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Just finished a two day, very, very intense carbine course. We shot about 800 rounds over the course of two days. I used pmags and the L5 translucent magazines ( I only have five of those). As I expected, the XCR ran with no hiccups. I used Wolf and S&B and Remington and would run all different types in the magazine at one time, and never any issues with magazines or gun. I believe I still have the old hammer in my gun and have not updated it yet. We ran around alot, and were in and out of prone all the time and often my magazine would slam into the ground well before the rest of me. I would then push down on the magazine for support and shoot and no... no problems. I have the PWS break on my gun and it's great, but not for those shooting around me. It's loud and obnoxious with one wicked concussion. But it works to keep the gun on track.
There were only 7 or so of us in the class, perfect size. I've never ever trained so hard in a class. It was like being back in school as a college athlete. I wanted to quit a couple of times but the pay off was well worth it. I feel like my gun fighting skills improved significantly. On the second day we had to eat lunch fully geared up with guns hot and we had 20 minutes to do it. Brutal, but I loved it.
There were 4 AR's one was a piston, an AK 74 (the guy knew how to run it too, lightning fast mag changes), a Sig 556 (got dumped on the second day cause the weight was killing the user) and my XCR. One AR went down completely and the piston (LWRC) had 1 or 2 hiccups for reasons unknown.
The instructor had lots of praise for the XCR and has put multiple thousands through his own. He told the Sig guy to dump it and get an AR or an XCR SBR. I think that puts me around 4500-5000 rounds with one cleaning, only because I knew the longer I waited the dirtier it would be. Still no malfunctions that weren't induced by me.
There were only 7 or so of us in the class, perfect size. I've never ever trained so hard in a class. It was like being back in school as a college athlete. I wanted to quit a couple of times but the pay off was well worth it. I feel like my gun fighting skills improved significantly. On the second day we had to eat lunch fully geared up with guns hot and we had 20 minutes to do it. Brutal, but I loved it.
There were 4 AR's one was a piston, an AK 74 (the guy knew how to run it too, lightning fast mag changes), a Sig 556 (got dumped on the second day cause the weight was killing the user) and my XCR. One AR went down completely and the piston (LWRC) had 1 or 2 hiccups for reasons unknown.
The instructor had lots of praise for the XCR and has put multiple thousands through his own. He told the Sig guy to dump it and get an AR or an XCR SBR. I think that puts me around 4500-5000 rounds with one cleaning, only because I knew the longer I waited the dirtier it would be. Still no malfunctions that weren't induced by me.

