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I'm no longer selling these items because I can't afford to upgrade at this time, Thanks to all that showed interest in them.

Giving this a bump, I have still have all of this for sale and thanks to uncle sam I have to sell it before I can order what I want to replace it with.

Yes I do.

Dropping the price down to $350.

That was easy. There is a locking nut on the muzzle end of the barrel that I forgot to take off, I have to keep it.

Been awhile since I added any pics so see if this works

Was hoping that I wouldn't have to take the barrel off until I knew that it had sold, can I just take pictures of the bolt, gas block and the barrel still mounted to the gun ?

Decided that I want to go with a longer barrel and the one I'm looking at comes with a matched bolt and different size on the gas port so need to sell what I have now, Barrel is a Rainier 16 inch 308 match stainless that I took time breaking it in according to Rainer's instructions, fire a round then clean for ten rounds, fire five then clean for the next twenty five rounds then clean after a day's outing. I have put 240 rounds thru it with no rapid fire rounds. Bolt has been headspaced for this barrel and is a JP Enterprises Enhanced Stainless. Gas block is a Syrac Ordnance Gen 2 that uses the squeeze clamp on the bottom. Gas tube is a standard mid-length tube that also goes with everything. I have right at $600 tied up in these parts so I'm asking $400 and I'll pay for reasonable shipping costs and I have a paypal account if that makes a difference. If interested send me a PM and I'll get back to you, generally I'm here once a day early in the morning.

Good news, I switched over to a Armalite magazine catch and all my magazines work now .

I don't check in for a couple of days then I have to sign in but keep getting error message that I'm using the wrong password, have to reset it and I use the same password I always use and I'm back in until I skip stopping in for a couple days. Been like this since the update.

Both mags are Gen's 3, I have a twenty round Pmag that I bought later but haven't had time to check it yet. My lower is an Aero Precision and I think they tend to run a little wider so a longer mag catch shaft wouldn't hurt to have.

Bought two Magpul 10 round mags at the same time and one works fine and with the second one the round is never picked up and loaded, thought I saw a post about somebody else having this problem and it was the lever for the mag release that was causing it, suggestion was to switch to a Armalite lever, Does this sound right to anybody ?

Success... ^-^ Finally got my last part and tried it out last Tuesday, I have to admit I was nervous about firing that first shot, this was my first build and all the info to do it was taken from this site and youtube video's so I was 95% sure I had done it right but to be on the safe side I took a heavy wooden bench and sit it in the backyard and fired the gun from a mount while I crouched under the bench using a string to pull the trigger. My better half and her dad stood about 30 feet behind the gun and said even with the mount it jumped back about six inches but everything looked normal, I only put one round in it and with the adjustable gas block set at half open ( 2 1/2 turns ) it did lock open, Next shot I turned the block down a half of a turn and it locked again, I did this again till the block was open just one turn and on the second shot it failed to eject the shell so I opened it a half turn, the next five shots all cleared, unfortunately it started to rain so that's all I was able to do. All the parts I bought were to reduce recoil as much as possible so how well that works I can't say, the only guns that I have to compare it to would be a AK-47 and a 30-30 lever action and it kicks as hard as both of those do, Do want to add that the ammo I was using is the ZQ-1 that you get from your local wallyworld. Gun weighs in with no scope or magazine at 8 pounds and 4 ounces and with scope push's it up to 10 pounds and 8 1/2 ounces.

Ok lets try this again, first picture is before the mod and the second a little harder to see but the gap between the upper receiver and the rail is smaller.

I can't find a way to upload or link photo's thru photobucket, I have tried to use the gallery to upload directly from computer but can't find anyway of uploading them, In a post using the image button gives me a box to load URL's but when I insert the link and click the OK button it doesn't do anything, it won't let me cancel either, I have to use the back button or close the page to get out of it.

Sorry that I haven't got back sooner been busy the last few days but here is where I'm at now. Following your suggestions I double checked and the barrel pin is fully seated so I took the barrel, nut and upper receiver to a local machine shop and he came up with these measurements, Flange thickness was at 0.142 Gap between rail and upper receiver was .050 ( not sure if I have this right, it's supposed to mean 50 thousands ) He turned the flange down to 0.121, I didn't want to go anymore that this, too worried that it would weaken the flange. I forgot to bring the rail with me when I went and picked up the barrel so I don't have a measurement of the new gap yet but will get to it later today, also working on before and after pics of the gap and will post them soon.

Unfortunately the flange/receiver/barrel nut all fit flush so the only thing left has to be the thickness of the barrel flange, if I want to get rid of the gap I'm going to have the flange thickness turned down on the muzzle side so the barrel nut will fit lower, question is how much can be taken out without risking a failure. The flange on the Rainier Select barrel was just about right so reducing the flange to match it should be safe, 98Z5V has a barrel that should be the same as I had so when I get the thickness from him I'll have a better ideal on my next move. I've put a lot of time and money in this build and I want it to look right.

After lurking for several months and following some of the builds going on here I come up with the following parts list to build my own LR-308, I have bought everything but the bolt carrier, two more long weeks before I can afford to get it. This gun has two purposes , I want something that I can target shoot up to 300-500 yards and my better half wants something that she can hunt with. Aero M5 upper with forward assist and door already installed. Vltor BCM Gunfighter charging handle large. Aero stripped lower. Aero lower parts kit. Geissele SSA-E trigger. JP Enterprises Silent Capture Recoil spring. DPMS carbine length buffer tube. Mako Recoil Reducing stock. Magpul pistol grip. Syrac Adjustable Clamp-on gas block. JP Enterprises Enhanced Bolt. JP Enterprises Bolt Carrier ( yet to buy ) Troy Industries Claymore Muzzle brake. Fortis Switch Rail 14" And lastly the barrel, First I got the Rainier Select , 20 inch model in black and when I test fitted It was too long for my needs, I called Ranier and they let swap it out for a Match 16 inch barrel in stainless and this is where the glitch comes in, When I test fitted the Rainier Select barrel I also mounted the Fortis rail and they fit together with barely a seam between the back of the rail and the front of the upper receiver, With the Rainier Match barrel there is a .1.40 mm gap between the two, I checked and checked and the only thing I can come up with is the flange on the barrel extension is thicker on the match barrel than it was on the select. The Match flange is roughly 3.42mm thick, any chance a member here has a Select barrel and can post the thickness of it ? I really don't like the look of this gap and just want to get rid of it

Hello I'm Steve and located in Southern Ohio, Been lurking several months now and Thanks to all your members I am almost done with my first build but have run into a small glitch, I'll explain it in detail in the correct section, right now just want to introduce myself and say Hello.