Many years ago, at the semi-annual Knob Creek, Ky Machine-gun shoot, a guy was demonstrating/announcing the introduction of the XCR-L. Now that interested me, and I spent some time at his table getting demo of switching bbls/calibers and taking the rifle apart. I don't remember if the guy was the inventor or not. I kept that demo in the back of my mind, and when that model became more available, I ordered my first one.
Go forward a few years and Robinson Armament put on the RA forum a special price on one 7.62x39 conversion kit...I snapped it up. A couple of more years and a local guy was selling his early XCR-L in 5.56 with ammo for an attractive price...I got it. RA announces a 300 Blackout conversion kit...Little Jack's Guns gets one for me. A guy is selling a mostly stripped upper for a good price...I get it. RA does a Black Friday sale, notifying XCR-L owners (don't know if non-owners were as aware of that sale or not) (RA sent me an email)...I got an XCR-L pistol. Another sale, and I got a caliber conversion kit for my pistol. RA announced the XCR-M (bigger calibers)...I got one.
I am a fanboy. I've had one extractor fail (VERY unusual...apparently a flaw in it from the git-go, as it is of a very sturdy design)...RA replaced it no charge. I have spares of many parts, just in case.
I'm in the hunt for type 0 and original op rods. I want to see how the original setup suppresses with the newer barrels. I'm hoping they'll be a little more tame than what I've tried so far
I just emptied everything from my spare parts drawer and containers. I could have sworn I had a type 0 that came with an early XCR-L that had been upgraded to type 1 by the previous owner, but it was not to be found. Oh, no type 0 op rod either.