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There's so much information coming out about this, so fast, that I missed this one 2 weeks ago. This is pretty mega-huge. Like MAGA-'Uge. If this goes through, it wrecks the entire known system...

Both of those are badass, brother. I love a good Tanto blade, and that first one is just badass. That second one is almost a Kukri - and I love those bastards, too. Very nice - great scores. Those are fine blades.

Check this thread again, man...

Damn! 3 full sets still available! Here's the direct link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/266003958894?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=zetgsnInSUy&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=lYquDwnMQRy&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=SMS

Well, machine gun brass is a different animal, and you never know what you're getting with surplus brass. That's the problem. Machine guns have longer chambers (the leade), so those things can keep running, fouled, and keep running fouled. When you need a machine gun, that fucker better run, forever, until you overheat the barrel. On that, it's easy to find the brass that's been fired from a machine gun - measure the OAL of the fired cases that you get. If they're longer than the max listed for a case trimming dimension, and listed as "once-fired" - they probably came out of a machine gun. They'll need to be trimmed for OAL, before you can ever use them in an AR or bolt gun. No, I've never seen that reaming the crimps out of a case with a VLD Chamfer tool has resulted in loose pockets. Don't go crazy on it, it only takes a couple turns, and the crimp is gone. The thicker bases on NATO brass, and the thicker walls at the lower part of the case - are so they can survive going through a machine gun, and keep the gun running. There's a pattern here on why NATO brass is the way it is. Machine guns. That's the pattern.

What size is the gas port right now? It's obviously working, so don't mess with it. Down the road, you won't have to change the gas port diameter for a load - if you go to even lighter bullets, the charge weight is different, and it doesn't matter anyway, since you now have a balanced gas system and recoil system. Getting those two working together is what gives you the heart of your reliability. Loads can change now, you can even shoot heavies - won't matter. The two systems are working together, as designed.

Then you need to call me and tell me who did this to you!...

Somewhere around here I have cut cases side by side, which show the case wall differences between 5.56 NATO and .223 Rem, as well as .308 WIN and 7.62 NATO brass. I have no idea where those pics are now, or what thread they're in, but the NATO brass has thicker bases and towards the bottom, has thicker walls. On both.

My brass prep always stays the same, no matter what I'm working in, whichever caliber. Well, pistol shiit is obviously different, and way easier. The only company I know of making a fluted chamber is LaRue Tactical, and they call it the XTRAXN Technology. Other companies may have copied that, but I wouldn't want to be the company that copied something Mark LaRue came up with and patented... It doesn't hurt the brass at all - just makes brass easier to extract on a fouled chamber. Heavily fouled chamber. Here's some of the details on it... https://www.larue.com/page/xtraxn-technology-larue-tactical/ I have one of those, and don't use it anymore. The "RCBS Primer Pocket Swager Tool 2." Now, I just use a Lyman VLD Chamfer tool to cut crimps out. 2 or 3 twists with it, done. Crimp gone. This one:

Trying Hornady 175 ELD-X projectiles with a G1 BC of .689, through that one. Will smoke a .308 at any range, distance, and probably beat this piss out of my .260 rem gun. I hate to say that, but, it's real.

I need to mention something else in the works, to be perfectly honest. 18" 7MM-08 Wilson Combat build-ish. This barrel. \

I'll give my barrel preferences right now, based on this information. I think the ultimate barrel length, for long range shooting, is 18" is "ish." I have an 18.5" Fulton Armory .308 barrel that is the gnat's ass. For .308 Win. There is no other prefect barrel, for .308 Win, that that very specific barrel. For small frames, it's 18" barrels. That let's you move it, shoot it, work it, and still run some long range shiit with it. Can be unweildy, inside a vehicle, so I've gone to 12.5" barrels for that. Grendel and ARC - both from Faxon, on initial runs from Faxon. After those intial runs, Faxon has changed them to 12" barrels - big mistake, IMHO. 12.5" is where it's at for those. For 5.56, I have a couple 12.5" barrels, one 11.5" barrel, and a 7.5" barrel - that thing is nuts, needs a Noveske KX3 on it, to keep from rattling the fillings out of your teeth - the concussion just plain sucks - and that makes it just as long as the 11.5" gun. Don't do it. Not worth it. Now, 18" barrels, on small frame guns. Ballistic Advantage Mk12 SPR Profile barrels, match grade, and they're stainless barrels. THAT is where it's at. I have that barrel profile in Grendel, 6 ARC, .224 Valk, and .223 Wylde. Many times over, per caliber. They have a Sub-MOA guarantee, with match ammo, and I can verify that statement is true. Those barrels are Sub-MOA, right out of the box, before you're gonna say "I broke that barrel in!..." My 18" barrel for the 25/45 Sharps gun is from Sharps, but I wish BA would make one. Probably never happen, but that specific Sharps barrel is pretty damn great. The BA barrels are out of this world, when you build the gun right. At any rate. 16" barrels - this is where I think it's at, for an all-around gun. BA again. BA is the only maker that's doing the SPR Mk12 profile in 16" barrels. The Mk12 Mod H barrels. I have a .223 Wylde (5.56) barrel in that, and a Grendel barrel in that - the profile is phenomenal. I'd pick my 16" Mod H Grendel as my "do-all" gun, over every other gun I have. Until now. For the record, the Mk12 SPR profile barrel is the perfect profile for a small-frame AR gas gun. It has everything you need, nothing you don't, and it's he best profile on the market. Everyone ignores it, besides the National-Match gun builders - but BA offers it in a few different calibers. It's the perfect Match barrel that will give you accuracy, weight being what it is - which isn't bad. So I said that... I'd pick my 16" Mod H Grendel as my "do-all" gun, over every other gun I have. Until now. Getting ready for this thing. https://www.larue.com/products/larue-complete-16-6mm-arc-match-grade-upper/?mc_cid=1a9db677c7&mc_eid=bd9d7dbc01 This might be the New Hooker, right here - the Do-All. We'll find out. Be a minute before I can get the matching LaRue lower for it, but it can work out in the meantime, and be functional. Time is coming up quick.

Kill Mother Fuckin' Depeche Mode. KMFDM. Love those dudes back in the day - great post, man.

Clint Smith just plain rocks.

This vid is chock full of great information. There's alot of "throw-ins" here from Clint Smith, which are epic, just to hear. If you've ever met him, and talked to him one-on-one - he's live, ALL THE TIME, as he in in any video that you'll see him in. Full Throttle... Great vid, here, and this is leading into something soon, here, from me. My personal opinion, right up front - the ultimate urban rifle, strictly IMHO, would be a 12.5" 6 ARC gun, with a LPVO on it, that you can run, and you know the scope - WELL. Something that fits inside of a Wilson tennis racket case, so you can grey-man that bitch, everywhere, all the time, and nobody suspects anything, looking at you. That would be the king. Gonna take a detour, and go into something else coming up soon. Here's the discreet bags, that guns need to fit in, IMHO.

Here's another good one, from Colion.

At about 22 minutes, they start describing a gas port that's too small... Picked that up right away.

This breaks 300 BLK down very well. Love how they explain it all.

I never knew that Linkin Park and Eminem even got together on a song, but this is cool. Whoever the dude is that put this together, pulled the literal "Who's Who" of badass military movies to make this. This is pretty fuckin' cool. Leading off with some Desmond Doss. Can't go wrong with that, but it just gets better.

Using NATO brass is just like working up any other load, like you stated. Start lower, work your way up to pressure signs, back down to the last accuracy node. That's your load. I would never arbitrarily use one of my accuracy loads from Hornady .308 Win Match brass, and just use that load (charge weight) in some Lake City NATO brass. I'd back that load down, and work it back up again for that NATO brass - but at least I have a common-sense place to start the process. You're on the right track - develop the load for the brass you have.

I still want to find a pristine MJ, and build the shiit out of it. 35s. That's my MJ goal. FUK! Hard to find a mint one, that doesn't cost a fortune.... Should have bought one 2 decades ago, and just stored that biotch....

Gonna be the baddest LJ on the planet...

That's one badass 4-link setup!!! This excites me. All the way to BIG BONER material. Well fuckin' done!

Here's a pretty legit view on this one - unintended consequences... Hmmm...

Here's a potentially shiity view on this mess...