Ultimate suppressed upper?

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Righter13

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Got my barrel in on Wednesday and wasted no time putting it together. Took it to the range Thursday to sight in and ran around 60 rounds through it with no issue, with can on and off. Currently running a Sandman S while my IA Grunt mini is pending. Ran it on a pistol lower with a carbine buffer and a registered SBR lower with Troy tomahawk stock. No issues on either lower.
 

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I've never seen one that they milled the markings off of before.

I'm using one of the Strike Industries covers for now. It doesn't snap in as positive as a standard cover, so I'll probably put the original BCM back on at some point.
Seems that all the newer Uppers have just the cross.

https://dsgarms.com/nov03000011

And here are some older some ones I found.

https://www.ar15.com/archive/topic.html?b=7&f=22&t=1327145

http://www.ar15.com/archive/topic.html?b=7&f=22&t=1112478
 

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They used to just mark them with the iron cross roll mark. Then they started laser engraving Noveske. Not sure what they're doing these days. But it looks like yours was lasered and then had it milled off and re-stamped with the cross. See the mill mark above the fwd assist?
 

Righter13

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They used to just mark them with the iron cross roll mark. Then they started laser engraving Noveske. Not sure what they're doing these days. But it looks like yours was lasered and then had it milled off and re-stamped with the cross. See the mill mark behind & above the fwd assist?
Yeah, I see the mill marks but I've noticed those on a few non-chainsaw uppers I've found a cross the web too. So idk....