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Posted: 10/26/2006 8:00:22 AM EDT
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Very nice looking bit of kit you've got there
 Glad to see it all in one piece. Steve |
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Posted: 10/26/2006 8:27:17 AM EDT
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Whats up with the lower receiver? it just dont look right!!!!!
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Posted: 10/26/2006 9:43:27 AM EDT
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It's a SGC cast in a bucket of sand receiver. Note the solid trigger guard 
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Posted: 10/27/2006 11:07:13 AM EDT
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Still look's sexxxy to me.
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Posted: 10/27/2006 11:32:07 AM EDT
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Fat Bob upper and lower, just like mine, made by pixies in Cornwall  ETA but it still looks a nice bit of kit 
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Posted: 10/28/2006 1:29:59 AM EDT
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Fat Bobs a f**kin' big pixie! 
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Posted: 10/28/2006 8:03:59 AM EDT
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Metallurgy 101: You use castings in compression, and forgings in tension. Fat Bob thinks he can ignore these simple truths… <Fat Bob Customer Mode ON>…Oh fuck!!!! The end of the lowers dropped off!…<Fat Bob Customer Mode OFF>… ANdy |
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Posted: 10/28/2006 8:48:28 AM EDT
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I can't really see that a casting is going to make any difference in an AR lower (non-Military version)... There's not much compression or tension involved! You can get them in plastic after all...
The only broken SGC lower that I've seen pics of was damaged in transit by the courier. There could well be others though... |
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Posted: 10/28/2006 12:00:09 PM EDT
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Where the lower rises up is were they will break… there is a lot of leverage on that point with a nice take down pin hole to focus the force. It's simply bad engineering to use a cast part for that. Engineering plastics have similar properties to a forged part. ANdy |
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Posted: 10/28/2006 12:52:55 PM EDT
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How often does this happen in the SGC guns? |
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Posted: 10/28/2006 1:38:32 PM EDT
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Not very often. |
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Posted: 10/28/2006 1:52:45 PM EDT
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I've seen two examples… ANdy |
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Posted: 10/28/2006 2:34:11 PM EDT
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I've only seen the one that was knocking around the web a while back. I did see another one at Fat Bob's lair in Cornwall a couple of years back that was so pourous where the pistol grip goes on that it looked like a Swiss cheese (literally). He's not doing them any more as the company that was casting them, doesn't want to do them anymore. He's now doing his even more expensive billet lowers Mark |
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Posted: 10/28/2006 2:36:49 PM EDT
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I do have one other question though, and it's not lower related......why is everyone becoming so fixated on the Magpul PRS stock?
I just don't get it
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Posted: 10/28/2006 2:43:59 PM EDT
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Personally I just liked the look of it. I found it on an italian site whilst I was looking for something else and as the price was pretty resonable and I was looking for a new stock I went for it.
I used it for the first time today on the range and I was really pleased with it. I didn't realise they were that popular. |
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Posted: 10/29/2006 1:39:07 AM EDT
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I've seen a few rifles with this stock on, and to be honest i quite like the look of it myself, I've got a stock ready for my 6.5 when i get it , but i might even get one of these myself.
Steve |
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Posted: 10/29/2006 2:38:36 AM EDT
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It's an AR15, not a HK PSG-1. Apart from that, my opinion is that they add unnecessaty bulk to what is supposed to be a light and handy package. If you use the correct sized height rings, you wouldn't need £250's worht of stock. Better to spend that money on ammo and range time. Clayo, when you get your Grendel, it'll have a mil-spec height receiver, therefore the adjustable comb will have very little use, but it will cost you a lot of money. Then again, it's just bling for guns and I've been guilty of that on occasion. But.....even though I've always been one of the first to try out the latest kit, I never had the urge to buy a PRS and that surprised even me. Don't like the look. Personally speaking, you can't beat the std A2 stock Mark |
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Posted: 10/29/2006 2:48:24 AM EDT
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Who would have thunk it…  ANdy |
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Posted: 10/29/2006 4:04:30 AM EDT
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Apart from any 'tacticoolness', I guess it would be its adjustability - ensuring exactly the correctly cheek weld and LOP can make a big difference (hello, Mr. Tikka....) |
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Posted: 10/29/2006 9:47:52 AM EDT
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What's that weird safety selector?
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Posted: 10/31/2006 3:44:03 AM EDT
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Sorry Mark, I missed this. That's the saftey that it came with, I didn't realise that it was different. I know the previous owner had replaced the barrel and trigger so I guess he must have changed the saftey at the same time. Cheers |
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Posted: 10/31/2006 11:01:36 AM EDT
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It has a certain appeal but I can't see myself shooting speed steels with it.
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