Don’t get a Glock, just buy another USP barrel along with extra mags and a buttload of quality ammo for plinking and defense. The Tactical comes with a non-suck trigger already installed, so you don’t have to worry much about the internals. The only aftermarket parts I would consider adding are tritium night sights by Meprolight.
I have big, goofy cartoon sized hands, so the USP Tactical in .45 was the answer for me, too.
Amen.
End of story.
Quite the contrary,
The gas keys on Colts are really roughly milled and you can see tool marks all over them.
The LMT circle mark on the top is indicative of a casting. In addition the LMT key is more evenly finished with no tool marks which leads me to also believe it is a casting.
Im a LMT dealer and have not seen a non CL gas key nor one with MIM marks in them come through the shop.
Im not sure what to say.The carrier keys on all my LMT BCG’s show very light mill marks all over and are clearly not a cast part…I can say for a fact they are pretty darn hard too.I tried to dress down the staking on one of the keys to remove the raised sharp points(due to the fact it cut me) and it about dulled my file.Had to break out the wet stone.
If your concerned about it drop LMT an email and see what they say.
Yep.
C4
Staking looks fine.
As long as the metal is capturing the screws, you are fine.
C4
LMT has been playing around with a new coating for the inside of their gas keys (FYI). It is black.
C4
Soooo…How does it shoot?? Did it broke apart after 100 rds? Too much worry about nothing. You should have seen the staking on my 1st Bushmaster.
Thanks guys. They both shoot fine. But then again, my RRA bolt shot fine for 3,500 rounds with no apparant staking attempt at all, before Pat Rogers took a look during his class and MOACK’d it for me. That device really squeezed the metal into the screws, so that is what I was going off of as a comparison – hence this post.
Good to know that it doesn’t need to be that severely deformed into the screw heads to work. Appreciate the feedback!
The whole BCG is over analyzed by alot of outfits including LMT.
What can’t they just make a regular Colt/GI grade bolt carrier? This works 100% of the time.
Instead they brought us the “enhanced bolt and carrier” and do proprietary undercuts on their bolt lugs. Now they are tampering with the coating inside the carrier.
If LMT wants to improve, they can start using taper pins on their barrels or start profiling their barrels correctly.
I agree. There’s nothing wrong with a properly made USGI carrier.
The TDP is an entry level/minimum spec (as you know) so I NEVER fault a company for trying to improve upon it.
While I do not think much of the LMT enhanced Bolt, I love the enhanced carrier and use it in my 10.5.
I also prefer (GREATLY) LMT’s straight pins (from an AR builders standpoint).
C4
Good to know info.Thanks.
Grant,someone asked here the other day what bolt steel LMT used.Do you by chance know what steel LMT uses in their bolts?
I curious mainly just to have the info in my notes.
Thanks
The TDP calls out Carpenter Steel. I cannot gurantee that is what they use, but would assume so.
C4
Thanks Grant.
You da man.
I’m not against improvement, but we have not seen any improvement. All we get is stuff like this:
https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?t=30091
I do not trust any BCG other than Colt no matter how much money is costs or how “advanced/enhanced” it is.
Nobody ever really has any complaints about a Colt BGC. That says alot right there.
I do not think I would use JP as an example of a company trying improve the reliability of the bolt (as they are a gun game company).
According to Crane, Colt bolts can start to crack as soon as 5k (under FA use). I would classify that as a problem and we need to find a bolt that will give a much longer life.
Companies like KAC and LMT are actually try to improve the reliabilty (which I am a fan of).
C4
Gotta admire your consistency.
Is this coating repalcing the CL or on top of it?