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Does your range only go out to 50 yards? If so your stuck with it. If not why limit yourself to guessing at every range except 50. If your dead nuts at 100 you can then check at 50 and know both. If your range goes past 100 you can check those and know all of them. For warm weather I'm sighted at 100 for everything except my 300 Blackouts. Those are at 50 but I know they are also dead on at 100 with that 50 yard sight in. The best you can do is shoot and find out what works best for you.

You were the one I was thinking of when I said most of us.

Maybe so. But you are our resident NY expert. Most of the rest of us are just glad we live in free states.😄

First things to do is get an accurate measurement of the INSIDE of the buffer tube, get the quarters OUT of the buffer tube, and measure the diameter of the gas port in the barrel. Using the base of drill bits will get you close. What one fits, what doesn't. Or pull out the caliper.

^^^ This right here! Put this kit in it and be done! https://www.armalite.com/SACItem.aspx?Item=AR10REKIT02&ReturnURL=/Armalite/Product-Category/AR10-Parts-Accessories&Category=4eeff98b-d9a6-40fd-be6b-ab2e44ec1080

^^^ This.

With 308 ARs even the best manufacturers....not so much. Armalite is the original, everyone else does whatever they please with it. There is no Mil-Spec in the 308.

ANY 308 AR needs a 5.3-5.4 oz buffer. DO NOT put a 3.8 oz buffer in it, you are more than likely asking for issues later on. Get this: https://www.armalite.com/SACItem.aspx?Item=AR10REKIT01&ReturnURL=/Armalite/Product-Category/AR10-Parts-Accessories/Lower-Receiver-Parts&Category=ac614400-ff09-4cdf-9d35-419a654e7201 It comes from Armalite and they make it correct every time, but right now shows as out of stock. Find their phone # on their website and call them and talk to a real person. They can usually hook you up with those parts no matter what the stock level says on the site.

Seeing that lead is metal I would think it would conduct electricity at least somewhat. Not as well as gold or copper but some.

So you're saying its trying to feed the next live round into the chamber before the spent casing has been pulled out and ejected?

If you want 30 caliber subsonic to cycle an AR action then 300 BLK is the way to go. The bcg slamming back and forth is louder to the ear than the muzzle blast.

You need a left handed, button cut rifled, 7R, counter clockwise, anti-coaxial self cleaning barrel from Northern ACME Iron and Toilet Works. They are the absolute bomb for lefties!

By Bryce M. Towsley This was back when Montana was still the Wild West, before all the California pussies screwed it up. We were hunting mule deer in the Missouri River Breaks and it was cold. Not just Montana-cold, but soul-killing, make-your-dick-crawl-up-inside-and-hide-cold. Our war surplus hospital tent covered a quarter-acre and the little horse packing stove couldn’t even melt the snow beside it. Our Coleman stove was on strike and after a week of eating potato chips and frozen Spaghetti-O’s we were sick of that poop. There had been talk for days about going to town for a shower and a hot meal. Finally somebody pulled the trigger and we loaded up the truck and made the two hour trek. The “town” turned out to be a bar and a tilting single-wide trailer that seemed to defy gravity. That’s where the mayor/bar owner lived. The pipes were frozen and the cold had gelled the stove’s gas. So no shower … and no meal. I was sitting there washing down stale microwave pizza with a surprisingly warm beer when I noticed a cold breeze on my face. I looked at the wall and the weak November sun was shining through nine holes from a perfect double-ought buckshot pattern through the west wall of the bar. The old woman tending bar was right out of central casting, all leather and lean, crusty and mean. “What’s up with that?” I asked her, nodding to the wall. “It’s all the damn drunks ‘round here,” she replied. “Oh, did one of them shoot your wall?” “Nope, I did that with this,” she said as she pulled a beat-up 870 pump from behind the bar. It had been seriously cut down on both ends, so it had a crude pistol grip and about a 12-inch barrel. Somehow I doubt she bothered with the NFA paperwork. “Did one of them try to rob you or something?” “Nope, them sons a bitches wouldn’t dare rob me.” “So, what then,” I asked, rising to the challenge. “They come in here and get roaring drunk and then they all want to fight with knives. I don’t much give a poop, except they bleed all over the floor and it gets to stinking if I don’t mop it up right away.” “This is my bar and I wanted them to understand they need to take that poop outside.” “You never fixed the wall,” I asked? “poop no, I just point my shotgun at the holes now and those assholes start behaving.”

Yup, 7.62X51 subsonic turns your 308 AR into a straight pull bolt action.

Welcome from WI. Even with the gas port and gas block perfectly alligned if the port is too small you will never get enough gas through the system to operate properly. "What is the gas port size" is always right up in the top two or three questions when troubleshooting these. Reputable manufacturers routinely muck up gas port sizes. You'll need to measure it. Numbered drill bits work great, standard drill bits will get in the ballpark. Once the gas block is removed just insert the non-drilling end into the port until you find one that fits. Your 3.8 oz buffer is too light and your gas tube is too short. Those two are for sure.

Yup. Go to choose option and its .223 or 300 BLK

Sidetracked is still better than a trainwreck.

Can we call this thread officially hijacked yet?

Naaaa, thats a visual image! The mental image is what it would be like and how it would feel getting all slippery slidey with her! 😛

As Doc said, wipe off the bolt face but other than that leave it drippy. As you are shooting it you should have oil oozing out of every orifice of the upper/lower. You want all those big metal parts sliding smoothly and mating together without hitting any dry spots. (That should be a good mental image for ya!)

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As I understand it the court struck down the "may issue" language of the law and it requiring demonstrating a special need for a carry permit. All that will be needed is an application for a permit and then jump through whatever hoops the gov't says are proper for getting that permit. The gov't "shall issue" permits to qualifying applicants. Its the qualifications and the details that the gov't can play with now, and where court cases can evolve from. I'm just thankful I'm here in WI. Submit proof of a qualifiying training course with the application fee and boom you have a permit as long as you aren't a prohibited person. In my case it was the certificate of completion of the Hunter's Safety course I took when I was 13, which is now 50 years ago.

As 98 said, go slow. A drill press is the perfect tool for drilling out a gas port. Just cradle the barrel so it doesn't wobble, a drop of oil in the port, maybe one on the drill bit tip and gently press the bit through. It can't go crooked because you already have a perfect guide hole. Going slow minimizes metal breaking as the bit finishes the hole and what might hinge into the barrel is gone as soon as you fire the first bullet through it.

Ummmm, saline is salt water. Brackish is mixed fresh and salt water like a bayou or where a river hits the ocean. Details my man, details.