Tavor X95 Magwell Damage
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onetwentyish
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Must be using mags with metal feed lips eh? What part has you concerned, where it looks like cookie monster took a bite? Just looked at mine and it has some erosion there too, but if you look closely only the middle is then and it quickly tapers up to 1/4" thick polymer between the bolt catch/sear group pocket and the magwell, so I doubt you will see to muck more erosion there going forward.
It looks like the erosion/chipping is caused from 5rd-er's rivits. Are your mags properly recessed and ground smooth rivits?
It looks like the erosion/chipping is caused from 5rd-er's rivits. Are your mags properly recessed and ground smooth rivits?
onetwentyish
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Not really. Any x95 that has had a pinned 5rd-er in it will have some of this. Once it wears in to where its thicker and not just flashing it will stop.
SantaClawz
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Bu-bu-butt polymer is better than aluminum
Yup, companies these days have no idea what their doing. HK builds terrible rifles with it, the Tavor is a piece of crap because of it, the SCAR is terrible, along with all the other polymer rifles out there, if only they used aluminum and steel they could be the best battle rifles ever made, oh wait, they might actually be.
As for the damage from the rivet in a magazine... ever heard of a file? Every magazine I have gets tried in every compatible rifle I own and the rivet is filed down till it doesn't interfere with the magwell. A couple minutes of work and no more problems.
onetwentyish
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For a moment there I thought you were serious, so I re-calibrated my sarcasm detector before taking a re-read and luckily the second time the readings were through the roof positive for sarcasm... LOL
Personally I hate using aluminum and steel where Polymer and CF are sufficient. Aluminum is cold in the winter and hot in the summer if your gun gets warmed up, polymer and CF are like wood and have a low thermal coefficient making it always feel more temp neutral in any environment. in the case of polymer it also cuts costs making the item more affordable to manufacture. For this exact reason I can tell you I am not a fan of the K&M M17s, and will likely be skipping it because of the aforementioned... The rifle to me looks like the only skill set K&M has is machining and yet they couldn't even be bothered to mill some mlok slots in the for-end of their M17s to allow easy accessory mounting...
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