The Fix from Q
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I have two Bartlein 6.5 light Palma contour barrels in stock I got specifically for the Fix if anyone is interested. Perfect contour for that twiner weight barrel.
https://bartleinbarrels.com/contours/
https://bartleinbarrels.com/contours/
@Kevin Brittingham and anyone else- Anyone have personal experience with proof barrels? My question is barrel heating and cooling. My buddy competes in prs, so I go with him and enjoy shooting my Fix. It’s great but heats up pretty quick, so:
does proof heat up as fast?
Does proof cool faster?
Should I just wait for larger diameter proof/traditional barrel?
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does proof heat up as fast?
Does proof cool faster?
Should I just wait for larger diameter proof/traditional barrel?
Not looking for hear say
Thank you
I will tell you that my proof carbon could handle longer strings that my steel medium Palma.
| 10 | Light Palma | 1.250 | 3.000 | 5.500 | .900 | 30″ | .750 | 4.50# |
| 11 | Medium Palma | 1.250 | 3.000 | 5.500 | .900 | 30″ | .820 | 5.35# |
Those weights are @30"
Had one in my cart when the first were announced. At the end of the day wasn’t worth almost 750 with the tool. Figured I would hope a green mountain gets released at a lower price point
I’m saving my nickels and dimes for whatever length (20” ??)proof barrel comes out. Heard nothing but good things about them.
If I could get like a 7mm-08 or 308 in 20 Proof I may sale my 22creed and go for that. Seems like it would be a good balance.
I wish kB would work with wto and see about making a 7mm saw fix. That would be lights out imo
It shows, and it is greatly appreciated.
KB that’s a cool thing to do for @Movistar. I got lucky and snagged his Proof like one minute after he listed it. He’s a pretty decent guy had a crap run for a short while so it seems like its all coming back around for him. Good to see good things happen to good people.
Thanks gents. Things are turning around. Johnnyphaze and sodakhunter you guys both have multiple rifles. So not fair.
He who has multi fixes cannot fix nagging wife.
I think a 20 inch CF Proof barrel in 7mm Creedmoor would be the ultimate fix set up
A steel barrel, absolutely. Should be no issue for a competent gunsmith.
I think a Bartlein 22 creed may even fetch a premium...I would post that for sale and then try to buynthen16in before I cut one
Did anyone else who ordered a barrel in this last run get it in and it arrive without a cherry bomb?
I didn’t think about it until you mentioned it, but yes, I ordered a barrel that was listed as including a Cherry Bomb, and I received it without one.
They will make it right if you send them an email. Happened to me when I sent mine back for the bolt fix. Got it back without a cherry bomb and they sent me one overnight along with a bottle rocket.
How’s the bolt?
I think the lift issue will be negated when we get a knob that we can actually run. Excited for the drop!
I would love to find out, but the barrel that I ordered last month still hasn’t arrived. Must have been impossible for Q to find a box to ship it in...
Bolt is fine at speed. If you try to go slow you get hangups. I'm happy with it once I figured it out.
I’m glad that you find it laughing funny KB, but the not so funny truth is that your service rep is the person that told me that my barrel hadn’t shipped because Q didn’t have any shipping boxes.
That’s not funny, that’s pathetic.
My PMags are failing to feed due to being sloppy in the magwell. I have had to put a sticker on the trigger guard to rock the front of the mag up. This is with factory sellier and bellot 140g.
It was a day or two delay on a few barrels, if any. We sold more barrels than anticipated. Ran out of barrel boxes, ordered more, shipped barrels. Sorry for you hassles. Order date? I'll look into it. I don't think it was a month ago. All barrels ordered have now shipped, I believe. But, I'm happy to confirm for you. You are anonymous, so you will need to provide some info in order for me to be less pathetic.
I'm not sure about S&B ammo, thats not something we would use or test.
Several of us have issues with feeding in the 6.5s across several types of ammo. 20 round mags are much worse than 10s. Pmags, kac, Larue, doesn't matter. The front of the mag sits too low so bullet tips jam into the feedramp or back of the barrel. Using a sticker, Velcro etc on the front of the trigger guard or rear of the mag shims it to line up better.
Maybe the mag well needs to be tighter due to being so shallow compared to an ar. I don't know. I don't know if the 308s have the same issue.
I said that I ordered it last month (the morning of 4/30) which is 100% accurate. I didn’t say that I ordered it a month ago. For details, it took 6 business days before the barrel was received by FedEx and it still hasn’t been delivered to a major metro area (Las Vegas). A business week to ship and another week in extremely slow transit. I don’t know what level of FedEx you shipped it via, but I have never experienced this long of a ship from the east coast. Luckily this is not a critical item in my life so the slow process isn’t a big deal. Just a little surprised that an in-stock item would take this long to receive.
You have a business to run and don’t need to be spending time on a noncritical customer order. I appreciate your involvement in this thread.
I had a Chance to take out my 6.5 creedmore Fix last weekend. It shot great. I was shooting Hornady American Gunner and it was easily sub Moa at 100 yards. The gun cycled fine, there was one instance that I ran the bolt really slow just to test it and it did fail to feed correctly. If I run the bolt medium to fast I have no problems. I really like the rifle but it does seem to have a lot more recoil them my other 6.5s but I expected that due to the decreased weight. Overall the rifle is a real winner and I would recommend it to anyone
I'm pretty sure that no one will have any direct experience, but hopefully someone here may have some insight into how a 280 Rem AI would work in the Fix? Looking for a bit more punch than the 6.5 or .308 in the short action standard bolt face. Application is mostly for hunting.
Not sure how recoil, feeding etc. may be. Or if its is a dumb question please let me know. I realize that barrels for these things are hard to find, but I think if a guy sends a barrel to Q they will add the extension for a fee. Likely the only way to get barrel like this. May be cost prohibitive, but just checking into options. Any insight would be appreciated.
Not sure how recoil, feeding etc. may be. Or if its is a dumb question please let me know. I realize that barrels for these things are hard to find, but I think if a guy sends a barrel to Q they will add the extension for a fee. Likely the only way to get barrel like this. May be cost prohibitive, but just checking into options. Any insight would be appreciated.
280 is a long action round if I'm not mistaken. The fix is short action so you'd be limited to something like a 7-08 or 7 creedmoor.
I apologize. You ordered 4/30 at 6:43pm. The barrel did not ship until 5/08. I think that's too long to wait to ship.
It amuses me a great deal how they are giving you shit for not designing your bolt action rifle specifically to work reliably with a 20rnd assault rifle magazine.
At no point does it occur to them how absurd this is...
Kac 10rds are what I use. They give some of the same issues just not as frequently as a 20, Kac or larue. I would tweak the feed lips but then I don't want to run into a situation where they no longer work right in my mws and have to segregate mags.
Not giving shit. Pointing out that there are some 6.5 feeding issues across many mag and ammo combinations. On that point though, the gun is supposed to be designed to accept sr-25 type mags correct? Even though a 20 round magazine may not be a common setup for a bolt gun I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a $3k gun to feed from a quality mag, of the correct style/pattern, regardless of capacity, if one needed it to.
I have no interest in trying to start a shit show. Just pointing out that some of the feeding issues aren't that uncommon.
If it does better than 85-90% without modification to the mag or rifle then it would be an improvement.
why? a lot of people want more than 10-rd capacity. how is it not considered absurd a $3K rifle doesnt function with every mag in the pattern it was designed for?
I don't see it as absurd even though I have no use for anything over 10 rounds even in an AR. Look at how many people are buying mag extensions for AI mags, what are they up to, 14 rounds?
Ok. Say your rifle works fine with 5rd aics mags most of the time and hardly works at all with 10rd aics mags. Those very same mags work perfectly fine in every other rifle that's set up for aics mags though. That's no problem at all?
