New Whisperer checking in ...

[Lazerus2000]

Years ago I was a Canadian licensed gunsmith playing around with GENUINE DUTCH AR 10 rifles and GENUINE USGI M-14 rifles. I also built a few dozen AR 15 rifles, mostly serious target types. At that time I had no real use for the AR 15's ... nothing wrong with the guns [ gotta like the AR 10's little brother ] but I had no use for .223.

Why yap like a poodle when you can BARK like a big dog??

Anyhow, a couple of decades later, I decide to get back into guns as a hobby. While looking around for which NEW AR 10 Clone to play with, I stumble across all sorts of delightful AR 15 things like .300 Whisper, .50 Beuwulf, and on and on. Finally, an AR 15 I could respect .... gotta like it when the mouse guns now BARK in .300Whatwathat? or .458 Socool or .50BigWulf.

So, I just bought two Oly .300 Whisper barrels. Neat .... these are their newest design, with the gas port at the pistol location, and a MASSIVE port. Like most of Oly's stuff, these are fine looking kit. Mounted one barrel on a Flat Top Oly upper, with Oly RIFLE length quad rail, Eotech, Vortex flash hider, etc. Lower will NOT have a slider stock ... sticking with full length ACE or YHM for reliability and handling.

Still haven't sourced any ammo, but working on that next [ Corbon can't sell to Canada ... bah humbug! ] I swore a holy oath NEVER to reload again ... but what the heck?

Anyhow, as a Canuck ex-gunsmith, along the way I've come across a few things that might not be too common south side of the border. For example, I picked up three boxes of Lapua SUB-sonic .308 Win ammo from a Canuck Conservation Officer, who uses this stuff to shoot critters in populated areas.
Mostly used on harbor seals, and from what the CO says, it is quite quiet even without a suppressor. I held on to it for a few years, intending to get into sub-sonic .308 Win myself, but after discovering .300 Whisper, am giving up on that idea. For sub-sonic ballistics, the Whisper just makes so much more sense than downloading the .308 Win.

Looking forward to more chatting ... especially when i get some ammo and can actually shoot the new toys.

Larry Z
aka
Lazerus2000

[Cornholio]

Welcome, Larry.

How much did the Oly barrels run you? What is their twist rate?

[Lazerus2000]

I haven't personally confirmed the twist but was told by the guy who builds these:

OLY barrels I bought were SS 16" Heavy contour, 1 in 8 twist. They have been pre-tested for functionality with Corbon ammo.

The only thing I did not like about these barrels was that having the port at the pistol location requires a bit of fiddling to anchor the regular forend panels at the front sight [ no gas tube there ]. However, since I used floating quad rail handguards, this is not important to me.

Larry Z

[Artful]

Good to have another player, I was under the impression that Canada had locked out playing with building military style guns. Good to hear that you can still build up good toys. :)