Geissele MRGG-S adopted by USSOCOM in 6.5 CM.

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To catch people up on the news, Geissele was awarded the contract for the sniper variant. They are currently still competing for the Assaulter variant but it has yet to be awarded. In the video, the mil requirement was 1 MOA. They test every rifle that ships and the first 50 tested an overall average of .56 MOA.

SOCOM selects Geissele

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Holding off to buy a large frame gasser in 6.5 until this is released. Would be nice to get the MRGG-S with a MRGG-A upper to go along with it. My new Atlas will have to tide me over until then. Hopefully we see it in next year or so but it'll probably be 2-3 years if I had to guess.
 
I bought an XC and put a steel grip on it bc it "needed" it. In a world where a $4800 gun still needs $1000 put into it a 6500 rifle doesn't seem too bad. $1600 Magnus suppressors, $4500 scopes, $3000 progressive presses, $3200 AR15's. Meh, how many people paid $7000 for an AXMC or $10K for an AXSR? It's up there but not unheard of.
I think the 6500 is a representation of the .gov upcharge
 
I bought an XC and put a steel grip on it bc it "needed" it. In a world where a $4800 gun still needs $1000 put into it a 6500 rifle doesn't seem too bad. $1600 Magnus suppressors, $4500 scopes, $3000 progressive presses, $3200 AR15's. Meh, how many people paid $7000 for an AXMC or $10K for an AXSR? It's up there but not unheard of.

Dont get me started on Staccattos and the never ending search for a Cheely grip for them!

The $6500 for a large frame still hurts my eyes though even coming from the custom 1911 and 2011 world.
 
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To catch people up on the news, Geissele was awarded the contract for the sniper variant. They are currently still competing for the Assaulter variant but it has yet to be awarded. In the video, the mil requirement was 1 MOA. They test every rifle that ships and the first 50 tested an overall average of .56 MOA.

SOCOM selects Geissele

First Shipment
You know this was awarded months ago? Not exactly news.
 
I think the 6500 is a representation of the .gov upcharge

Its law. There is a massive cost in selling to the government. The addendums for compliance alone can drive a product up 25-100% in cost. There is also a ton of support, spares, training, fixtures exct that are includes in the unit price.

$20K may sound like alot for a gun but it includes

The actual product (whole kit)
Additional testing for every sample to ensure it meets specs
Manufacturing Monitoring, documentation and compliance.
Spare parts
Training teams that will be sent out to units to teach them how to run the gun, as well as teach the armorers how to work on them
Could be fixtures or tooling used for depot level maintenance
Direct Support. 24/7 Technical support, anywhere in the world if you have a phone/internet.
Contract Compliance and making sure the 200 addendums the Contracting Officer put in the contract are in compliance. These things all cost money and labor to do.
Profit - Why go through All the above bullshit if you aren't making a nice profit to make it all worth it.

Then there is the pesky little issue you can't sell a product or service for less on the commercial market than you can to the government. So the commercial products get some of the above costs rolled into them, because you arent going to set up a different production line, its just not worth it. Then there is demand. People want the same shit the military is issued, and due to demand from .gov, commercial examples will be very hard to come by. So why sell a gun for $3K so some asshole can sell it for 20K on the secondary market due to demand.

Every fucking time there is a thread about a gov contract product being sold commercially, people bitch and cry about the price. You would think they would understand how this works by now, but i guess not.
 
For sure. And all those other prices aren't charity donations either. All those companies are charging what the market will bear.

I'm still rocking a $2000 LFAR 308 build and a $3200 LFAR 6.5CM build. You can definitely get it done with less. But if you want the 50 shades of FDE good-good and the new lifted Tremor there's no stopping the money people will pay.
Not even close to the same thing. Like comparing a Camry to a Ferrari. At least educate yourself on the product and its capabilities before making wild assumptions.
 
Shut the fuck up nerd
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That's the only way you interact with Death before dismounting dicks. Straight hate and anger. His plot is to lure you in to an argument for social interaction. He wore anyone on this forum's tolerance for his bullshit....years...ago. Not even recently. These days he chimes into threads and quotes people like they're interacting but they don't even respond to him. He's like the village idiot standing on the corner spouting off random shit at people hustling along their daily lives. They glance at him through the corner of their eye hoping he doesn't think they've made eye contact and try to engage more. He has to settle for that one-sided, BTB verbal ejaculate as social interaction and fullfiment. So your options are to ignore him or just face-shove him like the dweeb he is.
You leave my friend in training alone you bully
 
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How many times do I have to verbally abuse you before you realize that you will have no interaction with me where I don't treat you like rented pussy.
Abuse? Your a pussy cat house bitch. I don't even know who you are or remember you. That's how much I give a fuck about your abuse. Tell us more about how your shitty Kmart guns are comparable to a MRGG.
 
Well we all know who you are. Lower 30 percentile shooter who was a jags assistant in the military and writes " pretty much infantry" on his signature block. Outside of the tough guy persona you try to be on the internet you're a world-class pussy in real life.
Wrong wrong wrong and wrong. Atleast you are consistently wrong. Feel free to come out to a match and drop your nuts. Well see who the pussy is.

Nice thread derail by the way. Talking shit let's you avoid admitting your wrong.
 
I bet you're a pathological liar. That would pair with your shitty personality. I remember you chiming in on ucmj protocol in a discussion citing that you were a jags assistant for a while. Now that's wrong? I bet you're the sad type of loser that just makes shit up half the time.
I never ever said I was a jags assistant rofl. The only person making up shit / pathological liar is you. Maybe get your meds checked, you seem off level.
 
Still waiting for you to explain how your parts guns are comparable to the MRGG.. you have shot a MRGG right? I'll make sure to tell Bill G on Sunday to stop wasting his time... some jerk off can do it better for less than half price.
 
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Dont get me started on Staccattos and the never ending search for a Cheely grip for them!

The $6500 for a large frame still hurts my eyes though even coming from the custom 1911 and 2011 world.
The new Atlas definitely makes the $6500 more palatable but the mrgg will most likely be in the $5500 range from what i'm hearing. It still better shoot half moa and be dead nuts reliable or I'll just get an LMT with a Bartlein barrel. Regardless the custom 2011/1911 game makes expensive guns seem more reasonable but the quality and performance still have to match.
 
The new Atlas definitely makes the $6500 more palatable but the mrgg will most likely be in the $5500 range from what i'm hearing. It still better shoot half moa and be dead nuts reliable or I'll just get an LMT with a Bartlein barrel. Regardless the custom 2011/1911 game makes expensive guns seem more reasonable but the quality and performance still have to match.
The 1911 game is a black hole from which there is no return. I passed the event horizon years ago and haven’t hit rock bottom.

On the other hand, cloning and collecting service weapons is a hell of a drug, and the law demands I get one of these when they eventually trickle out to the civi market. Lol
 
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The 1911 game is a black hole from which there is no return. I passed the event horizon years ago and haven’t hit rock bottom.

On the other hand, cloning and collecting service weapons is a hell of a drug, and the law demands I get one of these when they eventually trickle out to the civi market. Lol
True though its gotten worse over the past few years, like many things.

I remember when a Jason Burton build was $5,000 now its $16,000 and climbing!! LOL and that happened in less than a decade if my memory is correct.
 
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True though its gotten worse over the past few years, like many things.

I remember when a Jason Burton build was $5,000 now it’s $16,000 and climbing!! LOL and that happened in less than a decade if my memory is correct.
The prices have ramped up dramatically for new builds and old customs in the past 4-5 years. Most of the best builders are pushing into 5 figures with 2-3 year wait times.
 
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I like the accuracy and longevity they are getting from their cold hammer forged barrel. But for the money I just wish they would have done the barrel , handguard and upper receiver interface like Ridgeline Defense or Cobalt kinetics does to help pretty much eliminate point of impact shift when using a bipod and also do their gas block attachment method like KAC or Ridgeline Defense does if they could. Also, while you can break anything, has Geissele improved the robustness and rigidity of the rail they are using on this rifle since it first came out as I believe they had some drop test failure issues with it when it was first released.
 
Not even close to the same thing. Like comparing a Camry to a Ferrari. At least educate yourself on the product and its capabilities before making wild assumptions.
No, it is like comparing a Toyota Tacoma to a Toyota Tacoma TRD model that is priced at 3x as much. Are there small improvements? Yes? Are you getting 3x in performance? Likely, in almost all circumstances, no, you are not. A Ferarri is a race car with race car parameters. A Camry is an eminently reliable consumer automobile. The MRGG-S is $2000 worth of parts and a performance (accuracy) requirement upsold for a Government contract. There is very little "proprietary" involved in it, and very little that distinguishes it from many similar offerings, other than SOCOM viewed it as the "most bestest" and in winning said "most bestest" distinction, just like the MRAD or a bunch of other military contract weapon offerings that can also be sold on the civilian market, Geissele earns the right to charge an obscene amount for it, and still have happy customers, when they deign to offer it for sale, in assuredly limited numbers. Much like the FN SCAR-H, LMT MWS, KAC SR25, etc, etc. It is just Geissele's turn. It is a good looking rifle, but it is still a ~$2000 large frame AR.
 
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No, it is like comparing a Toyota Tacoma to a Toyota Tacoma TRD model that is priced at 3x as much. Are there small improvements? Yes? Are you getting 3x in performance? Likely, in almost all circumstances, no, you are not. A Ferarri is a race car with race car parameters. A Camry is an eminently reliable consumer automobile. The MRGG-S is $2000 worth of parts and a performance (accuracy) requirement upsold for a Government contract. There is very little "proprietary" involved in it, and very little that distinguishes it from many similar offerings, other than SOCOM viewed it as the "most bestest" and in winning said "most bestest" distinction, just like the MRAD or a bunch of other military contract weapon offerings that can also be sold on the civilian market, Geissele earns the right to charge an obscene amount for it, and still have happy customers, when they deign to offer it for sale, in assuredly limited numbers. Much like the FN SCAR-H, LMT MWS, KAC SR25, etc, etc. It is just Geissele's turn. It is a good looking rifle, but it is still a ~$2000 large frame AR.

Uh no. Comparing some shitty parts gone slapped together by a chad to a engineered/tested weapon system that has been ran through SOCOM testing, beat all comparable products from proven companies AND does things no other semi auto SWS does from the factory is a massive difference.

Show me Another Chrome lined barrel that has over 6K on the tube and still (if it ever did) holds half moa with FACTORY ammo. The gun was not babied either, it was used as a demo to a bunch of pro shooters who shot the piss out of it, running stages back to back, without it cooling off. Show me another phased gas array that not only changes the entire recoil impulse, making the shoot super soft both with a can and without, but no longer suffers from port erosion the way a legacy barrel would. So now instead of port erosion/gas system issues being the limiting factor when you need to pull a barrel, it will be the actual accuracy degradation and MV loss like a bolt gun.

Oh and that gun with 6K+ on it still holding half MOA, its still going.

There is a ton of a proprietary tech in the gun, so stop showing your ignorance.

Just about everything you state is incorrect. There are people on this site who have tested the MRGG and are testing the small frame version of this gun in a bunch of calibers right now. They can't talk about it for the obvious but you have zero idea what your talking about.

This gun has zero in common with the MRAD or its solicitation. MRAD was a massive compromise to get US military wide adoption so Big army would pay for it instead of SOCOM dollars. This system is being paid for with SOCOM O&M and as such, they are getting exactly what they want.
 
You may not like DBD, but you should reread his post on pricing. He is not far off. when you price a weapon or any other major item for the Military it comes with a whole list of things you have to include in the bid cost. And then because of procurement reforms that say that the government pays what the commercial side pays, the whole "Team Tactical" crowd gets to pay the inflated government cost (sort of, they can deduct certain costs if they want to). AS far $2000worth of parts, that is stupid logic that says the artist (or Smith) has no skills or added value.
 
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Show me Another Chrome lined barrel that has over 6K on the tube and still (if it ever did) holds half moa with FACTORY ammo.

Show me another phased gas array that not only changes the entire recoil impulse, making the shoot super soft both with a can and without, but no longer suffers from port erosion the way a legacy barrel would.
You manage to ruin every thread you post in with your constant BS.

New steel! 2x the expected service life!!! New gas system! No recoil, and no port erosion! Great price, 1000% normal value!!!

No one is saying it isn't a good weapon. Anyone that has been in this space for a while knows it is $2k in assembled parts that should have an MSPR somewhere in the $3s or $4s, except that it is now a mil contract gun and Geissele can just slyly sell the ones that don't make the accuracy guarantee to the civ market on the side. No one, until you spouted off your typical BS, has ever suggested it was a value at $6500, because someone from SOCOM touched it in a naughty place.

And FWIW, the last time Geissele had an innovation in gas ports, they designed a conical orifice in the gas block "for a smoother impulse" that inadvertently created a jet of hot flame that destroyed the gas block and eventually hand guard, in that order.
 
From my days of the original competition oriented SR25s to MK11's, SPRs to fast forward to the new Knights guns the Brits bought and this Geiselle gun. I very much have no clue if this gun is worth a shit but I'm rooting for it. It would be really cool if we end up with a badass gun.
+1 I'd really like to hear a good insider-info breakdown...ie, on how all these guns are actually working...eg, in the field...and behind the scenes and during trials, etc...
 
You manage to ruin every thread you post in with your constant BS.

New steel! 2x the expected service life!!! New gas system! No recoil, and no port erosion! Great price, 1000% normal value!!!

No one is saying it isn't a good weapon. Anyone that has been in this space for a while knows it is $2k in assembled parts that should have an MSPR somewhere in the $3s or $4s, except that it is now a mil contract gun and Geissele can just slyly sell the ones that don't make the accuracy guarantee to the civ market on the side. No one, until you spouted off your typical BS, has ever suggested it was a value at $6500, because someone from SOCOM touched it in a naughty place.

And FWIW, the last time Geissele had an innovation in gas ports, they designed a conical orifice in the gas block "for a smoother impulse" that inadvertently created a jet of hot flame that destroyed the gas block and eventually hand guard, in that order.
And you manage to be wrong about everything relating to the mrgg-s. Had you actually left mom's basement maybe you would have had a chance to see them in action. There will probally be a few this weekend at the giessle match.
 
It would be fun to hear the KAC guys discuss why they did or didn't want to play in this (MRGG) game.

We'll pretty much always participate in programs that are in our wheel-house.

As far as our participation in MRGG-S, we were already on contract for upgrade kits for M110s in 6.5 when the first MRGG program came out (the vast majority of observers are unaware that the M110 6.5 kits and MRGG were/are separate programs). MRGG round 1 stopped and was respun into two separate programs, MRGG-S (Sniper) and MRGG-A (Assault), with similar but different requirements. When it comes to competitive opportunities, not meeting a requirement can immediately disqualify a submission. MRGG-A (first spin) and MRGG-S had hardware delivery for initial down-select at the same time. KAC's MRGG-S submission was delivered with a buttstock that did not have an adjustable cheek piece, so we were not able to progress. The MRGG-A hardware was compliant (did not have an adjustable cheekpiece requirement) and we moved forward to the following phases before it was also stopped and respun.

So that's pretty much it; an error during assembly and packing (stocks weren't swapped to the intended submission hardware) wasn't caught by my department on final inspection and we were booted from MRGG-S without firing a single shot.

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The 2024 base retail on just that upper, before cerakote, is nearly $4700. Is that one of your dealers, can’t really call that secondary can you?

Yes, retail is 4677.75 for the 100223 upper, but in "normal" times MAP (and under MAP) is where things really sell for, and on the 100223 that's 4443.86. Willingness to buy and sell at over retail is a symptom of a heavy secondary market where pure demand to supply value happens.
No, I'm certainly not accusing one of our dealers of being a scalper, I meant that as a comment on my perception of the secondary KAC market and how aggressively it is reflecting on common pricing.
 
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+1 I'd really like to hear a good insider-info breakdown...ie, on how all these guns are actually working...eg, in the field...and behind the scenes and during trials, etc...
I've got a lot of time on actual gov SR25s. Really awesome platforms, but at such a weight penalty. It can do everything you want it to, mount NV, bipods, etc, etc. But 12-14 pounds starts to be absurd when you are just slinging 168 or 175 308 around, and that is without the can on it. I've only used it on the range or in training, or in vehicle turrets, and they were always 1.2-1.5 inch guns, with FGMM match or LC match. Which, I always say, was totally fine for the intended usage. But we couldn't pass our Sniper qual with them normally, and it isn't that punishing of a qual, presuming your gun can shoot 1-1.2 MOA or better. And that is honestly what I'm the most excited about with the Geissele offering, that they some how figured out a 3/4 MOA gasser, at scale, which would be a big leap forward (I know, I know, everyone on this site built an AR10 that shoots .25 MOA groups). For me, it becomes hard to really assess reliability, in the case of the SR25 because it just isn't an assaulter rifle and you'd need different optics to accomplish that. So it is more of a support rifle or sniper substitute. You do get more suppressing ability, if that is something you want. Follow up is quick. Accuracy is fine.

But I think it is why you still see people trying to offer solutions like the 6mm ARC - you get your range back, but you can also use your rifle multiple ways. And while the premise of the large frame AR was increased utility, I often didn't feel that way and always chose to put a dedicated bolt in a backpack, and carry an assaulter carbine, rather than try to just carry an SR25. I'm not in anyway suggesting that I'm saying this representative of a broad set of missions, but I'm saying in my particular use case, they mostly stayed in the armory. Whereas other guys that had access to much lighter Larue OBRs, were using those as a primary. And none of that is to say that the new Geissele is trying to be a crossover rifle.

I personally think it is pretty telling that you have so many large frame ARs that have found acceptance at varying military and police units. LMT MWS, KAC SR25, the Larue (I know people who could procure anything and LOVE the OBR, especially configured for lighter weight), FN SCAR, the HK, and now the Geissele. I also think it is telling that the "it" gun keeps changing. Maybe that says something about the AR scaled up than anything else. One of the reasons I was excited about Ruger's effort to shrink things down.
 
I've got a lot of time on actual gov SR25s. Really awesome platforms, but at such a weight penalty. It can do everything you want it to, mount NV, bipods, etc, etc. But 12-14 pounds starts to be absurd when you are just slinging 168 or 175 308 around, and that is without the can on it. I've only used it on the range or in training, or in vehicle turrets, and they were always 1.2-1.5 inch guns, with FGMM match or LC match. Which, I always say, was totally fine for the intended usage. But we couldn't pass our Sniper qual with them normally, and it isn't that punishing of a qual, presuming your gun can shoot 1-1.2 MOA or better. And that is honestly what I'm the most excited about with the Geissele offering, that they some how figured out a 3/4 MOA gasser, at scale, which would be a big leap forward (I know, I know, everyone on this site built an AR10 that shoots .25 MOA groups). For me, it becomes hard to really assess reliability, in the case of the SR25 because it just isn't an assaulter rifle and you'd need different optics to accomplish that. So it is more of a support rifle or sniper substitute. You do get more suppressing ability, if that is something you want. Follow up is quick. Accuracy is fine.

But I think it is why you still see people trying to offer solutions like the 6mm ARC - you get your range back, but you can also use your rifle multiple ways. And while the premise of the large frame AR was increased utility, I often didn't feel that way and always chose to put a dedicated bolt in a backpack, and carry an assaulter carbine, rather than try to just carry an SR25. I'm not in anyway suggesting that I'm saying this representative of a broad set of missions, but I'm saying in my particular use case, they mostly stayed in the armory. Whereas other guys that had access to much lighter Larue OBRs, were using those as a primary. And none of that is to say that the new Geissele is trying to be a crossover rifle.

I personally think it is pretty telling that you have so many large frame ARs that have found acceptance at varying military and police units. LMT MWS, KAC SR25, the Larue (I know people who could procure anything and LOVE the OBR, especially configured for lighter weight), FN SCAR, the HK, and now the Geissele. I also think it is telling that the "it" gun keeps changing. Maybe that says something about the AR scaled up than anything else. One of the reasons I was excited about Ruger's effort to shrink things down.
New M110s and SR-25 are pretty much completely different rifles than the Mk 11 and M110 SASS models.
The 6.5 upgrade kits going to SOCOM M110 users are lighter and shorter than the M110, including the 22" 6.5 (shorter low-backpressure suppressor), and have a collapsible B5 precision stock (see my above sad story). The 14.5" 6.5 is highly portable, and out-performs a 20" .308. Having good ammo (M1200) is a big plus for the program (we have been #1 or at worst in the top 3 for accuracy in every phase of MRGG and other programs that our current line has competed in).
 
We'll pretty much always participate in programs that are in our wheel-house.

As far as our participation in MRGG-S, we were already on contract for upgrade kits for M110s in 6.5 when the first MRGG program came out (the vast majority of observers are unaware that the M110 6.5 kits and MRGG were/are separate programs). MRGG round 1 stopped and was respun into two separate programs, MRGG-S (Sniper) and MRGG-A (Assault), with similar but different requirements. When it comes to competitive opportunities, not meeting a requirement can immediately disqualify a submission. MRGG-A (first spin) and MRGG-S had hardware delivery for initial down-select at the same time. KAC's MRGG-S submission was delivered with a buttstock that did not have an adjustable cheek piece, so we were not able to progress. The MRGG-A hardware was compliant (did not have an adjustable cheekpiece requirement) and we moved forward to the following phases before it was also stopped and respun.

So that's pretty much it; an error during assembly and packing (stocks weren't swapped to the intended submission hardware) wasn't caught by my department on final inspection and we were booted from MRGG-S without firing a single shot.

*Cue sad violin noises*
Thats the kinda douchy move that makes us (technical contracting and program leads, IE COR's) hate contracting officers. Obviously the rules and terms of the RFP/Proposal need to be followed but they need to be designed in such a way that simple mistakes and oversights can be corrected by the vendor as not to DQ them. This latitude is provided in the FAR/DFAR but needs to be written into the documentation. In the end, The customer gets a better product and knows that the competition was legitimate, and not won on some bullshit technicality that truthfully, you could find a reason to DQ any product submitted due to the bullshit they shove into each contract.

Not to mention a pure Performance work statement using performance based objectives instead of design critera would allow industry the latitude to come up with true innovative products. Then there is the issues similar to the M110 PIP proposals where the gov is too fucking stupid to listen to the experts. Contracting officers are some of the dumbest, most arrogant fuckstains in the entire gov.

Honeslty glad not to be in that field anymore, no one is happy and enjoying their life. I thought about going into industry when I retire and helping to write proposals but there is zero joy in that work and its just stacking layers of bullshit. Even working for an awesome company, it would be missrible work.