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I put that $20 set of offset sights (from Amazon) on the 300 AAC and honestly, they work great! Even has the standard M4 type adjustable rear elevation. Here ya go: http://www.amazon.com/Front-Degree-Rapid-Transition-Backup/dp/B006X9DLQM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1403762691&sr=8-1&keywords=offset+sight

Welcome from AZ... er CA.... oh right I'm on vacation. :D

Yeah! Had seared tuna, and fish tacos today already...mmm dang I'm still hungry.

Good for you, Matt! Too many managers these days spend time forwarding their own personal agenda, and it's usually the workers that take the brunt of the office politics.

Just personal opinion. If I need the mobility, I'd be carrying something else, like a 300 BLK or a 5.56... I like my 18" 308 and I feel it's a good balance between something that can reach out a little farther and something that can handle well enough in tighter situations if need be. :D

Hanging out in San Diego (Oceanside) till tomorrow. Bumming it at the beach. :D Any suggestions for lunch places?

Go 18"... or 20" IMO. Better overall dynamics from a barrel standpoint.

No complaints over my CMMG barrel. Still shooting better than I can. :D That's a nice receiver set...hoping I can achieve that type/levelof quality on our own billet stuff.

Well done. The Zohan in all of us thank you for purchasing the stock to review.

This is why you don't use flashbangs when there are kids in the area: http://www.salon.com/2014/06/24/a_swat_team_blew_a_hole_in_my_2_year_old_son/

PRS for rifle length and UBR for carbine. Both do great for stroking butts.

Loaded 500 rounds of 308 last night.

Whatever the case, I was saving them just in case I had to clear room-to-room.

They are the same. I use both interchangably with no visible differences in my CMMG.

They're next door so our garage face each other with a dirt horse trail in between so the entier area between both our garages and our front yards is the playground for both our kids and theirs. The guy is great - he manages a car dealership and sells new Nissans to us at "his cost". Even drives our vehicles in when they are in need of service, and is a level 3 gun nut (on scale of 1-10, where most of us here come in at 11+++ :)) ) We (my wife mainly) goes over all the time to hang out with his wife, usually with drinks in hand. :D The neighborhood kids & the wives walk in and out of both houses like they own them. Can't find any better neighbors so keeping an eye out for them is the right thing to do. ^-^

Yes, I had the opportunity to "storm" my neighbor's house last night. They were supposed to have left for the Bahamas for their vacation (lucky bastards) yesterday so when I got home from work, their garage door was open and the lights were on in their bedroom. Tossed the Sig to the wife, and grabbed the 300aac (which was coincidentally in my truck), slapped in a mag and quietly opened the door... nobody there, so we yelled out and told everyone to get down on the floor. The people in there didn't know what hit them. Thankfully it was my neighbors - they had not left yet. Neighbor and his wife were all laughing and very thankful that we were checking on the house in their "absence" but I bet I just traumatized their 3 kids. <laughs> <lmao>

Part II of range day. Back to regular load tests on the 308. This time I was comparing my extablished IMR4064 vs IMR8208 XBR loads on 178gr bullets out to 300 yards. 100yd and 200yd groupings were on par with either powder. I'm probably missing something here (no chrono yet) but both performed equally well. I was averaging 2" groups @ 200 yards, with me being the largest variable. LOL

You can put money on it. Did the same thing on the Eliminator and it worked. :)

Today, I attempted to asnwer the question: "How many cartridges can a tumbler tumble, if a tumbler can tumble cartridges." Timer start - 0:00 min Timer Stopped: 0:34 min Answer: 634 .308 cartridges, along with four .223 cartridges that somehow snuck in there for the bath.

It's great for plinking and killing paper. I've seen retail prices as low as $12/$13 a box a an LGS I think....

I spent another 4 hours at the range yesterday testing out the Eliminator II, test out the PSA NiB BCG, and also some new supersonic loads for the 300 AAC as well as getting more practice. This will be covered over multiple posts since I was trying to get so much done, and also I'm in-between working on a bunch of stuff. A couple weeks ago I managed to snag a Burris Eliminator II from Cablelas for $599. Here's the optic on my 300 AAC. It's a monstrosity. The plan was to make it out to the range and screw around with it (even though the Eliminator II does not directly support the 300 AAC round in it's database). The initial impression was really good, despite the size of the optic. Zoom range is 4-12x and even though the reticle is a second focal plane reticle, the electronic drop markers will change according to the zoom level of the scope, making it a somewhat pseudo-FFP reticle. Here it is, at 4x zoom pointing at some games.... ...and the same reticle at 12x (notice the bullet drop markers have changed along with the magnification) It was surprising to find that the drop marker "pixels" were pretty high resolution and the virtual movement during zooming was very smooth. Without a target being ranged, all the bullet drop markers show up (100,200, 300, 400, 500 and 600) to help engage targets quickly. So off to the range with it. The Eliminator II zeroed in easily and there was hardly any fuss in getting everything set up correctly. I chose to use the data from the Russian 7.62 x 39mm round as it was the closest match to 300 AAC ballistics. Shooting it was even easier. After you range the targets with the built in LRF, the correct bullet holdover is displayed on the reticle. Adjust the aim to use the drop point and squeeze the trigger. I was engaging targets out to 300yds with this setup and was consistently ringing steel shot after shot. It did attract a little attention from some guys at the range because they "thought the 300 AAC could not reliably engage and hit targets beyond 200yds". The shooting was done mostly with factory Hornady 110gr VMAX 300AAC supersonic rounds. Tried some of my reloads (125gr Speer, and 125gr Nosler B-Tip with AA 4100 powder) and those shot well and were consistent.... until I picked a test batch of hotter loads. That put an end to the fun rather quickly. The bases of the problem cartridges were bulging out so the spent cartridges would not eject (stuck in the bolt face). Some of the cartridges would also fail to extract and remain jammed with the bolt in the chamber. After removal, the primers literally fell out. Definitely too much powder in that... wonder if I should have used the pistol rotor instead of the rifle rotor on the press..... ....so there, lesson learned. (pics upcoming) I had initially thought that there were issues were due to the new PSA BCG. Nope, in fact the BCG held up very well with no visible damage. It also cleaned up easily due to the NiB coating. The reduced friction definitely helped with the factory rounds too. That's about it for now.... will post more later.

Lowers - right now, one of our suppliers are running a special on Anderson lowers at a really good price. I'm going to be picking up a bunch so I can stock them for individual sale or for building complete rifles. I HAVE to put in the order for these on Monday because that's the last day. Our own billet uppers and lowers will take a little while. We're finalizing our designs plus I need to clear my current manufacuring backlog of "other" products to make way for the gun stuff, so I'm pulling double shifts for a while. :(

That's right... I gotta order some of those slings and put it on the mini retail floor.

Burris eliminator? :D

Awww man... he had a nice bike. :))