Must have items/extras for a RA XCR?

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New Black Rifle owner... .

Just ordered a RA XCR 6.8 today! Woo Hoo

Any opinions of must have extras? And please use English my tacticool is 0

I'm going to hunt with this thing, Sorry I'm going to TRY to hunt with this thing.

So far, I went with a QD perp mount , 1.25-8x 6500 Elite and a Burris FF II.

Any thoughts on other things like slings, grips or bi pods or other accessories would be appreciated!

THX, and I promise picture of the build... on my tractor...when it all comes in!
 
Stevo said:
Loc-Tite. And lots of it.
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Many people have had great times with their XCR. But from my experience Stevo is correct. The XCR is a cruel joke.

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Very helpful. :/

Don't bother getting any accessories until you have shot it lots and know hot it feels. You might wand a different stock. You might want a sling. You might want a bipod. A guy with a tractor is going to know how his rifle suits his shooting situation soon after it arrives.

Buy a bunch of ammo and shoot it before fall.
 
carbonrod said:
Very helpful. :/

Don't bother getting any accessories until you have shot it lots and know hot it feels. You might wand a different stock. You might want a sling. You might want a bipod. A guy with a tractor is going to know how his rifle suits his shooting situation soon after it arrives.

Buy a bunch of ammo and shoot it before fall.
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THX for the replies! I ordered 600 rounds! so I'm good to start... break in.
 
carbonrod said:
Very helpful. :/

Don't bother getting any accessories until you have shot it lots and know hot it feels. You might wand a different stock. You might want a sling. You might want a bipod. A guy with a tractor is going to know how his rifle suits his shooting situation soon after it arrives.

Buy a bunch of ammo and shoot it before fall.
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carbonrod,

I can only hope the new generation of XCR's work better than the one I bought for over 2k.

My XCR was a disaster. The trigger group was not only crap, but it failed after 2 rounds. I had parts sent up to me from some tatooed chick promising me my gun would work. It never did.
 
Stick whatever you see that you like on it but I don't think you need anything other than a good optic and sling. If your hunting at closer ranges a dot sight is great and very fast.
 
Tear it down, brake clean all the bolts and thread, blow them dry, apply blue locktite and your be gold. Its not worth taking the chance and having a loose screw ruin your day. Id do the same with any firearm. My 10/22 had a action screw loosen, so did my pals. Easily preventable. We dont curse Ruger.
I wonder around with only a 1point sling and its ghey. I want a 2 point but no where Ive been has any rail-sling adapters. I personally have no desire to add a bunch of accessories, perhaps one of those 45degree foregrips but that about it.

The trickiest part is the barrel retention screw. You have to constantly wiggle the barrel while slowly tightening the screw so it fully seats in the deepest of the indent. It is very important. you can definitely feel it seating deeper and deeper until your there. Do this consistently and each time you remove the barrel there may/shouldnt be any or little poi change. In reality there is no need to be constantly removing the barrel. Mine was removed once, the day I brought her home. Cleaned it, locktited it, lubed it. Nothing has come loose ever....except my optic, which coincidentally uses screws to hold it on that I did not locktite.

I think Im somewhere between 1300-1600 rnds. At about 200 rounds I did a tear down/clean/lube, used heavy oil on the hammer pivot, created enough drag to slow the hammer, caused primer blanking. I verified this was the reason by alternating heavy oil/light oil multiple times in my next shooting session. Stuck with the light stuff and never lubed it since. Never 1 single feed or eject issue other than 3 or 4 improperly seated mag bob's, completely operator error.
 
smak_daddy said:
carbonrod,

I can only hope the new generation of XCR's work better than the one I bought for over 2k.

My XCR was a disaster. The trigger group was not only crap, but it failed after 2 rounds. I had parts sent up to me from some tatooed chick promising me my gun would work. It never did.
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Sure. I once had 2 of them as well. I know the rifle. The OP is post purchase though. Help him out.

Paul Morrison said:
Seriously, buy an Eotech for on top, and enjoy!
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If he is going to hunt it, I wouldn't buy an eotech.
 
Paul Morrison said:
Stupid haters won't leave people alone.


Seriously, buy an Eotech for on top, and enjoy!
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And irrational defenders are going to defend, I guess.

I'm neither stupid, nor an XCR hater. I co-hosted 4 days of carbine classes in May and one of the students had an XCR. I watched him fight with it, dealing with malfunctions, all the first day. On the morning of the next day, he stated he figured his gun would work better as he Loc-tited everything that moved. I watched him, later that morning, run back to his support gear with a rifle that wasn't working and state that he missed Loc-titing one screw and because of that, his rifle wouldn't run.

Direct observation is not "hating".
 
Enjoy your XCR had mine for 2 years now with no locktite and I love it, also if you look at other XCR post you will see it is always the same people who bash the XCR its kind of weird.
 
If I was going to be manouvering through the bush with any rifle, the first thing I'd do is make sure I could attach a good sling. Your new XCR has forward rails, so that's a start, get in touch with One Shot and get one of these:

http://www.oneshottactical.com/Merc...shot&Product_Code=FP-RMFL&Category_Code=SL-SA

I've used one on an AR and it's strong enough to let you hang a bear from, really HD.

while you're there, also get one of these:

http://www.oneshottactical.com/Merc...Product_Code=SL-BFG-VCAS&Category_Code=SL-BFG.

The sling should work with the rifles existing rear sling mount (from what I can see in the RA Gallery), honestly the best sling made for a heavy rifle with a longish barrel.

This is an unbelievable deal for scarce mags, so you might want to stock up:

https://shopquestar.com/shopping65/shopexd.asp?id=88&bc=no

That would be a start.

I hope it works out for you; either way, you'll be out hunting with an "evil black rifle" while most of us are home #####ing that our AR's are restricted.
 
You have everything you need to get started, get familiar with your XCR first, grips, bi-pods and whatever are all based on your personal preference, more you are used to the platform you will know as to what you need to replace.

keep you eye on Wolverine's section, John will be stocking some 10 round 6.8 SPC pistol mags soon.
 
Paul Morrison said:
Stupid haters won't leave people alone.
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Like clock work.

It's almost starting to not be fun anymore.

Stevo said:
And irrational defenders are going to defend, I guess.

Direct observation is not "hating".
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Adler Tactical Solutions said:
They're nice guns but I gotta agree with Stevo they don't hold up. Every one I've seen on a course has either had malfunctions or had some part fall off.
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You guys are just haters who clearly don't even shoot guns ever.
 
wow guys thanks for all the feed back! Good and Bad.

I hope my first experience with what I think is a modern black sporting rifle is positive.

Either way it has to be more fun then a bolt action tikka in 308 and a savage in 243 etc... because that where I was heading... and said screw it! Buy something different.

That said I hope I didn't buy a $2400 POS.

HMMMMMMMM.......Maybe I should of got that new Sako full stock carbine in 30-06 and called it a day?

Time will tell! THX Again to all who posted feed back!
 
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