Learning Machining Together
So I bought a LMT .308 rifle and finally found time to do some upgrades and work on getting this build together. I go throw on a LMT DMR buttstock then go to toss in a G$ trigger which required me take some lower parts off like the grip & I discover this gouging with raw metal plus jacked up threads plus usually the threads are coated and should be black just like all my other LMT lowers but it’s also all raw metal in the tapped threads. Mind you I did not pay for a Blem product. They tossed a blem lower on a rifle to hide the blem under parts then sent it out from factory to be sold without any discount or being labeled as a blem. It’s almost like the hole was drilled and tapped after the coating and they just completely jacked it up, damn near looks like they almost drilled the wrong spot which caused that mark but I’m not sure - very odd. What makes it worse is customer support basically gave me the middle finger and don’t care so much which I’ve seen them do a lot with other customers who have issues with their product like bad misaligned feed ramps on their barrel I seen recently. They have done this before with a Mars L lower as well with way worse gouging but it was on the sides easily visible (had coating over the gouging as it was done when machining out the lower but still crazy it got by the QC department and sent out to be sold as a non blem) and at first didn’t wanna help either it was way worse then this but after laying into them & lots of back and forth they swapped the lower out for me but I still had to pay an extra unnecessary transfer fee. LMT is so hit or miss I don’t understand how ppl still continue to support, I know I’m done supporting myself. KAC > LMT for me. I’d even rather go Geissele or w/ someone else at this point cause LMT won’t see another dollar outta me. Spent thousands supporting & each purchase we make we help them grow for them to NOT OWN UP to their Quality Control issues and just shit on their customers is not cool. So either think twice when buying LMT or when receiving look over everything and even strip it down if u buy as a complete pistol/ rifle.