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Post by bigbore5 on Jun 25, 2023 16:47:56 GMT -5
I honestly don't think that crown came from the factory. FA is too particular about it to have left the factory like that. It needs lapping in my book.
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Post by Encore64 on Jun 25, 2023 17:50:13 GMT -5
Rough. Bad machine marks. All of my guns I order have inverted crown for the last 15 years. Usually much better than that. There should be zero striations on that inverted portion. It looks like someone had a crappy insert or stopped the compound instead of keeping it running smoothly and didn’t go back over it to clean it up. I can’t see it coming from the cnc like that. I’m shocked it made it out of final inspection like that honestly. Glenn, can you post a picture of your gun's muzzle with a properly executed Inverted Crown? This is new to me...
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Post by potatojudge on Jun 25, 2023 18:50:00 GMT -5
Agree that’s not up to normal FA standards, but the test target didn’t care.
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Post by zeus on Jun 25, 2023 18:55:09 GMT -5
Rough. Bad machine marks. All of my guns I order have inverted crown for the last 15 years. Usually much better than that. There should be zero striations on that inverted portion. It looks like someone had a crappy insert or stopped the compound instead of keeping it running smoothly and didn’t go back over it to clean it up. I can’t see it coming from the cnc like that. I’m shocked it made it out of final inspection like that honestly. Glenn, can you post a picture of your gun's muzzle with a properly executed Inverted Crown? This is new to me... One of them is dirty but you get the idea.
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Post by Encore64 on Jun 25, 2023 20:17:36 GMT -5
Thanks
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Post by wyomingnimrod on Jun 30, 2023 8:48:34 GMT -5
Gsokk, I did what you did but in reverse. Had an 83 on order with FA, 20mo wait time, traded for a 97 in the meantime, fell in love, got my deposit back from FA and bought an older unfired 83 .454 elsewhere for $2500 and am now a happier man. The wait times mixed with the price, while both being an understandable result of needing more help and the cost of materials and labor and inflation all being high, were just too much to stomach for someone without a superhuman level of patience. Good info on the inverted crown, btw, thanks for posting pics, Zeus. I assume the inverted crown is to help protect the crown by by giving it a buffer zone for contact with holsters and debris in the field and to help preserve/increase accuracy, but it also looks really nice.
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Post by zeus on Jun 30, 2023 22:22:16 GMT -5
Gsokk, I did what you did but in reverse. Had an 83 on order with FA, 20mo wait time, traded for a 97 in the meantime, fell in love, got my deposit back from FA and bought an older unfired 83 .454 elsewhere for $2500 and am now a happier man. The wait times mixed with the price, while both being an understandable result of needing more help and the cost of materials and labor and inflation all being high, were just too much to stomach for someone without a superhuman level of patience. Good info on the inverted crown, btw, thanks for posting pics, Zeus. I assume the inverted crown is to help protect the crown by by giving it a buffer zone for contact with holsters and debris in the field and to help preserve/increase accuracy, but it also looks really nice. Typically that’s the function but I just like the way it looks 🤣
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Post by lumpygrits on Jul 16, 2023 14:01:00 GMT -5
Why not call FA and see what they can do. They use to post a list of guns on hand, on their site.
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