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    Speaking on JUST SS barrels. A very high end SS barrel maker (one that is known to make Barrels for the Military) has advised that they will not make SS barrels below a certain thickness. Reason being is that you can get into accuracy issues very quickly.

    Personally, I would not buy a pencil SS barrel. Govt weight is about the lowest I would trust.


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    Quote Originally Posted by JChops View Post
    Not upset at all. Just extremely disappointed that someone with the influence you have would do the things you do—as I've listed—so callously.
    Influence? I go to classes, buy guns, take photos, that's it.

    Quote Originally Posted by JChops View Post
    You went from posting photos of you and Chris Costa with dueling SR-25EMCs at a class (while hating Mark and the LaRue OBR) to completely flip-flopping in six months. Look back at your posts six months prior to owning the PredatAR. This is a fact and I've received plenty of PMs from industry friends/vets who have noticed this as well.
    Actually that was a JP LRP-07, so you too should fact check. I disliked the OBR, and by the way please by all means fact check on that as well, Mark started a whole thread about me, to which I never replied, so that was more or less Mark's doing, not mine. We get along better now. Also it's amazing what can happen in 6-8 months, guns can break, classes can happen, and it's awesome you have industry friends.

    Quote Originally Posted by JChops View Post
    And I am not attempting to discredit your photographic and graphic design abilities at all; I think you're quite talented in that regard. If I offended you in that way I apologize.
    But you ARE bashing my standing as a gun owner on the fact I used to own toy guns. Okay.

    Quote Originally Posted by JChops View Post
    I'm just making the point that you are obviously vain (with the amount of photos you post with yourself) and love to be shown as a serious user when in fact most of us wouldn't let you near any our gear with a 10-foot pole.
    Do you know how many photos I end up in usually from the classes I host? 4-5, and that's rare because I'm usually off the line taking photos of other students.

    Quote Originally Posted by JChops View Post
    One only needs to see the photos and comments on TOS from KevinB on your SR-15E3 being returned to KAC for "service" to really comprehend it. Again, quite embarrassing.
    Oh this is cute, were you at the class where this happened? Glad to know you're making a judgement based on all the facts. Like the fact that the gun had numerous problems before and after that class, same with the SR-25. I haven't gone into detail about them because frankly, nothing is to be gained by re-hashing it.

    Quote Originally Posted by JChops View Post
    Yet you responded to this almost instantly without acknowledging any of your misstated numbers and statements? Come on Titleist, you saw that post a few months ago and subsequently took your rail off and let out a "well, shit." You didn't respond because you would have looked like an idiot.
    I never took my rail off because I wasn't going to screw with my gun weeks before another class, when I have a major bad luck streak for breaking anything mechanical I touch. The only thing I'll apologize is for flip flopping on my opinions, not that I thought anyone gave a shit about them anyways. So for that aspect, sorry.

    As for the rest of your post:

    *insert response here*

    I gotta go back to dealing with the death of a family member.
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    We're done.

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    Quote Originally Posted by C4IGrant View Post
    Speaking on JUST SS barrels. A very high end SS barrel maker (one that is known to make Barrels for the Military) has advised that they will not make SS barrels below a certain thickness. Reason being is that you can get into accuracy issues very quickly.

    Personally, I would not buy a pencil SS barrel. Govt weight is about the lowest I would trust.


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    It is my understanding the profile used in/on the Noveske Rogue Hunter barrels is closer to the goverment profile than it is pencil. The Larue barrel looks very thin, is it an A1 type profile?

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    Quote Originally Posted by C4IGrant View Post
    Speaking on JUST SS barrels. A very high end SS barrel maker (one that is known to make Barrels for the Military) has advised that they will not make SS barrels below a certain thickness. Reason being is that you can get into accuracy issues very quickly.

    Personally, I would not buy a pencil SS barrel. Govt weight is about the lowest I would trust.


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    I know I had spoken to WOA some time last year about doing a pencil SS 1:8 for me and they wouldnt.

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    Staying out of anything else in this thread

    -- several years (2002) ago I had a specific barrel made for a SR-16 Recce Rifle. It was a Douglas SS barrel - the company (Not KAC) who did the barrel would not do a SS barrel under the SPR/Mk12 dimensions under the handguard (0.82 ish) due to concerns they had for use on a Military weapon.

    Damn I loved that gun, sadly it was left/abandoned in Iraq
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    Quote Originally Posted by bp7178 View Post
    It is my understanding the profile used in/on the Noveske Rogue Hunter barrels is closer to the goverment profile than it is pencil. The Larue barrel looks very thin, is it an A1 type profile?
    From what I have seen, LT barrels are of the Pencil flavor.



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    Is the stainless steel used by LaRue the same as any other manufacturer? If not, how does it compare to other kinds?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dozer View Post
    Is the stainless steel used by LaRue the same as any other manufacturer? If not, how does it compare to other kinds?
    There is only so many options for SS. The company that I and KevinB are talking about (two different companies for the record) use the best SS available and they WON'T make barrels below a certain thickness.



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    Quote Originally Posted by C4IGrant View Post
    There is only so many options for SS. The company that I and KevinB are talking about (two different companies for the record) use the best SS available and they WON'T make barrels below a certain thickness.



    C4

    I fully understand the refusal to make barrels below a certain thickness but it still doesn't answer the question. I am not picking at anything, just trying to understand the different materials if they are in fact different.
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