gradyhue

I've got one for .223. Pretty awesome.Sent from my SM-G928V using Tapatalk

X-Treme Bullets has a 147gr round nose that will solve the feeding issue with your RIA. I'm in the same boat.

How did you have the gun tuned? I don't think I ever saw in the thread what kind of gas block you were running. It caught my attention when you said it was used as a stage gun. I assume it means people were using their own ammo? If that's the case I assume that means you had the gas block opened up so it would cycle a wide range of ammo? I figured that might be the case because, as you said, wear in the cam pin recess usually indicates over-gassing. I think establishing the operating parameters could be very beneficial. Tentatively it seems that tuning the gas system to the specific load you will be running will eliminate the wear in the cam pin recess.

There is no cam pin slot wear in the receiver in this one but there is some wear on the area the carrier runs but this is from an a full auto style Titanium carrier and actually how I found out about the LBC. I asked Will if he thought the wear was excessive and he told me it was indicative of uncoated titanium. So this what the LBC has been running on.

As you can see from the pics the carrier is still in great condition. The only damage is to the finish which is to be expected and there is some wear on the area where the hammer rides when it is being reset which is also to expected. To me it suggests longevity of the carrier as whole, simply because there is contact through most of the cycle across almost no surface area which means this should one of the highest wear area on the carrier. Each of the other areas are making contact in a linear fashion and over a larger area. The area I mentioned overcomes your hammer spring each time and drags any grit along with it. I also think it's worth mention that I'm running a Hiperfire 24C trigger group with the heaviest springs in it which, according to Hiperfire, yield 33% more hammer strength than average. I did get a chance to view the carrier that Mark ran. It is in pretty good shape. It was much better than I was expecting although I wasn't expecting it to be too bad. I think the pictures made it out to be worse than it was dues to reflection of light off the bare aluminum. Comparing it to mine the geometry of the cam pin hole seemed the same. All in all I'm extremely impressed with the carrier and will continue to run them in my guns. Will is a great guy and likes to push the edge of performance and that is apparent in the LBC and the high end lightweight rifles he builds too. He supports the sport with his products and his time and is doing all he can to help grow the sport. I am interested to see what he will come out with next. If anyone is out at the monthly Texas Multigun, Copperas Cove, Dissident Arms and Copperhead Creek matches and run into me I'd be glad to let you try my gun and get a feel how much difference his lightweight carrier makes.

I guess I will have to do several posts to get the pics in. It would only allow me to upload two.

I know I'm a little late to the party on this topic but I've been running one of the first LBC's built and have had really great experience with it and Whiskey Arms in general, so I felt I should share those experiences. I've been running the LBC since January. So far, the carrier has about 7000-8000 rounds it including 9 matches and many, many trips to the practice range. My rifle shoots ridiculously flat and stays on target allowing me to bring my splits down. The carrier is not showing excessive wear, as I closely followed the directions of the owner/designer Will Wallace. I'm running an 18" Lothar Walther barrel with rifle length gas, an SLR Rifleworks adjustable gas block at 7 clicks and mil-spec bolt. I run the BCG very wet and have only used Break Free CLP. For a buffer I am running the JP SCS with the lightest spring. The brass is ejecting at about 4 o'clock and is very consistent. I only run 55 gr PMC Bronze since it was softest shooting of the rounds I tested. I usually try to clean before every match but occasionally would shoot two before I had a chance to do so, but I would always make sure the bolt and carrier had plenty of lube per Will's recommendations. As I mentioned the rifle has run flawlessly with the exception of one double feed and an issue with the gas block set screw backing out due to fouling and over-gassing the gun before I figured out how often I needed to clean the gas block. Obviously neither of these issues were due to the LBC. Here are some pictures of the carrier at the round count I mentioned:

I ground down a pair of needle nose pliers and cursed at it until it came out. I'm glad to hear I wasn't the only one that fought that stupid thing.

I 2nd that.

I've been running a 28" M3000 since October of last year. I've shot in about a dozen matches and lots of practice sessions including one where we ran almost a case of shell through it and up till this point have never had a malfunction that was the guns fault. If you don't want to spend Benelli kind of money I wouldn't even consider anything else.

I can run the cheap Federal Target stuff. 1145 velocity 1 1/8 oz #8 and when I need to run #7.5 I run Winchester AA 1145 velocity 1 1/8 oz. I polished my mag tube, stoned the bottom of the carrier and lapped the raceways just enough to slick them up and have around 2500+ rounds through it and it's run like a top.

Of those of yall that have/had a G-Code holster, what was the wait time after ordering?