britx303

I didn’t mean anything negative towards Californians at all, more just a light hearted jab at our own messed up politics, just maybe came out wrong. Sorry bout that. Thank you for the welcome all the same🍻

Ahhh someone who shares my pain……..could be worse, could be in kalifornia : )

16” mid length. 3/4” gas block journal

Good deal! All my parts are now in delivery mode, so hopefully I can get it sorted and test ready within a week or so. As of right now I have not gone the suppressor route, but beginning to look into that.

All good man :) Best of luck to you too!!

So I dont want to get too far ahead of myself and change alot before ive even tested the new buffer, the spring, and gas tube. But is an adjustable gas block a good idea just to go ahead and put on? For all I know the things im about to swap could be the fix. And for what its worth, I do not reload and likely will only ever shoot factory ammo, but this is where im not sure whether or not an AGB is worth it for shooting different weights/loads.?? In the beginning of my roadracing hobby, I learned early on to stop throwing parts and potential fixes to a problem before each potential remedy has even been tested...........seems like me doing an AGB may be a premature attempt (perhaps even a bandaid instead of remedy) and should first test my new parts......but im the newbie to 308 here, hence asking.

My gas block is whatever BCA uses......so will have to check and see if thats an item they say they produce or not. It doesnt say from what im seeing they produce those..............so its anybodies guess where its actually from.

I wasnt sure on the magazines. I thought I had read it can be a finnicky issue with various 308's. Best case here is I end up with a couple more mags for it, and would be great if they all work :)

Thank Yall, much appreciated!

And im going to apologize in advance........im not the best author, but im doing my best to be as clear as I can for yall.

Sorry, bouncing back and forth waterboarding myself to give all my info that I can............BCA lists the gas hole diameter at .086 and when I was checking that with my micro drill bits it was pretty near damn spot on as I stepped the bits til the last one that was closest to that dimension, but the first over it, would not go into the hole. That was a few weeks ago, so to get the exact hole size for yall, I'd have to check again since I stepped away from it til now. So for now i feel safe to say the hole is as sold.......086

My symptoms trying to fire the rifle: FTF, FTE and double feeding. I can fire between 2-4 rounds tops then it fails. Bolt scrapes deep into the sides of the cases or bolt mashes the cartridge side to the point its trash and not worth the risk. I have only been able to source 1-20 round pmag, but did use my brother in laws pmag, and both failed. Ive since ordered an ASC 10 round and a hexmag 10 round to try those once I do the spring and gas tube swap and get back to a range. Those were the only mags I could find last night that would ship to MD, and my local shop only has the pmags.

Thank you!!! Just started a thread there

So here goes...........hopefully I do this right for yall. So just did my first 308. Ive milled and built 10 or so 556 lowers, and complete upper builds a couple times. Ive both pinned on complete uppers and full assemble some. But mil-spec being what it is.......these were easy peasy,cut and dry by comparison to a 308.......I knew this going into it and i'm fine with the learning curve. So specs on lower: Originally used a 3.8oz buffer that was sold as what to use for a 308. No idea on spring rate, as it was a set with the buffer, so at this point im assuming its wrong since now reading here 3.8oz is WRONG. Ive replaced that buffer with one from KAK @ 2.5" length and 5.1oz on my digital scale. Ordered a springco orange spring last night, so I know whats actually in there for the future, and Ive seen it mentioned here a good bit. The extension is the 7" internal dimension. The upper is a rear charging 16" mid-length heavy barrel from Bear Creek Arsenal. I did last night after a few weeks of lurking this site come across the "gas tubes,barrel gas port" thread, and that led me to check the location of where my gas tube ends inside the upper. It does NOT meet in the middle of the cam recess/cutout, and stops quite short by appx 3/16"(visual) from center. Therefore after some more reading and measuring what I have, it appears BCA used a DPMS mid-length tube @ 11.75", but it should have a Armalite spec'd 308 carbine tube @ 12.0625" and that will bring it up to center. This is going by the charts some of yall posted up here, so if I missed something, correct me please.

Wasnt sure where to start a thread on mine and its symptoms, details of build,etc............self-waterboarding :)

I milled and assembled an 80 lower, then ordered a complete upper from bear creek. So naturally im working on working the bugs out

Hey, new guy from MD. Ive been roadracing motorcycles for 10 years now, and taking a hiatus from that to do more shooting again like I used to do alot more of pre-kids. Did alot of strongman and powerlifting meets before that, although ive now found myself back to happily lifting heavy again now that im off from racing. I found this place because I joined the "cheap" 308 idiot crew and started lurking here for info.............but I readily admit it to myself that it was going to be a headache......i'll be totally honest with myself. I dont mind..........ive done alot of vintage racing and thats a far bigger wad of cash down the toilet in the course of one weekend compared to playing and learning on a cheap 308, which ultimately has more value at the end of the day with what gets learned sorting out my rifles issues. Best case scenario with racing is I spend $1K bucks in a weekend and get a couple little 10 dollar trophies and some tire contingency. That being said, i accept my fate while also appreciating those that went the smarter route instead of being cheapasses..........like myself. So anyways, a little about myself. So Hey.