Hey @backfire I wanted to share with you a field story.
When I was hunting elk in Colorado last week, I slipped backwards crossing deadfall onto the deadfall I was crossing. The Ultradyne grip on my Ultradyne hit the log and I hit it. It broke clean off. It wasn’t much of a hit. Luckily I had another rifle, so I could still hunt.
Hopefully, your chassis is able to take a blow with failing. Just shared this as hopefully useful Field data.
That’s a nightmare. Happen to have any pics? Id like to see where/how it broke to make sure we are testing for it.
My MDT HNT26 also crapped out on me during my hunt. Not cool. A chassis is a phenomenal piece of gear but durability is definitely a concern because it has way more separate pieces than a stock.
I’m being kinda crazy on durability testing. Drop testing, hot car, frozen conditions, fifteen hundred rough opens and closes of the folding mechanism, etc. It has to be bombproof.
Can you elaborate more on what happened with the HNT26 breaking?
I’m excited to see how this comes out! I really appreciate the rough, real world testing. Also curious if there are any pics of the failure point.
Ben So sorry that happened must have been a huge bummer… Bonus you had another . 2 is one 1 is none. What is the chassis made of? Composite? Didn’t see on the website That is one light chassis as I looked at It. at some point when it gets that lite with repeated stressing either from heat sun exposure cold or all of the above these things have to get weak at some point . Thats just an educated guess mind you. Im an Electrical engineer not a mechanical but for my early classes materials stress etc.
ASA Thermoplastic. I thought it was magnesium, but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised it broke since it’s plastic. Ergonomics of it really good.
I genuinely thought it was designed for a hunter; not exactly what a comp shooter is looking for (ultra light weight)
Ben, did you kill anything?
Corey
Ah, I can see why that happened. Ultradyne used an fdm 3d printer for the grip. Terrible call because fdm has major weakness along the x axis, which is exactly why you see that clean break through the x axis of the part.
The Backfire chassis and grip is built completely different.
