MajorJim

Just the carrier. And no digital camera for pics.

Have a Young bolt carrier in my hands....it is amazing! They do not stake the carrier key, but do have serrations for a forward assist.

Per Young, Estimate on bolt availability is 3 months.

A humble contribution from a new guy. I heard a rumor recently that Young Manufacturing was in the process of rolling out a bolt carrier group for the DPMS Style .308 AR. I hate rumors, so I contacted Young to see if this was true. The response from Young: Description of their AR15 carriers from their website: In my humble opinion, having lived and breathed with the stock milspec AR and pushed its bounds by substituting better parts, the Young BCG's are the top of the line. I would expect nothing less from a 308 version. Don't let the "match" designation fool you - they are plently tough for hard tactical use in real world conditions. Match is a term more descriptive of the tolerances they manufacture to than anything else. I have waited over the years to build an AR 308 due to the previous lack of options comparable to the AR 15 world. I recently decided to dive in, and have been slowly getting everything together. My only disappointment up until now was the lack of a better than decent BCG. I was intrigued by SI's, but that seems to be a work in progress. I am sure they will put out a top notch product. The JP low mass was interesting, but it is not something one associates with "tactical". For once, it seems like my timing was pretty good. My guess is that these Young BCG's have found or will find their way into the top dollar platforms. I just ordered one, and am in for a bolt when they have those ready to go.

Anyone get their hands n the new SI BCG? Their site is still showing this as a "preorder".

Kind of late to the game here, but this is something that piqued my interest since I am not building an Iron Ridge upper & lower AR 308. How can Iron Ridge represent that the damage was "Normal in all AR rifles" when they claimed before that the " never had this issue with other builds". If it was never an issue before, how did something they had never seen before become the new normal? That damage appears to me to have been caused by the BCG extending back into the buffer tube, slamming against the buffer retaining pin. That is NOT normal, and is rarely seen - only when someone tries to mate an AR10 with a DMPS upper/lower/BCG, where there is a gap between the upper and lower receivers. I know Iron Ridge was selling both Armalite and DMPS style lowers around the same time, and began upper production with the DPMS style. Is it possible you had an Armalite lower (maybe marked as a "D"), married to a DPMS upper? As for the "normal" comment, that bothers me a great deal. Frankly, I have had great dealings with Oliver at Iron Ridge, and am more than a little shocked at this comment coming from anyone at Iron Ridge. I am not implying that is what they told you, but one would think that a company deep into the AR market would know that the guys buing their components have a touch more experience with these platforms than the average buyer.