Ranch Hand
Red Skull Member
Does anyone use a Geissele Super Reaction Rod? It clamps in your vise and engages the barrel extension. It takes the upper receiver completely out of the torque path for anything you're twisting on the barrel, and takes it mostly out of barrel installation/removal too. Those little wedges preload the upper so the barrel nut friction doesn’t allow much index pin force on the receiver. It works well.
Those upper receiver fixtures that put all of the torque on the aluminum receiver and barrel index pin just seem like a bad idea to me.
Those upper receiver fixtures that put all of the torque on the aluminum receiver and barrel index pin just seem like a bad idea to me.