anthony-white
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- Aug 6, 2005
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This is my POF 14.5" 308. I purchased this rifle about two weeks ago from Cabelas. Out of the box I noticed a few scratches and dings on the rifle. Not a big deal to me but to some this may be an upsetting thing on a rifle at this price. This was possibly at the blame of Cabelas so I am not saying this rifle left POF with those flaws. I performed an initial cleaning on this rifle, which had some carbon and crud, I am assuming from test firing. Nothing horrendous but it was dirty. I applied light lube on the typical points as I couldn't bring myself to run it dry for initial break in.
I made some changes to the rifle, nothing was wrong with the factory setup, I just changed it to my preferences. I swapped out the brake for my suppressor adapter, put my favorite grip on it (CAA interchangeable), added an AFG from Magpul, and mounted a TA33R-9 ACOG and set of Magpul MBUS. I picked up Magpul pmags on the EE. The brake was mounted very smartly, it is first threaded then pinned and welded into a groove that is in the barrel, then snugged with a jamb nut making for a salvaged brake.
Took it to a local range and put 100 rds through it for function using the Pmags. I ran it on the suppressed setting with my YHM QD 7.62 Phantom attached. I put 100 rounds through this rifle: 80 rounds Venezuelan Cavim surplus and 20 M118LR, all of which were fired suppressed. I had a failure to extract on round 3 with the Cavim, and that was the last sign of problems that the rifle gave me. The round that failed to extract did in fact sound different than the others, I performed sports and commenced firing. The range I was at had a 64 yard line for the furthest shot so I really didn't shoot it on paper for accuracy. I didn't even sight it in the Acog, I was just blasting and having fun listening to the suppressed rifle. All the shots were repeatable using Kentucky windage and holdover in the Acog.
Overall I am very impressed. The rifle functioned great on the suppressed setting with the exception of the one failure to extract which I think was the ammo. I will shoot this rifle at a different range at the 100 yard line for groups, suppressed and not, and post back with an update and grouping pics. I also posted this review in the POF forum here on AR15.com.
Cleaning after 100 suppressed rounds:
I broke the rifle down for cleaning. there was a bit if carbon in the bolt and carrier, and on the piston and op rod. I was shooting suppressed, which creates more carbon inside than unsuppressed. The carbon wiped off with ease and was more evident in the places where I applied lube. If I had to estimate I would say it looked like I fired 40rds unsuppressed in a Direct Impingement system, Definitely less dirty than my other AR systems.