Home Forums Hunting & Shooting AR and Tactical Rifles Side charging upper came in !

This thing is actually pretty nice.
Pulled a different upper off to see how this fit.
Nice n tight !
Fit and finish is nice. Nothing misaligned, or crooked.
Now to pull the 6.5 Grendel barrel off and put my 6mm ARC barrel on.
Gonna reuse that muzzle device. I like it.
Pulled the mount off the Bushnell I'm selling, and pulled a SS 10x mil quad off another rifle.
Just gonna add some colored parts, a single stage trigger, and call it good.
The ARC, just isn't gonna be a lightweight rifle.

Looks good.

One thing I'll like, is the 6 ARC, BA, barrel is a little thinner profile, so a little lighter !
I was thinking going collapsible stock, but I'm liking the prs back end. It balances better to me.

Splat, I missed who made the side charger if you posted it.

Between the stock, scope and barrel, you cant even say light weight with a grin.

I knew the barrel was gonna be a bit chunky, but...
I can always change out the prs to a lightweight ? Different mount, but I like the scope, and another carbon fiber forearm.

Bear Creek Arsenal made it.

Splat:

I'm headed to the range Tuesday morning with my newly acquired side charging 22 Mag upper from Bear Creek for the first time. I would be interested as to how your's runs. Will report back how I make out. The side charging uppers are a plus I think when running scopes for optics. Like your's, mine too fit great on my Anderson lower. Looking forward to a report from you.

Rich

It'll be awhile til I get the barrels swapped. But I'll have to say something about it. Feels almost like cycling my 11-87 ! Very smooth.

Let us know how close a factory-fresh scope is zeroed when you first place it on the upper after the rebarrel.

I can center the SWFA SS 10x, and see....
Don't have one, so I can't.
What's your point ?

To check the upper for straightness.
Barreling an upper should result in a scope that is almost dead-nutz centered without any windage adjustment.

I'm going to true the upper, then use red loctite to bed it.
Don't see me ever rebarreling this one again.
Did the same to my PSA Grendel barrel, and am very happy how it shoots.
Many different bullets and powders, shoot pretty much to the same spot.

Put a triangular forearm on the front and you'll have a PSG-1 twin!

thats taking an assumption that the mounting system is dead nutz also.

That said the 223 BCA I just zero'd for a friend took many 1-2 MOA to center wind. Elevation took a fair bit. On a new scope.

I've never bedded a barre. I have bedded uppers. I've never had anything other than bad barrels create accuracy issues.

That said you should still be able to take the barrel off I suspect.

I've always put antisieze on our extensions before assembly. Allows awful tiny groups and normally under MOA regardless...

A quality cantilever is pretty much dead nutz.

Who said I paid for quality. LOL. a cheap riser and a set of rings will do for well over 50% of uses.

which is exactly what we put on the BCA. Tru glo riser and weaver rings. Works fine.

If you're talking about using between the barrel shank and the inside of the upper I was always taught the use the green lucite there's a certain number and I don't remember the number. But it's supposed to swell up more but not stick if that makes sense to wear it would need heat to get it apart that's what I've always been told by people who are supposed to know more than me.

I've used red on 3 so far, and all is well.
I'll never shoot out a barrel or even want to change one. I don't think it would be hard to pull apart, as no threads are involved. Just a press fit, and filling around the barrel extension.

I use loctite 620. Does it help accuracy any? Dunno, but it is cheap enough. One bottle will do a heap of barrels.

For some reason I can't link, but a bottle on ebay is like 18 bucks.