So let me be clear on and address alot of the comments. Dont think that steve or anyone in the video is trying to come up with some wazzu shit. Dont get me wrong, what hes saying to ryan and i is news to us only because we dont know this stuff lol. Steve is a good buddy of mine who has a passion for these guns hes making and like i said, after i shot them i was impressed. Can you slap a gun together or buy one from a manufacture that shoots as well? Hell yes you can and thats awesome! Personally for me i love the passion he has for building these guns and i wanted to give him a platform to speak about his passion as i would for any one of my friends. ALSO! yes i understand the rail looks like other rails on the market. Lets be honest, that can be said about every rail, reciever group and accessories on the market. The guys and gals at ripcord added their own flare which to some may not be needed and again.. THATS OKAY
Let's see Ripcord do a walk thru video of "their" manufacturing plant and see first hand all "their" products being machined! Many companies claim to manufacture their own products, but hardly any actually will show it being done! Seeing is believing! Do a video of that Milspec_Mojo!
@@seniortac4175 I like that idea, I mean his pitch sounds good but people can pretty much throw the same animal together, but he said "affordable" I believe and a bunch of other stuff (tolerance,fitment,material grade,etc)
As a materials engineer I appreciate the comment/forethought of using the same material of the gas block and barrel so that the thermal expansion coefficients match. Very cool!!
It literally doesn't matter, because they will be at vastly different temperatures anyway. Temperature of the bolt plateaus while the carrier and chamber side of the barrel will continue to climb in a DI gun, in a piston gun the bolt and carrier barely get any heat.
I’m surprised it even needs to be said. I’ve tried to match barrels and gas blocks in steel grade since I built my first rifle at 18 just using basic understanding of material science lol
Quick Tip: A quick and easy way to check your gas rings is to remove your BCG from your upper, and with the bolt in the UNlocked position try standing the BCG up on end, with the bolt facing down. If it collapses under its own weight, you need new gas rings.
@@alexc.6502 No, one piece gas rings cannot be tested the same way a traditional gas ring is tested. I dont think you understand what a one piece gas ring is.
@@357stoitch7 I use one-piece gas rings on a rifle of my own. And I can tell you with confidence that if they're worn, they will not hold themselves in the upper receiver. they will slide right out the back if upended. I've tested this multiple times, each time I've found my rifle over gassed. Switched out the gas rings. Now, it feels just as new as when I first built it.
Ripcord is doing some cool stuff, real strong attention to detail. Most of their uppers require/required thermofitting, they were doing the indexing/anti rotational pins between their uppers and hand guards. Cool shit.
@@atox4957 upper-to-lower fitment, or upper-to-barrel fitment was loose? Or both? You needing to drill THEIR upper and THEIR hand guard for the indexing pin is absolutely BS. I notice on their site the upper no longer is shown with the indexing pin. As to the fitment (honestly, not trying to simp for Ripcord, I have nothing at stake) there could be tolerance differences between parts, I’m sure you probably already understand that much though. I’m most curious if you contacted them with your concerns and if so, what they had to say about it?
As a details guy, I can really appreciate what Ripcord is doing. I’m a fan and 100% onboard. I only wish their stock was more consistent, especially with the ability to buy everything at once (e.g., barrel, rail, gas block) just to save a bit on shipping. I’m waiting on the rail in A10 gray…hopefully soon! 🤞😁🇺🇸
But the guy doesn’t know what his talking about… he modeled for Triarc and now is using the same sleezy methods to push a cheap gun at high prices hoping to obtain wealth like Triarc without actually owning a real firearms manufacturing company
@@bravo6959 the guy milspec mojo is talking to in the video trying to sell you on why you should buy his uppers, I don’t know his name the guy that started this rip cord company.
Awesome info Mojo, Glad you had Steve on a video. Being newer to AR's I could have listened to you guys all day long talk about what actually makes these rifles run right and the things you need keep an eye on to keep em' going. Thanks brother.
Heat transfer and thermal expansion is absolutely necessary to understand when designing anything that functions on firearms. You want the thermal properties to work with you, not against you.
Love to see companies striving to make a better product. Props to rip cord, bought a criterion barrel from them a while back. Seem to only carry good brands
These boys building solid stuff. About time someone built s rail around a steel barrel nut that isn't a half inch long. Geissele meets BCM and the MI NIGHTFIGHTER without the pinching effect on the bottom of rail. Awesome gun and awesome company
My AR shoots like a gun. It could have less recoil and probably does have less felt recoil to a larger guy so I don't focus on that. I like dependability and a little aggressiveness. If I wanted something to shoot like an Airsoft rifle then I would get one. But this video was pretty cool and informative
When the guy says “1.37 inch moa” you don’t convince me that he’s a rocket engineer of a gun builder. They build cool rifles and pick good shit to put in them. Let’s not do the whole triarc fiasco all over again with these guys please. Let the rifles work for a long time and prove themselves and it’ll sort out in the wash. This guy is acting like they do the best work on gas blocks as if bcm and solgw haven’t been doing this on $1400 rifles for years and years. This shit is getting really cliquey and influencer biased and fast.
Man I agree with it, TH-camrs are getting rich of dumb new comers. Since 2020 they do what they can to get rich. Triarc is a wonderful example. Crap product being hyped by TH-camrs and the owner of Triarc is so fat and arrogant he flashes how much money his making ripping people off in his b roll videos or his Nightvision videos flashing hundreds of thousands of dollars in nods and lasers when 2 years ago he never even heard of NVGs but now that he builds $500 dollar rifles and sells them to idiots for $2500-$3000 he can afford all the NVGs and Gucci gear that Socom has in their entire arsenal. I love capitalism but I hate greedy arrogant fat fucks that lie and manipulate to sell a bullshit product. Like triarch “two track barrel” it’s a $50 dollar nitride barrel with a fancy name.
Lowshelf lowers but should have pulled a Centurion and went full M16 pocket. Seem like another decent option otherwise. Good source for Criterion barrels for sure.
I sent my Triarc 13.9 to Steve and he got it running it right and actually got it running as smooth as Triarc advertised but didn’t deliver. I will support ripcord and can’t wait for their new BCG to come out. They arnt reinventing the wheel they are just choosing quality material and ACTUALLY QC and assemble the way everyone SHOULD and lie about doing.
Omg that rail is everything I've been wanting lol. Solid contact in the middle of the rail where no attachments go. Looks like some awesome high grip material on there as well. Thanks for sharing!
Chad, from School of the American Rifle does a awesome job explaining these topics and using gauges to demonstrate things. Would love to take his armor course.
@@goinhot9133 it's a thing people do on TH-cam where they buy a more expensive microphone and record sounds and sometimes accompanying video, that supposedly super satisfying and make them feel very calm in that way that makes the hair stand up on the back of their neck. Some channels are really big and get a lot of views, people make a good bit of money doing it too. But It's a good joke because it's not really an ASMR channel, but it's very satisfying to watch the school of the American rifle guy work his way through his tests and failsafes.
A few things to add. They needed to spec out a new gas block for these barrels. The core series barrels are known for being undersized on the gas block journal by the people who build guns and and spec them for a living. So good on them. I originally thought vltor built their rails but yeah must not be. Looks like a mix between a Geissele and vltor freedom rail. Both great rails so nice little mix up of them with their own touch. You can bash on any company you want but I enjoy more companies. Competition drives innovation, harder to do now in the AR world but nice to have options.
Been running a 10.5” ripcord rail for about 6 months now. I appreciate the design, but the weight is noticeable to me. Buuut… it’s clearly heavy duty grade. There was NO way I could get the rail on the massive barrel nut without heating it up in the oven, as oer instructions. If I could throw it on my issued rifle, I would. Very confident it will hold zero with sighting systems. Love the look of it too. The attention to thermal expansion is appreciated, for sure.
@@borkwoof696 Ummm yeah... I don't a 2 ounce different when it comes to weapons or weights. Everyone is always bitching about XY and Z yet refuse to simply get better, be better and thus doing better. Oh and my main squeeze has a quadrail on it. Why? Durable and fits my hands significantly better than the super thin keymod and mlok rails.
One thing I look for in my lowers when I buy them is machine marks in the magazine well. You usually see waves in the inside if it's lower quality. I see it a lot in 60$ lowers.
I am a Service Rifle Competitor. I have matched conditioned many rifles for use in competition. Some I put together so poorly that my error was easily seen very early in competition with those rifles. At any rate, I’ve come to appreciate well built, well thought out ARs. The bottom-line is do due diligence in rifle selection no matter who built it because otherwise you may be purchasing a liability.
They are doing a great job of building their ARs . I have been building my own since the 1980s. I learned from a good friend that absolutely loved the M16/AR 15. I have since learned a mountain of info along the way. I love to tune them. My favorite one has , among other things, a David Tubbs flat wire recoil spring that eliminates bolt bounce. You need 7 1/2" of barrel past the gas block and you can change dwell time with buffer weight or / and bolt carrier weight. You can tighten up groups by better barrel extension to receiver fit. Even the amount of torque on the barrel nut can be used to tune one. Lots of other things too. Just wish I could shoot as fast as milspec mojo.
@@Dexter-nw2fe Lucas started crying about how Pinkman stole his rail when he left T-Rex and the rail belonged them. Just the same shit with that dude. He claims drama follows him “cause of the haters” but he’s own worst enemy. Always talks trash about people in the community but then says the community needs to come together. Steve handled it more professionally and just said he wouldn’t comment publicly about it. At least from what I remember.
If he was hired and bankrolled by trex to develop the rail, then, yes, he did steal it. We will never know, however, so there’s no point in dwelling on it
I wonder what's the story behind ripcord and geissele? If Im not mistaken, their barrel nut looked pretty identical to geissele except theirs is from steel. And handguard have similar resemblance as well.
Products are evolutionary. If you’re a good engineer/inventor you will look at current products and note their downfalls and build off of that. Example: steel vs aluminum barrel nut. That’s an improvement in itself if you understand basic heat transfer. Ripcord specifically holds incredibly tight consistent tolerances. You pay for experience, quality, consistency and material selection, which to me means more than having a new snake oil handguard for you IG account. 🚀🌙
@@mrglocklover9 well the reason I ask, is I was wondering if there is any story behind the similarity. Beside the stuff you mentioned, there could be something more administrative reasoning such as they know each other, or Ripcord used to work in Geissele and he designed it? Stuff like that.
Ripcord is local to me! Ive shot that 10.3 and handled the 16in when Steve and his guys were at my local range! Steve and his company produces absolutely top notch stuff. Buy with confidence!
As a RIS-2 fanboy this is a mlok hand guard I can get behind. I’ve always liked the smaller profile of mlok hand guards but I fears that my clumsy ass was gonna trip and jack it up. This is a nice compromise between weight, rigidity, and having enough holes to cool off
the reason most gasblocks are stainless is because stainless has a higher thermal expansion rate than cmv so as the barrel expands the block stays super tight because it expands slower so there is no gas leaking.
I think that rail is pretty close to being spot on and almost exactly what I have been looking for, especially the close center grip of the rail. I have been trying to explain that to several custom rail manufacturers, and they just could not grasp what I was talking about, and it is awesome to see this company make one. now if it is just cheap enough that a poor like me can afford one
Ripcord's focus is good, better than a much bigger outfit like PSA that only cares if it "goes bang" and wouldn't even try optimizing. Sounds a bit like Black River Tactical's perspective.
Because he mag dumps at 3 yards in almost every video he does. This dude doesn’t shoot past 100yds even though he has access to thousands of yards worth of shooting land in the desert.
1 month late, I know. It's because he was a radio operator and Fed LE, not a marksman. Don has gained recognition by his demonstrated ability to shoot rifles and pistols fast in close quarters. That skill set doesn't generally require understanding the relationship between accuracy and barrel temp.
i have watched this video multiple times and i am very impressed with the info he has given and now want one of their rifles. I just didn’t see a 10.3 option only your 11.5
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't companies like BCM and Daniel Defense spend countless hours already doing the science of mastering the gas systems? I own both companies and never have issues. I wish you all well as you do the same work--my question is not a criticism; rather, a curiosity about whether companies already share the manufacturing details?
If DD is a place you want to spend your money, that's on you. BCM, gas blocks have pretty good QC. Mine was a tight fit to my Ballistic Advantage barrel.
Pretty sure he did and if I remember I think Lucas discussed it briefly stating Steve wanted to go off on his own didn’t know he was going to make a whole ass company making awesome rifles but it’s sick
As far as gassing a rifle properly and tuning the buffer should a shooter be worried about one offs? For example, my 16" had never really liked steel cases. A couple weeks ago I was at the range running some Tula 75gr, Ammo Inc, 77gr, and Hornady Match 75gr to see which grouped best at 100. The first round from Tula left a stuck case I had to tap out with a cleaning rod- after that it ran fine. The Hornady stovepiped on a round; other than that it ran fine. Ammo Inc ran perfectly. Should I be concerned about the one offs?
These guys tend to over hype the new kid on the block instead of just letting the rifles prove themselves over time. This industry is entirely influencer based marketing now instead of just putting out rifles that work and letting them build a reputation for themselves.
Really, it "makes no sense" to you, but you are an engineer? No BSME, I guess. Refuse Engineer? Model train engineer? I don't suffer the BS Engr handicap, and have only a BS in Bio, but I've got a lifetime of mechanical experience (bicycles, motorcycles, cars) and I understood him fine. Maybe your "engineer" degree isn't all that useful for -- you know -- actual mechanical aptitudes.
@@seanoneil277 idk man, it seems like there’s a flaw in the logic. The greatest moment is where the handguard mounts to the upper and that moment decreases in magnitude as you move away from the fixed point. I understand making the barrel nut longer because you essentially decrease the length of the lever arm and in turn the magnitude of the moment, but beefing up the middle of the rail doesn’t make sense from an engineering standpoint. The part of that rail that is going to fail is right after the barrel nut ends and where all of the mlok begins if it’s subjected to a load at the end of the rail. Filling in the mlok at the middle portion of the rail does not make the weakest link any stronger and it’s still going to fail in the same place. Obviously they can’t really get rid of the mlok at the receiver end of the rail because guys like to mount slings and stuff back there so that just makes it seem like more of a marketing thing or a misunderstanding of the statics that go into it. I may be misunderstanding the design a bit or maybe I’m misunderstanding something else but that’s my take on it.
Larue handguards bolt to Uppers monolithic style beefie AF and 10+ yo design. B52s bombers are older than the 1st armalite M16 and its STILL our primary nuke delivery system against the commies. You can only put a bow on a pig so many times before its just snake oil. Looks cool af tho? This platform was designed and sold to military before we had any computers....let that sink in w all this new applied handguard 'science' 🤯😂. Piston setups are way nicer to shoot and deal with than some 'scienced' 60 yo dirty gas system.
So let me be clear on and address alot of the comments.
Dont think that steve or anyone in the video is trying to come up with some wazzu shit. Dont get me wrong, what hes saying to ryan and i is news to us only because we dont know this stuff lol. Steve is a good buddy of mine who has a passion for these guns hes making and like i said, after i shot them i was impressed. Can you slap a gun together or buy one from a manufacture that shoots as well? Hell yes you can and thats awesome! Personally for me i love the passion he has for building these guns and i wanted to give him a platform to speak about his passion as i would for any one of my friends.
ALSO! yes i understand the rail looks like other rails on the market. Lets be honest, that can be said about every rail, reciever group and accessories on the market. The guys and gals at ripcord added their own flare which to some may not be needed and again.. THATS OKAY
Thanks for sharing!
And that is cool man!
Let's see Ripcord do a walk thru video of "their" manufacturing plant and see first hand all "their" products being machined! Many companies claim to manufacture their own products, but hardly any actually will show it being done! Seeing is believing! Do a video of that Milspec_Mojo!
@@seniortac4175 I like that idea, I mean his pitch sounds good but people can pretty much throw the same animal together, but he said "affordable" I believe and a bunch of other stuff (tolerance,fitment,material grade,etc)
The Legend Milspec! Loved the collab with Garand Thumb. Would love to see you Lucas and Garand Thumb all collab again together!
As a materials engineer I appreciate the comment/forethought of using the same material of the gas block and barrel so that the thermal expansion coefficients match. Very cool!!
Also helps prevent galvanic corrosion.
It literally doesn't matter, because they will be at vastly different temperatures anyway. Temperature of the bolt plateaus while the carrier and chamber side of the barrel will continue to climb in a DI gun, in a piston gun the bolt and carrier barely get any heat.
I love hearing about this level of design when it comes to rifle design
@@jaredchin2731 it's why I love the mechanics of fire arms.
I’m surprised it even needs to be said. I’ve tried to match barrels and gas blocks in steel grade since I built my first rifle at 18 just using basic understanding of material science lol
I have been a fan of the old school quad rail for this reason, rigidity . I think its great that you are pushing this in design ,now I want one .
The MLOK rail with a part blocked out by design really reminds me of the quad rail L119A2 that the Brits are running for their SF.
I searched it and you're right. Good observation. Maybe the UKSF community has learned something similar to what these guys are talking about too.
Quick Tip: A quick and easy way to check your gas rings is to remove your BCG from your upper, and with the bolt in the UNlocked position try standing the BCG up on end, with the bolt facing down. If it collapses under its own weight, you need new gas rings.
Not if you have one piece gas rings.
Good to know! I use a short stroke piston system so I have no use for my gas rings. I’ll tell all my DI buddies about that rule of thumb/ test
@@357stoitch7 you'll know if those fail is the bcg doesn't hold itself in the upper while the upper is up-ended.
@@alexc.6502 No, one piece gas rings cannot be tested the same way a traditional gas ring is tested. I dont think you understand what a one piece gas ring is.
@@357stoitch7 I use one-piece gas rings on a rifle of my own. And I can tell you with confidence that if they're worn, they will not hold themselves in the upper receiver. they will slide right out the back if upended. I've tested this multiple times, each time I've found my rifle over gassed. Switched out the gas rings. Now, it feels just as new as when I first built it.
Ripcord is doing some cool stuff, real strong attention to detail. Most of their uppers require/required thermofitting, they were doing the indexing/anti rotational pins between their uppers and hand guards. Cool shit.
Everyone has pretty much gone to thermal fit uppers with index pins. This ain’t anything new.
@@granite6196 😂
@@granite6196 🤣
Man I got one of their uppers and fit wasn’t tight at all and I had to drill my own hole for indexing pin.
@@atox4957 upper-to-lower fitment, or upper-to-barrel fitment was loose? Or both? You needing to drill THEIR upper and THEIR hand guard for the indexing pin is absolutely BS. I notice on their site the upper no longer is shown with the indexing pin. As to the fitment (honestly, not trying to simp for Ripcord, I have nothing at stake) there could be tolerance differences between parts, I’m sure you probably already understand that much though. I’m most curious if you contacted them with your concerns and if so, what they had to say about it?
As a details guy, I can really appreciate what Ripcord is doing. I’m a fan and 100% onboard. I only wish their stock was more consistent, especially with the ability to buy everything at once (e.g., barrel, rail, gas block) just to save a bit on shipping. I’m waiting on the rail in A10 gray…hopefully soon! 🤞😁🇺🇸
I love the machinist talk from behind the scenes. I nerd out on these sort of details myself. Great talk
But the guy doesn’t know what his talking about… he modeled for Triarc and now is using the same sleezy methods to push a cheap gun at high prices hoping to obtain wealth like Triarc without actually owning a real firearms manufacturing company
@@relentlessamerican9373 who
@@bravo6959 the guy milspec mojo is talking to in the video trying to sell you on why you should buy his uppers, I don’t know his name the guy that started this rip cord company.
Awesome info Mojo, Glad you had Steve on a video. Being newer to AR's I could have listened to you guys all day long talk about what actually makes these rifles run right and the things you need keep an eye on to keep em' going. Thanks brother.
Heat transfer and thermal expansion is absolutely necessary to understand when designing anything that functions on firearms. You want the thermal properties to work with you, not against you.
Love to see companies striving to make a better product. Props to rip cord, bought a criterion barrel from them a while back. Seem to only carry good brands
Got my 11.5 core barrel from them as well and they offer 12% off for veterans. Cool dudes.
This intro is so sick I love the loading mags part love everything about mojo
These boys building solid stuff. About time someone built s rail around a steel barrel nut that isn't a half inch long. Geissele meets BCM and the MI NIGHTFIGHTER without the pinching effect on the bottom of rail. Awesome gun and awesome company
My AR shoots like a gun. It could have less recoil and probably does have less felt recoil to a larger guy so I don't focus on that. I like dependability and a little aggressiveness. If I wanted something to shoot like an Airsoft rifle then I would get one. But this video was pretty cool and informative
When the guy says “1.37 inch moa” you don’t convince me that he’s a rocket engineer of a gun builder. They build cool rifles and pick good shit to put in them. Let’s not do the whole triarc fiasco all over again with these guys please. Let the rifles work for a long time and prove themselves and it’ll sort out in the wash. This guy is acting like they do the best work on gas blocks as if bcm and solgw haven’t been doing this on $1400 rifles for years and years. This shit is getting really cliquey and influencer biased and fast.
1 MoA is fairly close to 1 inch. A lot of people use the two things interchangeably.
What happened with the Triarc man?
@@jasonlangreder7214 I finished a 13.7 Noveske/FailZero build and I'm in $2600 so far. It has what I want and shoots well so I'm happy.
Man I agree with it, TH-camrs are getting rich of dumb new comers. Since 2020 they do what they can to get rich. Triarc is a wonderful example. Crap product being hyped by TH-camrs and the owner of Triarc is so fat and arrogant he flashes how much money his making ripping people off in his b roll videos or his Nightvision videos flashing hundreds of thousands of dollars in nods and lasers when 2 years ago he never even heard of NVGs but now that he builds $500 dollar rifles and sells them to idiots for $2500-$3000 he can afford all the NVGs and Gucci gear that Socom has in their entire arsenal. I love capitalism but I hate greedy arrogant fat fucks that lie and manipulate to sell a bullshit product. Like triarch “two track barrel” it’s a $50 dollar nitride barrel with a fancy name.
Cliquey and influencer based describes solgw.
This cat worked for Lucas. That’s awesome to see him doing his own thing
Lowshelf lowers but should have pulled a Centurion and went full M16 pocket. Seem like another decent option otherwise. Good source for Criterion barrels for sure.
I love how Mojo is just so excited lol Another amazing and educating vid, way to go!!
He got so excited that he thought claiming sub-moa groups using Tula ammo would sound believable.
I sent my Triarc 13.9 to Steve and he got it running it right and actually got it running as smooth as Triarc advertised but didn’t deliver. I will support ripcord and can’t wait for their new BCG to come out. They arnt reinventing the wheel they are just choosing quality material and ACTUALLY QC and assemble the way everyone SHOULD and lie about doing.
Omg that rail is everything I've been wanting lol. Solid contact in the middle of the rail where no attachments go. Looks like some awesome high grip material on there as well.
Thanks for sharing!
Chad, from School of the American Rifle does a awesome job explaining these topics and using gauges to demonstrate things. Would love to take his armor course.
my favorite ASMR channel
@@HaloDude557 ASMR?
@@goinhot9133 it's a thing people do on TH-cam where they buy a more expensive microphone and record sounds and sometimes accompanying video, that supposedly super satisfying and make them feel very calm in that way that makes the hair stand up on the back of their neck. Some channels are really big and get a lot of views, people make a good bit of money doing it too. But It's a good joke because it's not really an ASMR channel, but it's very satisfying to watch the school of the American rifle guy work his way through his tests and failsafes.
@@eatsshootsandleavestactica8068
Me: *googles ASMR*
it’s a weird world my friend, it’s a weird weird world.
@@goinhot9133 Learn something new every day. Sometimes I wish I hadn’t, though.
A few things to add. They needed to spec out a new gas block for these barrels. The core series barrels are known for being undersized on the gas block journal by the people who build guns and and spec them for a living. So good on them. I originally thought vltor built their rails but yeah must not be. Looks like a mix between a Geissele and vltor freedom rail. Both great rails so nice little mix up of them with their own touch. You can bash on any company you want but I enjoy more companies. Competition drives innovation, harder to do now in the AR world but nice to have options.
Been running a 10.5” ripcord rail for about 6 months now. I appreciate the design, but the weight is noticeable to me. Buuut… it’s clearly heavy duty grade. There was NO way I could get the rail on the massive barrel nut without heating it up in the oven, as oer instructions.
If I could throw it on my issued rifle, I would. Very confident it will hold zero with sighting systems. Love the look of it too.
The attention to thermal expansion is appreciated, for sure.
If you notice 2 ounces....then you might need to lift some weights.
@@DZ4295DBW Le Sigh. More than 2 oz, but I hope to be as burly as you some day, operator.
@@DZ4295DBW if you can’t notice 2 ounces, you might want to check your brain.
@@borkwoof696 Ummm yeah... I don't a 2 ounce different when it comes to weapons or weights. Everyone is always bitching about XY and Z yet refuse to simply get better, be better and thus doing better.
Oh and my main squeeze has a quadrail on it. Why?
Durable and fits my hands significantly better than the super thin keymod and mlok rails.
How much heat build up in the rail are you getting, compared to say a Aero or Midwest rail?
Thank you for the video. Hope you are doing ok Mojo. This mandate sheet has been getting to a lot of good people. Wising you and your family well.
One thing I look for in my lowers when I buy them is machine marks in the magazine well. You usually see waves in the inside if it's lower quality. I see it a lot in 60$ lowers.
This is great. Another high quality manufacturer
Ripcord is pushing out some real cool stuff. Gonna be ordering some myself soon.
The man, the myth, the legend. Steve!
I am a Service Rifle Competitor. I have matched conditioned many rifles for use in competition. Some I put together so poorly that my error was easily seen very early in competition with those rifles. At any rate, I’ve come to appreciate well built, well thought out ARs. The bottom-line is do due diligence in rifle selection no matter who built it because otherwise you may be purchasing a liability.
Very valuable information...
They are doing a great job of building their ARs . I have been building my own since the 1980s. I learned from a good friend that absolutely loved the M16/AR 15. I have since learned a mountain of info along the way. I love to tune them. My favorite one has , among other things, a David Tubbs flat wire recoil spring that eliminates bolt bounce. You need 7 1/2" of barrel past the gas block and you can change dwell time with buffer weight or / and bolt carrier weight. You can tighten up groups by better barrel extension to receiver fit. Even the amount of torque on the barrel nut can be used to tune one. Lots of other things too. Just wish I could shoot as fast as milspec mojo.
Still loving that intro theme
BuT hE sToLe ThE rAiL fRoM lUcAS. Seems Steve was the actual brains there and was smart to go off on his own
Whats the context here?
@@Dexter-nw2fe Lucas started crying about how Pinkman stole his rail when he left T-Rex and the rail belonged them. Just the same shit with that dude. He claims drama follows him “cause of the haters” but he’s own worst enemy. Always talks trash about people in the community but then says the community needs to come together. Steve handled it more professionally and just said he wouldn’t comment publicly about it. At least from what I remember.
@@DPBida didnt know that, yea ive never been a fan of lucas, people say his gear is good but ive never tried it
If he was hired and bankrolled by trex to develop the rail, then, yes, he did steal it. We will never know, however, so there’s no point in dwelling on it
@@MrZeusyMoosey wouldn't t rex sue then?
Glad to see that awesome mustache it’s been missing for a while
I wonder what's the story behind ripcord and geissele? If Im not mistaken, their barrel nut looked pretty identical to geissele except theirs is from steel. And handguard have similar resemblance as well.
The design was originally a trex arms collab with VLTOR but I think Jesse Pinkman took it?
Lol when I saw that rail I thought it was a Giessele and then they started talking
Yeah that rail is a copy of a Vltor rail
Products are evolutionary. If you’re a good engineer/inventor you will look at current products and note their downfalls and build off of that.
Example: steel vs aluminum barrel nut. That’s an improvement in itself if you understand basic heat transfer.
Ripcord specifically holds incredibly tight consistent tolerances. You pay for experience, quality, consistency and material selection, which to me means more than having a new snake oil handguard for you IG account. 🚀🌙
@@mrglocklover9 well the reason I ask, is I was wondering if there is any story behind the similarity. Beside the stuff you mentioned, there could be something more administrative reasoning such as they know each other, or Ripcord used to work in Geissele and he designed it? Stuff like that.
mojo always bringing the energy. Great guests and video !
You’re the damn man Mojo. Hope you’re doing well brother. Love all your content!
Always a treat when you get a mil-spec video notification !
17:22 pink man is all business, I like it.
Good Stuff Mojo! As a Marine it's really hard for me to stay focused for a 30+min video! Now I got to go ice my bath my brain matter!
HELL YEAH...!!!!I.!!!!! TENNESSEE in the House.... The GREAT 2A COMMUNITY "STATE"
Ripcord is local to me! Ive shot that 10.3 and handled the 16in when Steve and his guys were at my local range! Steve and his company produces absolutely top notch stuff. Buy with confidence!
As a RIS-2 fanboy this is a mlok hand guard I can get behind. I’ve always liked the smaller profile of mlok hand guards but I fears that my clumsy ass was gonna trip and jack it up. This is a nice compromise between weight, rigidity, and having enough holes to cool off
As someone who has a ris ii rail and my roommate has a couple ripcord rails it’s definitely an mlok rail I can get behind
It’s basically a Mk16 Geissele rail with a shittier mounting system lol
@@Bender_B._Rodriguez that’s actually extremely false but ok nice take.
Urx3.1 and urx 4 are awesome not sure why you’d want one of these tbh
@@granite6196 bingo lol just a geissele rail tbh. laughs in lmt monolitic upper 😂
Missed your content 😭🔥
When I seen that 10.5” on full auto barely move 😦, I was like holy shit! That thing must be tuned perfect.
Still crazy how fast you blew up brother but I knew it'd happen. Been waiting for this actually.
the reason most gasblocks are stainless is because stainless has a higher thermal expansion rate than cmv so as the barrel expands the block stays super tight because it expands slower so there is no gas leaking.
Donny Sins back at it again with another fire video
I have never seen Steve talk so long with out cigarette
I think that rail is pretty close to being spot on and almost exactly what I have been looking for, especially the close center grip of the rail. I have been trying to explain that to several custom rail manufacturers, and they just could not grasp what I was talking about, and it is awesome to see this company make one. now if it is just cheap enough that a poor like me can afford one
Cheaper than a Geissele, haha.
When he's talking about the head, and the shaft, right before he goes "yeah I know", I was like "IS NO ONE GOING TO SAY ANYTHING??" lol
That 90’s throw back though!!!
Honestly, any properly-built rifle with a Criterion barrel is gonna be a-ok with me. Nice to be able to put a face with Ripcord Ind.
I have a few things from the guys at ripcord they are AWESOME! Love my handguard the most
A-10 gray 🤤🤤💸💸💸💸💸
Seems like a badass dude and a badass company! Thanks for sharing guys!
We Marines get excited over some easy stuff.....SCIENCE!
Steve: "you need a sturdy heavy rail to hold zero for your laser"
Me who doesn't even own night vision: "nahhhhh maaannnn"
MILSPEC VIDEO !!
Ripcord's focus is good, better than a much bigger outfit like PSA that only cares if it "goes bang" and wouldn't even try optimizing.
Sounds a bit like Black River Tactical's perspective.
PSA and Ripcord are two completely different animals. It's like saying how your Toyota Corolla isn't as well made because it isn't like a Lamborghini.
@@miked7728 More words, but same point I made.
@@seanoneil277 You used 32 words, I used 25. We are not the same.
@@miked7728 Clearly! I know only one person who could call himself Mike D and he's definitely not me.
Herroooo the goat mojo has posted!
Mojo why do you run your holster more towards the front, instead of directly on your side?
Ok, so how did Mojo not know that the MOA opens up as the barrel gets hotter....
I'm concerned, fren
Because he mag dumps at 3 yards in almost every video he does. This dude doesn’t shoot past 100yds even though he has access to thousands of yards worth of shooting land in the desert.
I havent even watched the video yet and comments like these are concerning me 😂
Learn something new every day lol.
Lol because he’s an influencer not a skilled marksman or prs shooter
1 month late, I know. It's because he was a radio operator and Fed LE, not a marksman. Don has gained recognition by his demonstrated ability to shoot rifles and pistols fast in close quarters. That skill set doesn't generally require understanding the relationship between accuracy and barrel temp.
Enlarged barrel nut. Didn't POF do this step with an large barrel nut heat sink?
Yes
i have watched this video multiple times and i am very impressed with the info he has given and now want one of their rifles. I just didn’t see a 10.3 option only your 11.5
diggin the retro intro lol
Sounds like they got a solid grip on how to build out guns. Nice.
Why did Steve leave trex arms?
Every jumping ship on triarc after realizing they’re straight criminals 😆
Are you from Vegas?
I want one of these Ripcord Rifles! 13.9" or a 14.5", Id take either one!
Your content has excelled so much since your separation from LE
Sooo what will this do that my Daniel defense riii won’t?
That mustache has a heavy recoil
What PC do you use Mojo?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't companies like BCM and Daniel Defense spend countless hours already doing the science of mastering the gas systems? I own both companies and never have issues. I wish you all well as you do the same work--my question is not a criticism; rather, a curiosity about whether companies already share the manufacturing details?
If DD is a place you want to spend your money, that's on you. BCM, gas blocks have pretty good QC. Mine was a tight fit to my Ballistic Advantage barrel.
At 1:37 what knife and mount is ryan using?
Thanks.
Toor it looks like but I could be wrong
Toor Serpent or Anaconda. The difference is the tanto vs drop point. Which we can’t tell in the sheath. It’s about $275-$295 USD.
I really enjoyed the turbo nerd talk.
get these guys back on.
This grown ass man cried when he said he's not doing clear ano anymore
Is Steve worked at TREX ARMS at one point?
Pretty sure he did and if I remember I think Lucas discussed it briefly stating Steve wanted to go off on his own didn’t know he was going to make a whole ass company making awesome rifles but it’s sick
Great vid! Some b roll of the rifles while they talk about it would have been nice 👍🏻
whose is better clymer or yours go/no go
That Trex Arms rail is looking nice
How do u have the full auto
Wasn't Steve with T. Rex for a little bit?
I would imagine getting out from under the self-promoting tee wrecks harms botkinbot would be a very healthy move.
Great vid
forgot steve left trex
Brother love the intro and love the style 🤙.
What sunglasses do you use?
Is this the guy from TRex Arms?
do there rails work with adm uic stripped uppers?
I’m digging the edit broski
As far as gassing a rifle properly and tuning the buffer should a shooter be worried about one offs? For example, my 16" had never really liked steel cases. A couple weeks ago I was at the range running some Tula 75gr, Ammo Inc, 77gr, and Hornady Match 75gr to see which grouped best at 100.
The first round from Tula left a stuck case I had to tap out with a cleaning rod- after that it ran fine. The Hornady stovepiped on a round; other than that it ran fine. Ammo Inc ran perfectly.
Should I be concerned about the one offs?
Can you do a video for budget friendly/ slow battle belt set up?
from an engineer standpoint, nothing this guy is saying about his rail makes any sense other than the internal structure machined in.
Haha
These guys tend to over hype the new kid on the block instead of just letting the rifles prove themselves over time. This industry is entirely influencer based marketing now instead of just putting out rifles that work and letting them build a reputation for themselves.
Really, it "makes no sense" to you, but you are an engineer?
No BSME, I guess. Refuse Engineer? Model train engineer?
I don't suffer the BS Engr handicap, and have only a BS in Bio, but I've got a lifetime of mechanical experience (bicycles, motorcycles, cars) and I understood him fine.
Maybe your "engineer" degree isn't all that useful for -- you know -- actual mechanical aptitudes.
@@seanoneil277 idk man, it seems like there’s a flaw in the logic. The greatest moment is where the handguard mounts to the upper and that moment decreases in magnitude as you move away from the fixed point. I understand making the barrel nut longer because you essentially decrease the length of the lever arm and in turn the magnitude of the moment, but beefing up the middle of the rail doesn’t make sense from an engineering standpoint. The part of that rail that is going to fail is right after the barrel nut ends and where all of the mlok begins if it’s subjected to a load at the end of the rail. Filling in the mlok at the middle portion of the rail does not make the weakest link any stronger and it’s still going to fail in the same place.
Obviously they can’t really get rid of the mlok at the receiver end of the rail because guys like to mount slings and stuff back there so that just makes it seem like more of a marketing thing or a misunderstanding of the statics that go into it. I may be misunderstanding the design a bit or maybe I’m misunderstanding something else but that’s my take on it.
Larue handguards bolt to Uppers monolithic style beefie AF and 10+ yo design. B52s bombers are older than the 1st armalite M16 and its STILL our primary nuke delivery system against the commies. You can only put a bow on a pig so many times before its just snake oil. Looks cool af tho?
This platform was designed and sold to military before we had any computers....let that sink in w all this new applied handguard 'science' 🤯😂. Piston setups are way nicer to shoot and deal with than some 'scienced' 60 yo dirty gas system.
What plate carrier was Ryan wearing at the beginning of the vid…?
Mr. Super Scientific mixing up lock time and dwell time.
Did Pinkman leave Trex Arms?
MILSPEC MUSTACHE IS BACK BABY