Goodness gracious things got confusing lol. Ive heard a few different things from a few different people so im not sure. Ill probably just wait it out until the orders and questions have settled down a bit before i attempt to change my order details or anything. Plenty of time. ill honestly be happy with either the prefit or the shouldered barloc, plus sides to both. As long as i know that at least SOME kind of barloc will be included with my barreled action since i clicked that little box that added $50 to my pre order.
Pre orders get a place in line just like the people who bought it flat out right? Or did people who pay all up front receive priority?
The deposit and the full paid price get the order in line based on order ID. It will be cross referenced by caliber.
IE, if I'm cutting a batch of 6.5 Creed and there is a 6mm Creed, then 3 more 6.5 Creeds I'm skipping the 6 Creed for a little bit and coming back to it. I'm not going to pull reamers in and out of production equipment to stay exactly FIFO.
If someone has a pre-order deposit for an identical guy that has a fully paid one adn the depositr was ordered first then that guy gets his notification and I keep building for the next order in line. If a deposit guy doesn't answer me for days while I'm trying to get paid for the job and the parts I won't have any choice but to move the parts into the next build and move forward. Hopefully that won't be an issue but it has come up in the past.
Maybe the PVA site was updated since this post, but it looks like Josh is only offering shouldered barrels w/o the barloc right now. Im wondering what the difference is between the "Nucleus Receiver Barrel - Group Buy" and the "Replacement Barrel - John Hancock Rifle" other than the John Hancock has more 6mm chambering offerings.
I already have an order in for a savage prefit (as it seems to be the only way to get a 260 right now), but I am waiting for the Nucleus specific Bar-Loc for shouldered barrels and a shouldered 260 offering from Josh - that is my ideal set-up
The Nucleus specific BarLoc does not have a taper cut into the shoulder as the Nucleus Specific BL has the coned ring included in the stack.
My understanding is that the Nucleus Specific BarLoc has the Nucleus specific recoil lug in it and no barrel nut. I am making barrels for that setup.
If someone wants a barrel nut then they need to order a barrel nut type BL and that, as I understand, is $30-40 more expensive than the Nucleus specific BL for shouldered barrels.
I used the pictures that ARC provided with it, if they're not correct we'll have to get it sorted with them but I followed their lead on the announcement. That being said, the above explanation is my understanding on it.
The reason that a 260 and 6.5 Creed use the same SKU is because they use the same blank. If you notice the SKU codes are actually specific to the barrel bore, contour and rifling type. They're not specific to the caliber.
The caliber is a drop down selection but as long as it doesn't change the bore ID you can go to any 6mm and it will have the same SKU code for a given barrel type.
IE
6mm Creed, 6 BR, 6 Dasher, 243, 6XC
Marksman contour, button rifled.
They all have the same SKU.
This is for inventory tracking and PO issuance against the barrels needed. The caliber isn't important to Rock Creek when the blanks are ordered. The way these are setup is so that I can pull a report from the website, collate it into an excel spreadsheet and tally everything. Then I write a PO to RCB for the blanks I need.
I didn't mean it to be confusion to folks, I didn't think that part mattered to guys, but the reason it was done was to streamline inventory handling on the backside of the forms and make sure that the flow of barrels is smooth and clean.