billymagg

Okay, I've been slowly piecing my lower together, but I have a burr in the small channel the detent and spring slide in. Yes, its a manufacturing defect, but I don't want to send it back, just to get jacked around and be on somebody else's covid schedule... I wasn't expecting this? but I should have been right?? LOL It's the factory lower kit, all factory parts, but the detent will NOT engage the safety, and there is a visible ring, thanks Wilson Combat, after all the water I carry for you???

Yes it does my friend, say a serious prayer for your old fart Billy Magg, I've found an amazing 73 Z for 35K,, I can afford it, "Bossette" is having a COW,, so say some serious prayers for a brother trying to buy a "bucket list" old school ride, no rust, air, power steering and brakes, NO RUST, and lots of original paint.... Yes it is indeed a "pooch", and it needs a complete "Hotchkiss" bottom end, and it has new polyglass tires??? WTH, anyway, its gorgeous.. its in the top two after 5 years of serious searching.... anyway, I would hate to miss another one...

I didn't make myself clear, sorry...

oh gosh, I was freaking out Bro, but I'm building a small frame billet AR, lol! I'm building the 300 HAM'R, so I'm good!

I bought the one that mimicks the 3 sets of two screws around the circumference of the hand rail like the Wilson Combat, I'll try to give Veriforce a call?? I'm rather certain the Wilson WC-15 Billet set is DPMS High pattern, I have NO reason to doubt you my friend...

So my Gun Tec will NOT work on my Wilson Billet set??

Yep, Oshkosh may be the koolest place on earth at the end of July and into Aug, and as much as I'm hoping someday to visit the SDTF, it will come in slightly behind Kosh, no way around all that aluminum, steel, wood, and fabric! You are quite the shutter bug aren't you?? LOL, finesse taken to a new level...

These damn things will turn, in spite of what the naysayers told us, Dojo's specialty was the "Dojo Drift", a 9 G tactical break, that almost has the aircraft turning itself inside out! Incidentally AF-02 has been to 9.9 G's with the "limiter" out of the system. Only the A model's FCS will allow it to 9G's, the B model limits out at 7G's, and the Navy's Catobar C model limits out at 7.5G's.. The A is a much stronger airframe, smaller and tighter, with less "lose ends".

I've seen two up close on static display, surrounding by a "rope barrier" and a dozen Air Force SP's with M4's, LOL. The finish looks organic, like a downy seal skin, I would have loved to run my hand over that to affirm that?? I made that trip to Wisconsin to Oshkosh to see the air-show in Milwaukee, but it was nasty and raining, so I went home, damn!

I haven't had any luck finding a Wilson Combat handguard, the GunTec appears to be the same design, maybe they make Wilson? anyway, has anybody had any experience with GunTec? thanks

Awesome, they are supposed to be "VERY LOUD"! What?, "VERY LOUD", I can't hear you! nice work my friend!

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Kool, I picked up Little Miss Wilson on Thursday from an old friend with an FFL after the "Specialist" has had some health issues, Beautiful, my Wilson Tactical Hunter Barrel arrived today, the LAST ONE, from Brownell's, now DC'ed by Wilson Combat, and my Wilson Nickle Boron BCG also came from Sun Devil and some numbers in Arizona, also a nice piece... I never knew AR's had so dad gummed many parts----"Parts is Parts" anyway, NO Wilson Combat M-Lok handguards?? the Guntec looks identical?? Yes?? No?? they all out too! so I've found another one?? any other ideas?? I do like Wilsons system with the long reversible nut with six Loctited screws. I need a 12 or 12.6 inch handguard ideally to cover the gas block...

Yep, he looks forward to giving his crew sh!t all year, so this is his happiest two weeks out of the year!! Just "recreational beotching", just wait, if we lose the Trumpster, and end up with "bite me", there will be a lot of that around here, lol!

Thats not good! I gave the Grendel long and serious consideration, I was also considering the 6.8 SPC II, but in the end, most of my shooting is 100 to 300 yds. I ended up with the 308, because I love .30 and I love AR's, and I NEVER go for any off the grid caliber, I've limited myself to 30-06 and .270 Winchester, and my Dad's old Winchester 94. I did NOT like AR's, I did NOT care about AR's, then my BIL came into some hard times and needed some cash, so I took his AR-15T, loud, obnoxious, and accurate, blew the paint off my Dad's shed the first time I shot it... So I'm gonna build the 300 HAM'R, (I don't like HAM anymore either), it all really came down to aesthetics, my only complaint are those flat base boolits, but they are .30 cal and Wilson has a 150 gr load at 2300, up to a 90 gr load at 2800.. and lets be really honest. I love the Billet receiver, I like the Tactical Hunter barrel with the flutes, and I love the looks of the cartridge itself, and it looks like a cartridge that's gonna be happy in an AR... I do love the Grendel, but if I'm smart, I'll wait and build a 6.5 Creed upper for Miss Wilson, and lets face it, Miss Wilson is very well put together indeed, yes she is! I got it out today and shot one group, you know every time I pick that thing up, it just gets better! Federal 150 soft points, but a couple touching, makes me smile thinking about it..

Looks like a lot of fun, and what an amazing shot, the 300 Win Mag is still the magic .30, and no doubt you are gifted as well my friend... but you are right, who would have dreamed he would/could drill that thing, even with a "lucky shot". I never dreamed it would be that windy in the desert? dummy right crazy windy and areas of "dust storms" as we drove West on I-10 toward Tucson... Have fun Bub, and maybe Saturday it will be your turn?? LOL I appreciate everything you do here for us all, you're quite a diagnostician, you should have been a Dr! but then again, you are the "Gun Dr!"

Yes Gentlemen, Happy Veteran's day!

awesome Bub, I will be the worst, but post some pics,, I'm gonna have to upgrade my tech skill! love to see it!

Happy Veteran's day 98, and Happy Veteran's day to the rest of our crew with military service, God Bless you Gentleman, and thank you from the bottom of my heart! I'm proud of my son-in-laws who are in the military or have served! It felt like being back home, to be on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base... it really did. It was epic to see my new son-in-law, put on his camo and combat boots, and go off to work... A-10's and C-130's, the special Blackhawk's of the rescue group there... One morning he got up and put on his "blues" with his "Garrison" cap, you have no idea how many days I saw that as a child. Khaki's, Blues, and the "Flight Suit"! I am still to this day, so proud of my Dad! went into the USAF in 53, was a radio man on a C-119, accepted into cadets! Flew the T-6, C-45, B-25, and a few hours in the A-26, transitioned into C-119's, then moved to Okinawa into the first oversea's C-130 squadron's. Had 75 hours of combat flying time in SEA, in the MC-130E, then back home to Tennessee, as an IP in the C-130. We made the move to Little Rock AFB, Arkansas, with the school house in 69 and 70, I made some bucks mowing all the little Lt's and Capt's yards and bought an orange Kawasaki 90 SS, I love it! anyway, I'm still proud to be an Air Force Brat, thank you Gentlemen! thank you, thank you! and thank you to all you gents who make my shooting more fun, who inspired me to buy my first "BIG" AR, and who's advice and dry wit make this forum family! a special thanks to you 98, yes sir, you are the "real deal". Helping us all, trying to keep us together like an old mother hen, walking us through all our gun malfunctions, patiently trying to "put the pieces together" as you thoughtfully diagnose each issue! (you really can't help your-self! can you??) If its broke, you gotta fix it... and I really love watching your temperature rise as you encounter "stoopid", I'm afraid I may have raised your temp a few degree's each new day!

How do you even do that? I mean really?? would have to be in your top three, "best day ever"!

yep, my boss was bowhunting in the local beer drinking, good ole boy's "Blue Smoothie" local competition deer hunting weekend and stuck a limb... I was on the ground with my recurve, with the biggest Whitetail I had ever seen before or since, in a drainage with about 10 doe's all around with him. Came to full draw without any of them being aware and stuck a "trophy limb", that's why they call it "hunting deer", not "shooting deer"! I still, honest to the Good Lord, cannot believe it! well, yeah, I guess I can, lol!

Did you build one of those Brownell's 308's?? I've got to admit I love that A2 config with the top charging handle, I'd love to shoot one!

Sounds Awesome! I'm just hoping I can find another 2' x 4' white cardboard box to tape my card board water bottle shaper's to, I paint them white and make a V with that awesome blue masking tape, so far has worked great out to about 400 yards, most of my shooting is still well under 200 yards.

Thanks shooter, I haven't really found anything else, I just went ahead and ordered the nickle boron Wilson Combat from SunDevil in Arizona. I'm rather certain the head space will be perfect, and the fact that Wilson is no longer offering a slick side themselves, tells me the supply of what I want is limited.. plus it was just over 200 bucks. I'm extremely happy to have found that fluted 18" Tactical Hunter at Brownell's, as Wilson seems to have discontinued a very large percentage of their fluted barrels. I'm tempted to have somebody cut the threads off and put a nice crown on it as well, but we shall see?? So this little rifle will be a virtual clone of "Miss Wilson", and that will make me very happy indeed...