Faxon barrel

[chopit]

Well tried my faxon 308 heavy fluted AR barrel on aero upper n lower. 140 rounds of 168 fgmm, 175 fgmm, ppu 168. Best it will shoot is 2 moa at 100 yds in a lead sled. I changed scopes and mounts today and removed muzzle break. Shot another 80 rounds today and 1.5 moa one time the rest was same as yesterday all 2 moa. I am gonna take the barrel back off look at it good and retorque it and try again. If that dont work i am going to do what i should have done in the first place and buy a proof or bartlein.

 

[Spblademaker]

Hope it settles. My 308 AR build, with Criterion barrel, was shooting minute of head the first time out. 3” spread. ?. Then settled to 1 MOA 10 rd groups with FGMM. Good luck.

 

[chopit]

How many rounds till it started shooting better? I think if it aint shooting in 200 rounds its just not gonna shoot. I just pulled the barrel off and i dont see anything obvious. I painted the mating surfaces from the upper, barrel flange and barrel nut with machist blue to make sure everything was making contact correctly. It all looked good. I guess i will put it all back together and give it another hundred rounds.

 

[Spblademaker]

How many rounds till it started shooting better? I think if it aint shooting in 200 rounds its just not gonna shoot. I just pulled the barrel off and i dont see anything obvious. I painted the mating surfaces from the upper, barrel flange and barrel nut with machist blue to make sure everything was making contact correctly. It all looked good. I guess i will put it all back together and give it another hundred rounds.

It was shooting better within 200, easily.

 

[Spblademaker]

I just got off their site. They don’t have an accuracy guarantee and have a break-in procedure. So the first thing they’ll want to know is if you followed their procedure. Good luck.

 

[Spblademaker]

Without any other info, try shooting off of sandbags and don’t forget good fundamentals. Stick with one ammo per session. Don’t get frustrated and try forcing better groups. I was very disappointed when I first shot that barrel, as it was my first 100% build for me. But stuck it out and am damn pleased.

 

[chopit]

I tried off bags also. I have shot 3 and 5 round strings letting tbe barrel cool between each string. Its not me or the ammo. I sent them an email I dont really expect much other than the barrel going in the safe and buying a proof.

 

[Spblademaker]

Keep us posted as to what transpires with Faxon CS.