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Doesn't seem like much (84 rounds), but it's quite the job to take these heavy little bastards from 5.56 brass all the way to loaded 300BLK. Lots of steps. The most time consuming part is trimming them to length once they've been formed and deprimed. I've been cutting them shorter in the mini chop saw just so I don't have as much trimming-to-length to do. I end up cleaning them 3 times through this process, not counting the tumble the brass gets when it gets off the range. Wasn't even 100 rounds, but it still took 2 days to complete. Greg, I have a better idea, brother - we build you a 300BLK rifle! :hethan: Here's where I'm at from the last couple weeks - everything on the right side of that upper tray is all loaded Blackout. That's 530 new cases made, with another 3 mags to load and stack in there. It eats up some time.

I'd keep working on them, instead of giving up on your money - they apparently got too big too fast, and didn't anticipate that. This is from their contact page: "At Northwest Custom Precision, our attentive staff is available Monday through Saturday to answer all of your questions and ensure you are 100% satisfied. Our address is : North West Custom Precision 790 30th St Bldg H Suite 3 Springfield, OR 97478 To contact us please email us at northwestprecision@outlook.com We are no longer able to take phone calls at this time. Answering the phone and returning messages has become a fulltime job and we can not afford to take time away from production in order to keep up with the demand of the phones. We already receive hundreds of emails daily, we will do our best to respond to your emails within 48hrs. Please be patient, we have become much busier than we ever anticipated. Customer satisfaction is still our top priority and we are working on adding staff to handle the work load that is coming in. Thanks again for your support Team NW Precision."

Just finished up the 150gr BLK rounds. 84 brand new ones to take out next week.

Something in the upper is moving - barrel nut definitely check. That barrel, or the optics, are moving on you. How your shooting technique? I can't imagine it's bad, because the .223 is putting down 2" groups at the same distance.

Got it - sorry ,man. That was my fault.

No butthurt in it at all Shibi. Takes time to help people out when they have questions. Just not wasting any more time on it. <thumbsup>

Yeah Greg!!! I love a good RockChucker!!! <lmao>

Cali Ed - just so you know - I could give you a metric $hit-ton of information. It is my decision to not give you ANY information, based on your "folly" of your 800m target. People chose to help you through your build, through your shooting questions, etc. You must have thought that was a joke, and you made fun of us. At this time - just so you know - the joke is now on you. There are many of us that will not help you anymore. Your questions will go un-answered, and the meaninful information you wish to seek is now gone. Those that know will not respond. I wish you luck, and I hope you do well in your shooting endeavors. Pretty fucking funny, yeah?! HAHA! <lmao>

You need to look back at the days that/when the Technical Data Package (TDP) was approved for the M16, or more recently, for the Colt M4/M4A1. At those times, in those days (it goes to the M16), C158 was a damn strong material, and that's what they deemed was necessary for the material for the bolt - at that time. Other materials have been made since then, of superior quality and strength, that surpass C158. It's up to you to determine if your bolt manufacturer is making bolts that meet or exceed that minimum standard of what's required from C158.

That's another 350 miles, right there - I'm just sayin'... If you're going to make that trip for that distance, hit Devil's Tower. Yep, no joke, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" Devil's Tower. That thing is a sight to behold, in person.

I can make it cheaper for you, Rob. Hornady 150 gr FMJ is my go-to load. <thumbsup>

FUK that! It's pretty obvious that you don't have kids. Just simply for that fact that I KNOW HOW I WAS... I'll kill a motherfucker over the poop I did. When my son starts trying to pull the $hit that I used to, I jerk a knot in his a$s so fast that he doesn't even realize he just got in trouble. That's not a double standard. That's life. I know better now. If you ever have kids, you might understand.

Well, it does have more meat than the DPMS, and that's definitely been posted up before, with pics. Filing it down to work in DPMS receiver is what needs to be done to have a stronger catch, it's as simple as that. Drive on, think what you want, and argue what you will - it's been proven numerous times, well before you started your build, and well ahead of your knowledge curve on this stuff.

She'll end up with the 300BLK EOTech on that one. She's been after that one for awhile now, so that's gotta be the one. I never, ever should have let her talk to the rep in Vegas. It was all over, right then...

All the more reason to move next door, and hang out with me, brother!

Deprimed and formed - swaging primer pockets next, trimming to length, and chamfering. New Blackouts make you feel good. :banana:

Damn, two of these things in the house, and no pics of them in this thread. Mine - still needs a few more things, but I shoot it as-is now... Dawn Marie's Ghost Gun Blackout...

Sorted a bag of mixed .223/5.56 brass last night. 84 brand new baby Blackout cases were just born a few minutes ago! <lmao> Sorted out the 2011 and 2012 Lake City 5.56 NATO and chopped 'em up! They're on their way... <thumbsup>

After watching SS do his barrel comparison between .308 16" and 20", I've watched for all the little details in the numbers. After seeing what he's been doing, I've revised what I do on accuracy-ammo for my 5.56 rifles. I've been sorting my Lake City brass by year, and then weighing each brass piece to see the differences in weight. I've combined some years of brass based on similar weight, and marked and sorted (loaded) ammo based on that. Haven't had them out yet for a good shoot and comparo, but I'll get to that once it cools down here. Everything makes a difference, and if you can keep as much as possible "the same," you'll definitely see the differences that it makes, downrange.

He can send it to me, and I'll weigh it out on my coke-gram scale. I'm just sayin'...

The Armalite AR-10 bolt catch works even better than the DPMS version does. More meat to it. I'm just sayin'...

Gawd Damnit. :rant2: <laughs>

Who doesn't like ANYONE... :bat: :thefinger:

NO SOUP FOR YOU!!!

^^^ He's gonna do fine here, I just feel it. <thumbsup>