No apologies VeloDog! You have been of great help! I look forward to any of your posts sir. As for the rifle I hope you are right so and I cant wait! I am kind of bummed it has a dedicated brake but oh such is life! Case of beer for you coming up! Lol.
Cheers back at you!
Adam
No worries man and I’m with you on muzzle brakes....disgusting.
However, all is not lost.
I have seen a rifle that was acceptably repaired, after someone had vandalized it, by threading the muzzle end of the barrel.
The present owner said that this thread cutting had been done by a previous owner, for a brake.
At any rate, before I ever saw the rifle, a professional Gunsmith had already machined a “thread protector” of steel and permanently affixed it to the rifle.
According to the present owner, his Gunsmith had applied an “industrial adhesive” (Green Loktite?) to the threads.
And so, the chance of this piece working itself loose, was pretty much non-existent.
If it were my rifle, I believe I would have a banded front sight installed, to cover the admittedly slight, “hairline” seam.
Even if I was not fond of iron sights on all my rifles, (regardless of wether or not they also are scoped), this “thread protector” looked quite acceptable, at least to me it did.
