If you’ve pre-ordered a Lima Six belt-fed upper kit, you’ve probably been refreshing that batch status page like the rest of us. Good news: things are moving. Harvey from Lima Six dropped a quick video update on March 18, 2026, and the live tracker at limasix.com/batch-status-update/ gives the exact snapshot. Here’s the breakdown so you don’t have to dig through it all.
Batch 1 is officially done—100% of paid customer orders shipped as of early March 2026. No returns reported so far, which is huge for a new design like this. People are loving the quality, and that’s feeding the hype for what’s next.
Batch 2 (mostly folks who ordered around November last year) is the current focus. It’s running about two weeks behind the original schedule—nothing catastrophic, but noticeable if you’re waiting. Harvey explains the main culprit: insane demand. They planned for maybe a couple hundred units a year; they sold way more. Supply chain on specialized parts got stretched thin.
The good part? They’re not cutting corners by jumping to giant factories. Instead, Lima Six is sticking with smaller, family-owned machine shops—helping them buy extra CNC machines, hire more people, and scale up. That philosophy slows things a tiny bit but builds real American manufacturing muscle. A lot of commenters on the video are straight-up cheering that approach: “Quality can’t be rushed” and “Love supporting family shops” were common vibes.
Current Parts & Inventory Status for Batch 2
From the video and the tracker page (updated around the same time):
- Fully in-house and ready: Receivers, top covers, handguards, Riflespeed gas systems, all the small bits (pins, springs, hardware, etc.).
- Partial / incoming:
- Bolt carrier groups: ~150–200 received so far, more coming ~100/week.
- Feed levers: most (~450) in stock.
- Feed trays: the big bottleneck right now—only 60–70 shipped to date, trickling in at 15–25 per day.
- Feed pawls and cartridge guides: about half in-house.
- Barrels: Fully machined and chrome-lined already. They just started phosphating (as of mid-March), with the first ones expected this week. More batches will follow quickly.
Shipping pace right now: 50–100 kits per week. Once those barrels hit the floor in volume, complete uppers should ramp to around 100 per week. Harvey said by the end of that March 18 day, another 60–70 Batch 2 units were going out the door.
(If embedding visuals: Imagine a clean product shot of the Lima Six belt-fed upper here—belt hanging off, AR lower mocked up. Alt text: “Lima Six belt-fed AR-15 upper receiver kit in action”.)
Why This Matters If You’re Waiting
Transparency like this is rare in the gun parts world. Weekly (or better) updates, real numbers on parts, no BS excuses—just “here’s where we are, here’s why, thanks for hanging tight.” If your order’s in Batch 2, check the status page regularly. It shows shipping percentages and which parts are holding things.
A few customer questions popping up in comments: shorter barrels? .308 version? Chrome finishes? QD options? Harvey didn’t address them in this vid, but the energy suggests more variants could be coming once production stabilizes.
Bottom line: Lima Six isn’t rushing junk out the door. They’re building a sustainable setup so they can keep cranking these out without quality dips. If you’re in line, the wait looks worth it based on Batch 1 feedback.
Head over to the tracker yourself for the freshest numbers: https://limasix.com/batch-status-update/
And watch Harvey’s full update here if you want the straight-from-the-source vibe:
