Htx barrels? Anyone shooting one
- By .505gibbs
- Semi-Automatic Rifles
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Made it out to shoot today with the LMT/HTX combo. Things look fairly promising. I will preface this with I’m rusty from the lack of shooting over the winter.
No “break in” was preformed with the new barrel. Loaded it and shot.
I brought two rifles; an SR25 EC as a baseline and the LMT. The SR25 is dependably a .75/.875 shooter. (5 round groups) The HTX falls right in that range with what I saw today. It definitely shows a preference for fgmm 175 grain over the hand load that runs well in all my other large frame ar’s. It consists of Starline or Lapua brass, a CCI #34, 43.7 grains of Staball match, and a 175 smk seated at 2.81” O.A.L. All shooting was done at 100 yards.
This pic is 7 rounds of gmm out of the LMT. That low left shot may have been me. Still a .993”.
A 5 rounder of gmm measuring 1.025. The shots to the right are of the hand load that I did not bother to measure.
Here is my hand load,5 rounds in the LMT. Like I said, not great.
This is 5 rounds of my hand load out of the SR25
Another SR 25 hand load, 5 shots. 1.082”
Obligatory pic of them in the wild.
I say the HTX is right in range with the SR25. The KAC is a solid 3/4-7/8” gun but my shooting was not up to it today. The LMT/HTX gun did have several ftf’s with the gmm. None with the hand loads. I attribute this to running a SR25 carbine spring with an h3 buffer. Or my shade tree gas tube bending skills. (Still waiting on the White Oak tube.) The KAC carbine springs are quite stiff. With the LMT barrel; a 16 inch cut down from a 20 inch I’ve never had a malfunction with any ammo. I think this shows the HTX barrel is gassed appropriately. The port is the same .09375”as the SR25.
Overall I’m happy.
I want to thank the guys at HTX concepts for putting these out. It gives people who are unwilling or unable to spend 7-15k on a KAC gun the opportunity to get 90% there. Also @unclemoak for the exceptional work he and his crew performed, and Dana at Templar Precision for the beautiful dimples.
No “break in” was preformed with the new barrel. Loaded it and shot.
I brought two rifles; an SR25 EC as a baseline and the LMT. The SR25 is dependably a .75/.875 shooter. (5 round groups) The HTX falls right in that range with what I saw today. It definitely shows a preference for fgmm 175 grain over the hand load that runs well in all my other large frame ar’s. It consists of Starline or Lapua brass, a CCI #34, 43.7 grains of Staball match, and a 175 smk seated at 2.81” O.A.L. All shooting was done at 100 yards.
This pic is 7 rounds of gmm out of the LMT. That low left shot may have been me. Still a .993”.
A 5 rounder of gmm measuring 1.025. The shots to the right are of the hand load that I did not bother to measure.
Here is my hand load,5 rounds in the LMT. Like I said, not great.
This is 5 rounds of my hand load out of the SR25
Another SR 25 hand load, 5 shots. 1.082”
Obligatory pic of them in the wild.
I say the HTX is right in range with the SR25. The KAC is a solid 3/4-7/8” gun but my shooting was not up to it today. The LMT/HTX gun did have several ftf’s with the gmm. None with the hand loads. I attribute this to running a SR25 carbine spring with an h3 buffer. Or my shade tree gas tube bending skills. (Still waiting on the White Oak tube.) The KAC carbine springs are quite stiff. With the LMT barrel; a 16 inch cut down from a 20 inch I’ve never had a malfunction with any ammo. I think this shows the HTX barrel is gassed appropriately. The port is the same .09375”as the SR25.
Overall I’m happy.
I want to thank the guys at HTX concepts for putting these out. It gives people who are unwilling or unable to spend 7-15k on a KAC gun the opportunity to get 90% there. Also @unclemoak for the exceptional work he and his crew performed, and Dana at Templar Precision for the beautiful dimples.
