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New additions Updated 9/7/20 Rifle Calibers @ $2.00/ lb Caliber lbs .223 - spoken for .243 7 spoken for .270 12 .308 17 1/8 spoken for 30-30 6 1/4 30-06 26 3/4 Pistol Calibers @ $2.00/ lb Caliber lbs 38 Special - spoken for 357 Magnum - spoken for 45 ACP (Lg primer) - spoken for Rifle Calibers @ $ .25 each Caliber num. of pieces 204 Ruger 92 22-250 13 25-06 20 25-35 Win 7 260 1 spoken for 270 WSM 1 270 WSM (nickel) 3 280 14 300 Win Mag 55 spoken for 300 WSM 13 spoken for 300 WSM (nickel) 10 spoken for 300 RUM 19 308 LC Headstamp 30 spoken for 308 Hornady Win Mat. 6 spoken for 325 WSM 1 30-06 LC headstamp 101 spoken for 32 Win Spl 20 338 Win Mag 3 35 Rem 18 350 Legend 65 358 Win 11 444 Marlin 19 450 Bushmaster 23 458 Socom 15 45-70 20 50 Beowulf 2 6.5 Grendel FC 10 6.5 Creedmoor 478 6.5X55 2 6.8 SPC 47 7mm Mauser 1 7mm-08 6 spoken for 7mm-08 (nickel) 4 spoken for 7-30 Waters 27 7mm Mag 59 7mm Mag (nickel) 34 7.62X54R 18 7.7 Jap 13 8mm Mauser 28 spoken for Pistol & Rifle Calibers @ $ .10 each Pistol Caliber num. of pieces 10 mm 490 spoken for 38 Super 106 44 Mag 14 45 Colt 51 50 AE 18 Rifle Calibers num. of pieces 300 BLK (not processed 223) 349 spoken for 30 Carbine 115 spoken for 7.62X39 64

You got it backwards man. 78" height, 83" wingspan. But still can't get into the air. Being my age and the fact that "white men can't jump" I rarely leave the ground. Back to our regularly scheduled thread topic.

6'6" Which comes out to 78". So much for the wives tale of your wingspan being about equal to your height.

The original pistol tubes were smooth cylinders. Completely different from adjustable buffer tubes. There is no need for spacers with the SBA braces because they use standard carbine buffer tubes.

The adjustable braces are nice. I started out with the original Sig brace and a KAK pistol tube. The tube came with 2 spacers to adjust the LOP. 1 half inch and 1 one inch to get up to 1 1/2" of adjustment. Long arms? How about 83" finger tip to finger tip, arms out parallel to the floor. Bow shops when I shot a vertical bow hated me. I'de walk in and tell them I needed a 37" draw and they would look at me funny until they did a measurement. Then I would walk out with nothing.

No worries. Derailing of threads is a given around here.

Sounds like you are coming up with a winner there for a rifle! But let me ask you this.....can it punch a 3/8" diameter hole in paper with just one bullet?

That is brilliant! Selling bulk ammo in BULK. Those are loaded rounds. I'm more of an icecream pail and ziploc bag operation for sellable. 5 gallon buckets for everything else.

@RedRiverIIThanks man! As of right now I have no idea what the exact situation is. Luckily I have the guy who does most of the maintenance there as a contact in my phone. I'll stay informed.

Sure thing! There might be a few more after I get sorting done today. Today's sort may be the last one for a little while. 90-95% of my supply just dried up. The DNR just closed the Caywood shooting range 10 min from my house because the fuccking tourists who have no idea about gun safety or common sense have shot over the top of a 40ft tall berm system and their bullets were landing in the gravel pit that is behind the range. Guys were working back there at the time. This was the most used and most prolific range for brass in the area. I'm guessing the Vietnam Veterans of America group that maintains the place will have to do some serious a$$ kissing with the DNR to get it back open. Fuckking ayy!

I'm in for a couple

Its been cool here this week but not like yours. We had a couple nights early in the week that were in the 40s. Even for WI thats chilly for early August. Oh....to comply with this thread, the Aero upper came in for my buddy's Grendel build. Now he just needs the barrel, BCG, gas tube and block, handguard, and a muzzle device to have a nice boom stick. He wants it done for hunting in Nov.

Not sure if this helps but its another subsonic reference point. My pistol gas, 8" barrel supressed 300 Blackout has a gas port drilled to .108". 200-225 grain subs all run great but the BLK was designed to run subs or supers by changing loaded mags.

Back to the range today for sighting trials. Things were both surprising and pleasing at the same time. I brought along my target stand so I could set up a 75 yard target for reference, and it gave me anotherset of data points for future hunting shots. I took a couple shots at 50 yards to make sure everything was good and then moved out to 100. Yep the holes were high. I then figured "what the hell" and sighted it in for the 100 yards. Grouping was much better than this past Saturday and once the scope was set the group was great. I shot a 4 round group at 100, 75, and 50 yards. 3 nice and bad flier low. 3 even nicer and not as bad a flier that I know I jerked. 3 nice and a slight flier up and right. 25 yards took a little bit to find the sweet spot on the BDC reticle, but once I found it I could pound each round down the same hole. The aiming point for 25 yards is in the little drawing on the target. 1/2 way between the first and 2nd circle in the reticle, it amounts to aiming 2" high at 25 yards. What I'm surprised about and have the question about is how can sighting in at 100 yards result in 50 - 100 yard groups being exactly in the same spot on target? 3 maybe 4 clicks to the right and it will be dead nuts. I never even bothered to try a 75 yard zero to see what the result would be. I'm happy as it is! I'm more and more impressed with this rifle each time I shoot it.

Me too! Thats why I thought of it. I have a PVC frame I built as an archery target holder and have a 1X4 frame made to hold rifle targets for it. All I have to do is measure out 25 yards beyond the 50 yard target and done.

I got out to the range yesterday with my son and the 375. Loaded up 6 magazines to get the new Nikon scope sighted in and to see how the production handloads compared to the test loads I had shot previously. I put the first target up at 25 yards. I figured at that range even without knowing where in the world the first shot would go I could at least have it on paper. It turns out it was a good decision. First shot 2" up from the bottom of the target. Dial the scope up a sh*tload of clicks and fire #2. Up some more and right for #3. Then peg #4. I put the next target up at 50 yards and touched off the first shot. High again! Dial back down and shoot 2 -5. Now I'm happy. This is going to be a woods gun for deer and these are the only bullets that are going to be going through it. A 50 yard shot would more than likely be pushing it for distance. After feeling pretty good about the 50 yard group I had to put one out at 100 yards just for research purposes and $hits and giggles. Fired 11 shots (all a 30 round GI mag holds) and all of them high again and much more spread out. My son took a turn at 100 yards and pretty much repeated what I did, maybe a little better. Now for the question. Given the hunting distances I expect to encounter while using this rifle should I sight it in at 75 yards? The other option is to sight it for 100 yards and use the multiple circle BDC reticle of the scope for 50 yards. It just seems weird to have to hold higher for shorter range shots. On a totally different note, this rifle has its own giggle factor but at the other end of the spectrum from my suppressed Blackout. That one with subs has practically no recoil and the quiet brings a smile. This thing brings more of a holy $hit!! kind of smile when you touch one off and you let everyone in a mile or more radius know you fired a round. For an observer the muzzle blast from the brake is most impressive! Then you see a 3/8"+ diameter hole in the target. More perspective...Hornady's 9th edition puts a 208 grain A-Max out of a .308 at up to 2450fps out of a 22" barrel. This 375 Socom is pushing a 200 grain stubby flat point at 2435fps out of an 18" barrel.

Updated 8/1/20 Rifle Calibers @ $2.00/ lb Caliber lbs .223 40 spoken for .243 7 spoken for .270 12 .308 17 1/8 spoken for 30-30 4 3/4 30-06 26 1/8 Pistol Calibers @ $2.00/ lb Caliber lbs 38 Special 5 1/2 357 Magnum 5 3/8 45 ACP (Lg primer) 7 spoken for Rifle Calibers @ $ .25 each Caliber num. of pieces 204 Ruger 38 22-250 6 25-06 20 260 1 spoken for 270 WSM 1 270 WSM (nickel) 3 280 14 300 Win Mag 43 spoken for 300 WSM 4 spoken for 300 WSM (nickel) 10 spoken for 300 RUM 19 308 LC Headstamp 30 spoken for 308 Hornady Win Mat. 6 spoken for 325 WSM 1 30-06 LC headstamp 101 spoken for 32 Win Spl 19 338 Win Mag 3 35 Rem 17 350 Legend 10 444 Marlin 19 450 Bushmaster 40 458 Socom 15 45-70 20 50 Beowulf 2 6.5 Grendel FC 10 6.5 Creedmoor 457 6.5X55 2 6.8 SPC 46 7mm Mauser 1 7mm-08 6 spoken for 7mm-08 (nickel) 4 spoken for 7-30 Waters 27 7mm Mag 56 7mm Mag (nickel) 34 7.62X54R 18 8mm Mauser 28 spoken for Pistol & Rifle Calibers @ $ .10 each Pistol Caliber num. of pieces 10 mm 247 spoken for 44 Mag 99 45 Colt 43 38 Super 79 Rifle Calibers num. of pieces 300 BLK (not processed 223) 327 spoken for 30 Carbine 110 spoken for 7.62X39 60

I can vouch for the Phase 5 extended bolt catch working with an Aero 308 lower. Had one on mine. Same function as a Magpul BAD lever except its all one piece. If you like the concept it definitely works.

Have you guys seen this place? http://www.sixfivearms.com/ Started and run by the Administrator over on the6.5 Grendel forum.

Your welcome @Sisco! As long as I'm here I'll add that I loaded up 194 pieces (all I had that came with the rifle) of the 375 Socom. 46.4 grains of AR Comp under the 200 gr Sierra flat point. Time to see what they do at more than 50 yards.

As far as I know the hammer goes back fully each time. With the pistol empty and the hammer hung up with the trigger pulled I can flick the hammer to the rear and release it and it will then go forward and hit the firing pin.

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I have no idea. I've done the basic disassembly for cleaning and polishing the feed ramps but I haven't been inside to any of the moving parts of the fire control. That is not to say that I wouldn't be against any exploratory to see what might be going on. I just don't like the idea of taking something apart and not knowing how it all goes back together again.

I've got a PT1911 that has developed an intermittent firing issue. It will go through several mags flawlessly then suddenly in mid mag when you try to pull the trigger it doesn't move and the hammer doesn't fall. Thumb safety is off, grip is tight on grip safety, and hammer seems to be fully back. Drop the mag, rack the slide to empty the gun then attempt to pull the trigger and same thing. By accident I found that pulling the trigger then flicking the hammer backwards and releasing it will usually clear the blockage. I have yet to have it happen while dry firing the empty gun and hand racking the slide while dry firing. Do any of you 1911 gurus have any idea what may be going on?

Wait until you get to the episode with the blood eagle. All I'm saying.