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Thank you, I cheated on the taters, grocery store makes them, they’re like 2$ ea and really good!

That looks great.

Warm weather (36° today) gave me the itch to do some smoking. Did a tri tip brisket style and some tater skins

@98Z5V more info for your 300BLK gas port database (caliper measured 5x for consistency): 10.5" Rosco Mfg 300BLK Bloodline barrel: 0.0850" 8.2" Rosco Mfg 300BLK Bloodline barrel: 0.0850" 10.5" Faxon Mfg 300BLK Gunner barrel: 0.1000"

two of my favorite comedians and their podcast is hilarious!!

I think you'll love them. I just picked up two more from him last week.

I have a couple of triggers that should be here on Monday. @JBMatt still hasn't posted about them.

So the month of February we had, more snow fall than we had all winter. Maybe put a foot of snow on the ground around the house. Just in a few weeks. We then had a 2 week stretch of cold weather single digit highs and below 0 lows. Started warming up last week which had it snowing and turning to rain. The last 3 days 50° for the high and sunny. That helped dry things out. Looks to cloud up today but still hit 50°. If I was ambitious I could start doing some yard work where the snow has receded but, it is the last day of the local gun show which, I could find a good deal this morning or just get me out of the cave and socialize.

I have 2 16" AR 308s w/16" barrels. Same 1:10 barrel twist rates. One is a Daniel Defense. The other is a Wyndham Weaponry (great manufacturer - but they're out of business now). Tried a lot of different ammos in each. I use both for hunting. The DD does best with heavier ammo. For that one, 178g Hornady ELD-x is the best ammo. The WW does best with 150g ammo. Usually just feed it plain old Federal Power Shok. Both are sub 1 MOA with ammo they like. But my primary point is to try different ammos with your guns. Based on my experience, seemingly similar guns can perform quite differently with different ammos. If I shoot "the higher quality" 178g in the WW, it goes to 1.5+ MOA. BTW - both use BCGs with dual ejectors. Never had an issue with either - at all. Happy shooting!

Thanks. I have two .308’s and a 6.5cm barreled with Noveske. Back when I decided I wanted large frame I read a lot on the other forum and decided I wanted 16” barrel, rifle gas. At that time the only two companies I found that made those was Criterion and Noveske. I’m hoping the groups do tighten up. The .308’s are mid range intended but I’m taking them to a 1000 yd range this spring

DPMS-based and Armalite AR-10-based BCGs only differ internally, and only in the firing pin and spring. The Armalite AR-10 firing pin has an additional shoulder on it because they spring it. DPMS-based BCGs use traditional AR-15-type firing pins (dimensionally longer), and no firing pin spring. Externally, the BCGs are identical in size and function. I intentionally built a DPMS-based large frame gun - all Aero M5 receivers - and I used 100% Armalite AR-10 guts, just to prove this point. Armalite AR-10 barrel, BCG, and recoil system, running in Aero M5 receivers. It runs like a sewing machine.

If you go with 168 gr or 175 gr match ammo your groups should shrink.

By the way, one thing that triggered my question is the way carriers are cut and the different cuts of the large frame receivers i.e. dpms, Armalite mainly. When I was getting spare bcg parts I found differences in firing pins, carrier cuts.

Yep. Most definitely. Buy once, cry once.

Noveske makes outstanding barrels. They cost a little more, but they're nothing but quality. They're what I've used for most of my builds. With better ammo, you'll be able to tighten that group up. But out of the box, 2 MOA will still drop a target.

I think that we all can come up with an easy solution for that.

K. Thanks. I have Aero, toolcraft BCG’s and a couple rubber city bolts. I’ll use the stag BCG until I get it back out with better ammo.

Thanks. I bought the stag frame set/rail and found one of their BCG’s. I took one of my .308’s (have three, two were nearly identical) and donated it’s barrel to the stag build. That barrel was only test fired. The barrel has now been broke in using off shelf ammo, it shot 2moa. It’s now tuned non-suppressed and cycles without hiccup. However I decided to change gb to a rifle speed since it’s gonna be suppressed. Never used rifle speed before. It has a superlative now.

Tool craft carrier and bolt are the best. Just my 2 mags, JP parts are more race gun parts.

I’m looking at accuracy, reliability. Barrel has been broke in (Noveske 16”RG), sited, using off the shelf 150gr ammo. It shot 2 moa at 100yds. So I’m thinking of using a JP bolt on a toolcraft carrier. This gun is a build that was done using stag frame set, rail, noveske barrel, ssa-e. So the bolt as well as better ammo. Thinking 168 smk.

That glass is a bitch isn’t it, got at least 4 items to finish with top dressing’s, could go the cheap route on 2 red dots, but can’t bring myself to do it and waste money.

That is some sexy metal right there.

Home / money pit is an uphill battle brother, if it wasn't for retirement I wouldn't have been able to get done what I did.

Sadly it seems this day hasn't gotten the recognition it deserves,thanks for let us know.

You are right brother, I need to burn up this ammo I been hoarding 🙃