Can overtorquing a barrel nut cause POI to shift to the right and high? I have an Areo Precision 16 inch upper thats printing so high right I cant zero my ACOG and I’m trying to decide if I need to rebarrel it or if it was just improperly assembled. I zeroed the ACOG on 2 other rifles to check that it wasn’t the problem and it wasn’t.

I reached out to Areo and they said they would send me a new barrel nut and it might have been somebody applying too much torque to the barrel nut when assembling it. It has an atlas free float handguard and the barrel is sitting pretty close to the center but it is around 1/10 of a centimeter tilted toward the right side.

I just don’t understand hand even too much torque could affect the barrel POI.