BrianK

I've been doing the same thing as older age sets in. The really long guns just don't handle as well for me anymore so I've been selling them off to a brother, the ones he wants anyway. The others, so far just a Rem 870 that I had since the '70s, went on consignment. Amazingly, it took weeks for it to sell. I guess folks don't like machined steel anymore. In an act of penitence (and because I'm a gun guy) I have been filling the space freed up in the safe with bullpups, pistols, and SBRs. Firearms that I can handle better than the conventionally stocked long guns. Anyway, the wife requested that she not be saddled with having to sell things she knows nothing about. She's SOL there, yeah, these things breed, but haven't done so in a year or 2 since I still have all bases covered (at this time).

A "few" mags on order for my GHM9 SBR. These were $15 less than the B&T version from Switzerland that are out of stock everywhere. Fingers crossed that they work as well as the real deal. Can't have too many mags 'cause as every gun banner knows, "Once they're empty that's it! They're no good.". (Or idiotic thoughts by a jackass to that effect.) https://www.rainierarms.com/kci-usa-b-t-mp9-tp9-apc9-ghm9-magazine-30rd/ They were ordered last night and shipped today.

10.3" barrel, H2 buffer and standard power flat wire carbine buffer spring. Don't do as I first did and just grab any spring from the parts box. It was a rifle spring with too many turns and it didn't work. What I have works with supers and subsonic, but I load for the firearm. I have purchased some commercial subs (S&B) and they didn't work. Re: the long spring, I clipped off the excess turns and amazingly it worked fine. Go figure.

I like that!

The Volquartsen barrel is starting to just cause me amusement every time I check on the status of the order. What else can I do but smile and chuckle? Yeah, I know I can cancel it, but that's not going to happen. I hope to have it by next spring. That darn Putin and his supply chain issues!! One would think someone in this country would be able to fix them. Good thing hitler and hirohito didn't have the same control of our country 80 years ago! (Of course I jest. I know that it's biteme getting us accustomed to a much lower standard of living. That of just getting by.) Volquartsen Firearms Lightweight Threaded Rifle Barrel and Forend Ruger 22 Charger Takedown, 22 LR, 1/2x28 TPI, Carbon Fiber, VFCTDLW-FE x 1 SKU: 2PG-RTB-TRBAF22-VFCTDLW-FE Expected to be shipped on 10/20/2022

Nice looking build! I'm still not in the family, not really. I have no idea what I'd use an AR10 for, but I lusted after one decades ago. I have one remaining .308 Win bolt gun left in the safe (I'm on a firearm reduction diet), but built a 300BLK AR that I figure will do everything that I need a .30 to do.

Thanks. So then maybe I did remember it correctly. When I got to thinking about it I had the same reaction as Sketch did.

Not all 300BLK ammo runs in all guns. I read "adjustable BCG" in their text, but it's more an adjustable gas port I think is what they meant*. Or maybe I remember it wrong. I don't have an adjustable port in mine because I make my ammo to work in my gun w/o adjustment, just using standard parts. I wanted to keep mine simple. FWIW, I've tried one commercial subsonic load that wouldn't reliably function in my AR. Would it work with an adjustable gas port? IDK. The same brand supersonic ammo works fine, but supersonic is easy. *Maybe they meant adjustable buffer? They exist.

I already have a 300BLK whose buffer folds, but the double fold version of the linked to handgun is what really interests me. Yes, in 300BLK, that's why it was posted in this section and I crapped on the same gun in .223. I needed to communicate that better. Mine is dependent on a 14" foreend (by design) so it's a bit long. I wanted a 10" barrel and the can adds another 4". So the double fold 300BLK is very attractive to me. Would I ever need it? I highly doubt it. I doubt that I'll ever need to use the folding buffer on my existing 300BLK. But it's there if I need it. What I don't have is an adjustable BCG in my 300BLK. That would be new for me and something I didn't want in my build. Why doesn't mine have an adjustable BCG? My concern is that when it's needed most it would somehow fall out of adjustment and not work. I like the KISS principle. That attitude comes from knowing nothing about them. I just see it as something to go wrong at the worst possible moment.

Why is this here in 300BLK? Because I don't want to take flash pics with a .223. https://www.foldar.com/ I have no attachment of any sort to this company. I just find the handgun very attractive, just not when chambered in .223.

That's nice performance! I'm surprised from such short limbs, but I don't stay up on it. Yeah, nice XBow!

Nice X Bow! Well, you know, but I need to state it again, with an Excaliber one never shoots at the same place twice! Yes, it happens until one learns to deliberately open up the group. Just curious, what's the shaft weight and speed?

Yeah it does. But I waited 4 years for a DT MDR and another year before I put a stop to a 300BLK conversion for it; best thing I ever did was get a refund for the conversion. So I contacted the retailer who has my barrel order. I figured that there had to be more that got lost in the bureaucracy. There was. They expect more in house on 9/15. Why couldn't they just say that!!??? 4 days difference? Really? That makes it no ETA? I expect it to change again though. We'll see. A lot needs to happen to make a carbon fiber barrel and it's like a supplier dance. With supply chain issues due to soft serve joe anything can happen. As I told them in a reply, everyone is in the same boat, even Volquartsen has them out of stock. But at that point (9/15) I'm in no hurry. I was hoping to have it for the last Steel Challenge match of the season but that's likely not going to happen. It needs to be sighted in and tested for reliability with my ammo and that takes time. I should definitely have it on line for next year though. This year if everything falls into place; what are the chances? I'll also have a new sight budgeted to hopefully keep the existing sight on the Ruger Charger Takedown (I need to mark the sight location on the frame for a return to zero since it can't exist on the frame with the new barrel) and put a new sight on the new barrel. Or vice versa. I might save the $ for a new sight and put a crap sight on the old barrel if it's ever needed. It all depends on the new barrel and if I see it ever coming off. But I like redundancy so that needs to be factored in. Also to be factored in, if the OEM barrel needs to be used, I hate crappy anything that I didn't like for first string. I want to slap on what I used and found to work nicely (and it has for years now). Lots to mull over and decide on. But really, 4 days difference makes it no ETA? Glad I contacted them for better info'. But it doesn't make for faster delivery.

Barrel update (again). I just got an email telling me that the barrel has no ETA at this time.

Very interested in updates. I have Walker ear buds now but they block gunshot noise and talking, but the biggest issue is that they only last approx 4 hours then die. That's the pits! The ProEars state 10 hours. That's more like it. Don't know if I need the latest and greatest like you folks got. I'm thinking the $70 unit will do everything I want.

Well that sux about those sites. I figured it was too easy. Like finding all sorts of Trail Boss on hinkey sites.

Is this what you're looking for? https://armalitearms.com/product/armalite-308-203-detachable-rear-sight-handle-ea5050/ Or this? https://www.zzarmory.com/productid1210/ I have no idea what happens if you try to put one in your cart.

The Volquartsen barrel at the time I ordered on May 16th was said to ship in 3-6 weeks. Then I was informed that it would be shipped on 8/1/22. I just checked and now it'll be shipped on 9/11/22.

I can't help with the question, but I can say welcome to the forum!

I had to laugh too. Illegal to wear body armor in the commission of a crime... Isn't it illegal to commit a crime in the first place? I bet the dirtbag also has a firearm, maybe that's illegal too? I also have to comment that NYS politicians (more dirtbags) now can't wear body armor when doing their work since what they are doing is a crime. Jackasses. More laws against the law abiding folks that will do NOTHING(!) to stop or even give a pause to crime. Jackasses.

You read it correctly. I decided to try not putting a GC on a bullet made for one. I had to try it 😊 . I have plenty of GCs on hand and more on order. The GCed bullets worked much better and it's not an issue to put one on as I size them. I have 2 more moulds on hand for lighter bullets; one that will take a GC and one that is made to be coated with a plain base (no GC). Experiments... The coating I'm using is Hi-Tec using their wet method. I coat them 2x then size them. If I need to I'll coat them 3x, but the twice coated pass the tests. But I'd like to recover one that's been fired to eyeball it. Maybe if I soak a stack of magazines overnight to turn them into pulp that might catch them. So far I'm happy with the results I'm getting. I never dreamt I'd ever actually need to cast bullets even though I had the wheel weights.

If I get time I'll dial in these loads a bit more. Next on the agenda are bullets in the 150ish grain weight. I have a no GC (gas check) mould in hand designed exclusively for coated bullets and one on it's way to me that takes a gas check. We have an outlaw match once in awhile (If you bring it you can shoot it type match*) and I want to use the 300BLK handgun in it. So a lighter supersonic bullet is what's needed for 200 yard+ shots. I tried to buy 147gr bullet pulls but I couldn't find any. A year ago there were plenty available. Sux to be me I guess. But once I have the moulds I can make what I want and as many as I want so buying it didn't hurt at all. All of these cast bullets should be usable in .32/20 which is on a back burner at the moment. *Last year I was going to shoot my suppressed 9mm SBR. I was going to just skip the long range stage and not mortar in my 9mm bullets. But the RO brought a rifle and ammo for me and told me there was no way I was going to not shoot them. But I prefer to shoot my own gun. I think 150s will work fine for me.

The wife asked what I wanted for Fathers Day. I immediately stated "Another bullet mould." So this NOE 5 cavity mould was ordered. https://noebulletmolds.com/site/product-category/bullet-moulds/308-311/309-146-sp-h2/ Surprise, surprise, the order I had with Botach that sat on the loading dock for 10 days? The one I told them yesterday to cancel and refund my money? It shipped today. Just a coincidence I'm sure. I'll bet the NOE order ships today. They handle orders the way I did when I had a mail order business. I always thought that the customers $ was loaned to me until I actually earned it by shipping their product. Actual shipping and not slapping a label on a package and having it wait until I was good and ready to ship it. Some orders got shipped in the same hour I received it.

I never thought I'd ever cast bullets. But during the Klinton years I saw the writing on the wall and bought 2 55 gallon drums of wheel weights, 1500-1800lbs'. Now I'm glad I have it. At my age it's a lifetime supply. Everything else (except Trail Boss powder) I've stacked high and deep. I'll never live long enough to use all of it. If I do I'll be extremely surprised. Canuck', it's a skill worth learning. I learned on #4 buckshot. If you can cast them and fill out the mould you can cast anything. They were a curse, but ultimately a great learning experience for me.

I ordered the 300BLk conversion at the same time and after it didn't show after another year (but dealers had theirs) I cancelled. That makes 5 years. I should have cancelled the entire order years sooner. After delivery DT upgraded the MDR and crapped on all their early buyers. Wonderful company. They send me emails with expensive stuff for sale and I just delete them. When I requested a refund they had the balls to charge me for the check after they used my $ for all that time interest free!