I have a meeting in two minutes on zoom, but when I get off, I'll try to see if I can figure this out if the CS agent is still here at that point.

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On looking into this I found that the rings are here, I talked to the CS agent who is handling your ticket and he should be getting back to you with the ability to swap that out to the newer production unit that we can assemble to resolve your issue.  

On his end he didn't know the parts were here, so his responses were related to his belief we couldn't swap the part right now- not indicative of a greater overall policy to not do that.

I appreciate that, but I think we have room for improvement in this interaction.  I would prefer the customer to get the long form explanation.

I understand the parts arrived from finishing last week, and no assembly of those 1.375 mounts has as yet occurred, but one of the CS functions is a "repair shop" and that ticket should probably get transferred to the repair shop representative, and essentially become an assembly task for the repair shop person as a means of completing the inventory for the exchange.

The more I mess with Dual-Lok, the more I like it.  Compared with the brands of QD-style locking mounts that I sell, it’s a simple design but without the apparent wear parts other QD style locking collars have. It’s also not terribly heavy as a HUB adapter.  

I HATE the rugged dual taper, I’m neutral on DA, I still like SF, and I think the B&T SF adapter is nice, but not my fav lock release lever.

The G2 version got even more tank like.  A Nato partner's suppressor test was simply put 6, 30 round mags through an 11" 416 full auto back to back and they ran it to 10 cycles without a failure and said they liked it the best of the tested suppressors, but wanted more cycles to that point in wear, so we made a version designed to do really well with that, and we kind of liked the stupid feats of durability it was capable of and made it the G2 version which is 6.3" OAL (slightly longer than the original HRT).  

A dimensionally similar stack is going in the Recce 5 mod 5 also, and that can is a can I saw today (first through production), and the only dilemma with it was whether to make it 6.6 or 6.5" OAL- the 6.5" governed by all the muzzle devices fitting the Recce 5 (something we wanted to happen), and we decided to go with 6.6" OAL because we thought the slight increase in volume with the length might help with sound.  The mod5 Recce 5 is 16.4 ounces, so it feels a little heavy, but that sort of increases the differentiation between the tube over and tubeless models we offer, as well as between the Recce 5K and Recce 5.

I think the second run has been manufactured.  The first run was made after the can was developed and those were set aside only for military marketing and sale at that point.  The website specs were recently updated but the pictures were not.  Someone in marketing is going to update photos soon. We made a sale of the can to the US Air Force at an overseas location, and we were kind of hoping that maybe the second order of those might produce an NSN number and then we could possibly introduce it at that point, but it is an item for sale now.  The Air Force personnel visited our headquarters early this year and tested the silencers, and were making a couple stops and also receiving some product in to test, and they selected our product out of the products they looked at which included Huxwrx, but I don't know what other companies products were looked at.

When I looked at the Flow 556K and I had it in my hands and tested it, I felt it was really the best can ever to come out of OSS/Hux.  I also felt it was still loud, and still has some muzzle flash, but they did really reduce muzzle flash over their other models, and the can is short, and pretty light, and I think the flash hider that is really a kind of muzzle brake is a pretty interesting muzzle device.  I wouldn't personally be happy with the sound reduction but it was a good improvement for Huxwrx.  I feel the way it gets stuck on the mount is probably the worst attribute of the can.

I think your comment on hype is terrifically relevant.  The hype around that can was insane.  We outperformed that can in flash, sound, and ear dosing in a can half the price in the Recce 5K in only 2 weeks of development.  To me the Recce 5K was a mental exercise designed around the 2 weeks of notice we had for the FBI contract submission- rumor was they had 1.5 years of look ahead on that.  It was kind of a fuck you to the hype that looks like a massive human manipulation strategy.  Hux, in my opinion, is great at manipulating consumers and managing social media influencer programs.  That's where they might be among the best in the sound suppressor industry.  To many of the companies- it appears manipulating people is a way higher priority than making good products.

From what I understand the FBI trains in shoot houses and on ranges with the Hux can, and then runs no cans in the field.  As a training can, the Hux can makes a lot of sense as it is sound reducing with lower than normal backpressure- enhancing ear protection in conjunction with ear protection, while managing the air quality for the operator to a low liability.