Posted: 9/19/2014 9:50:31 PM EDT
Saw this on raxworx.
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Are spares available for the piston guns anywhere? I'm seriously considering one of these, but would not want to have to ship the rifle in for a broken piston assembly part. I'm assuming everything but the gas system and carrier is standard ar? This is my concern with the entire 6940 line. The barrel extension being the biggest concern, finding barrels, gas tubes, etc. |
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This is my concern with the entire 6940 line. The barrel extension being the biggest concern, finding barrels, gas tubes, etc. Quoted:
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Are spares available for the piston guns anywhere? I'm seriously considering one of these, but would not want to have to ship the rifle in for a broken piston assembly part. I'm assuming everything but the gas system and carrier is standard ar? This is my concern with the entire 6940 line. The barrel extension being the biggest concern, finding barrels, gas tubes, etc. How often do you shoot 10,000 rounds through an M4 to start to think about chaning out the barrel? |
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Not really worried about shooting out the barrel, more worried about a broken piston or related part that I couldn't repair without sending the rifle back to Colt.
I'm very interested in these rifles, but stuff does break occasionally. Just wondering if a trip back to the factory is the only way to deal with a broken rifle at this point. Same issue kept me without a SCAR for a while. Now that spare parts are reasonably plentiful, I have a nice stock of parts built up for any problems. To answer your original question, I probably average between 4-6 hundred rounds a month. So you would probably be looking at a little over two years before I hit the 10,000 round mark. That doesn't count any training classes that might have 1,000-1,500 round count over 2-3 days. Granted, this is also spread over a number of rifles, so I'll be conservative and say 5-6 years before I would hit that round count on a rifle. |