Frag Out! Magazine
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those parts in all 1000 rifles that were in TDF at that time. FB Radom introduced new procedures in pro- duction process in order to eliminate that problem. In later reports that issue is no longer present. Regarding the weapon sling, GROT comes with two-point adjustable sling with two QD swivels and one clash hook. Mounting the sling goes like this: rear end is mounted to QD sock- et on the stock and to front part clash hook is attached. That clash hook is attached to another QD swivel (which is not attached to the sling but to QD socket in the rear of handguard). Probably reason behind it is to make possible to switch sling from one and two-point by attaching clash hook into QD at the rear portion of the sling… Problem is, that GROT has ambi- dextrous QD sockets so if anybody wants to switch from two-point to one-point simply can take off the clash hook and insert QD swivel on the oth- er side. Clash hook is useless, it's just another part on the sling adds bulk and can scratch the handguard (con- stant metal to metal contact). Last thing about the sling is its set- up. Photos shows often slings (green and black ones) with loose ends of the webbing weaved through ladder buckle only once. Unfortunately, this does not guarantee that the webbing will be fully secured and may result as webbing slipping out of the buckle and becoming loose. The webbing should be weaved twice to ensure safety, as in climbing harnesses. Another problem was cracking of charging handle plastic covers. It covers steel end of charging handle and was profiled to make charging eas- ier. To prevent sliding off it is pinned. There were 40 cases when cracking was reported. In some cases, hit marks were found (mechanical dam- age). Most likely someone hit some- thing hard with the rifle in the field or simple rifles stack against a wall fall down – rookie mistake. In that situa- tion weight of the falling weapon with some speed (or force of impact with something hard) simply impale that plastic piece onto the charging handle pin starts to act like a wedge. There is no way not to make any damage. This part could be redesigned. One-piece design with charging handle would re- quire redesigning of cuts on the upper receiver which is not an option. May- be use of soft material (maybe rub- ber) that will not break during impact can be an option. On the other hand, rubber will wear down faster. Maybe aluminum alloy? It will be more expen- sive, not pretty but robust enough. Next one is infamous adjustable gas block falling out what may cause gas piston to fall out and be lost. This mythical, almost "self-dis- appearing" gas block was lost ten times causing falling out of three gas pistons. Despite that there is a leg- end about jumping out gas block that costs $235. In fact, the complete gas piston costs less than ¼ of that and according to information from TDF HQ, they were all replaced (or added if missing) free of charge. Regardless, there is common practice to tying down gas block to the rail with zip- ties… This solution may have some FIREARMS