Geissele Super Duty Review – Pulling Major G Force

People often use terms that don’t really mean what they mean. For example, “complete weapons system” is a term that includes everything needed to operate, feed, maintain, and inspect a weapon. It comes from one source. It’s not easy but Bill Geissele is close. Bill is a great engineer and a nice guy. Making triggers was his first job in firearms. He didn’t make the same triggers that everyone else. He made better triggers. He made better triggers than everyone else. Soon, top shooters and men who deal with bad people started to come to him. It was straight from there to complete rifles. After all, if you want to make the best triggers and scope mountings in the world, why not make everything else? The receivers’ upper and lower are made from forgings. Could Bill make a better upper or lower? It’s almost certain. However, the powers-that be have some rules and forged receivers are part of them. He builds on that and creates an improved bolt carrier group. The carrier is made of 8620, the best steel for that purpose, while the bolt is made with 158+, an improved Carpenter 158. Virginia, it is possible for a better steel to still be called Carpenter 158. If you ask Carpenter directly, they will tell you. That’s exactly what Bill did. He chose a better steel cam pin, so he bought cold hammer-forging barrels. The barrel has a medium-weight profile that can withstand heat and hard use. Bill’s Super Compact Block gas block is used. Geissele describes the installation as “bomb-proof.” The gas block is placed on the barrel with the barrel exterior and interior matching closely. The gas block is then secured by two setscrews that fit into grooves in the barrel. It is then secured by a cross-pin through both the block and the barrel’s bottom edge. It’s a flash hider of first-class quality and a great mount to SureFire suppressors. Good luck with that. It then gets a gas tube and is ready for its handguard.Before they’re all assembled, all the internals and the barrel, as well as the SureFire flash hider/muzzle/brake/suppressor mount, are all given the Geissele Nanoweapon coating. This solid lubricant coating is only available from Geissele. This matte black coating is not easy to rub off without power equipment, and aggressive equipment. It has the same surface hardness as synthetic diamonds. It is not going to be worn off cleaning, shooting, or throwing it into your ultrasonic cleaner. It makes parts rust resistant, easy to clean, and slick when in use. The barrel gets a Super Modular Mk16 barrel handguard with M-lok slots. M-lok has won accessory wars so far. This is what the future holds. M-lok is the best option if you don’t have a legacy KeyMod to support. The Mk16 uses a proprietary barrel nuts, just like all SuperMod handguards. This barrel nut doesn’t have the flanges that are found in regular barrel nuts. The gas tube can touch the barrel nut without any problems. Geissele uses two heft bolts to hold the handguard in place and keep the barrel nuts in place. They are located at the bottom rear of Mk16. These pass-through grooves keep the entire package tight and aligned by Geissele using a pair of Torx-head bolts threaded into a steel plate to lock the handguard in place. This is not a case where you can rely on the strength of aluminum threads. The Mk16 clamping bolts pass through an aluminum handguard. However, they are threaded to a steel plate on the far side. Aluminum has a tensile strength half that of steel. You can easily strip the threads from an aluminum handguard by tightening the bolt. Geissele won’t allow that to happen. Another Geissele detail is their bolt stop. Instead of the tiny mil-spec lever, we get a twoheaded extended lever that is plenty big without being in the path. Geissele’s pistol grip is behind all of this, and once again, Geissele does it right. The only thing I don’t like about modern ARs is the fact that pistol grips fill the upper back of the lower receiver. Geissele installed an A2 there (kudos Bill). The safety/ambidextrous selector/safety is located in the middle. Bill wants it to be there so that your Super Duty has it. It’s not your favorite? It’s easy for you to remove and it’s also removable by many people. The buffer stroke of the B5 System assembly is longer than that of a carbine system. This makes it feel more soft and bouncy. The Geissele scope, called the Super Precision, is now available. It’s a 1-6x riflescope that features a DMRR-1 reticle. This allows for quick range estimation and holdover. Geissele doesn’t make the Super Precision. Geissele is not the manufacturer of the Super Precision. The scope mount is tougher than a $2 steak. To be a complete system provider, Bill would need to offer ammunition and magazines. He laughed when I suggested this, and he smiled big. It might have made sense 20 years ago, but it was laughable now. We agreed that it was possible to make a Geissele rifle choke 20 years ago. But, now, with so many magazines and ammo options, it’s not worth the effort. So I agreed to try to make a Geissele rifle choke. Although I can shoot, calling the wind every time is something I am still learning. I was able to shoot a 500-yard group of just a little over 2 inches. This is something I will be proud of for a long time. Bill is making them for us, as well as the bearded men. Sixteen is the most common for us. 10.3 inches is the standard for guys who need really short blasters. You can choose rifle or pistol, barrel length and scope or without scope. Color? Yes. DDC (Desert Dirt Color) was my choice. I think it’s a better descriptor than FDE. You can also choose from Luna Black, Gray or OD Green. You can place your order and wait. Place your order and wait. Target grids and bullseye sizes can be downloaded in MOA. 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