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Probably won't line up, man. Might not be off by much, but you'd have a hell of a time trying to see the difference - and zero those sights.

Hadn't heard about those guys until now. Worth looking into.

Silver State Armory, brother?...

A 14.5" 308 barrel will be EASY to get to the legal 16", with a pinned muzzle device. EASY. Most 308 muzzle devices are long as hell, anyway. Making a legal 14.5" pinned setup wouldn't take too long at all - and it's not illegal to own a barrel that's under 16".

Mine came unmounted, for sure. Some trackworker picked it up and brought it over to me. It's pretty funny when he had it in his hand, looked down and realized it was still on, then threw some kinda Derp laugh into the camera... <lmao> EDIT - HAHA! Found the vid!!! Uploading it now - might take about 17 days to do it, but I'll link it in here when it's up.

You've got the rifling to shoot 168s and 175s to 1000 yards. Don't expect mil-surp 147-grainers to get that far, with great regularity.

What is the max effective range that you think you'll need to engage a target at?

This is a good vid - this girl is smart. Wise words, she speaks. <thumbsup>

The longer bullets do much better at the longer ranges. Longer bullets = heavier bullets, being that they're constrained by diameter. If you're after the best accuracy at the 1000 yard line, the 168s and 175s are going to do better at those ranges. More importantly though - what's the twist rate on your barrel?

Mike, my brother... That's why I like to shoot with YOU. <thumbsup> :banana: I want to keep this thing 5.56. Modern, free-floated version of the Woody.

I need the thing to be impervious to ALOT of $hit. When I'm usually wearing a cam, it's doing something that can cause me some pretty serious bodily harm. Not shooting, typically. $hit with internal combustion engines. I wish I had one on lat T-Day, when the Big CR threw me on the ground. I had one on when I had the LT-R 450 race quad on the supermoto track - and I high-sided that biotch. THAT was FUNNY! I'll try to find that vid someplace... <lmao>

What about BLOOD? I need one that's impervious to blood... I'm just sayin'... <dontknow>

Love those grips - Awesome!

Under $16 for the Gen 3 10-round LR Pmags from DSG Arms, if you have a MIL/LEO account with them. Under $16 for the Gen 3 LR20s, too. <thumbsup>

There's so much power in the size of the .308 Win cartridge - running rifle gas on a 16" barrel on a .308 AR isn't going to affect cycling one bit, provided it's a quality barrel from a manufacturer that knows what to build. You could probably take the barrel shorter than that, with rifle gas, and it would run. EDIT - Some things are shocking... check this out. Read this article: http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2011/08/13/ar-15-hacksaw-pug-15/ When this all went down, there were SO many people giving this guy $hit, saying it wouldn't run, etc. It ran. Holy Sweet Jesus, it ran. Here's the original thread: http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_3_118/543391_Introducing_the_andamp_quot_PUGandamp_quot_.html

When choosing a Geissele, read the reference charts first - figure out what you need/want in a trigger, then match that with what they offer in their reference charts. Believe me, they make something that will suit your needs/wants. Next - SSA over SSA-E. They're identical in function. Identical. Same trigger, really. The SSA has a combined pull weight of 4.5 lbs. The SSA-E has a combined pull weight of 3.5 lbs. Doesn't sound like much, but it's a HUGE performance difference. I would recommend the SSA-E every single time, over the SSA. The extra $$$ in the price is worth it. Next, again - if it's a Geissele trig, and it has a "D" in the acronym, that just means it has a straight trigger, not a curved one. For every single Geissele out there that has a curved trigger, there's a version that has a "D" in it with a straight trigger (not counting the new, weird specialty trigs for the SCAR, etc...). Match up the operations and weights of the triggers, and you can see the curved trigger version and it's straight "D" brother.

Went after a gas-operated 9mm AR like that. Can't remember the manufacturer, but it was high end stuff - it just wouldn't run worth a damn. Swapped the H3 buffer for a standard carbine buffer, and it still wouldn't run worth $hit. Went immediately after the gas port. I can't exactly remember what it was, but it was around 0.060". Went up once, and it ran most of the time. Went up again, I think to 0.083", and it ran like a Singer sewing machine. With the H3 buffer. Shortly after that episode, I started measuring and recording all the gas port sizes on everything I built. If there were ever any problems down the road, I had that info to refer to.

^^^ Those things have been out for years now, at least in prototype form. General Rule: If it's a combination vehicle, it can't do any single thing well. If that biotch was solar powered, it would make a hell of a survival vehicle, though. <thumbsup>

He might be skeered... <dontknow> :banana:

I KNEW it wouldn't take long to be seen, but you were on that one in THREE MINUTES!!! <laughs> <lmao>

I'm REALLY itching to run that Rainier UltraMatch barrel, and see what it does. I looked at the WOA barrel already (beautiful), but didn't think to look at Compass Lake. Gonna go see what they have now... By the way, they have THE BEST free-float setup for a National Match A2 build - that one trumps all others in strength - smart design with the modded gas tube. <thumbsup> <thumbsup>

Should have a matched stripped upper and lower, plus a barrel, on the way in a few days. <thumbsup>

That's all the 308 ARs, brother, not just Armalite. It gets confusing building one, with the three major patterns out there. I feel REALLY bad for all those RRA guys, though... <lmao>

Good modification, man - awesome work. <thumbsup>

Welcome aboard, man, another from AZ - make no mistake about AZ, though... It's been cold here, too. Have to put on a sweatshirt or light jacket recently, which just sucks! <lmao>