I added the rear spacer yes.
I rarely take my ckyepod off in a match unless stage calls for it with tight port holes or something, for that reason I try balance the rifle with the bipod attached. If a person were to go full ham with all weights(inside/outside) I think it's be tough to get these to balance. Idk. I have rubber dampers coming along with internal weights, I'll likely ass a few internal weights where the chassis interfaces with bag. May order the buttstock weight as well.
Ah I see. I have the rubbers in mine. I find having the bipod on there more cumbersome and less maneuverable. 90% of the time I either don’t use it in the stage or when I do use it it’s right at the first of the stage and I fling it off after. But to each their own, everyone has their way of doing things! If it works, don’t fix it right? Haha.
I flipped the entire butt pad assemble upside down and then snagged an mlok bag rider. The pad interfaces a lot better with my pec and clavicle and the bag rider works nicely.
Mine just showed up fine, no cerakote issues. But cerakote chips seems like a small issue to have such a strong statement over…. Especially when every cerakote job I’ve ever had done always ends up wearing off on the arca rail and high wear areas.
I compete with my rifles, so expectations are there for normal wear and scratches. But out of the box... It should be perfect.
Well seeing that damage, I would be upset too. That’s more then just a Cerakote chip ha, them are gouges
Look, you do you. I reached out because I paid $2,000. Yea it’s gonna get dinged up in use, I’m well aware of that. But, so is your car/truck, and you’d be an idiot to let the dealership tell you it’s okay your brand new car has some scratches on it and you can just go figure it out yourself.
Well if you see my reply to @NiteQwill I now, would agree. In my mind I was thinking slight chips or something not full on gouges, I would be pissed if mine showed up gouged like that.
In this case it would appear avoidable because they package a chunk of steel that’s about 8 ounces with hard edges in the box with the buttstock.. problem is neither of them are actually secured in the box, so they just bounce around in shipping and bang on each other.
I find the butt pad on chassis to be unforgiving. I have one MDT LSS gen 2 and two of the Oryx. I even talked to the engineer at Falcon Strike. No one is making a hydraulic recoil pad for the chassis butts.
I just order mine from the company website. You may need to okay your card. It is a canadian company.
They had a fire sale and I got one for 700 bucks… so the Premier was a pretty good deal for that cash.
I will say that the vision chassis is comfortable and overall the same price.
That big ass T Handle wrench bouncing around in there probably isn't helping anything either.
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In the case of both my Elites, the cause was the spacer. It is clearly moving inside the box.Are you all thinking it's the buttpad spacer, the wrench, or both? The buttpad spacer is aluminum, but does have sharp edges and could certainly do some damage. Thankfully, mine was bubble wrapped (rather thin but seemed to work)and trapped between the front of the buttstock and the box wall. The T Wrench is what did a little damage to mine. Thankfully, the cerakote was untouched, but the buttpad base, where it had lain on the T-wrench had a few dings.
The chassis body is so nicely swaddled in custom cut ethofoam that it's a shame the buttstock wasn't treated as well.
@MDT_OFFICIAL a couple easy packaging suggestions:
1. Install the buttpad spacer. There's room in the box and the picture on the front even shows it that way. Most people may not run it that way, but I bet they'd rather loosen a few screws and have to remove it, rather than deal with cerakote damage.
2: It's nice that you include a wrench, but either ship it separately (maybe it could be bubble wrapped and fit inside the omnibus box, but outside/trapped between the individual boxes... or better yet, keep it in the buttstock box, but throw a thin sheet of ethofoam (like the lid of the chassis base) on top, and then put the buttstock (with buttpad spacer installed!) on top of that.
That should stop your damage issues (a little MDT swag for my ideas wouldn't go amiss
Thanks for listening and I hope you can get this addressed quickly as it is an amazing product...it just should arrive looking as amazing as it left your shop!
Thank you for the prompt resolution. Hiccups are expected, as long as we’re informed all is good.
We're always here for everyone. We take quality very seriously, and these issues don't go unnoticed.
And after the sale service, you all are awesome and have helped me out of a bind on more than one occasion.
