Gorillas Aren't Endangered

[BayouBob]

They just moved them all to Windham Maine. The Bushmaster plant has them installing front sight base taper pins. 30 minutes soaking with industrial penetrant, 20 minutes of pounding and finally used a 2 pound ball peen hammer and a quarter inch punch to break them free! Just hope my Superlight barrel doesn't shoot around corners now.

[bigboreshooter]

Same thing happened to me on my light weight bush barrel. I cut em with a dremal because I was afraid pounding would bend barrel .

[Hoot]

It's not just BM. Many manufacturers torque the barrel nut / handguard way over recommended torque specs to get the next gashole to line up rather than add a shim washer or two. I for one would gladly pay the extra buck or two they could get shims made for, to be able to remove barrel nuts and handguards without a torch, deadblow hammer, breaker bars and untold stress on the receiver, even when used with the proper action block. It's one of my schisms.

Hoot