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Ghost Any word on 👻slug barrel?
- Thread starter Solo1
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Danman
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You and me both brother!
MRDs can only do so much...I see your loving your ghost but cmon BRK!! Get some slug barrels out already. A gun that hits that hard and costs that much can't shoot slugs? Cats outta the bag, guns been around for what close to 2 years now? The Daystate fancy cousins of the ghost all shoot slugs decently!? What gives? She gonna be my 50 to 100 yard gun if I get one. Zero need to stretch farther where I live/shoot. In a month or 2 i will have 3k burning a hole in ma pocket....gonna get me a slug capable gun, BRK help me to decide!! 
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- #6
Ok so I’ve learned my lesson trust no one and believe nothing you’re told!! Took my barrel to rich at airgun revisions to have it cut for the ghost. No problem he says and reads off a list of his laurels. I leave being told he needs my whole gun it would be $190 and take 2 weeks. Fine don’t like leaving the gun but ok. Get home email has bill for $210 well how nice he gave himself a tip and didn’t do a thing yet but i pay anyway. Today ( tomorrow is 2 weeks) I get a call he can’t do my barrel cause it needs .009 ground off 1 side and he can’t do it ( even though I told him the bore was off ctr ) when I dropped it off! Thanks rich for wasting my time when i could have been testing the new mrds!
Is he refunding your money?
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- #8
Yes he gave my money back but I bought a shroud cost me $200 for everything and I’m in for the barrel for $200 so unless I find another machinist I have a $400 bar!
Glad to hear that he at least gave you your money back. Would have been much better to have had a clear understanding of things to begin with. Hope everything works out and you find someone who can complete the work.
- Original poster
- #10
I thought we had a very clear understanding apparently he don’t listen except to his own line of bull.
Danman
Well-known member
Or Brk could stop being jokers and sell us their slug barrels already
The longer we wait, the higher the expectations Brk 
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- #12
Talked to aoa they said maybe may or June.Or Brk could stop being jokers and sell us their slug barrels already
Danman
Well-known member
OK cool, an estimated date is better than nothing! I'll be out of gun money anyways soon when I buy the ghost and a decent scope. Will have to perfect pellet shooting with it first
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- #14
The weird thing about all this is he’s talking like an o ring around the barrel can’t deal with a .009” offset? The guy is a gooof might be ok with crossman or something cheap but doesn’t seem to understand the higher end I think he just wanted to shoot my gun maybe pull it apart to examine internals get some ideas? !
I don't know Rich and have never had any dealings with him, but an off center bore on a barrel blank is not his fault. You're barking up the wrong tree I think. Call LWUSA and let em know about the defect in the blank they sent you.
The fact that Rich said this barrel has a problem that I can't fix (versus taking your money and machining it to fit, despite the off-center bore), is a point for him in this situation.
The fact that Rich said this barrel has a problem that I can't fix (versus taking your money and machining it to fit, despite the off-center bore), is a point for him in this situation.
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- #16
I think you missed my point Cole. I was told it would be $190 and was charged $210. I was told it would take 2 weeks he never started working on it till the 13 th day. I told him the bore was off ctr when I dropped it off he said no problem! I’m barking up the wrong tree?
Root cause analysis....the off center bore is the issue.
He probably had 12-14days worth of work in front of yours. So he told you 2 weeks and started it on the 13th day, not expecting any issues, only to find the bore off-center. A barrel can be machined in a day .....IF it doesn't have a defect.
Yeah, he could have looked at it sooner to make sure it wasnt gonna be a problem. Yeah he could have listened when you initially told him it was off center. Yeah he could have kept to the quoted price. But you'd have a machined barrel for your Ghost if the blank LWUSA sent you didn't have a defect that Rich wasn't willing to put his name on. Sounds like Rich knew it would only make your headache more expensive if he carried through with machining it. He did you a favor (and the right thing) by refunding you the money and declining to machine it. Had he machined it, you'd only have more difficulty getting LWUSA to replace it with a non-defect bore later on.
See if LWUSA will make it right by replacing the blank.
Also curious to know if this is a common problem with barrel blanks from any of you machinists out there? How do you go about fixing it, assuming it can be fixed? Or is the best course of action to make it a tomato stake and machine a centered-bore blank instead?
He probably had 12-14days worth of work in front of yours. So he told you 2 weeks and started it on the 13th day, not expecting any issues, only to find the bore off-center. A barrel can be machined in a day .....IF it doesn't have a defect.
Yeah, he could have looked at it sooner to make sure it wasnt gonna be a problem. Yeah he could have listened when you initially told him it was off center. Yeah he could have kept to the quoted price. But you'd have a machined barrel for your Ghost if the blank LWUSA sent you didn't have a defect that Rich wasn't willing to put his name on. Sounds like Rich knew it would only make your headache more expensive if he carried through with machining it. He did you a favor (and the right thing) by refunding you the money and declining to machine it. Had he machined it, you'd only have more difficulty getting LWUSA to replace it with a non-defect bore later on.
See if LWUSA will make it right by replacing the blank.
Also curious to know if this is a common problem with barrel blanks from any of you machinists out there? How do you go about fixing it, assuming it can be fixed? Or is the best course of action to make it a tomato stake and machine a centered-bore blank instead?
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- #18
Cole I didn’t even read your whole reply because I do not wish to be upset with you I like you and think you’re a good guy. Right now I’m pretty po ed with rich. He told me today that it would be no problem if it was not a bull pup with an o ring holding the barrel. But with that o ring he would have to grind the whole barrel .009 on 1 side or I’d never get a scope to work. Now a silencer bends a barrel more than .009 and an o ring probably would hardly notice .009 and if the offset was put in the verticle plane a silencer would counteract that .009. Rich also said that the offfset is common as they drill multiple barrels at the same time The guy is off and as I said I’m very po ed!!
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- #20
@Franklink just so you know I live 1/2 hour from him if he had other work I could have taken it to him 2 weeks later
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