My thoughts exactly. I checked the mag height and it still did it. I also went to great lengths when I got home to verify that I wasn’t causing the issues. I put the old barrel back on and it had no issues at all. I am disgusted because of the delay and then you guys wanting me to jump through hoops. It is obvious that the issue is isolated to the barrel and nothing more.
I equate asking me to jump through hoops with the hopes that you will just replace it the same as telling me to pound sand.
It is very clear that you have very little business acumen as there are numerous posts of missed deadlines and poor customer service. Maybe you need to rethink how you run your business.
It's still not obvious that it's isolated to the barrel. You're not properly isolating variables.
Having to cram the magazine in there to lock it in place is another clue that it's not properly adjusted. Someone else in here told you that too.
If it's shaving lead then there is a problem that will show up on the target. The bullets are out of shape once you start cutting lead off them.
It could be an adjustment problem. Having to cram the magazine up into the chassis to lock it in place means it's too high. The ammo in the mag is going to press on the bottom of the bolt head and with the clearance in the raceway it will push the bolt nose high out of alignment. It doesn't matter if the lead shaves on the top or bottom of the bullet, it's still shaving. It sounds like the magazine needs to come down about 0.020-0.030" to start. Keep dropping it down until the shaving stops, then go a little further to see where the shaving starts again. This will be your adjustment window. Try to aim for the middle of the window so you're not working around the limits.
These are the things that I planned to discuss with you when I replied that we can walk you through it or we can do it here for you, just let me know how you'd like to proceed. Demanding a refund outright, then villifying us on a public forum and not telling me or anyone else the whole story is about as far from above-board as it gets.
A larger chamfer on the mouth of the chamber will also affect this and affect how sensitive the magazine height is. There are trade offs to all of these things, we follow the Zermatt recommended chamfer to print for obvious reasons. Ignition issues and consistency of the ignition (not just making the ammo go Bang) is very important to how the rifle will shoot at long(er) distances like 200, which is stated as to why you bought the barrel to begin with.
I know you're not going to take this advice, you're also too far down the rabbit hole of calling us out and telling the world how we fucked you to back off and fix the barrel. But again, for those reading: If you're having lead shaving and accuracy issues on a RimX it doesn't necessarily mean the barrel is screwed up. It means that troubleshooting needs to be done to rule out issues, most of the time it's not the barrel it's the overall assembly/installation.
Asserting otherwise is like saying "He has a cough, it must be lung cancer". Or it could be a cold, or WuFlu, or pneumonia, or a myriad of other issues... it could be lung cancer. But don't tell the person it's lung cancer til you've properly ruled it in or out with testing.
The internet guru's are incredibly fast to blame accuracy problems on the barrel and the gunsmith, it's a good thing Doctors slow down or else there would be a lot more people on Chemo than is necessary.
Wow this got into a lot more popcorn thread than I thought.
@bohem if you need/want someone to test this barrel let me know! We have your PVA 1:12T w/ your chamber, a SJA 1:14T, Proof 1:16, and a Keystone 1:16 that we have got working w/o any issues. And an EC tuner to play with on them, not sure if we'll go into enough detail to have a "shootout" but at least can do a fitment / mag alignment test. All the other RimX barrels have worked no prob.
Thanks for the offer. I appreciate it. This barrel doesn't have the EC Tuner cut on it but otherwise it's open for discussion. I'll reach out via PM.
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