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couple dozen times already. The 10.5" barrel comes with a short handguard with Magpul VFG and the 16" barrel with long handguard has BCM handstop attached. On each handguard there is an M-LOK QD sling attachment point. Optics are EOTech Vudu 1-5 LVPO and off-set mounted Holosun red dot – earlier configura- tion was EOTech EXPS 3-0 and G.33 magnifier combo with factory iron sight, later upgrade to XPS2 with green reticle and Magpul iron sights, then replaced with LVPO. The Cloud Offensive OWL weapon light is attached on the left side of the handguard. Just recently, the factory safety switches were replaced with Polish-made DE- FTAR custom switches. The factory trigger has been slightly adjusted. From the other two rifles, one is not used and the other one serves as a shooting club rifle used for commercial shooting and training. The barrels were never swapped, the barrel on the demo gun was disassembled a couple of times. None of them was tuned or upgraded and they have only the factory accessories. Our GROT was fed from Barnaul, GGG, Grey Ammo, PFA, Sellier & Bellot, Mesko, Fiocchi and PMC rounds – 55 gr FMJ. The short barrel had better performance with 62 gr Grey Ammo and PFA rounds. We have been using Magpul PMAG M2 (M3 does not work), factory GROT magazine, Lancer L5 AWM, aluminium and steel STANAGs (dif- ferent manufacturers, including the Nam-era coating of the parts – it was changed during the production and the difference may be noticed in the photos. Colors of coatings are different, and the pictures were taken in the same lighting conditions. The pistol grip in the rifle from the serial pro- duction is also different but currently the ma- nufacturer is delivering rifles with grips made in-house. USE SCENARIOS The rifle was used by a dozen of shooters. It was leased to friends and shooting clubs for presentations (we had a rifle almost a year before it became available for purchase) so the mileage of the rife is just an approximate. Since the GROT became commercially availa- ble, it returned to us. It is used mostly during the tactical shooting classes for our cool guy team. It is smashed and banged around and usually 150 rounds are spent per day. Sometimes it was used for semi-precision shooting and we had sub-MOA accuracy on economic rounds (not the cheapest one). Stock is swapped quite frequently as the fac- tory side-folder is replaced with an AR-stock adapter with Magpul CTR stock attached. Another thing swapped often is the barrel. I assume that barrels were swapped at least a FIREARMS