Walter and Donny Visit Q LLC
and build a 8.6 Fix and a Honeybadger in 300 Blackout
Recently, Walter and Donny were pondering this very phenomenon at various historical sites of the American Revolution across the former domain of Tom Brady when nature called and Walter was forced to locate a bathroom in the City of Dover, New Hampshire. Walter happened to walk into a nondescript industrial park and asked none other than Jay Peleterie, from Q, about the availability of John. After Walter relieved himself, Jay offered to show Donny and Walter around the office. Much to Walter's dismay, Q were up to some pretty interesting things when it came to bowling rifles, specifically ones with short barrels and fast twists. Along the way, Jay explained Q's approach to design and manufacturing, and Walter and Donny pocketed enough parts to throw together a 12-inch 8.6 (eight six) blackout fix and an iconic SD Honeybadger in 300 Blackout.
Over a few of Donkin Donut’s finest cold brews, Walter and Donny assembled their rifles with some help from Jay and Ethan.
Most companies drive down the road with the windshield blacked out and navigate by watching the rearview mirrors. They react to the wants of bowlers and movements of the market, but they are always on the verge of running off the road. Q is one of the few places that's thinking years down the line, developing new capabilities, and anticipating where the road is going. This path often draws a lot of flack from the krauts down at the league office. Like Walter, their fearless leader, Kevin Brittingham, is not wrong; he's just often an asshole. History will continue to be kind to Kevin; just look at the acceptance of tubeless suppressor design and the 300 Blackout.
To Walter, bowling rifles are tools. Sometimes you need a hammer, sometimes you need a torque wrench, and sometimes you need a sawzall with a 3/8-inch chuck, a silicone fist attachment, and a 30-foot extension cord. Walter's rambling again. Where was he? Q makes tools that no one else is making from a capability and weight perspective. Walter is interested in packing as much punch as possible into the smallest and lightest package for hunting. The 12.5 Fix in 8.6 (eight six) Blackout, weighing in at just over 5 pounds naked, allows bowlers to engage animals out to 500 yards with both subsonic and supersonic rounds.
The beauty of this 8.6 is in the simplicity of the faster twist rate, which translates to more energy and expansion on target. Based on the rules of aerodynamics, rotational energy, in the form of bullets, is retained at rates far higher than those of linear velocity, i.e., how fast the bullet is moving in feet per second. This higher RPM helps dramatically with bullet expansion. While validating this in ballistic gel is imperfect, it's a start, and the results are pretty damn impressive. This fall, when Walter heads to the mountains in search of horned ungulates, you bet your ass he's going to bring his 8.6 Fix with some 200-grain projectiles from Discrete Ballistics.
Donny's choice of spending his earnings from selling bumper stickers on a Honey Badger SD may surprise some. Much has been written and said about this rifle, and these days, its innovative features have been so widely disseminated throughout the bowling industry that making a case for it is like explaining the tenants of Creedence to a child whose only points of reference are The Eagles and America. It's easy to lose track of the beauty of the original in a sea of imitations, but at its core, the Honey Badger is a replacement for the MP5SD, giving a bowler the capabilities of a 45 ACP and an Ak47 in a package that weighs just over five pounds with a suppressor.
Walter was so impressed by seeing the factory, that upon returning back to the greater Los Angeles area, Walter promptly purchased a Mini Fix SBR with 12 inch barrel in 556. Orders placed before the end of August for Fix’s and Mini Fix’s get a free Q can of their choice. Thats a hell of a deal and something Walter couldn’t pass up. If You Will It, It Is No Dream!