What a great gun!
I went out on Sunday and went through 45 rounds. Now I admit I'm a bit of a recoil wimp, but I like to be totally relaxed and not anticipate the round. Well, after the first couple of rounds in the prone I was flinching pretty good. This thing kicks pretty good, but boy did I love it!
I was firing the 24” 50DTC upper with a Magpul PRS. I had one home made recoil pad and after the first round another slip on pad. After about 15 rounds I put another piece of foam in there. I had on top a sacrificial BSA 6-24 that I was just abusing for the laugh. Well, the scope held up fine, I guess china's laughing now. I will change it out soon though.
I was firing 50 DTC , AP (black tip)“forming” rounds loaded by Mr Kubota from Calguns.
The first round didn't fire. Wait 30 sec, cock, reload same round and it fired. Same thing on the second round. I stopped, pulled the hammer out, and bent the spring open a little to make it strike harder. From then on I had no FTF or any functioning problems. The max rate of fire I attempted was about 10 RPM for 5 rounds in the offhand. It got kinda warm doing that.
On to issues. I lean in hard on my bipods to get better support, after about 40 rounds, at the end of the day, one of the bipod legs broke and fell off where it was spot welded together. I just fixed that tonight in my shop with my own MIG and I think it will be fine.
There is also either an issue with the ammo, brass or headspace. I had about 8 cases that had cracks at the base (see pic). One even seperated entirely. These were not consistent when they occurred, offhand, hot bore, cold, I dunno. I am mailing the brass to Mr Kubota and have a call into Chris. I checked it with the 10 cent no go, headspace gage (a dime on the back of the round) and the bolt wouldn't close so that's a good sign. It could also be bad brass that was initially shot out of a M2 with excessive headspace. I'll post when an answer comes in.
I got 3 shot groups at about 1.5-2” at 100 meters. I didn't fire out past that due to starting late, but will next time. Sorry, no pics.
Well, I am thoroughly pleased and totally impressed with the product and the service I've received.