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Yeah mine were 10.5 pound butts and we plan to freeze a lot of it.

Well this amateur needs to plan more with the timing. The venison roast wasn’t done in time for a late dinner but the pork buts weren’t done until after 1am. I can’t stay up like I used to. 🤣

I did there is about 2 inches between them

2 pork butts and a venison neck roast

Great job and good looking rifle! Glad to have you here

Why are there so many choices? Just confuses me. Lol. I better buy some since I seemed to have lost mine.

Not an upper to regret. I love mine. And just keep looking for the hand guards, they are around. @98Z5V can’t you take off the m5 enhanced hand guard mounting platform and use a regular hand guard with a different barrel nut? I have never tried to take mine off.

Lol. Luckily it never happened.

Showed my wife that one, she shook her head... at least I didn’t get slapped though

I feel like this thread has turned into measuring our caliper dimensions 🍌 and gone off track. either get an armalite bolt to work with the armalite barrel or see if you can’t get what you have to function and report back here on your findings by actually testing it. I don’t know why this thread has seemed to turned into a back and forth as it has.

Correction, I am that guy dumb enough to try it. Lol. Although headspace on my barrel was fixed to allow my bolt to properly lock and chamber a round. before I had it fixed I knew that it not locking all the way wasn’t good... but not sure it would even shoot if I pulled the trigger, depends on where the bolt was in inside the carrier to allow the firing pin to travel far enough or not I guess. after I had the barrel fixed, haven’t had any problems since. theoretically, if it wasn’t locked all the way and did shoot, it wouldn’t be to catastrophic. Pretty sure it would just be like a cook off in an open bolt machine gun. Been there, done that, got a bit of case shrapnel in my cheek, a broken extractor, and a ringing in my ears.

What type of hunting? Spot and talk or something more like little walking to a stand or blind and wait for an animal to walk by? my 260 rem with a 16” hbar barrel is far from light at over 12 pounds with optic. If I would have done it again I would have gone with a lighter 16” barrel. So when you want a 18” heavy barrel, just realize that is going to be a gun most people are not going to want to walk around with. Welcome to the forum, hope you get the advice you are looking for and don’t make the same mistakes we have made. 🤣

Now now, with that type of talk you are gonna make my wife jealous. I am flattered but you just aren’t my type. 🤣 trust me brother if I come down there to see family, you will be the only one I will be putting any effort in to see.

Ah I see. Makes sense. ok wife and I will definitely take a look.

@Sisco so even with it completely wrapped in aluminum foil it will still get the smoky flavor just fine?

Haha posted the answer right as I was asking the question

So what’s the best way to prep a pork butt? And at what temp should I cook it?

snowing again pretty good

also got 20 pounds of pork roast and 4 chickens.

Looks amazing Al. Meat prep is the biggest thing I need to learn. I am used to just throwing on some seasoning or at the very most using an actual rub. I never really do anything more than that. wife is currently out getting some pork butts and other stuff that are on sale locally for 93 cents a pound. And thawing out a venison neck roast to use in the next couple of days. I am in love with smoking now

My take away from my experience is always check headspace before riding the bolt forward. If headspace is a little to light to fully lock, you could get a live round stuck in the chamber that would be almost impossible to remove. most gun smiths or just a hun store that builds their own ARs will use a go/no go gauge for you for free to cheap. one thing that was suggested to me was, though I don’t know if it is the correct thing to do. 1st take your lower off. 2nd manually drop the round (dummy round obviously preferred) into the chamber, does it sit about in the position it should? If it does, 3rd step is slowly lower and the bolt carrier group onto the round into the chamber. 4th it should take minimal pressure from your thumb at the back of the receiver to push the carrier all the way until it locks, it shouldn’t take to much force... if it doesn’t lock with just one thumb amount of force, at least you don’t have that thing forced into the chamber by the full force of your spring and buffer.

Watch every ounce than, it is easy to get these rifles 12 pounds or more and not very easy... or cheap, to keep the weight down.

I agree. And unless you are hunting elk, either of those two rounds has the energy and velocity to kill white tails at any humane distances. i would say a light weight 308ar is still going to be around 9 pounds... not exactly light, and the lighter it is the more felt recoil.

I need to come visit you this summer just to learn to smoke stuff! Would visit Neal but I have spent to much of my life in Rock county and I hate that place. Lol