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But, this is not necessarily bad news...

So, looking at this from a known barrel configuration, and changing for this one. 18" midlength gas with a 0.750" journal, .308 Win, that config needs a gas port that's 0.080"~0.085". I know for a fact that 0.085" works better for any off the shelf ammo that you might pick up somewhere. Confirmed. Now, your barrel, 16" midlength gas, 0.750" journal. You're 2" less in dwell time, so go up 0.005" on port diameter. You'll need 0.085" minimum, and maybe as high as 0.090" for a gas port. Sounds like you're close. When that #43 drill bit comes in, if it doesn't fit - drill the gas port out with it. That's gonna put you at 0.089", and that's good enough. Sounds like you're close - change that recoil spring like Rex said. I bet that spring you received is too weak, can't control the ass and mass of that BCG properly, and is letting the speed get too high. That's why your cases are flinging out there at 1:30... Just the spring change will fix that. I don't think you need an adjustable gas block - unless you just want one.

Let's see what happens to some of these people that jumped on the "Free SBR" bandwagon... time will tell...

I buy 5.56 Lake City from them - they're legit a fuk, and I fully support them.

An example of $10,000 that gets seized, when they fuk you over and 88-day you, and take your hardware... Change My Mind...

Don't know what they're talking about, but here's the link to .308AR.com: https://308ar.com/ Here's the link to here, the forums: https://forum.308ar.com/ Notice the difference. Same Owner, different sites. Maybe they were mentioned in the past, but the info site has been up long before this board was up. Same owner, Drew, but operated independently. There's also a 7.62 site, that's information-only.

I have these - they're damn nice, and low price. I highly recommend them.

That's not an Armalite AR-10 rifle gas tube. They measure 12 1/16", not 12 1/8". It's obvious that your gas tube is too long, so in light of that, who did you order this gas tube from (what vendor), and what's the brand of it - the manufacturer's name? << That's important information, for the future, for everyone on this message board. ^^^ This right here is equally important. What brand is your barrel, and what vendor did you get it from? Without that information, we really can't help much.

Is this their specs, or have you measure this out? Buffer should be 5.200" long, so that buffer bumper on the end needs sanded down 0.100" to get the buffer right. 5.6oz if tough to do in a standard .308 AR rifle buffer, most come in at 5.4oz. That's just what you can work with, in the space that you have to work with it. Get rid of the Aero spring that came with that kit, and put in a known, verified, good spring. Choices are Armalite EA-1095 spring, or the Sprinco Red spring. Those two. Or nothing. Rifle receiver extension should be exactly 9 11/16" internal depth. Not close - right on. ^^^Check that stuff first. Verify it. Those simple changes will bullet-proof your Recoil System. ^^^ Next up is this stuff. Gas system. Gonna need to know that barrel gas port diameter. A cheap set of numbered drill bits (get the whole indexed set at Harbor Freight, if need be) will have that you need to measure that gas port diameter. You'll know what clears, and the next one up that doesn't, and that will give you a pretty accurate gas port diameter. Good job changing out that gas tube right away - that's an important step that many think isn't important. Post the info up on confirmation of this stuff, and we'll figure it all out.

This is still the king...

At this point in time - is when "Ricky" gets re-named into "Delicious!..."

Part of my history. Canadian sister-unit to 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) is 3PPCLI, the Canadian unit - 3rd Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. Every year we had a Menton Day week-long festivity, surrounding 5 December, and the 3PPCLI came to Washington State. 5 December is the important date, because on 5 December 1944 was the inactivation of the First Special Service Force, in Menton, France. We had events all week long with them, joint training a competitions, which ended in a Formal Ball at the end of it. It was always amazing, and a true piece of history. It was the birth of Special Forces, that relationship at the time, during WWII. Here's a SOFREP Article on Menton Day: https://sofrep.com/news/menton-day-respect/

Post links to what you're thinking about buying. That's the easiest way for us to look at what you are looking at.

^^^ That's the truth, right there. The whole statement, but the part specifically about adjustable gas blocks. I don't own a single adjustable gas block for any AR that I have. Not one single one. Get the gun to run, and you don't need one. Just figuring a caliber out is why I have so many weird calibers in these things. Balance the Gas System to the Proper Recoil System for the large frames, because that's the heart of your reliability, right there. Barrel configuration and caliber play a big part of that - but we've pretty much got all that figured out by now, from examples here on the board, and getting those guns running, just over the years.

I hate you guys...

14 calibers, unless I forgot one. That does happen. I forget about some guns, sometimes. Not my fault, really. These are just the AR calibers. This doesn't include shotguns, bolt guns, pistols, etc. I reload for 22 or 23 calibers, IIRC. Have to look at the die stack to be sure. 6 arc 6.5 grendel 224 valk 9mm 45 acp 22lr 5.56 300blk 25/45 sharps 308 win 260 rem 338 fed 358 win 7mm-08

Many years ago, here on the board, we had a very well known buffer manufacturer come on here and rip us apart, telling us we didn't know anything about recoil systems - based on some whiner on another message board complaining about us. That was a defining moment for me, and I determined that I would be the smartest motherfucker on the planet on recoil systems, after that. But that went sideways, because there's another part of recoil systems. Gas systems. If you don't balance those two systems, your rifle will not work properly. So, in a nutshell, I delved into recoil systems, gas systems, learned everything I could online (people's posted problems), used my own research and information on what I'd built and done, and really started understanding it. At that point, the lightbulb went on - this is all math... Nothing more. I have over 40 ARs total, in 12 or 13 different calibers. It was beneficial to me to learn this, and not just throw away ammo money figuring it out the hard way. Based on that experience, that gives me the ability to inquire about someone's build, ask specific questions about the details on their parts selection - and be able to tell them if their gun is gonna work - or need work, to work. It's been a long journey, but worth it. I have no idea how many guns I've fixed over the internet, just from typed words, when given the proper information to do so - but it's in the hundreds, just right here on this board. I'm not Eugene Stoner - I just study what he developed. Every little detail matters. Read this please, when you have the time - it'll give you a deeper understanding of why this is all important:

It's the volume of the actual gas port. It's taken a very, very long to to learn this, and apply it. Once of these days, I'll give it up. I've given up pieces of it in the past. All those gas port ranges that I come up with, that work - vary by dwell time. You need to determine what works, based on dwell time, then compute the gas port volume. After that, you can compute what works for different calibers. It ain't easy, and it's taken alot of ammo money to realize that I could have been doing it easier, with less money. Just apply math. Nothing can beat the math. That's unpossible. This isn't Terminator T1000. It's just a mechanical device. It can't out-think us.

HOLY SHIIT! I can't believe you're still ALIVE, brother!!! I thought we killed you with the canned chicken!!! We haven't heard shiit from you since then! You have no idea that you're a Legend here, do you... That's not really a question, just a rhetorical statement. You are Legend, @AngelDeVille... Get to posting, already... We thought you were dead from the chicken...

Thet had it going on, back then. Freedom from YouTube. But, back then, they weren't ready, and only uploaded shiit from money accounts, and not from regular dudes like you and me, that just wanted to show you what my regular gun did at the range today. There was no room for the regular guy on Full30, that just wanted to upload his shiit - that he wouldn't have uploaded onto YT. That killed it, for what they advertised it as. It really was NOT al alternative to YT, for anyone. I get it, that's bandwidth, storage, servers, and download speed = and all the other shiit that goes with it. Full30 advertised as the alternative to YT, for gun guys - but weren't ready for that. The new naming doesn't help. Juxxi. Who's looking for that? Where's the advertising backing that name change up? Full30 was pretty well known, for awhile, and did great things - for paid advertisers, and their uploads. Bottom line in my gripe on all this - Full30 was advertised as the alternative to uploading anything gun-related, that you would upload onto YT. At the time, they were definitely not ready to handle that capacity, and couldn't do it. Normal people like me signed up right away, and I couldn't upload a video - fuk -that's why I came to you guys and signed up, in the very first place. Full30 burned alot of guys in the beginning, just from that. I was one of the first people to sign up, when it was announced, and I think I was the first guy here to pimp Full30, right here on this board. I know for a fact, after I pimped it, I was the very first person to challenge Robert, on his first post here. That's all written in stone, here.

Massive good trade, brother - worked for both of us, directly then, and it was perfect.

This is exactly why Aaron Lewis will always be my hero...

Here's the video that Matt referenced above. This is the Mrgunsngear channel.

Check it - Matt Carriker video here. He's Demolition Ranch. He's a Veterinarian, by trade, in Texas, has his own successful life. He's also 'UGE in the YouTube 'verse. Demolition Ranch, Off The Ranch, and all the other channels he has. Followed him for years. YouTube is losing their shiit. He describes it towards the end of this video. I'm looking for the other vid he's referencing in here, and I'll link that one, too. Watch:

Run it. Let's see what happens. Make sure it's lubed. REALLY lubed. Like this: