I got mine yesterday. Planning to shoot tomorrow but shooting, outside of work required LEO training (yay! Free bullets), is mostly a winter sport for me. It’s hard to justify a trip to the range when there’s good mountain biking weather.
Anyways, I’ve owned an AR180b and also the Jard 48 - The later is basically an attempt at a DI AR18. My observations on build quality for the WK180-C is that it exceeds both in materials and machining. I’m sufficiently amazed this rifle is less then 1K!
One thing to note about the WK180 is that the two rails the bolt rides on seem to be much thicker and flex less then the JARD 48. Maybe that was the JARD 48’s downfall, or maybe it was the cam timing - I’m not sure. I don’t remember the rails of my long gone AR180b.
The WK180 gas plug was a bit of a fiddlie to get in. I was worried about crossthreading due to the fact downward pressure needs to be applied as it’s turned to tighten. With care I got it back in correctly - I’m not sure I’ll clean the gas system much.
Does anyone have any tips to remove the gas components and to reduce my mild concern?
The design is brilliant tho!
Some questions:
1. The Selector is marked “s” and “r” . Does the “R” stand for repeat?
2. My serial number is 0XX-18. Does the 18 stand for the model?
3. I’m not used to a complicated barrel break in. If I don’t follow the procedures am I going to get a pie plate shooter? Or are we talking about going from a 1.5” maximum potential accuracy to 2-3”? - not a big deal to me.
4. The rail to stock alignment seems more like the flat top of a C8 - thus it seems like low profile sights like a T1 would be difficult to tuck into without a riser. Are people generally in agreement that a AR15 optic would be better suited? Or a T1 with a riser? I’ve got an eotech on it now but not sure I’ll keep it that way.