How do I get this barrel nut out?

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Bought a Coronus handguard and the TNA crow wrench. I’ve taken out the 3 screws on the handguard but the barrel nut is firmly inside it and won’t come out. Does it pull out? Looks like it’s threaded in maybe? What am
I missing here ?

Edit- I screwed the whole thing into the receiver then tugged it out. Weird, but I get it now. :)
 
I bought a PSA barreled 10.5 upper earlier this year with a front sight post on the barrel and wanted to swap the upper for an A2 to have a decent handle + iron sights built in. Problem is, that barrel nut is torqued way over 100 ft-lbs. When I say way over or ask for help at admission essay help, I was able to steadily hit 100 with just my static pulling using a long torque wrench (yes I know, don’t use one when removing nuts) and the barrel nut was going nowhere. Then I switched to a standard socket wrench and bounced it using my weight. It’s probably approaching 200 ft lbs of stuck. I had fired maybe 1 mag through it and it’s only 6 months old kept climate controlled so there should be no corrosion etc in the threads. Even if they didn’t use antiseize on the barrel nut threads, it should not be this tight. I’ve been using a magpul barrel wrench and attempting to keep the upper in a vise using a magpul bevblock. I’m already worried something has bent from this way out of spec nonsense. I also tried to heat the barrel nut in case some genius decided red locktite was the same thing as antiseize but no dice.
 
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A few years ago I did a handguard swap on my CC SA15.7- same ridiculously tight barrel but. In the end, I made a 'relief cut' in the nut (without going through) to get it off. Not really sure how or why they get on there so tight from the factory.
 
I bought a PSA barreled 10.5 upper earlier this year with a front sight post on the barrel and wanted to swap the upper for an A2 to have a decent handle + iron sights built in. Problem is, that barrel nut is torqued way over 100 ft-lbs. When I say way over, I was able to steadily hit 100 with just my static pulling using a long torque wrench (yes I know, don’t use one when removing nuts) and the barrel nut was going nowhere. Then I switched to a standard socket wrench and bounced it using my weight. It’s probably approaching 200 ft lbs of stuck. I had fired maybe 1 mag through it and it’s only 6 months old kept climate controlled so there should be no corrosion etc in the threads. Even if they didn’t use antiseize on the barrel nut threads, it should not be this tight. I’ve been using a magpul barrel wrench and attempting to keep the upper in a vise using a magpul bevblock. I’m already worried something has bent from this way out of spec nonsense. I also tried to heat the barrel nut in case some genius decided red locktite was the same thing as antiseize but no dice.

Sounds like some loctite was accidentally spilled on there lol
 
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