" boomstick

    Shooting gnats @ 100m w. a 16" gun that has a typical 30rd capacity is imho a gamechanger

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    Quote Originally Posted by TRIDENT82 View Post
    I think you did, some do not like to chase the accuracy aspect of ARs but if you happen to than you should have a ton of fun with your new 16" boomstick

    Shooting gnats @ 100m w. a 16" gun that has a typical 30rd capacity is imho a gamechanger
    I have high expectations of it and hope I'm a happy camper by next weekend. I get about 1 MOA with a RRA heavy barrel now, I'm looking for sub MOA out of this unit.

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    If it is anything like my BCM SS410 Ion Bond it will be a true sub MOA tack driver. Federal 55gr into less than an inch at 200.

    Cameron

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    I poked around the BCM web site looking for a break in procedure for the ION bonded barrels. They're stainless steel, is it good practice to break these in as you would a bare stainless barrel?

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    Just out of curiosity: About the BCM Ion Bond barrels.

    What is the intended use? And what's the weight like?
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    Hope this doesn't qualify as a necropost...

    Interestingly after owning and shooting both of the 16" Recce and the 18" SPR I showed on page 1 I found exactly what Kyle Defoor meant in this thread about the 5.56 16" being every bit as capable as the 18" and opted to move the 18" SPR on to another loving family, with the ultimate goal of replacing it with a .308.

    I am thinking of the barrel paradigm again as I might get the LMT MWS with an 18" or 20" stainless barrel and also SBR the lower and cut a chrome line 16" barrel down to 13". Giving a chrome lined hard use barrel for fast fun at closer ranges and an SS precision barrel for accuracy at longer ranges.

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    Maybe 18" barrels are the new 20" barrel.

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    I'm really having to give some consideration to condensing my rifles to two 5.56 Rifles for me, and two 5.56 rifles for wife and training.
    One 11.5" CHF Suppressed SBR with an Aimpoint
    One 16" MW SS Suppressed Light Recce with a low powered variable
    Two 14.5" LW Middy Minimalist rifles with an X300 and Aimpoint Micro


    On the 18 - I think the real limitation is that without the need for ammunition commonality among teammates, a 16" 7.62 reaches farther than an 18" 5.56, and weighs only a bit more. For the miniscule bit of added range you get with that 2" more barrel in a 5.56, it's becoming a simpler tradeoff to instead put better glass on the 16" and have that be the long range solution.
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