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I'm lovin' this thread, SS. This is good stuff, brother. <thumbsup>

A single Ranger can break an anvil in a sandpit. It's not a subtle tactic. <laughs>

Nah, you're good. Dirk started this junk, saying it could be loaded for 80 cents a shot! We need to compare the apples to apples, for each round. Like Factory loaded FGMM at $1.20 to Factory loaded 338 LM at $6.00. Reloading, what's it take to get a "FGMM" round, and what's it take to get an equivalent 338LM precision round?

419 now. <thumbsup> Rob, you're lucky Dirk didn't enter his boy - that dude is cute! And COWBOY!

You can run that for a 338LM load?

That's gone, forever, brother. We'll never see that again. Not in today's world.

We're cross-posting brother... I'm replying to your last while you're replying to my last, while... :happydrunks: Comparing a factory load, even FGMM, to a reload. Just compare a factory load to a factory load. If FGMM is $1.20 per round, factory, the 338LM is over $120 per 20-round box - that's $6 per round, factory load.

I can't get powder for $30/lb round here anymore - it's more like $39/lb, which went $40/lb for averaging. Schit ain't cheap anymore. Buck Ofama made sure of that.

Factory FGMM cost would have to equal $6 a round then, brother! <lmao> I get skeered when I look at a box of 20 rounds of 338LM in a place like Cabela's, and it's more than $120!!! :eek:

No way can it be the same, with the powder difference, brother - how'd you get that? You're damn near at twice the powder with .338 LM - 42~45 grains on 308Win, versus almost 90 (or more) grains for 338LM. So, for every pound of powder that I can squeeze 150 rounds out of, for 308Win, I can only get (maybe) 75 rounds for the Lapua Magnum. http://www.reloadbench.com/gloss/grain.html

I'm one, too - fcuk with us and see what happens. We break schit. <thumbsup>

To avoid any problems with barrel fitment, you need to get the one straight from DPMS - not "DPNS" by the way. Their barrel profile, their gas block, their gas tube. Don't deviate from that.

They moved to Yuma, AZ, and I haven't heard much else after that...

He ain't blasting .338 LM for $0.80 per pull, unless he's got some damn Mafia ties... <dontknow> :banana:

I hope all the beltway democraps were sleeping outside that night, without blankets. I'm just sayin'...

^^^ Exactly. Nobody is pissed at Eugene Stoner. They were both very, very smart men, no matter what side they were on. What they have done has been steps of evolution - that we are enthusiasts of. I praise Mikhail for what he accomplished. <thumbsup> EDIT - My "exactly" was for jtallen, not the above post... FWIW... *** jtallen, welcome aboard, brother - we need more Rangers in here to crack some heads. :bat:

We need to set one of these up for the Phoenix area, or anywhere in Arizona. There's enough of us here that we could completely fill the class, without outside advertisement. To sweeten the pot, after-class beer festivities for the instructor would be completely on me. 100% and then some. <thumbsup>

There are lots of ambidextrous parts that you can add to a .308 AR that will help you out, but at this point, nobody makes a true left-handed .308 AR. DPMS might have something ambi for the -15 platform, but Stag/CMT is the only company that make a true upper receiver that ejects from the left side (special bolt carrier, upside-down ejection port door that's on the left, special upper to run the cam pin). There are a couple .308 AR rifles that go above and beyond regular ambi parts, too, with a couple custom touches for left-handed shooters. The SIG 308 incorporates a bolt catch on the right side. Knights Armament does a few special things on their SR-25 platforms, too. You're into some serious big bucks of you get into a KAC rifle, man. Ive been looking at their new SR-25 ECC (Enhanced Combat Carbine)... http://www.knightarmco.com/portfolio/sr-25-ecc/

Got any plans yet, brother? Last year we did some breakfast, and hit the shootin' valley with some tannerite. I'm thinking this could be a tradition, here. <dontknow> <thumbsup> Also, I need to EXPLODE Drew's phone. Still. STILLL.... I'm on the other side of you now, so if you've got keys to the range... I'm just sayin'. <lmao>

What ever it takes to win, brother. <lmao> Ron, if you reload for this thing, you can get from being chambered for $6 bills, down to about $3.50 a trigger-pull. I've run the math on it several times before... :banana:

^^^ I do mine damn near the exact same way. I'm just not monetarily ready with the wet tumbling and SS media! <lmao>

I'm safe out here, in the sand and rocks... and cacti... :tweed:

Wash, you're terrible, dude... <lmao>

Plinker, this is what you're facing - it sucks, too. I didn't even shoot the thing like this. I took the Dremel to it right away. Took the Dremel to it, smoothed that damn notch right out of there, then oiled the plastic. Can't even tell it was done, afterwards. Here's the original thread, if you want to read through it.

All materials being the same (metal grade, heat treating, diameter, taper of diameter, etc), shorter barrels will whip less. That's the whole premise of going shorter on accuracy guns, and the whole thread that we started about it. There's some great info in that thread that directly ties into this conversation, right here.