mrmackc

Damn you are getting good and efficient at weeding our garden, I need to start keeping better notes!

Ha! That is an astute observation and an intelligent comment. "Worthless and deplorable" old brown shoe Marine fits me better than I can imagine! Semper Fi! I have been a Brown Shoe Marine and also a District Engineer at a time or two and that shirt says it quite well!

Not being one to feel superior or boastful but my choice for a set of NM iron sights was to order out a new Super match Springfield M1A rifle attached to a set of Real NM iron sights for a bit under $2700.

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A good idea!

A bit of deception on the part for firearms accessory marketers is in order by avoiding references to guns rifles, pistols, shotguns, ammo, projectiles. actions, etc., etc. A charging handle could become a hand-unifixation sport control thingie.

Did you boresight the scope when you mounted it? So what is your theory why at 50 yards It shoots 13 inches low?

Also in the AR system the action of the gas inside the BCG with gas rings delay the rearward motion of the bolt and takes some stress off the bolt lugs until chamber pressure drops to a safer level, so I have been told.

Check out what some of us have done with our M1A rifles on another thread, but 400 yards ain't bad for standard M1A. NM sights are a bit better IMHO. I am laid up with a broken hip and haven't got to break in my new NM Springfield M1A.

MOAB is GPS guided it has guide fins that deploy.

Yep it is that time of the year again. Put your favorite egg layers behind wire and your puppy dog in the house.

Back in the,1960s I hunted with a County Hunter that used cyanide guns "Getters" for coyote control. He used ground up minnows that rotted and fermented in glass jars out in the sun. He wrapped a strip of cloth around the top of the Getter and brushed the fermented bait on the top, was very effective on all kinds of varmints.

Okay, and?............

Yep I think a trigger is first place to start. I went with a Gisselle Saa. Good one, but two stage . Good install video on Utube later went to a Mech _Armor drop in 3 pound single, when we had a group promotion with their nice charging handle.. Lube it up really wet, load one round in mag shoot see if the bolt stays open each shot. After first 5 shots break open check it over, clean the chamber and bore barely damp hoppes #9 . Now load a mag partially full of good fresh factory ammo sight in and have fun break it in, keep well lubed.

I like mine didn't know that much about the platform,bought the DPMS 308 Oracle because it looked good and price was right.

Maybe some dunk the BCG in oil. I brush the oil on with a 1/2 inch wide brush and be sure it covers the surface of the bolt except the face like to get it on the cam and pin, the locking lugs and not in the chamber. On the sliding surfaces and gas rings and one drop in the gas key. I also lube the buffer and spring ant a thin coat in the buffer tube. Bolt release mag latch.I also run a wet hoppes patch through the bore from the chamber to to the muzzle every 5 or 10 shots I don't really know if that is how these shooters do it, most of them have boo-koos more experience with the AR308 than I do. I only have owned my factory built DPMS LR308 since November 2014 and barely have it broken in. I also shoot a M1A. and a .3006 M1.

Magazine is?

That should be a good rifle. I couldn't find the Thundergun.com web site except for one that wasn't selling any LT308 kits. Mind posting a good link for us?

Welcome from Central Texas. Let's start with the easy stuff first after you post all the info you have on the model, description ETC. of your new build. Like is it a 16 "barrel, Gen one or Gen two DPMS LR308? is it a DPMS Magazine. 1st as was stated you need to lube up the upper, the bolt and carrier it needs to be dripping WET. Many here use Mobil 1 synthetic 10W40 , YES like you put in your new truck engine. AND...When you go to the range next time load only one round in the magazine, when you fire the rifle does the bolt lock back on the EMPTY magazine?

What about the complete rifle kit for $359? With a ss 16 1:8 twist 5.56? I bet that before summer you can get a complete AR15 kit for less than $300. Maybe sooner. I may get one before June 1st. Maybe with 2 uppers a .300 and a 5.56! Either will make a nice turtle buster. Yuppie Yippie!

Sounds good. I still have plans to build a home-made cool smoker to use on my Char-Broil gas grill. By using a small stainless bean pot steel tubing and a small electric air pump.

How about using a smoke daddy for cold smoking cheese? A friend where we used to live gave us some smoked cheese and Bologna he "cold smoked"

Central Tejas, might not be far from me here at our fishing camp at lake Proctor in Comanche County.

First thing I try to make a newbie understand is that bore sighting isn't a substitute for sighting in, bore sighting with a lazer or optical bore sighter is just making sure the line of sight of the sights is in line with a straight line from the bore, sighting in aligns your line of sight with the actual trajectory of the fired bullet.