[mcguyver]

I will take the 416 out on Thursday and Saturday to run it through its paces. Now, I won't be able to really judge performance as it no longer has the factory hopup. It was not up to my standards so it now has a modifed adjuster.

I will be able to judge the mechanics of the gun. After that, and when I have some time, I will break it all down into a concise point-by-point post to detail everything I have seen, every modification or repair I have had to make. I have already sent pictures up the chain.

If you all can be patient for perhaps a week, I will have more for you.

And FCC guys, I will let you know what I have found. Rest assured that so far I have not found any systemic faults with your products. There have been some tolerance issues, some quality control issues and some performance issues which I have been able to address already. However, I am able to do it, some folks are not. Your product can be better, and getting there is not difficult, but does require some perserverence and attention to details.

I will conact you when I have more information for you.

I should also note that the only reason I did not return it is because the time and cost involved to send it back to Chris was really a pointless excersise as I could fix it up myself in much less time and with less expense. The issues I noted on teardown would likely have been missed by oretty much everyone anyways. Not to dis anyone, but I am very thorough and very fussy, as I expect, or better demand, performance, as I know what the platform is capable of. I am not concerned if my warranty is void, there is pretty much nothing in the PTW platform I can't handle, except the armature rewind, I send those to Tony.