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    These things have been out for years and there's no reviews, no data from classes, nor adoptions of the design by depts or agencies, no?

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    Quote Originally Posted by TRIDENT82 View Post
    LMT kinda compares to Barrett one would think
    True dat! Dont know how I overlooked LMT

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    Quote Originally Posted by Littlelebowski View Post
    These things have been out for years and there's no reviews, no data from classes, nor adoptions of the design by depts or agencies, no?
    This is what worries me, I looked into one two years ago and I know about as much about it now as I did then. There really is not a lot about this platform.
    Just smile.

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    That's good they are coming out with spares soon. If I had to go piston right now it would either be LMT or Barrett.

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    I thought I saw something from SHOT about them having some SBRs.

    Can you buy just an upper from Barrett?
    USMC vet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fhpchris View Post
    I thought I saw something from SHOT about them having some SBRs.

    Can you buy just an upper from Barrett?
    They had an 8" barrelled REC7 PDW 6.8 on display at the NPRC this past weekend in Michigan. I believe they were letting people shoot a F/A version on the vendors range but I didnt get a chance to shoot it myself.

    I dont know about the uppers.

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    Thanks for the info Paul. I did not get my LWRC until 2010 when they had everything out. Barret is a stable company I was just surprised that you could not get parts yet.

    ffh


    Quote Originally Posted by RetreatHell View Post
    Okay. Let's be fair here. I remember several years ago people bitching about having to ship their LWRCs off back to the manuf to get shit fixed. That's the one common problem with every one of these proprietary designs, whenever they first come out (LWRC, SCAR, SR15 E3, POF, etc...) it's practically impossible for most consumers to get any replacement parts when shit goes wrong (as it sometimes does with new designs, and just whenever Murphy's dumbass comes along to screw things up on even the best designed guns). Hell, even if it's something you could easily fix, you cannot simply log on to Bravo Company and buy an op rod or new bolt. Even amongst piston guns in general, there's still not one common design in use (to my limited knowledge anyways), everyone always has their own "way better and way more reliable" gas piston gun design.

    Everything will eventually be available and good to go in time, it just always seems to take forever to get there. And that's why it's important for guys like Tokarev to give lots of good feedback whenever they buy newly-released guns like this one from Barret, in order to speed this inevitable process along.

    I could really care less either way because I'm not a user of any piston guns (although I may be getting a SCAR soon). I'm just sayin'...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Littlelebowski View Post
    These things have been out for years...
    Yeah, I remember hearing about these things....what, 3 years ago? More? I wouldn't even come close to considering it having been truly out for years until it's been out with spare parts directly available to the user for years. And not in "kit" form. Indi-freaking-vidual spare parts. Until they can do that, it's a jumped-up Ruger piston gun.

    Send it back to the factory for routine maintenance? Sure, and I should send my running shoes back to New Balance whenever I break a shoelace. It's a gun, not an engagement ring setting.....

    ANYthing that is available for purchase without supply-support available and already in place, you're not a customer to them, just a revenue stream. "...parts list in the fall" my bleeding piles... Should've had that before the first gun was ever commercially sold. "Well, we didn't want to start anything until we knew what breaks, hurrrrrr..." or whatever. Horsecrap. It's a military-centric company applying a gov't weapons-procurement-program approach (where they've been allowed to get away with it for so long that it's institutionalized...and not unique to Barrett in any way) to the commercial market, and for the life of me I wouldn't know if or how they make any money doing it, were it not for P.T. Barnum's Razor: "There's a sucker born every minute."

    Even AFTER they bother to (maybe!) get all their crap in one bag, it'd be foolish to buy into it. If they didn't care enough to get the ducks in a row on the front end, there's no warm-fuzzy to be had in regard to their willingness or ability to support the commercial product on the back end.

    That's America, these days: no time to do things right from the start, but plenty of time to spend fixing f**k-ups later on.
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