02-19-2020, 01:38 PM
Thanks.
I'm being patient (I'd be lying if I said I wasn't frustrated), but I'm still glad that I didn't buy from some bargain bin outfit.
I bought it in September of 2018. It sat, unused (well, other than the usual new-barrel caressing), until the spring of 2019. I then assembled the build. (Parts were gathered for Christmas. Then, the usual time management issues meant that I couldn't start the build for several months.) The jammed brass issues and then the other failures kept this as a "do I want to spend my precious range time effing around with a problem and try to fix it, or should I leave it behind and work on it later?" kind of thing. Hence, the delays in my troubleshooting.
So, first shoot was spring 2019 and I took it out to the range maybe half a dozen times between then and the fall of 2019. I fired 20-60 rounds per session (mostly on the lower end of that, what with the failures to extract, etc.). My total round count is well below 300. (I know how much 6.5G ammo I've purchased. I can count how much I have left. Hmmm...I could get an EXACT count, I guess...)
Looking at the amount of time that lapsed from my initial purchase to my "Hey, Alexander Arms, this thing spun out of its extension" call, I can see that AA could tell me to go pound. They only have my word about the ridiculously low round count and my problems with the chamber and then my explanation of how it became (essentially) finger-tight to the extension.
The exception to that would be a borescope examination of barrel wear: that would tell them how little use was put on the barrel.
The other, very obvious fact, is how loose the extension is.
My preference would be for Alexander Arms to ship me a new barrel, of the same exact specs as that one. If it were my shop, I'd want the bad one to examine and test and find out why it failed and how it passed my QC. But that's me.
This was my first foray into the world of Grendel.
This was my first dealing with Alexander Arms.
I'm being patient (I'd be lying if I said I wasn't frustrated), but I'm still glad that I didn't buy from some bargain bin outfit.
I bought it in September of 2018. It sat, unused (well, other than the usual new-barrel caressing), until the spring of 2019. I then assembled the build. (Parts were gathered for Christmas. Then, the usual time management issues meant that I couldn't start the build for several months.) The jammed brass issues and then the other failures kept this as a "do I want to spend my precious range time effing around with a problem and try to fix it, or should I leave it behind and work on it later?" kind of thing. Hence, the delays in my troubleshooting.
So, first shoot was spring 2019 and I took it out to the range maybe half a dozen times between then and the fall of 2019. I fired 20-60 rounds per session (mostly on the lower end of that, what with the failures to extract, etc.). My total round count is well below 300. (I know how much 6.5G ammo I've purchased. I can count how much I have left. Hmmm...I could get an EXACT count, I guess...)
Looking at the amount of time that lapsed from my initial purchase to my "Hey, Alexander Arms, this thing spun out of its extension" call, I can see that AA could tell me to go pound. They only have my word about the ridiculously low round count and my problems with the chamber and then my explanation of how it became (essentially) finger-tight to the extension.
The exception to that would be a borescope examination of barrel wear: that would tell them how little use was put on the barrel.
The other, very obvious fact, is how loose the extension is.
My preference would be for Alexander Arms to ship me a new barrel, of the same exact specs as that one. If it were my shop, I'd want the bad one to examine and test and find out why it failed and how it passed my QC. But that's me.
This was my first foray into the world of Grendel.
This was my first dealing with Alexander Arms.