If we are talking about the gun range in the army/navy store in Stockbridge I had a good experience there, although it sounds like I might be the only one.
Here is my story. I call it, THE BARREL NUT: hope, change and triumph
It was a dark and stormy night. Probably. Anyway, I was sighting in a red dot on sandbags and was shooting good but when I stood up and shot I was hitting like a foot low at 25 yrds. A thorough inspection revealed a loose barrel nut which meant the barrel was wobbling and on the sandbags it was thrusting the barrel way up messing with POA/POI. No one to be mad at, I built it myself a few years back and didn't put it on very tight for the same reason I will get to in a minute. Took it home, put it in the block on the vice and got my armorers tool out. Now, for whatever reason, I could only get this thing barely past finger tight before the wrench would slip off. Who cares, except now the little sprockets on the nut wont line up with the gas tube and so I say "eff this" and dremel one of those beyotches off. Well, I cant remember why but it still wont work, I think I still couldn't get the gas tube back through for some reason. Oh yeah, did I mention I don't have a torque wrench? Well, actually I do but it was waaaaay on the other side of the garage and in a drawer so who needs that headache, am I right fellas? So, yeah, dremeled, still didn't work so I get on the phone and start calling local places about free float tubes hoping that will give me a different problem I might be able to solve so I don't have to think about the one in front of me that I cant. Anyway, Army Navy Stockbridge has a tube at a price I like (less than $120) and say they will even throw it on for me on the spot for a few bucks. Im like, "heck yeah! YOLO!" and so I haul ace over there. I walk in and find the gunsmith dude who ask me whats wrong with it. I relay my story, "A BARREL NUT: The unfinished lie" to him up till that point and he looks at me, looks at the gun, looks back at me and gives me that look people give me at libraries when they think I cant get erections, but I know this time it means "you frankenAR'ed this bad boy yourself didntcha?" I give him a look back like a proud papa that says "you know it MF'er." So he says hold on Ill juice ya up.
He goes in the back and comes out like 15 minutes later. Threw on an old, undremmeled (translation: no personality) barrel nut from his bench stock for free, torqued it to spec (apparently theirs was in reach), threw my old one in the trash (noooooooo!) and charged me like $20 for labor. Score!
He could have sold me a free float tube that I really didn't need, and charged me for the install and I probably would have felt okay. But instead he helped me out, saved me some money and I really felt taken care of. Sorry you guys are having bad experiences there. But that's my story, "A BARREL NUT: Hope, Change and Triumph
Here is my story. I call it, THE BARREL NUT: hope, change and triumph
It was a dark and stormy night. Probably. Anyway, I was sighting in a red dot on sandbags and was shooting good but when I stood up and shot I was hitting like a foot low at 25 yrds. A thorough inspection revealed a loose barrel nut which meant the barrel was wobbling and on the sandbags it was thrusting the barrel way up messing with POA/POI. No one to be mad at, I built it myself a few years back and didn't put it on very tight for the same reason I will get to in a minute. Took it home, put it in the block on the vice and got my armorers tool out. Now, for whatever reason, I could only get this thing barely past finger tight before the wrench would slip off. Who cares, except now the little sprockets on the nut wont line up with the gas tube and so I say "eff this" and dremel one of those beyotches off. Well, I cant remember why but it still wont work, I think I still couldn't get the gas tube back through for some reason. Oh yeah, did I mention I don't have a torque wrench? Well, actually I do but it was waaaaay on the other side of the garage and in a drawer so who needs that headache, am I right fellas? So, yeah, dremeled, still didn't work so I get on the phone and start calling local places about free float tubes hoping that will give me a different problem I might be able to solve so I don't have to think about the one in front of me that I cant. Anyway, Army Navy Stockbridge has a tube at a price I like (less than $120) and say they will even throw it on for me on the spot for a few bucks. Im like, "heck yeah! YOLO!" and so I haul ace over there. I walk in and find the gunsmith dude who ask me whats wrong with it. I relay my story, "A BARREL NUT: The unfinished lie" to him up till that point and he looks at me, looks at the gun, looks back at me and gives me that look people give me at libraries when they think I cant get erections, but I know this time it means "you frankenAR'ed this bad boy yourself didntcha?" I give him a look back like a proud papa that says "you know it MF'er." So he says hold on Ill juice ya up.
He goes in the back and comes out like 15 minutes later. Threw on an old, undremmeled (translation: no personality) barrel nut from his bench stock for free, torqued it to spec (apparently theirs was in reach), threw my old one in the trash (noooooooo!) and charged me like $20 for labor. Score!
He could have sold me a free float tube that I really didn't need, and charged me for the install and I probably would have felt okay. But instead he helped me out, saved me some money and I really felt taken care of. Sorry you guys are having bad experiences there. But that's my story, "A BARREL NUT: Hope, Change and Triumph
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