JustaNobody from United States, AZ Public Profile

Great handguard, same size as Quantum, but with pic rail on top, so it is naturally bigger on that portion.
But it is pretty light due to cuts in the material. I would reconfirm, but I believe this is lighter than the Quantum

It doesn't have noticeable flex, but it was a bit too large for my style of shooting, so I didn't use it and returned it.

Beautiful tubah tooby tuber with Melonite coating.

Get your tubah tooby and don't think about it, because it's made by Ballstic Advantage and BA knows their tooby tuba.

Okay?

Bought this barrel during pandemic, and yeah, it was one of few barrels available, and everything else was sold out.

This barrel is pretty light.
After doing barrel examination with a microscope, I found that barrel had what looked like a brass piece lodged sideways and embedded into the structure of the barrel.

I cannot tell you if it was 2000+ rounds I put through the rifle before. I can't tell you if it's Wolf ammo that is actually steel cored, and not just steel cased. (Not green tip, just Wolf 223)

I cannot say whether it was me submerging this barrel into acetone to get the paint off the barrel, but I do know one thing.

Barrel had incredible POA shift when heated. So much so, it would open up from 2-3 MOA to good 12+, I speculate that barrel whips a lot, and also when heated begins to whip even more.

I am leaving 3 stars because I could make hits to 100 yards pretty easily, but in the end the inconsistency of accuracy led me to remove the barrel and to find a piece of brass looking piece lodged sideways inside. It was sitting flat, but looked like there was a pretty large cavity where it was sitting sideways.

Barrel manufacturing or my own adventures brought it there. I can't tell you, but for what it was, it was a good light barrel, but definitely far from excellent.

I heard Faxon used to make some of Trybe's barrel, but not just them, so quality depends on OEM manufacturer.
Trybe is an OpticsPlanet brand, and I would not be going for this barrel if I had no

This is an excellent brock, excellent stace, excellent bstace, excellent something you should never shoulder, but also sometimes, because 3 letters told you can, but you also can't as they said it.

Gladly for times that you do shoulder this, it is a hard aluminum, so hard in fact that it will never bend, it will never deform.
It's the most rigid piece of metal I ever owned for an AR, and it's well machined and polished. It's dense and not hollow.

I had it on my MK18 at home build, before the AFT fiasco, and braces becoming illegal, and becoming legal again in next month. At that point I disassembled my MK18 clone and moved on with my life lol

This brace is truly wonderful, and it served me well while I still had my MK18 imitation.
Thing to note: this WILL go on your rifle tube losely, so what you can do is roll electrical tape carefully 3-4 times around the rifle tube (not carbine buffer tube, rifle for A2 rifles) and it will allow you to create enough space to tighten the brace then as you push it on the electrical tape portion.

The way I managed to do my pistol was to use that long rifle tube with a spacer inside for JP Enterprises Silent Capture spring, then I filed the tab on end plate just a tiny bit. So, not to damage the threads on the rifle tube as you add the end plate before the rifle tube. It will actually work, and you can use regular buffer end plate in conjunction with
rifle tube that has no adjustment positions.

Then it makes your gun look like a SIG M

This is Geissele quality
Excellent anodizing, with even colors in FDE

The colors vary, but they vary from chocolate FDE to clear/light FDE

Rail is definitely well polished and looks great, but mine had some metal shavings around small screws on the tab, near the inner part of the rail. That's my only objective complaint.

This is a Melonite gas tube, so it's black and will blend into your black upper receiver and black handguard.
I alternate purchasing BA's gas tube or Spike's tactical, both are excellent in terms of a finish and durability. Wipe the carbon off it after a range session and good to go.

I run this on all of my rifles, it makes recoil extremely soft when paired with adjustable gas block like Aero Precision.

I cannot imagine a rifle without it now.

Handguard is perfectly fine, I returned mine because I didn't really need m-lok rail on top and got the Quantum
But handguard is basically slightly modified Quantum with picatinny rail up top.

Excellent as usual.
I ran this on several riles. Lots of m-lok options

This dimple jig works opposite of other jigs like KAK dimple jig. If you are needing 500 spacing, you need to put the screw with a hole into that hole. Then you go on the opposite side and screw in the bolt with no hole, this one will go into the gas port hole of the barrel. On KAK dimple jig you have a hole that correlates to spacing and you take that hole into the gas hole of the barrel, on SLR it's opposite. So, be mindful of a difference, or you will screw up your barrel and gas port spacing.
The bad part about this jig is that unless you know the spacing to be 500 (like Aero Precision adjustable gas block) then you are left guessing. You would not be able to measure the proper spacing because screw with a hole on SLR protrudes well above, and there is not 2nd screw to measure against. Essentially in my case I knew it needs to be 500, because I did 2 more gas blocks with KAK dimple jig.

The reason why SLR is superior here is that you can clearly see how deep you have drilled the dimple by taking off the screw with a hole, when you work. On KAK you won't be able to tell that good, and left to take off the jig with KAK, just to see.

KAK is a respectable jig, I don't have an issue with it, but for barrels such as Odinworks Stainless 416R, you can't use KAK, because the shoulder of the jig will prevent you from properly aligning with a gas port, as shoulder of the barrel where it is taller on the barrel will prevent a nicely timed gas port hole.

So KAK is excellent where