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Numbers sound good - that's progress!

Complete real, brother. In use, in Germany. In testing at Aberdeen Proving Ground. https://freerangeamerican.us/silencer-for-howitzers/ Can't find vids in operation, this as close as I can get.

Someone needs to do something. Last year, when all this came up, there were 140 of them slamming BATFE for what they even proposed in the first place. Someone in that House needs to take up some responsibility, and tell these agencies that "they're just agencies" that enforce existing laws - they don't get to make, modify, or change existing laws. Only places that have been doing that lately are the Supremes, and 5th Circuit.

I quoted him in that on purpose, to lure him in here and respond. He's been busy. I'll call his lazy ass and have him get in here and reply. I might need to wake him up...

EOD Guys have giant balls that "CLANK" when they stand up - no matter how you slice it. The risk is crazy, and the skill is unreal. Kind of like dating crazy blonde psycho chicks...

I want the FN High Power pretty damn bad. Technically, for a clone pistol, that's a mis-spelling of the original name, but it's still badassery. FDE flavor, of course.

For their .308s, it's all hate. No matter what, they just can't get it right, and refuse to fix it. They know what the problems are - they just want money from cheap guns. They don't care. You'd be better off buying CMMG .308s.

Here's the best info anyone can give you - this thread had the DPMS and Armalite part numbers listed in it. Searching on the part numbers is your best bet. You might get lucky and find one. Don't buy the Rock River Arms LAR-8 handle, if you find it - it's too long, for their longer receivers. Check it:

Here are other examples: Ironic that this pic is from PSA. PSA changed their own "Gen 3" lower receiver to account for incorrect operation, and they milled the lower receiver to account for the wrong dimensions, but you wouldn't be able to tell. To them, this "fixed the problem..."

This is what it looks like when the BCG strikes the lower: It's always the same, looks the same - this one is pretty bad. It's 100% from wrong parts used, or bad parts from a manufacturer, dimensions not even close to being right. Always.

You're sexy, brother - but damn, you're expensive!...

Rep Matt Gaetz is making a run at it -introduced this today: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gaetz-introduces-abolish-atf-act-ruling-against-stabilizing-braces Published January 18, 2023 12:53pm EST Gaetz introduces 'Abolish the ATF Act' after ruling against stabilizing braces Gaetz says ATF on 'snipe hunt' to 'convert otherwise law-abiding people into felons' FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., introduced a bill to eliminate the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) following a controversial ruling that tightens regulations on pistol-stabilizing braces. The ATF issued its final rule Friday that will treat guns with stabilizing accessories like short-barreled rifles, which require a federal license to own under the National Firearms Act. Attorney General Merrick Garland said the ruling enhances public safety, but Gaetz said it unfairly punishes disabled gun owners and veterans who rely on stabilizing braces to be able to fire with one hand. Gaetz introduced H.R.374, the "Abolish the ATF Act," on Tuesday morning in response to the ruling, telling Fox News Digital it was the "final straw." "I have a lot of disabled veterans in my district who enjoy pistol shooting and rely on stabilizing braces to be able to engage in the activity," he said in a phone interview Wednesday morning. "The recent actions from the ATF essentially allow them to make case-by-case determinations on whether a pistol with a stabilizing brace is legal or an unlawful, sawed-off shotgun." "The continued existence of the ATF is increasingly unwarranted based on the actions they're taking to convert otherwise law-abiding people into felons," he said. "My bill would abolish the ATF. If that doesn't work, we're going to try defunding the ATF. If that doesn't work, we're going to target the individual bureaucrats at the top of the ATF who have exceeded their authority in rulemaking. And if that doesn't work, we're going to take a meat cleaver to the statutes that the ATF believes broadly authorize their actions." According to the ATF, the new rule does not affect stabilizing braces that are "objectively designed and intended as a ‘stabilizing brace’ for use by individuals with disabilities, and not for shouldering the weapon as a rifle. Such stabilizing braces are designed to conform to the arm and not as a buttstock. However, if the firearm with the ‘stabilizing brace’ is a short-barreled rifle, it needs to be registered within 120-days from the date of publication in the Federal Register." However, Gaetz said, "the people at the ATF making these rules fundamentally don't understand firearms." "I think they are under the flawed conception that a stabilizing brace increases the lethality or danger of a pistol," he said. "It seems the ATF is on a snipe hunt for regulatory action that virtue signals to the anti-gun left, but that has no real practical safety impact on Americans." Gaetz’s bill, which has been referred to the Judiciary Committee, does not have any cosponsors yet, but he said there’s "broad support" among Republicans "to go after the actions of ATF." "I believe that you are likely to see ATF bureaucrats hauled before the Judiciary Committee to explain themselves in the coming weeks and months," said Gaetz, who also sits on the committee. "Because we’re hearing this very loudly from our constituents, and the reason I filed this bill is, frankly, I think that the ATF should have to justify their existence at all."

Yep, just watched all the vids on that page - well worth the money. It converts the case to handle any gun configuration, over and over. More extra blocks - double guns in the case, reconfigure when needed. Love it - nice find, brother!

Damn, this is genius!!! Gonna have to wait for the Pelican 1750 and the Plano AW42. I can hang on, I guess. I don't know how much it is yet, haven't looked, but it's gotta be cheaper than shipping my cases and hardware to @Lonewolf McQuade...

So, remove the recoil spring, drop the buffer down into the extension. slide the BCG body into the extension until it stops on the buffer. You're looking at 2 things here - with the bolt extended in the BCG body, how much clearance do you have between the bolt face, and the backside of the bolt catch? You typically want to see 3/16" gap. The second thing you're checing is the BCG body at the back, by the ears on the lower receiver. The BCG body changes diameter, and where it steps up, you want to make sure there's adequate clearance between that step-up area, and the ears on the lower. If it's already touching like that, and you shoot it, that BCG body will be slamming the ears on the lower, under recoil. It'll beat the shiit out of your lower before it could posssibly damage the BCG - but that is an indicator of a bad design, when you see it, or it's the wrong components used un the build of the gun.

Nice work, man - well done. Couple things going on here, so I hit them above in red text. This sucks. 18" rifle gas .308 Win barrels with 0.750" journals need 0.095" ports. I've found that to be the minimum, with one of mine at 0.098". So, larger journal, by one step, drop the number by 0.05". You're gonna need 0.090" minimum, maybe up one more step with the bit to around 0.093". So, my recommendation: #43 bit clears. That's 0.088"-ish. $42 doesn't clear. #42 is supposed to be 0.935". Make that #42 drill bit fit. Drill the gas port with it. That will fix issues you've described. This is it. It wants to work, it's trying. Just a couple things handicapping it. Was the 15.5" WC gas tube in there the whole time, or did you recently add that? I honestly think the recoil spring change and the change on the gas port diameter is gonna have it running.

The ones without the BT will work exactly the same, just without BT. If you don't want that function then saving the $100 is a bonus. You get can them straight from ProEars, right on their website. They list for $79. Wind - with the HTBTs, I do hear wind. The more I have the amplification cranked up, helps hear everything going on, but it does amplify the wind, too. It's not that bad to deal with. No matter how far you crank the amplification up, it still wipes out the concussions and sonic cracks. The amplification level doesn't affect how much the noise cancellation works for the loud stuff.

That's a nice stack of hardware, man - nice work.

This will change gas port diameter details, that I've previously listed, and what most people know here, from my gas port information that I've posted previously here. You're 18" rifle gas, with a journal diameter of 0.875". That's not the common barrel config - 0.750" journal for the barrel you describe is common, and anyone can figure that one out, by now. I've like to see what WC drilled that thing at, and those numbered bits that were mentioned before is the gonna be the only way to determine that gas port diameter that you have right now. I already know what size port you need for it - I wanna see what it's at right now, to see if that matches up with what you're stating about ammo performance so far...

You need to shoot better ammo, first off. I'm going through things in your details that I'll keep giving info on... So, the Hornady 165gr locked a bolt back with one round in the magazine? That's the test, right there - one round, lockback, from a mag. Tells you that the gas system and the recoil system are pretty close, especially on a new gun, right out of the box. Or new build, out of box, first time firing. Get into the details of that AP rifle buffer kit you used. Got buffer weight at 5.6oz, but is that listed weight - or what you weighed on a scale? 5.4 is what a rifle buffer should weigh. Almost no way around that, by it's design. Buffer length, receiver extension internal depth, spring length, coil count and wire diameter... You did a good job describing the parts used, but on the barrel you didn't state the gas system length. Easy for me to figure out, because you stated gas tube length of 15.5" - it's rifle length gas, and it's the Armalite AR-10 rifle gas tube length. Glad to see WC doing that, selling it, because they know their gas port location is fucked up, and "in between" - which is bullshiit, and they know they shouldn't be doing it. Pick a standard, Wilson Combat, and fucking stick to it. Go one way, and go AR15 shiit - or get your act together with the AR-10 gas system, and do it right. Halfway is lazy, Wilson Combat, and you know it. Get a better CNC Operator that knows the difference, or TRAIN your CNC Operator TO THE DIFFERENCES... That's because you got the 15.50" Armalite AR-10 spec rifle gas tube. The AR15 Rifle gas tube would have had your tube ending in the front of the cam pin cutout, which sucks. What you have - That's fine. Better to have a little more "gas timing" than having "not enough gas timing"... Your cartridges that are extracted from the chamber will appreciate it - and you'll appreciate it, if you'll be reloading your brass that's extracted and ejected. "Not enough gas timing" - shortass gas tubes - want to start extracting your brass before the case has cooled in the chamber, and you'll see bent rims, and all kinds of other problems with your brass. Not a big deal if you're not reloading, and just throwing away range brass. A gas tube that extends beyond the center of the cam pin cutout is still providing gas pressure - and little too long - than what it's supposed to - but that doesn't damage brass. It doesn't start extracting early, like a shortass gas tube, but it still gives a little more push after the extraction process starts - and that's okay. Not detrimental. Again - not a rant on you, man. This is free education. Please don't think I'm attacking you, because that's not the intent. I'm not preaching at you, demeaning you in any way - what I've stated is the the complete dumbasses that come after you and read this thread - and want to try to argue something. Shut 'em down right now.

It's not just the last guy - or the guy before that, or the guy before that - it just gets tiring. Grinds you to dust, trying to extract information from someone, just to try to help them with their gun issue - and they don't help. I'd rather drag my own teeth out of my head with my own pliers, anymore. Just done with it. Want help? Comply with information. Options? Zero, if you're the one that needs the help - and FREE information to fix your gun. You, that needs the information, are the one that complies with the subtle and polite requests that have been made of new users over the years. I'm just the complete dickhead that's gonna shut all the bullshiit down, and literally be a dick to new people, that either don't want to comply with the nice requests from the past - that we've made specific threads about in great detail - or those that don't wish/want to comply, and think they're owed information... just because someone here has the information. Call me the "Gun Fixer Information Jackass" if it needs to be. I'll take any title. Free info without complete information doesn't get answered here anymore. TIred of guessing, tired of giving out recommendations that don't get followed, - then... "this is what happened when I shot it last, it didn't work again..." Well, guess what - you applied HALF of what you were told to do, and didn't do the other half. Your gun is STILL fucked up because you either cannot follow directions, or you decided to NOT FOLLOW directions. At this point, MY point is - not my problem. Figure it out on your own. Please, @Joky375 don't take my rant as personal, or directed at you. It certainly IS specifically directed at all those before you, that don't listen to "recommendations." They're not really recommendations - they're guaranteed fixes, for what ailes your gun. We've figured it out. Done. Already did it, and shot it. It works, THIS way. When you receive "recommendations" here on how to fix your gun - that's exactly what you need to do to fix your gun. This isn't given lightly, it's not a "guess", and it's not "what might work" - it's what WILL work. It's from years of experience, years of shooting these things, and literally THOUSANDS of dollars on ammo, per dude that's stating something - experimenting on this platform, and that goes across multiple calibers. Just about every caliber that you can shoot through this Large Frame platform, we've already done, played with, figured it out, and spent too much money on it getting that done. We don't do this - buy different calibers and play around - to help the whole community. It's purely selfish, and vindictive, on a personal nature, because there's never gonna be a caliber or barrel configuration that beats any one man here. We're relentless in that. The Large Frame Platform is already mastered, in just about every caliber you can imagine. It's already been done here, figured out, solved, and posted about. If not, and you have some weird shiit you wanna shoot - we have the intelligence to figure it out and get your gun running. Again, sorry for the second rant - bottom line - help US help YOU with this gun. It'll get solved, I guarantee you that. Off the soapbox now...

I absolutely love mine, brother. Right now, it's the very best electronic ear-pro that you can buy. When something else comes out that's better, I'll try them, and jump on that bandwagon. Right now, nobody makes anything better. This is the best out there.

Welcome aboard, man. Before you spend a ton of time researching - what we see during research, is most people tend to pull up the OLDEST information first here, for whatever reason that it comes up for them... Just ask a question... Let us know what's on your mind, first. If it's old, covered information, you'll get a link to a thread on that information. If it's old, outdated stuff that you're referencing - that gets corrected, but sometimes it's painful - because you're referencing old, outdated info. Alot has changed in this platform, in the 14 years that this place has been around. Alot. There's alot that was recommended around the 2010~2012, 2013 timeframe... that we wouldn't recommend anymore. Save the headache - just ask us now...

Nice choice on the CAA SideSaddle Stock Adaptor - BATFE can't fuk with that one, with their attempted new "rules and laws" - because it's not a "brace" - those jackasses. I have a pile of those things.

Just for keeping it real - start your own build thread with these specifics in the Build Section. If you post it here, it's gonna get lost in the daily traffic. Don't post your specifics in this thread. Here's the Build Section, post your details here - start a new topic on YOUR gun: https://forum.308ar.com/forum/47-building-a-308ar/