Holy Crap! That is indeed surprising. Volquartsen barrels are usually spot on...

 

Wow...that's just plain wrong.

 

Somebody forgot the finish cut on the breech, I'd say.

Notice they cut the extractor groove and chamfered the chamber and shank with it like that, and packaged it.

Their eyes must be painted on. :coco:

 

Unacceptable.

 

my VQ almost was that bad, not good to see.

 

I VQ Carbon Fiber Barrel was "Perfect". These things do happen though, I hope you get it resolved. I had to send my MKIII to them for a faulty sear, so they told me to send the whole lower to them to look at. They sent it back with a new sear and the shipping was super fast. Great customer service.

 

Gosh, that is terrible, and after all the good things I hear about VQ. Not cheap eighter!
Lets us know what they do to make it right with you.

 

New barrel and call tag coming from Volquartsen

 

Hang that one in the Hall of Shame I cut smoother than that with my Saws-All.

 

:shakehead:Thats not the norm for Volquartsen barrels at all. I dont know how that got by there QA inspection ? I've bought and sold over 100 VQ barrels and I've never seen anything like that ! I would call Scott Volquartsen and email him this picture if I was you. I know Scott and he would be p*ssed off about this (Big Time)

S&G Custom

 

That's exactly what I did and exactly who I got a response from shortly after 8am this morning. This sort of thing can happen. I also had a VQ bolt one time with a firing pin that was too long. One dry fire and it peened the barrel face. I had to send the bolt and the barrel to VQ for fixing that time.

 

What did Scott say about the barrel face ? And the poor quality control with his products ?

 

Well the ring you see is where the barrel liner is threaded into the sleeve. No big deal there. But the rest of the galling and plain unfinished aspect he said was that it just somehow missed the 'facing' operation.

From what I can tell, I think it missed the final chamber ream as well. I can slide a cartridge in and out fully, no problem.

 

That right there is a Friday barrel.. He just couldnt wait to get to the beer..:beerchug::beerchug::beerchug::beerchug::beerchug:


Sorry I couldn't help it.. I'm sure they will take care of it though.

 

Got the new barrel in today and the breech face looks much better. Hurried up and installed it and forgot to take a picture of what they are supposed to look like. Here's the finished build though. I was going to have a black bolt, completely black barrel, and black bolt handle, but I could not wait any longer on the barrel. 5 months was long enough for this one. And I had to return the black bolt due to missing parts and the black handle was not up to snuff. Regardless, I like the results.

Ruger receiver
Tuffer buffer
Kidd bolt
Kidd bolt handle
McMillan stock
Kidd 2-stage trigger
Volquartsen carbon fiber THM barrel in 22 LR
RT takedown screw
Outdoors Connection sling
Kidd receiver pins
LH Precision custom Fastfire base
Burris Fastfire II

Now I just need to get to the range and test it out!

 

It looks good to me just like that. That Fastfire II is a really nice compact sight. I'm thinking of installing one on my Mark II target pistol.

Good looking setup. :bthumb:

 

Are you using your rifle for hunting or punching paper?

 

HUNTING all my 22's are for hunting. I even make it a point to take my one bench gun out once in awhile.

 

Yeah, I like that. All my 22 rifles are for hunting too. How is it using the red dot for hunting?

 

Ask me that question about the red dot this autumn. I'm still new to it.

 

Right on!:bthumb:

 

Yes let us know on that Fastfire red dot site I have a Pentax red dot site on one of my 10/22's that I use for my wood chuck problem in my yard and it works good for that. So far it is holding zero but I just wonder how the real cold will effect it this winter esp when I go out when it's 20 below zero??