Matt.Cross

Grandfather Mountain is still awesome! I never tire of it.

I wouldn't recommend Asheville to anyone. It's a pretty place, but it's practically a miniature California as far as the people & politics are concerned. It gets better and better the farther from Asheville you get though.

Holy crap! You mentioned a non-Gieselle trigger? I dang near passed out! Are you feeling ok?

I will trade all the moving help you can possibly use for the opportunity to learn and utilize the CNC machinery. All you have to do is bring yourself on over here to North Carolina!

Thanks everybody. We're all back home now, and everybody is doing great, just a little tired. Again, I appreciate all the congratulations and well wishes. As for his build, yeah, I gotta get on that ASAP.

LOL.... He is incidentally named after me!

7lbs 1oz He's a nice healthy little fella. Got to the hospital around 1am, and he was here just a couple minute after 5am with no issues. Thanks everyone for the congrats & well wishes. He's a fine boy, I'm privileged to get to make him a fine man.

@ 5:03am, it's a boy!!!

I tried guns but they don't come with tax breaks....

You guys are temporarily assigned to my post as overwatch for the back 40. My wife just went into labor with kid #3, by this time tomorrow afternoon, I'll be proud papa for the 3rd time. Wish me luck fellas!

LOL So true....

You can celebrate your 6,000th post with a warning for that little gem.... >:D

YOU CAN'T HAVE HER! I SAW IT FIRST! <laughs> ... Well, technically, I guess Jon saw it first.. (Sorry bastard) .. but I saw it before you, so you just gotta get in line buster!

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*speechless & drooling*

If you're open to the idea of a .936 gas block size, your options are a little more open. My statement was based on your requirements for chrome-lined, med-weight contour, and .750" gas block. That my friend, is a unicorn. ;) The alpha rail shouldn't be an issue unless you're trying to fit a gas block under the rail, then you might have issues depending on what your GB size happens to be.

I don't want to be rude, but it's the appropriate profile all the way to the gas block. After you reduce the profile to .750 at the gas block, you've got to be @ that diameter or less all the way to the muzzle. Therefore, you will have difficulty locating a medium-profile barrel with a .750 gas block, unless you machine your own profile and use a two-piece gas block.

Yep. Armalite themselves offers chrome-lined 1:10 twist barrels for their AR-10 platform.

The do-it-all rifle has been conceptualized time and again here. You need to know that you aren't wearing out your welcome as much as you're trying to reinvent the wheel. The answer that most of your predecessors arrived at, is to build two uppers for the same lower. One that meets their precision requirements, and one that meets their CQB/SHTF/EOTWAWKI/Zombie Invasion requirements. The problems that will continue to remain a problem, is exactly what wise Mr. Magwa pointed out. Crap ammo is crap, you can't expect anything except the perpetual degradation of performance once you start using it. If price point is your mitigating factor, reloading is still the best choice. There is all kinds of cheap crap to buy for reloading that still won't be as detrimental as Mil-Surp.

^^^^ Wow, whole new meaning for "wet raspberry" right there....

Running Tubbs CS flat-wound with standard rifle buffer, no issues here. Unless there's a fitment issue with the CS flat-wound spring with Slash's buffer, I don't see any reason not to combine them.

You don't need an adjustable GB to run suppressed, it'll just be dirtier on the whole when you clean it. Been shooting through an Ops Inc 12th for quite some time now, only noticeable effect on the gas system is that there's more of it and it seems to cycle more reliably with junk ammo. ;)

You're GTG brother, we've kinda gotten used to doing things in a different manner than most, but you've done nothing wrong. Don't sweat the petty stuff, pet the sweaty stuff. :D

I've been swelling like a balloon for the last 4 years or so, steadily rising from the trim 150lb mark all the way to the blimpish 180lb mark. They're going to have to moor me in a hangar somewhere soon...

That and punching Eugene Stoner in the arm and saying "...and you wanted to give me flak about 'Garand thumb'...." <laughs>