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You're working with a .308 Win round now - don't worry about that. You can have a 16" barrel, with a rifle-gas system, that runs fine. Get the 5.56 stuff outta your head with these. Flush it. Wait for the Fulton Armory 18.5" stainless. medium contour barrel, by Criterion, if you want the 1:10 twist. It's a winner, by far.

He hit it... ^^^

Right now, brother?

seasprite - that opposite of what I was thinking - using the berdan-primed (spent) brass, decapping it so you can reload it (running boxer primers). Not sure about the other way - unless that stuff above would work.

^^^ Like he says, it's not just gonna go together. You need to be machinin' to make the 14.5" work on a Dissy, and get a front sight on it. Now, 14.5" barrel with a 12" handguard is easy, when you free-float it. Run a flip up front sight on the rail. I've done several of those. It's not a Dissy, but it's the shortest you're gonna legally go (when it's pinned to over 16"), and run the max handguard - rifle length. I have seen some people run a 13" or 13.5" on 14.5" barrels, and those images should show up in an online search. 12" rail, 14.5" pinned barrel: Another one, 14.5" with 12" rail: 16" barrel with a 13" Troy rail:

Hey brother, .223 Wylde is a hybrid chamber between 5.56 NATO, and .223 Remington. Bottom line in 5.56 guns, and the short story - .223 Rem is a shorter, tighter chamber than 5.56 NATO chamber. Chamber pressures are different, with the two. Same with the ammo. NATO cases are not identical to .223 Rem cases, and when loaded to the same levels, NATO cases yield a higher pressure, when fired. You can run a lower-pressured .223 Rem round in a 5.56 NATO chamber. No worries. You can run a higher-pressured 5.56 NATO round in a .223 Rem chamber. For a little while. Over time, the .223 Rem chamber won't continue to hold those higher 5.56 NATO pressured rounds. .223 Rem chambers are inherently more accurate, over something chambered in 5.56 NATO. The 5.56 NATO chambers will run anything through them, and just run. One is accurate, one is a workhorse, in a sense. .223 Wylde chambers are the hybrid between the two chambers. You can run .223 Rem ammo, 5.56 NATO ammo, and it's all good, through a Wylde chamber. It accepts both (5.56 chamber accepts both, too). In a simple way to look at it, it's like a match chamber for 5.56 NATO ammo, and it shoots .223 Rem ammo very well, too. There's a ton of technical info that I've put up on the two, but that's it, in a nutshell. I searched, briefly, for a graphic I had posted, that showed chamber dimensions, and didn't find it. It's here somewhere.

What are you buildin', dude? 5,56 gun? There is no Wylde chamber for a .308 cartridge. That's 5.56/.223 stuff, exclusively.

The vid Jon is talking about, that's posted, is exactly that. The guy used a die, water-filled cases, and hydrostatically BLOWS the berdan primers right out. Reloads with normal boxer primers.

I would think that setup, in CT, especially now, would call him a Felon. fornicate them in the neck. :yup: I wouldn't chance it with those shady fuckers.

Here's a Dissy barrel I'm working on. 16" barrel, carbine gas system, and the front sight assembly. The 12" rifle-length handguard will butt right up to that front sight assembly, when it's all done. This is for the 300BLK. On a 16" barrel for a 5.56 gun, you could run a midlength gas system, still get a front sight assembly on there, and have a very nice gun.

Talk to me, Goose. What are your plans? Tell me how far you wanna go with the Dissipator look, brother. If you run a rifle-length handguard (12" handguard), you'll need a 16" barrel to run the Dissy, and maintain a front sight assembly. A 14.5" barrel just isn't enough barrel, in order to have a front sight assembly, and still have a 12" rifle-length handguard. Now, you can run a pinned 14.5 (pinned muzzle device, to bring you over the 16" BATFE SBR minimum), run a 10" handguard (only freefloats are available in that length), and still have a Dissy look to it. It can not be a 14.5" midlength gas system barrel - it must be a carbine gas barrel. Otherwise, still no room for that real micro gas block that you'll need, and the front sight assembly. Here's a 16" barrel, rifle-length handguards, front sight assembly - the Dissy look. This this doesn't have a real gas block, and it doesn't have a gas tube, though - it's the blowback-operated .45 ACP AR.

Now that you made a reappearance, you're stuck with us. Like In-Laws. Don't think you can just take off again... <laughs>

I haven't seen a modern .308 Win barrel what wouldn't accept 7.62x51 rounds. Forster lists the following dimensions for 7.62x51, for their gauges (min and max, go and no-go): HG762NATOMin 7.62 NATO--1.6355" length plus .0003" minus zero (minimum chamber) HG762NATOMax 7.62 NATO--1.6455" length plus zero minus .0003" (maximum chamber)

What barrel do you have?...

Can you even get the big MagPul followers separate, like you can their 5.56 followers?

Sure, have it cut down to 18" to 20" at the same time, too - you'll thank yourself later, unless it's a bench-only gun that you're squeezing the max accuracy out of. Ship it off to ADCO, in Ohio. 'Bout the best in the business, as far as a non-factory AR gunsmith goes.

You have alot of catching up to do. I'm just sayin'... <dontknow> <laughs> Ben, welcome aboard. Hide your wallet. Don't think I'm joking... >:D <thumbsup>

That's the straight truth, right there - there's no way in the world I could ever hold a thread-jack against someone. That "throwing stones when you live in a glass house" stuff, 100 percent and then some... <lmao>

LAPG is running a special, for a limited item. Get 'em fast!

Short answer to the short question - No, it is not over. You mentioned seeing "parts, accessories and ammunition that was almost impossible to come by 3 weeks ago is now readily available at several venders with declining prices..." I'm curious as to what those parts, accesories and ammunition items are, because it's still damn tough to find most things. The only thing I've seen making a comeback is .22LR ammo, from certain manufacturers, and it sells out immediately.

Barnes stopped production of the .224 70gr TSX round. THAT tore me up.

It's that TSX round, brother - that thing is wicked. Barnes does load this one themselves, and it's the Barnes VOR-TX boxed stuff. Those are all TSX loadings (the VOR-TX, that is). I've been looking for the 110s for the Blackout from them, but that poop is OOS everywhere.

The PRS takes the A1-length AR-15 rifle receiver extension. Just for info. Any AR15 rifle-length receiver extension will work. And, you're right - they're not easy to find right now. They're out there, but you have to dig - if Robo doesn't have one.

Dave, I was gonna recommend the same thing, when I saw your initial post. WMD Guns does NiB coating, which would be my suggestion for a part that has so much movement. <thumbsup>

This is also not an AR-10-specific thread, so I don't understand why it's in this section - at least, at the point it has progressed to.