So relaying factual information is trash talking now, I was standing there.
I was in the indoor range in Longmont, Brand New Noreen Semi Auto 338 shows up next to me. The guy, never met him, don't know him, asks if he can borrow my MagnetoSpeed, I say no problem, let him borrow it. 3 Rounds later I heard a thump, and the guys' gun detonates out of Battery, blows the bolt back into the PRS Stock, bends the upper receiver and the parts that come out the magwell cut up his arm. Again, I was right next to him, and he was using my MagnetoSpeed.
I understand you are acknowledging the "issues" of the past, but to date, I have not seen anything to describe what you did to fix it. And I can say, the incident at the time was sweep under the rug in order to minimize the bad press. I was doing Precision Rifle Classes for the range at the time and followed up on the incident. Being on the internet too you keep an ear out for updates, nothing, silence.
Are you are the only 338 Semi I have seen crater, nope. Last year at Shot, I was doing the World Record Event at Front Sight. Wilcox was there and my buddy was setting up the range for Range Day. He had a DRD 338LM there and asked me to shoot it. I said to him, not on a bet, and let it go at that. On Monday I was working the ATAC Range and he started blowing up my phone. He was Shooting the DRD, it cratered and blew back into his face sending him to the hospital. He jokingly blamed me for jinxing the rifle, we got together and compared notes on that one too.
Magnum Semis are not a joke, I spoke to Sword International this past week at SHOT. I only talked about the safety features of the rifle, didn't care about the claimed accuracy, the "who's" that use it, I wanted to know what they had in place to protect the shooter from an out of battery detonation. They have more than one layer of safety built into that system. I made him walk me through the safety before the conversation went any further.
I never set out to "Trash Talk" a company, there has to be a Reason, and not coming out and specifically talking about the steps taken to protect the shooter is an issue in my book. I want to know what safety features are in place, what happens when that bolt comes back at the shooter. What happens when a guy has a Magpul Gen 3 PRS and decides it's too long or he doesn't like it and switches it to something that won't catch the bolt the same way. That is a ton of force and not all of it goes down the magazine.
These are facts, call them trash all you want it happened. Spell out the safety features put in place and we can begin to have a conversation if its business as usual, I am not interested and pissing off one company is 100x better than someone getting hurt on a line because they think they need a 338 Semi Auto.
