My Wk180c initial review

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For what it's worth, here is my 2 cents.
Arrived last week, I did some search on scopes, went to tenda, got a Bushnell AR 223 BDC for $200 and a quick detach mount.
Lubed the supreme #$&# out of it, and fired 5 rounds down the pipe at approx 75 yards. To my surprise the trajectory and reticle gods were in line today and it was about an inch off from aim point. Awesome! Gun cycled fine, spit the brass out about 2 feet to my right. Brass in good shape also no major dents. (Reloading!)
Had some residue down near the gas block, that made it onto the handguard. Not sure why that's there?
Barrel is clean as a whip. 30 rounds. Overall very happy
Only downfall is the tug o war of a trigger. It's gotta be 15 lb....
Either way that's next to improve.
I like it.
 
Cat-black said:
Had some residue down near the gas block, that made it onto the handguard. Not sure why that's there?
Only downfall is the tug o war of a trigger. It's gotta be 15 lb....
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If you take the handguard off and cycle the piston, you'll see two gas relief holes on either side of the gas block at the furthest extent of the piston travel - designed to vent excess gas.
I measured my stock trigger at a gritty 10 lbs with a fair amount of creep. Definately worth an upgrade IMHO.
 
Sit in front of the TV and dry-fire it for an hour. I have an AR-180B-2 and it's factory trigger was terrible when new but after 1000 rounds it really smoothed out. I recently replaced it with an ALG ACT trigger which is a great upgrade for someone who doesn't want to drop $400 on a trigger.

Good to hear another positive report.
 
beltfed said:
If you take the handguard off and cycle the piston, you'll see two gas relief holes on either side of the gas block at the furthest extent of the piston travel - designed to vent excess gas.
I measured my stock trigger at a gritty 10 lbs with a fair amount of creep. Definately worth an upgrade IMHO.
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Not if you spend 15 minutes or less of work on it. But feel free to spend hundreds of dollars upgrading. Each to their own. Mine was quite nice after the paracord trick, and even better now after 500rds.
 
driller212 said:
Not if you spend 15 minutes or less of work on it. But feel free to spend hundreds of dollars upgrading. Each to their own. Mine was quite nice after the paracord trick, and even better now after 500rds.
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To be fair, no amount of use or paracord yanking will ever make a factory milspec trigger anywhere near as good as a quality aftermarket trigger. I suggested an hour of dry firing or the $100 trigger upgrade for the budget minded owner, anyone that actually wants a nice trigger will replace it with at minimum the ALG and those that want it really nice will spend more.
I would have a very hard time spending more than $100 on a trigger upgrade on a $1000 rifle but that's just me.
 
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Well, the Armalite trigger I put in mine came from the spare parts box, as did everything I've put on it so far - so for me it's been zero outlay of extra cash.
I agree though, always worth polishing and adjusting the spring legs on a stock trigger prior to replacement - if one's comfortable with it. If not, a $100 on a decent trigger is always good value.
 
cr5 said:
To be fair, no amount of use or paracord yanking will ever make a factory milspec trigger anywhere near as good as a quality aftermarket trigger. I suggested an hour of dry firing or the $100 trigger upgrade for the budget minded owner, anyone that actually wants a nice trigger will replace it with at minimum the ALG and those that want it really nice will spend more.
I would have a very hard time spending more than $100 on a trigger upgrade on a $1000 rifle but that's just me.
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Exactly. In my mind fancy pants triggers are only useful for precision and maybe competition applications, and this rifle wasn't built for precision. I understand for some it may make their experience with their rifle more enjoyable, and all the power to them if they are willing to spend the dough to do it. I just find personally that milspec triggers do just fine. Just my opinion, many will differ. I just don't want the newbs reading this to think you need to spend a few hundred bucks on a new trigger to get the rifle to work properly, because in my experience on this board people read it precisely that way.

beltfed said:
Well, the Armalite trigger I put in mine came from the spare parts box, as did everything I've put on it so far - so for me it's been zero outlay of extra cash.
I agree though, always worth polishing and adjusting the spring legs on a stock trigger prior to replacement - if one's comfortable with it. If not, a $100 on a decent trigger is always good value.
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Yup.
 
driller212 said:
Exactly. In my mind fancy pants triggers are only useful for precision and maybe competition applications, and this rifle wasn't built for precision. I understand for some it may make their experience with their rifle more enjoyable, and all the power to them if they are willing to spend the dough to do it. I just find personally that milspec triggers do just fine. Just my opinion, many will differ. I just don't want the newbs reading this to think you need to spend a few hundred bucks on a new trigger to get the rifle to work properly, because in my experience on this board people read it precisely that way.
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Totally agree, I had a $2000+ PWS AR with a standard milspec trigger and after 5000 rounds I still didn't feel that it needed a $400 trigger. I shot plenty of great groups with it.
I'm sure it would have been better with a trigger upgrade but I didn't buy it to be a bench rest paper puncher so the standard trigger was good enough for off hand shooting and the CQB course I put it through.

I never fault anyone for upgrading but I don't really think it's necessary, especially on a rifle like this.
 
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