We ran the GP5 in a tubeless new generation version and it is lighter and essentially has an explorr stack and front cap now. I think those have already been shipping.
The regional sales guys were in this week to headquarters to among other admin stuff update demo kits and do inventory audits for nfa compliance, and they shot it among several other newer cans. They thought the GP7 which is one baffle longer than the Explorr .300 to get the 9.5 pin weld length of the original GP7, now outperforms the Recce 7. They were pretty excited about the new GP series cans. We were faced earlier this year with a decision to either kick the ball 8 months down the court with a run of the same, or in stream revision to that series and chose in stream revision to somewhat improve the series.
The guys shot also a new unreleased hunting series, a revised PSR5, and the A2SQD. There were a couple cans that were literally finished through production for their demo kits this morning that they didn’t get to fam fire yet. They observed and pointed out on video that the A2SQD was rear ejecting until rate of fire got pretty rapid, and then the ejection moved more forward. In other words in slow fire bolt speed is not increased.
I have spent most of the year working on manufacturing bottlenecks and capacity increase stuff like manufacturing technology application assessments, around product development, so my time with the newer cans- some of which are like lateral technology cross pollination from other known performing examples, is lighter.