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Picked up my half a cow yesterday from the butcher. It’s a big sucker this year. 345 pounds of meat frozen and wrapped. Price went up a little bit, now it’s $3 a pound. Ordered a small whole pig. Thats coming next week. Don’t know the price yet. Damn freezer is so full it’s gonna explode.

As Hilary would say”That escalated quickly” Guys like that could give us Armalite owners a bad rep. Matt sell them and stick to Kel Tecs!

I did some PM’s with this fellow. He knew his stuff.

Incredible MM. The good you are doing,can’t be overstated. Sounds,like it’s going to get bigger and better every year!

I am watching this thread with interest. I am curious how Armalite’s quality control is holding up, and it sounds like that phosphate coated barrel has some issues anyway.with the quality of the coating and prep. Hope this isn’t becoming more common.

Another welcome from Wisconsin

Mike, good to see you are just getting warmed up for your 70’s! Take that sturgeon as a sign- he is a lot older than you, so he is showing you you have a lot of living left to do! Beautiful country!

A story on the Original AR10 and Armalite back in 1959 started my fascination with it as a kid. No link to the story, just the picture.

Follow up: The WTP holster fits it like a glove. I had reservations About an IWB Kydex holster, but it is comfortable to wear and is secure.

I have a friend with a one off AR10T “B”model rifle in 338 Federal. Already has a triple lapped medium heavy target barrel. Never been shot. Wonder if I should talk to him about selling?

Boon, what’s your barrel twist, 1 in 10? You might take a look at some of the Barnes bullets. They kind of rewrote the book on some of their lighter 150 gr range projectiles having a high ballistic coefficient. But you should be able to comfortably go up to 168 gr or 175 gr and do well.

I think it is just vacuum formed plastic, but I will take a closer look at them. Maybe borrow a heat gun and see if it is malleable.

I need a higher cheek riser for my M1A. I am going to play around with a couple of Delta risers I have for use with a fixed handle M16 with a scope on top, and see if I can get them to work.

Galati is a good source for parts you can’t find any where else. That is a good find! At old prices no less!

Fall Coho spawning run is on. Picked up a 20 “ brown and a 22” Coho today. Panko crusted fish filets for dinner!

By the way, did you ever find some Gen II magazines?

Congrats Jay, looks good. As you know by now, Armalites are great shooters. And everyone will be happy because your scope mount is not backwards!

That Armalite field repair kit was put together by the former Chief Armorer of Armalite. It is a handy thing to have. When an extractor spring goes, it is the difference between ruining a good day of shooting, and a ten minute repair. I speak from experience on that one.

9 mm 45 acp, 357 mag, 44 mag, 20 ga, 12 ga, 22 lr, 22 win mag, 30-06, 5.56, 7.62x51, 300 blk. 7.62x39. Think I will always have something to shoot. Decided to use my Arsenal AK in 7.62 x 39 with iron sights as my hog gun.

“round not ejecting and hard to pull the charge handle to remove the spent round“ Trying to figure out what would make it difficult to remove the spent round. Tight chamber?

Sometimes I wonder, but if times got hard, 5.56 x 45 or 223 might be all that I can find. So I hang on to them.

Got out today and put maybe 15 rounds through it. I like it. Comfortable to shoot, good enough accuracy at 10 yards. Need to drift the sights a bit as it shoots left, as most pistols do for me. That isn't the best story of the day though. While I was at the range, there was a nursing home taking some of their residents to their weekly shooting range.day! Is that great or what! They were having a gas!

Sounds like a good plan to me. I think you would be safe in doing that. I am a long way away from being a reloading guru however, see what everyone else says.

A beautiful sight to behold!