Faced with lame excuses and no responsibility from nsr what are our options?
No, it is a $1000 rifle. Twice as expensive as a M305 and more than many entry level ARs.
What about the larger, deeper hole directly above the gouge? You know the one the gas goes through? Are you worried about that one affecting "performance accuracy reliability to some degree"?
where is the option to make a thread on the internet and cry?
everybody keeps talking about a gouge" mine has a drill hole , one goes thru (for gas) other one goes thru chrome from inside .
Easy to say it doesn't affect anything as they are all new, give it a couple years and a few thousand rounds and who knows how it will be. Having a "crack" in the chrome is going to allow residue to erode that area and will it cause problems, well no one knows do they? Personally don't think they are a 1050.00 firearm if perfect, worth much less now considering this issue.
Years go AIA bought .308 mini-gun barrels and realized some of the chrome lined barrels had minute pitting which because of poor storage had started to rust, had to scrap them.
If you fix the gouge, you'll still have an enormous hole in it, the gas port. If having a gas port isn't a problem, then I don't understand how the gouge would be.
A $400 made-in-China TV has a MUCH different quality of build than a $2000 made-in-China TV. The $60 made-in-China tablet computers are a joke compared to the $300 made-in-China tablet computers. No one is saying that China can't make good stuff. The argument is that if you buy CHEAP Chinese stuff, expect CHEAP Chinese quality. Might you sometimes be pleasantly surprised when it's really good? Sure. Might you also get what you pay for? Yup.Based on the "China is junk" argument,I guess pretty well every TV, computer, cell phone, MP3 player, and piece of high tech test equipment (like digital oscilloscopes, signal generators, MRI machines, CT scanners, etc.) are just pieces of $hit waiting to fall apart. Get a clue.



























