Matt.Cross

I don't blame you, it's awfully competitive outside of that closet....

I've lost count of how many I've used through the years, LaRue's mounts are great kit.

That's a great read, and very on-point with regard to communication and trusting your spotter. That lesson concreted itself at the Spring Shoot when a miss looked different from my perspective, yet trusting the spotters call got me on target in a jiffy, rather than adjusting by my data.

Let's hope he reads that before he sees your response to @unforgiven in the other thread...

Rocks and sticks were "cutting edge" in his day, pardon the expression...

Thank you brother!

Happy Birthday! Mine is tomorrow, evidently all the awesome people are Pisces...

*yawn*

This whole post needs to be a bumper sticker.

Oooh, nice! I'm drooling.... Well, ok, more than usual...

That's the very one. Only thing on it that isn't factory (besides the optic & bipod) is the 20 MOA rail from EGW.

There's no wrong choice there, I'd personally base it on ammo availability right now. I think you'll have less trouble finding good 300 Win Mag ammo than you will good 6.5 Creedmoor, but if you reload that's all a moot point.

It would be a lot easier if they'd start arriving in pairs. This one kid every 2-3 years stuff is taking forever....

I'm trying to figure out in what universe this would be considered an undesirable side effect....

I have the TAC A1 in 6.5 Creedmoor. An incredibly accurate and smooth rifle. Beautifully engineered and well executed in it's design, it's a masterpiece of form and function. I highly recommend it.

You're absolutely right, ripping up squirrels with a saw would be unethical. That's exactly what the minigun was for, handling any over-aggressive tree rats that might take exception to the modification of their natural habitat.

That's a good idea, more useful working load, and can have a door gunner man the Dillon minigun, just in case some squirrels get out of hand, or something....

Let's do it, I got some bushes getting out of control in my yard....

I'd love to do his job!

I love my shirt brother!

I don't know that your issue has a single cause, but I DO know that you've found and can correct a significant issue. When you have the right length gas tube, it'll end at or very near to the center of that cutout.

That's a great photo, your gas tube is well shy of the center of the cam pin relief cut.

Quantify for me where it should be going and why. Bear in mind, this is not the standard AR platform, so I'm not interested in the old wives' tales from the standard AR side of things.... Where does the brass need to go, and more importantly, why?

As it will likely be done in either a drill press or by hand with a drill, I don't recommend a carbide bit, standard high speed steel bits will work just fine. Don't get them from Harbor Freight though, you don't want to try to remove pieces of drill bit from your barrel. Buy a single numbered standard HSS bit from your local hardware, use a suitable cutting oil and a hand drill and go slow, letting the bit do the work. Midrange on the RPMs, nothing crazy, mild pressure for the drill. It will follow the existing hole and the burr in the bore will disappear with the next shot that goes downrange. Easy peasy.

Have never heard of them and they aren't a current site partner, so can't vouch for them.