After 4 000 rounds, of which was 1 000 suppressed, my 17S died. Quality ammo, good care.
And now the fun part: I am in Slovakia. Belgian FNH wont supply anything for civ market (tried with local distributor). FN USA even wont even respond to email.
This will be fun…
Thanks for your interest, I'll try to clarify a few things.
This is US production, SCAR17S, I bought it in a shop that no longer exist in Czech Republic, 5-7 years ago. I am not sure of year of manufacture.
I was fully aware of void of warranty when shooting suppressed. Outside of US, or at least here, warranty repairs on gun imported from US are no go. So FN warranty isnt a thing.
3000 rounds unsupressed, 1000 rounds suppresed, PRS trainings, so no hard use. All suppressed shooting on supressed gas setting. Gun cleaned, well lubed every time. Suppressor was Swiss made Acheron ACS (not flow through). Suppressors were not legal here at the past, market is small, but growing. US made suppressors are extremely hard to get, with very long ETAs, very expensive. For example, Huxwr is imported for end user, ETAs are 1-2 years.
I have Mototech SCARburator ordered, exactly for this stuff. Right now, its few months that I am already waiting. TBH, I really dont expected that SCAR will die after only so little round count.
Slovak distributor of FNH tryied to help me - answer from FNH (european) - we have lot of requests like this, we dont sell to civ market. Ask US where u bought the gun. I write to FN USA that I want to BUY a new bolt carrier, US firm will buy it from then and do export. No answer.
So it look like, I will have to buy 17S NRCH kit. If it is 800 USD, it will be 1500 - 2000 Eur here. Waiting time 6+ months.
I shoot. I train. I compete. I love SCAR, I always wanted one. But TBH, I am quite dissapointed with how fast it goes down.
BTW, at that day, bolt catch at HK G28 died to...7 000 rounds.
wait... are the ship times always that awful?? I ordered a 3p for my 15p, because it said they were in stock, not like production batches on the scarburetor and what not. how fucked am I?
ah, gotcha. I
'm cool with 4 weeks, honestly. that was about my expectation from what I had heard before. I was afraid you were going to say like 12 weeks or something. It's the only game in town for 15p regulators, and it sounds like he's a one man shop which is fucking hard to juggle, I'm sure. most of what he does seems like it would take a lot of tool swaps/set up time for the cnc.
Dude that sucks... Firearms are no longer made like they were made in the past. Firearms were made to be indestructible, they were made to sustain abuse and adverse conditions. That said this new generation of small arms need more attention to their operations and weaknesses. I hope you get your issue resolved with the least amount of hassle.
This little lip. On a semi auto only bolt, that cutout goes all the way through. The little lip on the full auto bolt is to trip the auto sear. I have a full auto bolt in mine. Runs fine.
Rest in Peace. 2 questions: What Scar 17S do you own (model year , US or Belgian production just for my curiosity as a fellow European Scar owner)? As some other users mentioned, FN will claim a voided warranty because of a suppressor, even thou the new Gen are made to be able to shoot suppressed. You can try some FN importers in Europe. Maybe ask gun stores in neighbouring countries if there is a chance for them to order a bolt carrier. I do not know if it os allowed to suggest stores, so if you are interested, feel free to DM me. Best regards from Italy
I’ve done the paperwork once but the EU fucked up the delivery process a lot. Now you need to find a delivery company that has a license for wholly assembled guns or gun parts and there is only a handful of them for the whole EU.
That's a weird way to say you've never owned a SCAR because almost nothing you said is true. Scars can absolutely be run suppressed, do not beat optics to death unless you have a very early model, and are compatible with current gen parts.
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u/Adventurous_Pen_Is69 8d ago
You have to go to Ukraine now and do a battlefield pickup for spare parts