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Back in 2008 is when I noticed it. That is around the time I decided to get into reloading. You couldn't get primers or casings and powder was scarce and factory ammo was out. 22 shells were non existent as well. I was working in the south after election day and it just happened to be the day after election and I had off. So I went into town. There was a line all the way out the door people standing in line to purchase semi automatic weapons. Didn't matter what they were whatever was available they bought. After that I stock up every chance I get knowing it comes every election year. Needless to say it took at least a year to get the items needed. No reason the ammo factories couldn't ramp up production long before hand. We just had our deer season and a lot of people couldn't get ammo. I just smile looking at the empty shelves.

Speedy recovery hopefully. I have had 6 relatives that I know of that got Covid. All but one with some underlying health issues. All from 78 down to 10 years old. All recovered. Today I have a head cold hopefully. But my daughter and newborn (4 days) old are staying at my house. Wasn't worried of covid until now. I couldn't live with myself if I give a newborn covid. Hope all goes well for you and your family.

That's great, because the only knowledge I have on the AR is from you guys. Definitely a different tool.

25 years I have some interesting stories and places. But like any job, it has its boring times as well. Thanks for the welcome.

Thank you.

I said whining after your initial post that you deleted. Look at the date and time. Where does it say in the forum that I have to pay to ask questions or get info? I thought that was the purpose of all the vendor listings. I have now posted on the intro section. Never seen a person so interested in someones background.

Thank you.

Never said he wasn't knowledgeable. I never said anything disrespectful and gave all the info I could when asked by all the people trying to help. Scroll through and tell me where I said anything remotely disrespectful prior to him posting his jabs at me. I posted the comment above and its pretty straight forward.

Hello all, I am a new member as of a week ago. Been shooting all my life, bought a precision rifle 12 years ago and that got me into reloading as well. Since I have a .308 platform already, I decided to build an AR in .308, didn't have a clue what parts were even needed. Well with all the chaos I ended up scrambling to get parts and wait weeks for parts as well. In the process I ordered some wrong parts as well and had to settle for what I could get. Nice thing about the AR as I can always change parts later. So far I have had lots of help with my questions. My background in a quick breakdown was, grew up hunting in Wisconsin, NFO in the Navy based in Florida, then AZ, MN back to WI. as a civilian in the aviation industry for 20 years, working as a Aircraft technician then a pilot for corporations. Pretty much if it has to do with Aviation I have done it. That career has also moved me to Alaska and LA. Not the liberal LA but Louisiana. Back in Wisconsin now probably until retirement. I have hunted Grizzly and Moose, wild hogs, wolves and Whitetail. I also have an IR set up for my TRG-22 platform that I want to start hunting coyotes. My career keeps me gone a lot, so when I do have time for my shooting hobby I have to hit the ground running, then it's back to work. When I am not flying I am working on aircraft still. Plus the company I work for also has me doing things for them other than aviation. Anyone interested just ask for more info. At some point hopefully I can research more of the forums. I have purchased through some of the vendors on here.

Sure thing, I copied part of it before it was deleted. I sent you all the info I had, and responded to the others that were trying to help. But the parts weren't available. So I decided to try and make my own part for testing. That's when you decided to post the comment I attached. I thanked you for the help you were giving then you decided to be a complete prick.

No it's just the one guy that went on a rant. Then deleted his post. 98 is his/her user name. Everyone else has been pretty good

Looks like the whining comment was deleted. Quite a forum. At least most put in the effort to be cordial.

I am going to run about 50 rounds through it. Then get back to what I did. I made my own adjustable buffer to adjust to whatever oz. I want. And a few other mods. Finally said hell with it and used my aerospace experience to make my own parts.

I figured it out. Now to tune it for suppressor at some point.

This tube is rifle length 9 3/4 inside, 5.4 oz buffer that's 5 1/4" long, spring is 12 7/8 with 38 coils.only in stock option I could get.

Currently has 13 fires on it. Aero Precision brand. Buffer is 5.4? Go higher still?

I bought a rifle length tube and buffer assembly 5.3 oz. From a local shop. Online was sold out. Finally fired it without the silencer. Looks like it ejects around 1 or 2 o'clock. Definitely forward. Casing has a dimple and skid mark where the carrier ejector hits then turns under pressure. See pics. Pics with two casings is with the carbine length and 3.4oz buffer? You can see it was ruining the brass and putting "C" Mark's. Single casing is the just fired. Much better, and reusable for my TRG-22 reloads.

My gas tube at least appears correct. Looks like the one in the example.

My tube is 7" inside. Are you saying I can just up my weight or do I need everything swapped. The gun shop knows less than me. He said what I have should work fine. But it doesn't. He has lots of parts but not friendly. He has a luth-ar rifle length I will try for now.

Any recommendations on a quality buffer assembly that meets those specs? Looks like everyone is sold out

Omega 300

Thank you for the info, I have some leg work to do and will follow the process you posted. I will get back when I change the buffer system out and fire it again. Suppressor was bought for my TRG so I thought I would fire a round and see what happens. I will get it tuned before trying to suppress it.

I built up an LR308, I fired it a few times and it seemed fine, didn't blow up. But it did leave little "C" Mark's on the casing rim, seemed to toss the casing about 1 or 2 o'clock, and cycled without jamming and BCG stayed locked back when empty. Kicked pretty good and loud. Figured I would work on tuning later. My suppressor approval came so I fired one shot with the suppressor, casing ejected at roughly 3 o'clock but not 100% sure. Jammed and pinched the next bullet pretty good. Dented the casing. Both times I used Hornady 168 match bthp, didnt want to use my reloads testing a new rifle. This is what I have, something must be wrong. 18" CMMG barrel, gas tube length 15", gas block non adjustable. .936? Dia 15" handguard Bcg aero precision and upper Buffer tube 7-1/4 long Buffer spring 10-7/8 long, 25 coils. .070 Buffer weight 2-1/2" long. No idea oz.