She is DAMN SEXY John!
Glad to see you've got her running smoothly again. Nicely done Sir...
Thanks for the compliment. I'm glad to get it running right again. Having intermittent and sporadic failures does very little to instill or maintain confidence in a weapon, but with anything mechanical, sometimes you gotta work on them to keep everything right. The big downfall there is HK parts are usually expensive and hard to find. And thus why I fabricated my own barrel hanger from 18 gauge steel.
I found a few available, but they were for the cocking tubes that were tapered at the end, rather than straight tubes like the one I have.
Matter of fact, the one that was on mine to begin with had just been brazed or tig welded in place and was just on one side like it was just a piece of scrap metal with a hole in it brazed in place. It's no big surprise why the weld kept breaking.
But now, it wraps around the top of the cocking tube and no welds (like it was supposed to have been all along). After the Moly, will blend in seamlessly.
To be honest, I am debating whether or not to install the railed forend now so I can mount a night light. I had that forend mounted on the gun for a while many years ago but put too much stress on the weld and kept cracking it like in the top picture
While I have several different stocks and two forends for it, I liked all of them except the collapsing stock (which I sold rather quickly).
I have wanted a traditional stock for a while and it feels better than any of them, though the skeleton folder is about an inch longer in the butt and is very similar in feel, but the A2 is as good as it gets where the LOP is concerned.
The finish on the gun is showing some scars and luv scuffs and will look better after I refinish it in socom black (I think that's what I used when I first did the upper when I SBR'd it).
But she's running better now than it ever did. And that's what's most important to me.
that thing just looks handy
Truthfully, it really is.
It wields well, is compact, is pretty light, doesn't have a lot of recoil and you can stay on target well. And with the suppressor and subsonic ammo, is fantastic for close quarters and confined indoor shooting.
From point blank out to 125 yards or so, it is really nice.
@Helldog sorry for your state laws.