JP Enterprises .223 Enhanced Gas Ring (For use with Mod. 2)

If you place or have already placed an order for an OMEGA Valve Mod. 2 and are currently waiting for fulfillment, please contact me if you would like for me to add one to your order so that you can save on shipping. Don't pay shipping on a gas ring if you don't have to, that's dumb.

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Does your MCX have a one piece gas ring on the piston? Not the valve, but the piston? If you're shooting a 300BLK rifle, it almost certainly does.

I'm here to tell you that the enhanced gas ring by JP Enterprises will significantly improve the reliability of your 300BLK MCX system. 

Let's talk about the MCX in its factory configuration. So many consumers have reported being plagued by reliability issues with certain ammunition and silencers. This is because of a few things, some of which are:

1. Generational changes. The MCX came to market during a period of super-high back pressure silencers, so restriction was the name of the game.
2. Subsonic 300BLK does not offer a lot of room for error or to play around when it comes to the gas it produces.
3. Y'all let your pistons get dirty AF.

So let's put all of that together. You've got an older MCX chambered in 300BLK. You're using a silencer that has a high early time flow rate. You now have a weapon that is restricting gas in such a way to allow for an optimal experience with a silencer that has very high back pressure, but you're using a silencer that doesn't, so that little bit of gas that the 300BLK is giving you is maybe just barely getting your gun to work. Now let's neglect that poor, crusty piston and basically make that gas push a boulder up a hill to cycle your bolt.

Want to give your system every chance it has for success? Want more room to tune your OMEGA Valve Mod. 2? Help your piston move easier. Grab an enhanced gas ring.

Disclaimer: it might be a pain in the butt to get your old gas ring off. You'll need a pick or something. Likewise, it might be a slight pain in the butt to get the new gas ring on... not as bad as getting the old one off though. 

Also, while you can buy these and put them on your stock Sig 5.56 valves, I am not advocating that you do that, I don't see the point. I am also not advocating that you use one of these on the 308 pistons, it seems to me like those things can afford to get dirty.

From JP: (Note, there is language in this passage regarding AR-15 systems and other products by JP Enterprises completely unrelated to products offered by JBD:

"As a replacement for traditional three-piece gas rings, the JPEGR-223 utilizes a one-piece design similar to the McFarland rings. Unlike the McFarland rings, though, our precision-ground gas rings are engineered to precisely suit small-frame carrier group components such as our own JP EnhancedBolt™.

After testing numerous minute grind callouts, the final JP Enhanced Gas Rings spec is the perfect balance of a solid gas seal with a very low-friction relationship between rings and bolt carrier. Reducing the resistance between these components directly results in an overall increase in the rifle's operational window while the edge of the rings utilizes the cycling action itself to scrape the walls of the carrier, helping shed fouling with every shot."