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I can't see any muzzle device affecting accuracy. It could change poi, however unless it was constantly changing between shots the accuracy would not be affected.

I think you will be happy with the x50. The 56 will give you a little bit more usable elevation and windage at extreme elevations. However not much. The extra light from a larger objective might not be noticeable since the tube size is the same. Also factor in eye relief if it is different between the two. Try seeing if American Defense Manufacturing (ADM) makes a 1 piece scope mount that will fit it without a riser, if not I would mount a 1piece riser to the rail and use the scope mount on that. I would try to get risers that secure with allens and locktite them. Then use a qd mount on that.

I'm pretty sure the forward assist on the 308 doesn't use serrations. It presses against the shoulder of the bolt carrier. That said I have never used mine but still want it there. The dust cover imo is essential, maybe not for a bench gun however if you plan on doing any hunting/hiking with it keeping crap out of the action is important.

I disagree with above. I have 2 ssa-e and it is far and away the best 2stage trigger out there. They have no travel on the second stage what so ever. OP: it is possible you got a bad one, call up geissele, I'm sure they'll take care of you.

I have the 12" TRX on my 308, I like it. Not as great as the vtac version with slots in lieu of holes, however for me it wasn't an option on the 308. The light weight helps and was the deciding factor in choosing it, however I don't need the top rail and would prefer to not have it. The small rail sections are great and the larger section has a built in qd socket. I would prefer to have a smaller rail section with a qd socket built in or the holes themselves to function as one, but it is not available. Overall it is a good handguard and the holes do provide a positive grip surface.

GG&G and Troy make good quality and reasonably priced flip up rear sights. Not sure if one is better than the other but I have noticed that gg&g's customer service is "no questions asked" excellent, troy's is a little less.

If you contact Glock and are prepared to pay for the replacements they might send them to you at no cost. When I pulled out the lasermax on a g23 and couldn't find the original guide rod, spring, and take down lever piece I called up Glock to buy some replacements. They asked for my address and told me no charge. I got a box with the parts, some stickers, a calendar, 2 pens and a hat. This was around 2005ish or so.

I'd like to throw a +1 out to MaDuce on this board.

Awesome, got it yesterday or the day before. Thank you. Looks good. I have an old a2 upper that has seen over 10k of steel case in its life, it has a good area eaten away on the deflector. Not sure if it hurts anything or not but why not add some protection to the 308 this time around. Still not sure yet if the 308 will ever see steel case, but maybe. Once again thanks.

I'd be willing to test one out for you. I'll send you a pm.

:Edited to reflect current status: It has been determined that the problems with my 308 AR were the direct result of using slash's buffer. As soon as I installed the original buffer and spring all the problems went away. Also note that slash will not stand behind his product. If you purchase his product and it doesn't work as promised, you will be out the cost of the spring and shipping as well as 20% of the cost of the buffer. One very un-satisfied customer here.

Another one of the problems in my opinion is the people that should be in office have no desire to be, while the people with the desire are placed there. The mindset of a politician is that of a ruling class mentality, they want the power to control people. Hence the reason we end up with senseless and retarded legislation, the justification for banning firearms is that they pose an inherent risk of being used against the type of people that create unjust laws. It started with full autos to test the water so to say. When "they" saw there was a lack of people taking to the streets armed in opposition to it, they attack on the next level. Then they went after "assault weapons" (the name shows their ignorance on the subject and the bill shows their stupidity) when "they" realized that this woke people up and voted their asses out, they knew they had found the next step, too much that people reacted in opposition yet not enough to force the citizens to overthrow. The next attack will be slightly less. Actually it's kinda funny, we saw with Katrina that the citizens of this country will willingly surrender their weapons without question. The people that do decide to stand up are shunned by society as "it's not time yet" but by the time it is "time" the citizens will be too weak and de-armed to successfully resist. Oh well, apathy has been built up for far too long to de-rail this train.

Classes are free, I'm in se ak though, welcome to our state in advance. Don't forget to chime into our extremely active AK thread in the regional forums.

C'mon now, why does it only have to be the con't US? Make him come up here (AK), I'll teach him how to tactically defend an igloo . :-)

A while back I traded a case of pmc bronze for a .25oz gold coin. It would appear that despite many alchemists failures, I have successfully transformed lead and brass into gold.

You seem to have taken my post personal, and I'm not sure why. There's a big difference between public sector unions and private sector unions. While I'm sure there is a more appropriate thread to discuss the un-sustainability of unions regarding pensions and paying people to not work, when that liability is placed on tax payers it is another situation. Not once did I say there is more bad cops than good, I said the bad cops out there taint the image the good ones. You can have 1,000 nuclear power plants running flawlessly, but when 1 blows up it kinda makes the good ones not matter as much. I did not bring race into this except as a hypothetical situation, perhaps you would have preferred me to use a different analogy? In fact I did not relate welfare to minorities what so ever. I used two different analogies and the one referring to welfare suggested that only welfare recipients have access to firearms. "The only people that should have firearms are lawful people with an ability to safely handle and operate such arms regardless of race or gender or religious convictions." Really? That sounds like an infringement to me. "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." I'm pretty sure that Jefferson didn't intend this to only apply to government employees.

I believe the lack of respect leos experience is through their own actions. I'm not here to bash cops or anything, my personal level of respect for them has greatly diminished over the last few years, while I have not had any interactions myself (haven't even been pulled over in the last 4 yrs or so) the non stop reports of leos over stepping their boundaries or acting "above the law" combined with the lack of prosecution against the ones that do get caught leave a lot of distrust among the general population. I also believe that it's partly due to the transformation from police officers to leo, it seems that it used to be police officers were for bettering society, providing a feeling of security, and a level of trust among citizens that the police were there to assist and generally be helpful and friendly to citizens. Then the transformation to leos began, enforcing unjust laws and generally looking to make a criminal out of every person they encounter. No matter how petty. It feels to me that a large portion of leos, be it city cops, mps, state troopers, fbi, dea, atf, forest service, noaa, tsa, or etc think or act like they are a higher class citizen or somehow above the common folk and thus they can do whatever they feel like. The only ones I left out are sheriffs, I've never in my life met a sheriff that had a chip on his shoulder or acted in anyway unprofessional. I also think a good portion of the distrust towards that profession stems from the burden on the tax payers of lucrative pensions and collective bargaining against the taxpayers. Eliminating the unions would help improve their public image significantly. Also the "thin blue line" of protecting each other or looking the other way when one does do wrong has to stop, otherwise everyone looks bad. Again not trying to bash leos here, I have a lot of respect and appreciate the good ones for the hard work they do. I know I couldn't do that job, physically it wouldn't be a problem, mentally I would become one of the ones that gives the good ones a bad image (too much arrogance, antagonistic, and easily prone to over reacting to a situation(thanks USMC) to be a good police officer.) Back on subject, any laws such as this, serve only to divide the population further. What would the reaction be if the law stated only white male landowners were allowed to own "assault rifles" how about a law that stated only recipients of welfare were allowed to own firearms?

I'm converted to pmags here, haven't used a metal ar15 mag in years. Once time came to get some 7.62 mags I never thought of looking anywhere else. For what it's worth my pmags have all fuctioned flawlessly in both platforms.

If a non le can't own it neither can a le in my views. That includes the actual agency as well. If a state wants to limit it's residents from possesing a particular weapon, then no person or agency in that state should be allowed to posses it on or off duty. Anything different is tyranny. There's no some are more equal logic in my mind.

Congrats, your son is making an excellent choice. Semper Fi.

How many rounds through it? It might be possible it just needs to break in a little. What kind of ammo, surplus? If so maybe try some new stuff. What bullet weight, try a few different types of ammunition and see if the problem persists in each type.

If only someone were to "notice" half a pound of cocaine in his possession and notify the appropriate authorities.

Live here, lived here, visited here, or seen it in a book; drop in and introduce yourself or just say hi. Timing checking in, home is Juneau.

I'll add Alaska representation into the PNW section. The other home is the wet side of WA.

"If it is your position that it is never okay to forcibly resist anything the Government does, then you don't believe in unalienable rights." "If you cannot enter the discussion of at what point should we resist by force, then you don't believe in the second amendment" "The second amendment wasn't written so that if things get really bad, we can run off and duck hunt" -not sure where I picked up this gem from "It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow." -James Madison "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years." ? Alexis de Tocqueville