Hawkins m5 inlet question

[Feniks Technologies]

I don’t have prints in front of me. Have emails in. Just curious on the Hawkins m5 inlet for a foundation.

Will it fit:

Spartan bottom dweller
Badger enhanced

The obvious answer is to run a Hawkins, but curious if the m5 inlet is semi universal?

 

[blackblue]

Probably not much help but all the are supposed to be M5 inlet, had considered all 3 for the rifle I'm having built and had read up on each.

 

[Terry Cross]

I don’t have prints in front of me. Have emails in. Just curious on the Hawkins m5 inlet for a foundation.

Will it fit:

Spartan bottom dweller
Badger enhanced

The obvious answer is to run a Hawkins, but curious if the m5 inlet is semi universal?

If it was any other stock manufacturer inletting, you could likely run ANY of the M5 pattern DBMs.

However, John-Kyle runs his inlets so precisely that small manufacturing variances with different brands of M5 pattern bottoms are taken into account.

I know this for sure as he has a tweaked "M5" inlet program just for the KMW M5 DBM as well as specific tweaks for other makes.

Your best bet is to contact Foundation directly. John-Kyle will be the one to help your find what you seek.


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[Midwestside]

@Terry Cross,

A few questions, if you don't mind clarifying:
1) Is the aforementioned KMW M5 inlet available on your website?

2) Does the gen2 KMW MK-1 have the exact same inlet as the gen1 KMW MK-1.
Reason for the question is regarding a Foundation stock I had that I believe was inletted for Surgeon DBM, which I placed the KMW MK-1 Gen 1 in and it had to be relieved, ever so slightly, at the back of the magwell.

-In this thread, post #2, you say the "original" surgeon inlet vs your gen 1 KMW-MK1 inlet are "super close"

Spartan vs KMW Bottom metal

I’m looking at grabbing bottoms metal for a upcoming project and need some input since everything’s been chassis based until now. The bottom dweller from spartan caught my eye with how everything blends into the trigger guard, but the KMW seems to be a really strong option as well but I’m...

www.snipershide.com

(Perhaps Surgeon has revised their DBM inlet, which further compounds the compatibilities?)

In this source, Altus is saying the KMW-MK1 gen 2 is interchangeable with the surgeon inlet? Is that accurate?

KMW Mk-1 DBM Gen II

The KMW Mk-1 DBM was designed by Terry Cross of KMW Long Range Solutions. Designed to fit the Surgeon SA DBM inlet, the KMW Mk-1 Detachable Bottom Metal was...

www.altusshooting.com

Thanks in advance! I'm not nit-picking- I'm a big fan of your work.

 

[Terry Cross]

@Terry Cross,

A few questions, if you don't mind clarifying:
1) Is the aforementioned KMW M5 inlet available on your website?

2) Does the gen2 KMW MK-1 have the exact same inlet as the gen1 KMW MK-1.
Reason for the question is regarding a Foundation stock I had that I believe was inletted for Surgeon DBM, which I placed the KMW MK-1 Gen 1 in and it had to be relieved, ever so slightly, at the back of the magwell.

-In this thread, post #2, you say the "original" surgeon inlet vs your gen 1 KMW-MK1 inlet are "super close"

Spartan vs KMW Bottom metal

I’m looking at grabbing bottoms metal for a upcoming project and need some input since everything’s been chassis based until now. The bottom dweller from spartan caught my eye with how everything blends into the trigger guard, but the KMW seems to be a really strong option as well but I’m...

www.snipershide.com

(Perhaps Surgeon has revised their DBM inlet, which further compounds the compatibilities?)

In this source, Altus is saying the KMW-MK1 gen 2 is interchangeable with the surgeon inlet? Is that accurate?

KMW Mk-1 DBM Gen II

The KMW Mk-1 DBM was designed by Terry Cross of KMW Long Range Solutions. Designed to fit the Surgeon SA DBM inlet, the KMW Mk-1 Detachable Bottom Metal was...

www.altusshooting.com

Thanks in advance! I'm not nit-picking- I'm a big fan of your work.

I don't want to derail this guy's thread so I will try to keep it short.

1: Yes - https://www.kmwlrs.com/kmw-m5-short-action-dbm

2: Close. "Footprint" is same but the Mk1 Gen 2 has the new Captv-Mag feature that may or may not need clearing on some inlets where the
bottom inlet merges with the top inlet. Gen 1 Mk1s were pretty much interchangeable with the Surgeon because both originated from the
original SENTINEL inlet pattern.

"Super close" is a caveat that I threw in because the Surgeon bottoms have been run at different locations and outsourced on one or two
occasions. I have seen some slight dimensional differences between Surgeon DBMs from different time frames.

Hope this makes sense.
T.

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