Matt.Cross

You're up against at least two factors, if not three, all of which stem from PSA sucking at design and going for cost savings in manufacturing. Your recoil buffer and spring are the known bad factors, the only question remaining is whether or not your buffer tube will work with the correct buffer and spring. Once we have the internal depth of your buffer tube, we can tell you whether or not you need to replace all three items, or just two. This is why we want measurements with pictures. Explaining the physics isn't productive when a buffer tube that's too short will never allow adequate function to begin with....

No problem, welcome to the forums!

Your recoil buffer system isn't up to snuff, PSA has yet to get it right. Post up the internal depth of the buffer tube, preferably with pictures.

It's been cleaned up and is fine, but please don't spam the forums, we'll gladly relocate anything that needs it.

Their website is certainly erroneous and misleading, unless they're actually selling Armalite products as well. Long story short, the term "AR-10" has erroneously become a catch-all phrase for 308 ARs, which causes issues for folks who order aftermarket parts not knowing the difference.

Please explain...

They can be PM'd to you, we won't be posting them to gen-pop....

Preserved for time immemorial.... Yeah, that just happened!

Congratulations Doc, that's quite an accomplishment in this day and age!

Wow, just wow... ETA: On a somewhat related topic, does anyone have any data on the average heat, pressure, and duration of a gnat's fart? I'm pretty sure gnats farting in my face are what's causing my 100 yard group holes to be so ragged....

You had me at 'gunfire'!

what instrument, or instruments do you play?

Also from NC, very near Hickory! Give me a shout via PM if I can help you with anything.

Happy Birthday Ron!!!!

Awesome!

What's this "pulling out" thing ya'll are referring to?

Thanks for looking at the bigger picture before arriving at that conclusion for the rest of us... You had your answer at "call PSA", that's the best answer you could've been given, and it was given in the spirit and intent of helping you. PSA's lackluster performance in the large AR platform is well documented within this community, and we've helped a great many of their customers get their product to work as it should have at the outset, because we ARE a friendly community. What exactly do your handloads have to do with the loss of the screw, that wouldn't be equally plausible with factory ammo?

If anything, the nuclear recoil and target devastation effects of your handloads have been understated.....

I remember the highly philosophical conversations we had while we set that target back up (several times), that's some statistically phenomenal shooting hitting that 1" post or 3/32" paracord at 450, meanwhile missing that big fat impervious plate....

I'm not bothering to read a wall of un-punctuated text. Learn to use a period or comma as God intended. Next!

Is that as far rearward as the BCG will travel? That's not locked to the rear by the bolt catch....

I understand. I get asked all the time why the raincoat never comes off in dry weather.

More so than usual?

Yes, come go look in your fridge! There's cold beer in here there!

That model didn't have a designation aside from the "LR-308" nomenclature. That model (specifically that barrel length configuration) was available in at least three different handguard configurations, two different gas blocks, fluted and non-fluted barrels, and about a half dozen separate muzzle devices, all available by order from DPMS's website back in the day.