A buddy of mine (the meme generator) and I were taking about this recently and we couldn’t agree more.
I was teaching at the sniper schools when the fella you mention came to the program as the replacement for M.M. We already had the new disaster of the rifle. That’s one thing I will give C.G., he did inherit that steaming pile of a rifle.
But, when it came to addressing all the problems the rifle had, the solutions were asinine.
- bipod studs failing to stay anchored in the chassis didn’t result in new picatinney mount bipods, it resulted in custom designed/machined picatinney rails with captured studs to continue with the Harris.
- LOP adjustment for big guys resulted in, again custom made, spacers between the chassis and buttstock which were not user serviceable, instead of just adding threat to the adjustable butt.
- months of trial/error/development for the Geissele trigger (which is super nice) to circumvent BRF’s inflexibility with regard to a new trigger shoe from HS Precision in order to accommodate the dismal ergonomics of the pistol grip location on the shit chassis.
- hundreds of Pig Saddles needing bubba-gunsmith if to clamp on to the skinny little chassis when Arca rails are taking over the world.
- hand-filed, modified M-Lok flush cups screwed to the side of the Badger EFR rail because the chassis didn’t have a sling attachment point up front.
- glass blasting the cerakote out of the mating surfaces of the chassis due to zero shift, ultimately resulting in bedding all the guns. (Notice the chassis theme here?)
Hell,
@Wheres-Waldo was hand-lapping barrels at one point trying to get them to shoot…