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Thinking about drilling a barrel is scarier than actually doing it. A hand drill and a dowel is all that is needed, a slow turning drill press also works great. Put the dowel in the barrel, lay the barrel on something that it won't scratch or scratch it, have someone hold the barrel, apply cutting oil to the hole and the drill bit, and commence drilling. Go slooooow and let the bit do the work. A cobalt or other bit designed to go through steel works the best. You already have a full depth guide hole there so you cannot drill the hole at a goofy angle. If you go slow enough you can feel the bit enter the bore of the barrel and stop drilling before you even get a dimple into the dowel.

It looks sweet! In today's environment of almost $1/round 9mm I'll stick with my 20 cent .223 handloads I have stockpiled or can still make up, or 30 something cent 300BLK loads

Just busting chops bro.

Hmmm, Hornady .308 Win Match brass? I know someone who has a few in a box with lots of its kin waiting to go south and west. (Looks around all innocent like)

I don't own a bump stock and never will. Its still good to hear when the ATF gets their hands slapped in the courts about anything.

Copied and pasted directly from another forum: Victory in 6th Ckt Ct of Appeals - bump stock case ATF Loses Bumpstock Case Today at the 6th Circuit | The Civil Rights Lawyer ATF loses case on bump stocks in circuit ct of appeals, (quoting from article): Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed the district court’s decision, which had denied GOA’s motion for a preliminary injunction on bump stocks. Gun Owners of America is seeking an injunction to prevent ATF from implementing a final rule incorrectly classifying bump stocks as machineguns under federal law. This case was brought by Gun Owners of America (GOA), Gun Owners Foundation (GOF), the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL), Matt Watkins, Tim Harmsen of the Military Arms Channel, and GOA’s Texas Director, Rachel Malone. “Today’s court decision is great news and told gun owners what they already knew,” said GOA Senior Vice President Erich Pratt. “We are glad the court applied the statute accurately, and struck down the ATF’s illegal overreach and infringement of gun owners’ rights.” The big issue, according to the court, (quoted from this article): One of my favorite parts of the opinion. Boy does this sound familiar: First, giving one branch the power to both draft and enforce criminal statutes jeopardizes the people’s right to liberty. The concern over the potential abuse of power if the executive can define crimes predates our nation’s founding. See THE FEDERALIST NO. 47, at 251 (James Madison) (quoting Baron de Montesquieu that “[t]here can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or body of magistrates”); 1 WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, COMMENTARIES *146 (1753) (“In all tyrannical governments, the supreme magistracy, or the right of both making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same man, or one and the same body of men; and wherever these two powers are united together, there can be no public liberty.”); JOHN LOCKE, SECOND TREATISE OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT § 143, pp. 324-25 (T. Hollis ed., 1764) (1690).

Keep this kind of thing up and we'll have to have a WI Lake Superior close to shore fishing outting. Are you running planer boards at all?

I seem to remember a suppressor on your 300 blk at the shoot. Get that out and pffft the coyotes. The neighbors will never know.

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Yup! I'll have plenty of bullets loaded up for it by then. This thing is a hoot. When you pull the trigger you hear the click of the firing pin then pffft.

Before: After: Pictures taken in the same place just under different lighting. This thing is BB gun quiet with the 110 grain Varmagedon subs. 4.6 grains of Trailboss gets to 980 fps so I have a place to jump off from for more thorough load development. 4.8 grains hit 1092 and had a supersonic crack. Air temp. in the mid 30s. Supersonics of the same bullet through the supressor that were loaded for my AR did a 5 shot group in a quarter sized hole at 50 yards. I ended up adding 3 sections of rubber garden hose filled with #4 lead shot and plugged on both ends inside the rear stock to get a good balance with the 10" and over 1 pound worth of supressor on the end. Downside is it weighs 9 1/4# with supressor, but upside is the recoil is nonexistant, none, nada

Major malfunction there. At least they seemed to have the sense to get off the road.

Nine 10 round pmags to go with the 1 that came with my RARR 300 BLK. Scheel's has them in stock. https://www.scheels.com/p/magpul-pmag-10-ar%2Fm4-gen-m3-magazine/87375000619.html

If you get the DB upper you may as well save yourself a ton of headaches and get the DB lower to match. Then you'll know for sure they will fit together.

Generally not but it has happened, and mostly during bow season. When it happens they are coming up behind me while sitting in my treestand, but it has to be with dry leaves down to provide the crunch.

These right here (hear). 5X hearing enhancement and 26dB noise reduction. Bought 2 pair with my birthday discount for my son and I. Wear them while hunting and hear better than with your ears alone. https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1019751268

A strong NO. Trim to your 2.005 and let the cannelure come to where ever it comes to. Your final COL will be determined by what your rifle shoots the best, not where some groove is placed by Hornady.

^^^^ What he said.

You don't determine COL for best cycling. You determine powder charge and COL of reloads by finding out what the rifle shoots the most accurately. First powder charge, then COL as long as the bullet isn't jammed into the lands. That measurement is different for every rifle. A properly built rifle will cycle just about anything that is adequately loaded. Get the rifle built first, then cycling factory ammo, then start thinking of making reloads for it. In this buying panic, finding factory loads is tough and finding all the components for reloading is even tougher.

Getting my bunny fart rifle painted up this weekend. It will be interesting to see how quiet the loads for it are. When I built my suppressor I had my 308AR in mind as a possible rifle to use it on so its a bit of overkill on a Blackout. But can a rifle be too quiet?

Yup. It can be done if you are going to shoot them in a bolt action or single shot. You can use very fast pistol powders with high volumes that better fill the case like Trail Boss. The powders used don't generate enough gas to function an AR but with a bolt action you don't need the gas. The suppressor has less bang to muffle, and no BCG to clang back and forth next to your ear. Pull the trigger and pfffft.

Trailboss powder for bunny fart quiet supressed 300 BLK loads that will be forthcoming out of my RARR that is arriving at my gun pusher tomorrow. I already have the 110 grain varmageddons, primers and brass. This was the last piece of the puzzle I needed. These should last me a while considering the charge is somewhere in the 5 grain range, and each bottle has about 790 rounds worth inside.

The best thing you can do is LISTEN! to what 98 tells you and do what is requested. He is the 308 AR whisperer. I would bet dollars to donuts that the buffer in your rifle is 3.250" long and about 3.8 oz. As 98 said it needs to be shorter, 2.50" long and about 5.4oz, IF you have a 7" internal measurement receiver extension. If the receiver extension is 7" inside length and whoever built the rifle tossed an AR15 3.250" buffer into it I'de bet they have the wrong spring too.

Those temps are balmy compared to what we really have up here. Woke up this morning to -15*

If someone flies by "the seat of his pants" does the stick or steering yoke of the plane need disinfecting if he farts?