Coworkers and building .308 ARs...
Posted: 30 Dec 2022 21:58
There's been a lot of turnover, layoffs, and so forth at my company over the last few years. Contracts, Covid, Internal Research and Development, Proposals etc.. I've been out a couple times and back. Early in 2021 I demonstrated my first Aeroprecision M5 .308 w/ Rainier Select barrel to one of my coworkers as well as my .223 Wylde AR-15 w/ White Oak barrel to a few of my coworkers. As it happened this was immediately before a layoff cycle.
A few months later I was asked to work on another effort and got pulled into several other projects in various capacities. After about a year they brought back another engineer who'd been on staff and had purchased a different kind of business in the interim. He came back and asked me to build him a .308 AR similar to the one he'd shot of mine. We went through the parts required and he'd gotten 'permission' from his wife to spend a substantial amount on the gun. He planned to rack up the parts over Black Friday and take advantage of any sales or cuts in price. This was a plus to me in terms of his purchasing the parts wouldn't be on my dime waiting on reimbursement, although there's always the possibility that he might not get compatible or correct parts. He purchased a scope that was on pretty good sale about a month ahead of Thanksgiving with the approval of his wife.
Come Thanksgiving break he was just getting started on buying parts starting with a LaRue MBT-2S when his wife looking over his shoulder asks what he's up to? When he replies 'Buying parts for my rifle!' she blows up. Apparently she thought he was buying a commercial rifle already assembled and not some shoddy collection of parts... Basically ruined the holiday atmosphere according to my friend.
His rifle is currently on hold. He's got a scope. He wants to use a barrel I've offered to sell him and may want to pick up a set of rings from me as well.
A few months later I was asked to work on another effort and got pulled into several other projects in various capacities. After about a year they brought back another engineer who'd been on staff and had purchased a different kind of business in the interim. He came back and asked me to build him a .308 AR similar to the one he'd shot of mine. We went through the parts required and he'd gotten 'permission' from his wife to spend a substantial amount on the gun. He planned to rack up the parts over Black Friday and take advantage of any sales or cuts in price. This was a plus to me in terms of his purchasing the parts wouldn't be on my dime waiting on reimbursement, although there's always the possibility that he might not get compatible or correct parts. He purchased a scope that was on pretty good sale about a month ahead of Thanksgiving with the approval of his wife.
Come Thanksgiving break he was just getting started on buying parts starting with a LaRue MBT-2S when his wife looking over his shoulder asks what he's up to? When he replies 'Buying parts for my rifle!' she blows up. Apparently she thought he was buying a commercial rifle already assembled and not some shoddy collection of parts... Basically ruined the holiday atmosphere according to my friend.
His rifle is currently on hold. He's got a scope. He wants to use a barrel I've offered to sell him and may want to pick up a set of rings from me as well.