Dude absolutely ruins a Knights SR15

GymB said:
I cringed when he cut the rail off, entirely because he was running the grinder without glasses.
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And did tons of shooting including shooting at metal stuff at close range, and shooting a gun that could potentially blow up, with no eye pro.

It's so unbelievably stupid. What an idiot.
 
GymB said:
I wonder what the break even is, no idea what a click is worth.
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Gun channels are not monetized like other content on YouTube.

But, channel can do old school ads or product placements in the physical content.

For a great channel the cpm is on average $12.50 so for every 1000 people the cost is $12.50

That video right now is at 3k in 18hrs. So this month he should hit 50k views so the cpm would be $625 or so

Billed once.

Now, if you want to do a cut / edit in the video, $7k+
 
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The eye pro thing definitely stood out to me as well. Pure idiocy.

That said, if he got that SR15 from KAC....it's one hell of an advertisement.

@barf and I had a back-n-forth about "does your high dollar stuff actually run" not so long ago. My contention was that I see a LOT of high dollar stuff on the range and matches being babied while the poor's (me) are beating the crap out of their PSA and Anderson home brews with good success.

This video put me solidly in the "ok...that SR15 took an unreasonable amount of abuse and kept ticking, I'm not sure my franken-gun would do that..." camp.

Idiocy aside, that was the most intense torture test I've seen. And the rifle didn't have a fatal error for a very long time.
 
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Tim said:
The eye pro thing definitely stood out to me as well. Pure idiocy.

That said, if he got that SR15 from KAC....it's one hell of an advertisement.

@barf and I had a back-n-forth about "does your high dollar stuff actually run" not so long ago. My contention was that I see a LOT of high dollar stuff on the range and matches being babied while the poor's (me) are beating the crap out of their PSA and Anderson home brews with good success.

This video put me solidly in the "ok...that SR15 took an unreasonable amount of abuse and kept ticking, I'm not sure my franken-gun would do that..." camp.

Idiocy aside, that was the most intense torture test I've seen. And the rifle didn't have a fatal error for a very long time.
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It would have been very interesting to do the same test with several rifles at same time. Basic M4, a cheap PSA, etc.

Kind of a missed opportunity.
 
Tim said:
@barf and I had a back-n-forth about "does your high dollar stuff actually run" not so long ago. My contention was that I see a LOT of high dollar stuff on the range and matches being babied while the poor's (me) are beating the crap out of their PSA and Anderson home brews with good success.

This video put me solidly in the "ok...that SR15 took an unreasonable amount of abuse and kept ticking, I'm not sure my franken-gun would do that..." camp.
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at a class with people and some high tier rifles. everybody had parts loosen or just fall off. I don't think there were any exceptions. me and my suppressed psa sbr made it through the first 2/3 okay, but i didn't stake the castle nut it came all the way loose, sling made tube turn sideways, and lost my buffer retaining pin. I asked for 30 seconds off the line, pitched the gun into the mud beside the line, pulled out my backup poors tier M&P 15, and jumped right back on the line. Instructor gave me a strange look at first, but he's been through enough stuff that he just nodded and said something like "yeah, gotta do what you gotta do to stay in". I wasn't the only one who had to go to a backup rifle. but i was smart enough to bring my own backup instead of having to ask to use somebody else's unfamiliar setup.

I wouldn't bet my life on my frankenguns holding up to all that, but I also have many frankenguns for the price of that one rifle. Does your gun really have to be able to stand up to more shotgun blast than you?

I would like to see this repeated with an anderson... I've got some parts laying around...
 
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everybody had parts loosen or just fall off.
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Expensive early lesson learned when I started doing matches like 3-Gun and RnG where you're tending to bounce your stuff around more than usual. Before every match, I torque everything to spec. Even holster hardware.
 
Tim said:
Expensive early lesson learned when I started doing matches like 3-Gun and RnG where you're tending to bounce your stuff around more than usual. Before every match, I torque everything to spec. Even holster hardware.
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yeah, we were told to "check" for loose stuff at the beginning of the class. then laughed at by the instructor when our checks proved to be... insufficient.
 
NKD said:
It would have been very interesting to do the same test with several rifles at same time. Basic M4, a cheap PSA, etc.

Kind of a missed opportunity.
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Yeah I want to see this same test on another manufacturers rifle as well. Aero, PSA, LMT, BCM whoever. Just a factory rifle.
 
Cowboy said:
I'm guessing this is a high end AR? I'm not familiar with the company.
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Knights Armament mostly make rifles for military contracts. Sell a small amount to the civilian market. They are a little over 3k at present for a full rifle. They were about 2500 pre-Covid.

They aren’t “Gucci” rifles but durable and have some proprietary parts. Like the barrel extension and bolt and gas system.
 
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Tim said:
Expensive early lesson learned when I started doing matches like 3-Gun and RnG where you're tending to bounce your stuff around more than usual. Before every match, I torque everything to spec. Even holster hardware.
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Yeah Mike Jones stock was about to fall off his shotgun last 3 gun. Had to use Jim’s for the last stage. Loctite all the things and torque to 100ft/lbs.
 
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Imagine BCM with a fancy gas block and intermediate gas system.
That costs as much as custom billet handmade JP.
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You really think a BCM upper is equivalent to a KAC upper?
 
They also eventually tell him to F*** off, take a refund and his business elsewhere.
 
Here is a response from BCM regarding the 15 round per minute quote.

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Average Joe said:
Here is a response from BCM regarding the 15 round per minute quote.

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That doesn’t negate the fact that their barrel failed after 2000 rounds and they did actually send that email.

They replaced it. Twice.

It’s called damage control. That also doesn’t mean they don’t sell their barrels that don’t meet military specs to civilians.
 
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I’m also not saying 100% of their barrels are shit. I just think that a barrel failing after 2000 rounds is absurd. And their response was even more absurd. Most people wouldn’t notice the failure because they don’t shoot suppressed and don’t experience a baffle strike, don’t shoot often, or couldn’t shoot 1 MOA with a match barrel.
 
barf said:
That doesn’t negate the fact that their barrel failed after 2000 rounds and they did actually send that email.

They replaced it. Twice.

It’s called damage control. That also doesn’t mean they don’t sell their barrels that don’t meet military specs to civilians.
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Honestly, I don’t know the guy in the video you provided. So I’m not disputing his account and experience with BCM. You also have a valid agreement that BCM could sell inferior barrels to the civilian market. I don’t know their business practices. And I acknowledge any mass produced product will have some lemons.

I can speak about my experience with my BCM rifle that has been shot thousands of rounds. Most of which were high cadence drills. Both suppressed and unsuppressed, with no issues. I am a satisfied customer.
 
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Average Joe said:
Honestly, I don’t know the guy in the video you provided. So I’m disputing his account and experience with BCM. You also have a valid agreement that BCM could sell inferior barrels to the civilian market. I don’t know their business practices. And I acknowledge any mass produced product will have some lemons.

I can speak about my experience with my BCM rifle that has been shot thousands of rounds. Most of which were high cadence drills. Both suppressed and unsuppressed, with no issues. I am a satisfied customer.
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Agree whole heartedly. Things slip by QC. Mostly turned off by their response to the issue. I get not trusting the YouTuber but I don’t think he had anything to gain from lying. He’s also not the only one. Here is another instance.

 
And full disclosure, this is all in response to the “BCM is the same as KAC” comment. BCM isn’t trash and I’m not saying that. But they are not the same.
 
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