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Posted: 5/8/2016 9:15:46 PM EDT
| I recently took a .300 blackout rifle in trade with the intention of selling the barrel and making it a .556. It has a douglas heavy barrel with a BATS match barrel extension. Here's my issue, apparently the gunsmith that built this rifle milled out a larger channel for the BATS barrel extension index pin which is apparently larger than milspec. What can I do to fit a milspec .556 barrel in this upper or am I stuck with it as is? Sorry if this is a noob question but I'm no expert, thanks for any help. |
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I recently took a .300 blackout rifle in trade with the intention of selling the barrel and making it a .556. It has a douglas heavy barrel with a BATS match barrel extension. Here's my issue, apparently the gunsmith that built this rifle milled out a larger channel for the BATS barrel extension index pin which is apparently larger than milspec. What can I do to fit a milspec .556 barrel in this upper or am I stuck with it as is? Sorry if this is a noob question but I'm no expert, thanks for any help. For the amount of trouble and the price of uppers, I would probably leave it as is and sell/trade the upper. Its certainly doable to create a 5.56 barrel with an oversize index pin to fit the upper, but hardly cost effective. |
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it's a billet matched upper and lower from Sun Devil in Az., I really want to find a way to remedy this an save the upper Still not worth it. You could use shims around the pin, but it's probably an oversized extension so it's unlikely that a standard extension will fit tightly in the upper. You could have a 5.56 barrel made wth a BAT extension. Or you could sell the upper with the barrel and get a better upper made from 7075 instead of 6061. |
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