Quoted:
So I got in to a little bit of a YouTube comment "battle" with a guy today about this topic...
The video was from a fellow SR-15 owner who has over 14k rounds through his mod 1 rifle (running great obviously and no end in sight). Someone in the comments stated something to the effect of "it's too bad KAC won't let customers buy replacement barrels". I replied stating that I believe KAC will "re-barrel" an upper if you send it to them and I can understand them not wanting people to install their own barrels (proprietary gas system, bolt, barrel etc). The reason I believe they will is that just a couple days ago I saw a very recent post on this forum by the commercial sales manager AT KAC, and he stated they WOULD re-barrel a customers rifle, if asked to. I even quoted the post in the comments and the original commenter vehemently disagreed and went on a rant about hoping KAC loses business etc etc...bla bla bla. Mostly likely a "KAC dissenter" trolling YouTube, hating on a product he doesn't even own.
Still... it got me thinking... WOULD KAC re-barrel a rifle for a customer or not? The counter argument is that, rather than re-barreling it, they will simply try to get you to buy a whole new upper. So can anyone answer this question definitively? There's no chance I'll need a barrel any time soon as my SR-15 barely has 2k through it. The guy with over 14k likely has lots of life left in his too. But for the sake of argument I'm just curious what the actual answer is to this.
View Quote
First, thank you for watching my video
(I am actually sub'ed to your channel)
From my understanding of your comment and the other guy's comment, I think there is a slight confusion about how KAC will not
SELL the barrel and they can
REBARREL the gun?
KAC will not sell you the barrel, and they can only rebarrel the current generation of rifles, not the older Mod1 or Mod0.
For anyone interested, here are the videos I shared, and below is what I posted on YouTube and on the KAC subsection:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Just want to share with you guys the status of my beloved SR15 Mod1, which is now at 14,700rds.
I did replace the carbine buffer with a Colt H3 buffer to get the perfect 4:30-5:00 ejection patter, and I swapped out the gas rings around the 9,000-12,000 mark not b/c it needs it, but more like I was bored.
SR15 Mod1: 14,700rds and counting
14,700 rounds of all brass, mostly 5.56 spec ammo... I did plenty of shooting, and very little care to the gun. After the initial preparation, the gun had no maintenance and no oil of any kind until reaching the 3500rds mark, 7000rds mark(3500rds no maintenance), and the 12500rds mark(5500rds no maintenance). Only then did I do a semi-detail cleaning.
SR-15 Mod1 | Post- 14,700rds Accuracy Test | 300 yards
Testing the accuracy of my SR15 Mod1 after 14,700 rounds of brass ammo, almost all in 5.56 spec with some being 223 spec ammo.
Normally it consistently prints 1.25MOA 10rd group at 100 yards using the same setup.
At 300 yards, it is about 1.5MOA to 1.75MOA if I do my part.
Some of you guys know that I had another SR15 Mod1 that was 'shot-out' around the 12,500rd-13,000rd mark. (4k steel ammo almost all mag dump, 8k-9k brass ammo w/ some mag dump)
For my current (2nd) SR15 Mod1 main shooter rifle, I will only be shooting brass cased copper jacketed ammo.
I will do another update at the 20,000rd mark