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Trulock CNC Upgrade As a sign of the times, Trulock Choke Tubes expanded their operations in 2022 by increasing automation. The company has added a Fanuc Robodrill long bed 4 axis vertical machining center, an automated vertical machining unit equipped with a true fourth axis and dedicated to produce a specific firearm parts for one of Trulock’s major firearm accounts. "The Robodrill is extremely accurate and rapid, which allows us to increase our productivity.

It offers a special design pallet fixture to facilitate fast changes with short cycle times," said George Trulock, president of Trulock Choke Tubes. Trulock designs builds and tests all their choke tubes at their Whigham, Georgia facility using state-of-the-art CNC manufacturing, allowing them to develop chokes with special exit diameters that produce dense patterns.

George Trulock began manufacturing chokes in 1981 to offer a choke system that could be retrofitted into most shotgun barrels without the use of an adaptor or machine tools. His final design launched the Tru-Choke style choke tube in 1982. Since then, this proprietary system has been adopted by several shotgun manufacturers as OEM and copied by a number of aftermarket choke makers.

Trulock now stocks approximately 2,000 different choke part numbers and has come along way from George’s first piece of production equipment, a Warner and Swasey #2 turret lathe. Trulock grew their business from a one-man shop to a family-owned company that employs 30 people producing products 24 hours a day, 5 days per week.

Building Match Grade AR-15s If one is going to use green Loctite as you discuss in your AR-15 projects, how can one make sure to not cause barrel clocking or feed ramp misalignment between the barrel and the upper when tightening the barrel nut? Justin Joe Carlos responds. The locator pin that sits at 12 o’clock on the extension still lives in the cut-out in the upper receiver and prevents the problems you are worried about regardless of whether green Loctite is used or not.

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