I have recently learned about these systems and was wondering if anyone has any experience with these systems? Seem for the money they are a very good value. Any input is appreciated.
I’ve got one, had it a bit less than a year. It has under 2500rds but not by much.
I ran it in a Pat Rogers’ carbine class and some other range sessions. Last week I put it into service as part of my work AR.
Accuracy wise, on its worst day and my best I’m not likely to even come close to out-shooting it. The 1/8 twist seems - from my limited perspective - to be a good choice.
On Day 2 of the Rogers’ carbine clas, there were two noted issues with the upper. First, when starting to work on malfunction clearance drills, I was unable to manually extract a live rd from the chamber. When I fired it, the spent case extracted and ejected just fine; however I could not pull the charging handle and remove the round. Throughout that segment, I had to mortar the carbine each time.
Second, around that same time in the class, the carbine developed feeding issues. I had about five or six rds that failed chamber and ended up with bullet set back.
Now, a couple things on these: I was using “whatever” ammunition - whatever came out of the ammo bag, old 55gr ball, JHP or M855 or 60gr TAP, etc. And I pulled a magazine out of service at that time as well.
The feeding issue went away.
The (manual) extraction issue continued throughout the class.
That was roughly 1200rds.
After the class was over, the upper went back to Larue. They kept me up-dated throughout their work on it. Don’t know if you’ve dealt with Larue but everyone back there that I’ve had contact with has been excellent to deal with. The service on this - and everything else I’ve gotten (including when I was down range) - has been what others should be doing.
Unk exactly what was done by them, but since I’ve gotten it back there have been zero issues. The upper runs phenominally well - so much so that, as mentioned, its half of my new work gun.
One other, extremely minor complaint, and I do not attribute it to Larue Tactical, is that the original firing pin retaining pin did take a pretty good beating necessitating its replacement.
HTH, if you anything else ask away. I can’t say enough good things about the company, its product and their support of the end user.
Erick
i have some pics and a writeup of the larue stealth sniper system with some info here - username and password are both ‘mm’ to view larger pics. hope it helps:
http://www.militarymorons.com/weapons/ar.uppers2.html#quad