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Just checked the ARMS Unlimited website and it has been updated to say that the barrels will ship separate by 12/20/17. View Quote ETA: @ArmsUnlimited - I have a somewhat related question... Earlier in the thread you mentioned that you were working on setting up a separate order for a set of replacement barrels (like 100 or so of each length I believe?) that wouldn't be available for at least 5-6 months. My question is: Is that still in the works, and if so, would you be offering these to the public at large or privately to the peeps that purchased the original launchers? - Any idea or hint on what these might be priced at? - I guess I'd just like to know more about this, as it would be nice to be able to set up my launcher for 9" operation aside from using the 12" barrel I already purchased with the launcher. Thanks in advance, Mike |
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Is the Barrel shroud the same on 40mm and 37mm barrels? Have some stuff i hope fits.
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Is the Barrel shroud the same on 40mm and 37mm barrels? Have some stuff i hope fits. View Quote Something similar to this can be seen in a few scenes from the movie Predator, in which the barrel on Arnold's "M203" is very thick-walled. That just seems like it would be the most cost-productive approach IMO to making a 37mm version of a 40mm barrel. I have no way of knowing for certain though. Perhaps AU can answer this better? |
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For those that have received theirs already, do you have what appears to be some extra material that wasn't machined off? It is in the area of the breech face where the barrel extension enters the trigger/cocking mechanism? My other M203 has this area machined off to the width of the slot.
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For Form 1s,
what are you guys putting under Question 4b.(Type of Firearm to be made), Grenade Launcher or just Destructive Device? |
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Always someone who does not want you to have nice things. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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Believe me our owner tells people/factories to pound sand all the time, but he likes Colt and to keep them happy he told web development to put it.
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Lol i bet some Dealer complained to Colt asking why AU got them and not anyone else. Someone that prob owned a $7000 colt 203.
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Believe me our owner tells people/factories to pound sand all the time, but he likes Colt and to keep them happy he told web development to put it. View Quote |
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No. Just place your order and we will fulfill it View Quote If they only ever made 300 of these and are now requesting the restricted wording on your site I would thing they do restrict the sale of these. |
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All important information pertaining to the M203 launchers is scattered throughout this thread, I don't see any further need for answers from me at this point.
Everyone who got one congratulations! You got a VERY limited piece of Colt history There may be a few left from canceled orders etc so if people are interested you can call in or email [email protected] requesting a callback to order. |
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So, @ArmsUnlimited , did the barrels go out today as promised?
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Still waiting on arrival, they are enroute to us and will be here any day. They will ship direct to your houses
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Both are showing out of stock, as far as I can tell. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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If there are any that are unspoken for the only way to find out is to call in and ask for sales department (phones get pretty busy though) or better way is to email [email protected] with your contact info and request a callback regarding purchasing one
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Still waiting on arrival, they are enroute to us and will be here any day. They will ship direct to your houses View Quote "All barrels will ship by 12/10/17" - DIDN'T HAPPEN Then; "All barrels will ship by 12/20/17" - DIDN'T HAPPEN Now; "They will be here any day". What does THAT really mean? You have our collective HALF MILLION dollars, while WE WAIT at LEAST a month for our barrels - your promises @ArmsUnlimited were one sneaky way to get our money early, before you even had the product in hand. |
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So, "All barrels will ship by 12/10/17" - DIDN'T HAPPEN Then; "All barrels will ship by 12/20/17" - DIDN'T HAPPEN Now; "They will be here any day". What does THAT really mean? You have our collective HALF MILLION dollars, while WE WAIT at LEAST a month for our barrels - your promises @ArmsUnlimited were one sneaky way to get our money early, before you even had the product in hand. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Still waiting on arrival, they are enroute to us and will be here any day. They will ship direct to your houses "All barrels will ship by 12/10/17" - DIDN'T HAPPEN Then; "All barrels will ship by 12/20/17" - DIDN'T HAPPEN Now; "They will be here any day". What does THAT really mean? You have our collective HALF MILLION dollars, while WE WAIT at LEAST a month for our barrels - your promises @ArmsUnlimited were one sneaky way to get our money early, before you even had the product in hand. What is the rush - as AU has done everything and more with transparency |
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@M16indiana
send yours back for a FULL refund, we will gladly reimburse you, there are more than enough people who missed out who would be happy to take the one you don't want |
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@M16indiana send yours back for a FULL refund, we will gladly reimburse you, there are more than enough people who missed out who would be happy to take the one you don't want View Quote |
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I am fine waiting - allowed many of us to file form 1 as the wait will be over 9months anyway What is the rush - as AU has done everything and more with transparency View Quote The transparency thing is a laugh though. If AU was truly interested in "transparency", they could have said right off back in June: "We don't actually have the barrels on hand (or possibly even on order), but we do have the receivers, so we're going to run this as a pre-order venture & take your money now & then use that money to order the 37mm barrels", because if they had said that (even if the barrels had actually already been pre-ordered) there likely wouldn't be all the questions now about "where is my barrel?", ect. What AU probably should have done was either offer a separate pre-order sale / group buy on 37mm barrels, or wait until they had everything "in-house" before offering them for sale, but I'm guessing AU probably couldn't afford to do that (wait until everything was in-house) without some kind of guarantee on a return of investment (which is basically impossible without running it as a pre-order type venture), and they almost certainly knew that next to nobody would be willing to pay over $2000 for just the barrel-less Colt receiver itself? In any event - AU did things however they did...& thus here we all now sit still wondering... "Where in the hell are our 37mm barrels?" I'm sure if they wanted to, that AU could provide a tracking number for the barrel shipment to AU, but that would pretty much nail the direct source of these 37mm barrels, so it's unlikely to happen. Interestingly though, AU stated (or hinted?) earlier in this thread that they were going to see about placing an additional order of 100 barrels (of each length?) which would be an additional 4-5 months wait at that time. They also later (sort of) hinted that LMT is the company making the current batch of 37mm barrels. I say this is interesting because I personally have been pestering LMT for over two years now for them to offer 37mm barrels for their barrel-less receivers, and only now it appears that they are finally making a run of them for AU? This has me wondering (in light of the potential AU spare barrel order) if I continue to pester LMT over the next couple of months if they will finally start to offer these 37mm barrels for sale directly... (I think I'll start contacting them even more often now) ETA: Like Indiana - I also would have liked to blast off a few pics as well as ordinance this Christmas/New years, but oh well... I'm sure these barrels will show up... eventually, I just hope that isn't 6 months from now. |
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So, "All barrels will ship by 12/10/17" - DIDN'T HAPPEN Then; "All barrels will ship by 12/20/17" - DIDN'T HAPPEN Now; "They will be here any day". What does THAT really mean? You have our collective HALF MILLION dollars, while WE WAIT at LEAST a month for our barrels - your promises @ArmsUnlimited were one sneaky way to get our money early, before you even had the product in hand. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Still waiting on arrival, they are enroute to us and will be here any day. They will ship direct to your houses "All barrels will ship by 12/10/17" - DIDN'T HAPPEN Then; "All barrels will ship by 12/20/17" - DIDN'T HAPPEN Now; "They will be here any day". What does THAT really mean? You have our collective HALF MILLION dollars, while WE WAIT at LEAST a month for our barrels - your promises @ArmsUnlimited were one sneaky way to get our money early, before you even had the product in hand. |
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I think everyone is forgetting that this may very well be a once in a lifetime opportunity to own one of these Colt marked launchers ...
If this didn't come about I probably would not be able to and was so overly stoked to be able to get in on it. So having to wait should not be an issue. AU posted they would be coming and everyone pushed and pushed so they released them - to us first really with the heads up. It's like they are damned if they do and damned if they don't .... Everyone asks repeatedly when when when so they try to pacify with some information otherwise they'd be assholes. Then it doesn't happen exactly when they said so now they're assholes ... Please also no one else post like the above talk of reselling - so upsetting to me on many levels ... |
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Quoted: Gosh, stop complaining. I'm sure AU didn't mean for that to happen. You come across as if AU was being dirty with its customers. If you don't like them then don't order from them. They have always been good to go with me. It's like people look for reasons to complain. View Quote |
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I'm not going to reread the thread but this is what I recall:
AU: June? We'll be selling Colt M203s with 37mm barrels soon. July? My boss wants to hold onto them and sell them before Christmas. November 15- They are for sale but we are still waiting on barrels. M203s with barrels will ship within 30 days. December- We're going to ship the M203s without barrels, barrels will ship separately by December 10th. After December 10th- Barrels will ship by December 20th. After December 20th-? |
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I'm just happy for the opportunity.
Merry Christmas everyone! |
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Thank you for those who are understanding and patient with us on the delay in getting the barrels out. They should be received any day now and will go out as soon as they are received. There won't be an excessive wait as some are insinuating
As you know this was a unique opportunity we scored from Colt which I can assure you will NEVER happen again, and almost didn't happen at all if our owner wasn't interested in making these available the way he did. For those complaining we are sorry for the unforeseen delay, we shipped receivers to make sure you had the most important component in your hands and not just an order number to stare at; we didn't think waiting a few weeks for barrels shipped direct to your homes would be such a big deal, especially since we were pushed constantly to release these things We didn't take pre-orders on magazines or some random every day item then not fill them, we took orders on a basically "unicorn" item giving people who really want one first chance to secure one and at a reduced price to boot, we filled the harder to get part of the 2 items when the remainder of the barrels didn't show on schedule to make sure people know they are getting what they ordered even though it is more of a logistical pain in the ass having to ship the barrels separate EDIT: to address a few other things, LMT did not make the barrels or have anything to do with them. I stated earlier the barrels are made for all manufacturers of M203 receivers by the same factory @rgb03 if you actually bought one and feel we are being dirty with you, same offer stands to you, send it back for a FULL refund, then you won't have to worry about a barrel taking a little longer for a previously non-existent item, and if you didn't buy one at all why are you even commenting? |
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Per my post I did not buy one or anything else from AU. RIF
As to the reason why I post. This is a public forum and I have every right to post my opinion. Your posts remind me of a sales guy we have at work. He always has to remind everyone when he has done something good. I hope you guys all get your barrels soon. Looking forward to the pics Merry Christmas to all of you |
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Rgb03 you need to just stop. Darn. It's embarrassing. You don't want one so just stop trying to poison the thread. Nobody cares what you think. You are ruining the thread. Please stop.
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Let’s get this thread back on track. Just filled out my form one to make a destructive device.
Ho ho ho now I’ve got a grenade launcher! |
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AU,
Are we going to receive a tracking #, once the barrels ship out? |
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