EDIT: I looked back in the thread, that 12/26 stock that was received yesterday was a bare carbon railed, so I guess disregard what I said below. I was trying to be objective but there are some oddities. Seems like if you want to really know give them a call.
If you noticed folks that posted up from the first day were bare carbon and not coated, I was trying to emphasize that difference because they said it makes a difference. As for a coated mid Jan stock being in cerakote, it could have a stack of other stocks in front of it in cerakote, we don't know. Now if you have a coated railed tikka stock from before mid Jan and call for a status and they say it hasn't been built yet THEN you could say something smells fishy. No one has done that, they're just getting riled up at that datapoint without taking it in context.
Context:
-Coated stocks can be created from QC flawed bare carbon ones, IE a coated stock from after a bare carbon order might be delivered sooner.
-Someone from mid Jan has a coated railed stock in coating right now, and someone else from Dec 26 with a coated railed stock got theirs yesterday. Both those datapoints makes it seem quite likely that COATED railed stocks from late Dec/early Jan are in coating. If you have one of those and don't call for a status then don't get pissy here thinking someone jumped ahead of you. Get a status first before jumping to the conclusion.