Brigade Arms Makasi Canada Non Restricted Rifle - A machinist tear down PIC HEAVY
Just got home with my rifle from RDSC. I have not fire it yet, this is a construction and design review only!
Disclaimers: I purchased this rifle with my own money and I have zero affiliation with anyone involved with the rifle.
Qualifications: I'm a red seal journeyman machinist operating a CNC machine shop primarily producing items for electro optical devices. In the past, I was involved in the firearms manufacturing industry.
Initial impressions: This thing is the best option for an AR15 style rifle we have. Go buy one now before you can't. Any issues can be easily remedied by the Canadian aftermarket. There is nothing out of this world difficult in the manufacture of this rifle.
The factory stock is a beast and heavy. I replaced it immediately with a B5.
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The handguard mount leaves a bit to be desired. The bolts screw into regular hex nuts that sit in machined pockets on the other side. Very robust design and easy to replace if some CGN moron strips out the bolts. The handguard is slotted for a small amount of squeeze, but primary retention appears to be the bolts interfacing with grooves in the barrel nut. They have already chowdered it a bit. For this reason, I'd have preferred shoulder bolts. I have 2 on order, McMaster part number 91273A587
I have a large diameter Aero Precision handguard that I think I can make fit with a custom barrel nut.
Thankfully, as it basically uses a chopped AR15 bolt and carrier, standard action wrenches will work. Barrels are, as far as I can tell, standard AR15 with a carbine length gas system. This gun can be re-barreled easily.
The gas block is a very simple design. I will take mine off eventually and reverse engineer it. I do seem to have a fit issue with my gas plug. There are burrs or a size miss match that makes switching to suppressed sticky. I hit it with the honing stone a bit. It will probably wear in. (picture before any fix)
Just got home with my rifle from RDSC. I have not fire it yet, this is a construction and design review only!
Disclaimers: I purchased this rifle with my own money and I have zero affiliation with anyone involved with the rifle.
Qualifications: I'm a red seal journeyman machinist operating a CNC machine shop primarily producing items for electro optical devices. In the past, I was involved in the firearms manufacturing industry.
Initial impressions: This thing is the best option for an AR15 style rifle we have. Go buy one now before you can't. Any issues can be easily remedied by the Canadian aftermarket. There is nothing out of this world difficult in the manufacture of this rifle.
The factory stock is a beast and heavy. I replaced it immediately with a B5.
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The handguard mount leaves a bit to be desired. The bolts screw into regular hex nuts that sit in machined pockets on the other side. Very robust design and easy to replace if some CGN moron strips out the bolts. The handguard is slotted for a small amount of squeeze, but primary retention appears to be the bolts interfacing with grooves in the barrel nut. They have already chowdered it a bit. For this reason, I'd have preferred shoulder bolts. I have 2 on order, McMaster part number 91273A587
I have a large diameter Aero Precision handguard that I think I can make fit with a custom barrel nut.
Thankfully, as it basically uses a chopped AR15 bolt and carrier, standard action wrenches will work. Barrels are, as far as I can tell, standard AR15 with a carbine length gas system. This gun can be re-barreled easily.
The gas block is a very simple design. I will take mine off eventually and reverse engineer it. I do seem to have a fit issue with my gas plug. There are burrs or a size miss match that makes switching to suppressed sticky. I hit it with the honing stone a bit. It will probably wear in. (picture before any fix)
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