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Thank you so much, put a 5.6 ounce buffer and she ran great with full 25 round magazines. I put 50 rounds of federal without a malfunction then a 25 round clip with a combination of all the odd poop rounds I had (Magtech, ssa, and a few wolf) just to see and had 1 double feed which I had happy with considering it’s not even broke in yet. Many many thanks.

Bags for trying to get the tightest group which I don’t do very often, bipod for hitting steel which is what I usually do. Besides if a real situation every happens I will have the bipod not the bags.

As I get older the same weight gun gets heavier so I’ve been shifting to shorter barrels, reality is the longest shot I’ve taken in years is around 150 yards so a 16 gunner profile is more than enough and it reduces the weight considerably.

Hello everyone, I’m Jim and I wanted to introduce myself. I’m 48 from Texas, a die hard Georgia Bulldog, and my two loves in life damage my hearing, guns and Harleys, I love building and working on guns, and finding out that a 308 has its own building challenges led me here. I’m married with a son,and at13 he can run an AR pretty damn well. My life generally revolves around my family, firearms, and plotting the downfall of socialism. Happy Halloween

Fair enough, I will and thank you for the help.

Glad for the help, I opened it up to full and it was stove piping every 3rd round and throwing brass at about 1 o’clock. Then I took it back down to just above lock open.

Thanks for the help. From back to front: bcm carbine length tube, jp carbine 308 spring, brownells 3.8 buffer,, bcm lower parts kit, bcm trigger, v7 tool steel bolt catch, 2a mag release, Odin works mid gas tube, seekins gas block .750 adjustable, 2a hand guard, 2a titanium x4 brake. I will have pictures tomorrow and will run a hundred rounds of federal. I checked the internals and the hammer and trigger are fine,the only piece of the brass I found after the problem started was the extractor had tore off a casing lip and it was under the extractor.

Yes I did today and went a little to much and started to get stovepipes, reset it back to just locking open plus a half turn and was back to the shell getting jammed halfway in the chamber. It seems odd but the less rounds in the magazine the better it runs. 3 different magazines all magpul 25.

Hello guys, I’ve built more than a few ar15’s without issue but I’m having issues with my first 308 build. The upper, lower, and bcg are 2a armament, the barrel Faxon match series. After The build I took a quick trip to an indoor range to adjust the gas block, strong gas flow and it locks open on a fairly low setting. Ran about 75 rounds perfectly(Magtech 168). Cleaned it and took it out to my outdoor range and the seventh round(SSA 168) stuck in the chamber live, had to Mortar it out. 2 more SSA rounds malfunctioned so I went back to magtech and it was still having malfunctions, mainly failure to feed. Went home and could barely cycle any ammo with the charging handle. Cleaned and did a light scrubbing with a flex-hone 800 grit brush, and cleaned again. Cycled easily with the charging handle, took it to the range today and a failure to feed every other shot, after 25 rounds live shells were get stuck again in the chamber. Back home and loaded a mag and started cycling with the charging handle. And out of 9 I had to mortar 2 out Magtech. The shells I cycled with the charging handle have light wear marks on one side of the bullet and some have a small mark at the neck of the casing. Any help would be appreciated.