One thing good came out of this. Had not talked with Mike R in years. Had a great talk with him today We discussed my next build with him. Lots of torque will be used!
Barrel Torque Ludicrocity
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Start in one corner and tighten somewhat and go from that corner go to opposite then to opposite set. X pattern. Keep incrementally tightening until you hit torque value.
Kinda like tightening lug nuts.
I read that one differently.
Thought he meant turret caps.
The answer to that would be the front turret cap.
The answer to the other question would be the middle ring, left side, rear screw.
Thought he meant turret caps.
The answer to that would be the front turret cap.
The answer to the other question would be the middle ring, left side, rear screw.
We have been importing TacOps rifles for many many years. They have all shot amazingly in the zeros with factory ammo. My personal rifle after thousands of rounds through the barrel it was time to rebarrel. Our gunsmith tried to get the barrel off and broke the wrench. He said it was red loctite on so I had him call Mike direct. Mike told him its fitted with a hydraulic press, no loctite. In the end he had to machine it off and he was stunned, it didnt look like a standard thread. This is one of the reasons why we never saw a cold bore shot deviation because his rifles are designed for LE and Gov where they only get one shot and that shot could mean the difference between saving a hostage's life.
If the sniper on scene doesn't have confidence in the cold bore shot, a good hostage negotiator can probably get permission for a few sighters...
Nothing like going to torque something down and you read foot pounds when it’s supposed to be in inch pounds
@MikeRTacOps will you post a picture of your barrel torqueing setup? I'm curious what it looks like.
Mike actually made that mistake when tightening his first barrel, then chose to make it a standard Tac Ops feature rather than admitting he made a mistake.
I'd actually love to know more details about his chosen thread form and the the barrel and action holding tooling/fixturing to achieve those high torque values without marring anything, but I also understand if he's reluctant to share any of his tricks and secrets. I'm sure he's spent quite a bit of time developing his entire build process.
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and it always happens on the last bolt on a job that was supposed to be easy.
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