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Ahhhhh! #5 kid in the oven Or a blessed little tuber

Not knowing what @Matt.Cross with #5 means, but knowing that's an ultrasound image, what the heII is that?

@MJV83 One of these is what you need to gauge your resized brass to make sure its within spec. Take a resized case..plunk it in..and you can instantly see if the shoulder is bumped back far enough. The other option that gives you a cutaway view of what is going on inside the gauge is the Sheridan.

^^^ What JBMatt said right there. Another blatant plug: Hornady collet bullet puller. Buy the proper sized collets for your calibers and you are set. Adjusted properly it won't even leave a mark on the pulled bullets.

Hi and welcome. You didn't mention what kind of press you had, but priming can be faster and easier if done off the press. Using any kind of hand primer gives you the feel of how much pushing pressure is needed to seat the primer. Priming is the last quality control check for your newly processed brass. Little to no pressure indicates a loose primer pocket which can then be immediately dealt with by putting that case aside and gently pushing the primer back out, then tossing the case into the recycling bucket. A universal depriming die is perfect for this. You asked for suggestions, here is a blatant plug. Lee Bench Prime: I can do around 500 cases in about 1/2 an hour. Same feeling of priming pressure, same last quality check, NO cramped hand muscles, aching joints, or aggravating arthritus. Mine is screwed to a piece of 1X10 pine that is then screwed to my bench when its needed.

Ummm. Just found these. https://www.sarcoinc.com/ar15-m16-long-flash-hider-with-slots/ https://www.sarcoinc.com/ar15-m16-long-flash-hider-with-holes/ Tossing out examples

More than likely.

That doesn't answer my first question. Pinned or clamped? It makes a difference for your options and how difficult the change over will be.

How close to the gas block can you go to do what? The uninformed about upcoming project want to know!

Is the fsb pinned on or a clamp on? If its a clamp on no problem, take it off like any other gas block and replace it. If its pinned on, once you have the pins out and the fsb off you are going to have two half moon shaped cut outs on the bottom of your barrel where the fsb pins went. That is what made me decide to cut the fsb when I free floated my Colt AR15. I punched out the pins, pulled the fsb, chopped off the sight and the bayonet lug, then rounded the upper edges and painted it with high temp grill paint. I figured I had a perfectly functioning gas block so why not use it, and no ugly holes in the bottom of the barrel The project was also kinda fun.

Unopened jug. Face to face sale. I'm in northern WI. $325

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4 # of trailboss will last one heII of a long time. I grabbed up 6 bottles of it as the panic started and even loading 400 rounds of my 110 grain subs for my RARR 300 BLK I barely got into it. At 4.4 grains/bullet it goes a long way. What do you have in mind?

Sure! Its in the one I didn't read. That figures. Thanks

We?? Who is this We fella? If this is a team effort, if you supply the rifle, I'll supply the 308 brass to experiment with. If the experiment goes bust you still have a dandy rifle and I'll still have brass. Sounds good to me! See my post on the first page. "No I don't need another rifle! Just curious is all." Where did you find that 8.6 BLK is spawned from a 6.5 Creedmoor? For the sake of enquiring minds want to know, I'll pull out a once fired and FL resized case of each one and measure them up. Stay tuned for details.

308 ---> 6.5 ----> If I'm looking at the diagrams correctly the Creed's case wall is slightly less tapered than the 308. I'll now return you to your regularly scheduled 308AR forum thread.

Picture from that article.

So you couldn't cut down a 308 case and achieve the same result? Chop it down and run it through a 8.6 BLK sizing die, just like we do with .223 to 300 BLK? No I don't need another rifle! Just curious is all.

Is that what it is? How is that so different than a 338 Federal besides the 1:3 twist?

How about a nice and just coming out 8.6 Blackout?

Here is a video showing what I was talking about.

The handguard wouldn't be terribly hard to replace. You could even get a freefloat handguard and install it if you are willing to cut the sight post off of the gas block. A little bit of Dremel tool tabletop gunsmithing.

Pictures of the rifle would go a long way toward getting help with the issue. Post them up.

@BrianK On the contrary. This forum isn't failing in the least. This group of yahoos come from all walks of life and various degrees of experience, and many things hold us all together and keep us coming back. One is the wealth of knowledge that is freely given if the requester of said knowledge is respectful of others and the rules, another is that we can actually get to know one another. Quite a few of us have met in person. @98Z5V organizes 2 shoots in AZ that people have travelled hundreds of miles or cross country to attend, and we have 1 here in WI . Can you say the same for any other internet gun forum? I got here long after the "jackass" incident and feel the policy is completely warranted. Why should someone be able to act like a comlete dolt, disrespect others who have given advice freely that cost them money to learn, and then insult those same guys for giving that advice when it doesn't agree with their preconceived notions that are often wrong, THEN be able to deny it ever happened by deleting or changing the posts in question? If someone makes a fool of himself and gets insulting because he got butthurt for being called on it, it SHOULD stay public for all to see. No assumptions of jackassery are ever made here. We let the person prove it themselves over time. Some times that time period is very short. You came here looking for information. We've given what we thought might help. I've personally provided info you specifically asked for. This is a closeknit group of guys that can truely call one another brother and friend.

Not .308 I know, but a fun comparison of 6.5 Grendel and 6.5 Creedmoor. Lots of us have one or the other, if not both.