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If it's on the muzzle it's a brake NOT a break
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Where in the video does it say that the gaskets must be paid for separately? Mr Meier talks about them being available to existing owners of the M10X as an option, which only makes sense. Just because the rifle is designed to be forward-compatible doesn't mean that M+M should be on the hook for fielding incremental upgrades to existing customers. No other company does that, unless they are dealing with a safety-related recall.
As I understand it from the SAR article, the gaskets will simply be among the "rolling improvements" fielded on new-production rifles rolling off the assembly line as of a certain date this December. The article did not mention a price increase to new rifles as a result of the gasket addition. Just as there was no price increase for changing the muzzle thread to North American Standard from European. The gaskets will be 'standard issue" soon enough.
Wiĺl the pre-sale rifles have the gasket upgrade factory-installed? Only time will tell. If I have to pay for the upgrade after the fact, I will consider it. I don't make a habit of throwing my rifles into sand and gravel pits, so I don't really anticipate any reliability issues associated with the cocking slots. Others may have differing needs, so each to their own.
Last edited by Bartok5; 10-21-2017 at 07:23 PM.
Mark C
Holy cow this thread is still going strong, and yet no update.
I didn't watch the video about the gaskets, just saying they should come with the rifles not be an add-on later. I hope all the pre-sale rifles and all future imports come with them. You're right and I don't expect them to ship out a set to every person who already owns a rifle but all new production units should have them.
To me "available as an option" also means for an additional cost. It makes sense to seal up the receiver as much as possible regardless of how a person intends to use their rifle.
Even if a person is only going to use it at the range and it just goes from the safe to the case to the range and back I would want them installed.
Last edited by cr5; 10-21-2017 at 09:46 PM.
Don't be so sensitive snowflake, words can't hurt you.
"Facts don't care about your feelings" Ben Shapiro
If it's on the muzzle it's a brake NOT a break
By the power vested in me as God of my world.