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If you can keep the same design, font, all that - I'll take it in a 24"-ish. Big enough that people pay attention - including me.

^^^ If that sign was printed "Beware Of Psycho Wife" I'd pay alot of money for it... ALOT. OF. MONEY.

Second one - truth. I keep this sign on the wall for a reason... People in the know right now realize that - the struggle is real...

Gas tube OAL needs to be 15.5". Shorter 15 1/4" gas tubes will give you the exact same thing that you have now - those are all AR15 rifle gas tubes. Very few companies make the 15.5" gas, but Armalite does, and it's got the AR-10 bend to it, to accomodate the height-over-bore difference over AR15 stuff. Locally, if you can't find an actual Armalite AR-10 Rifle Gas Tube, then you'll probably strike out - locally. Don't let any "gunsmith" in some shop tell you any different. If he tries to tell you something shorter than 15.5" will be okay - he doesn't even know the difference. Probably doesn't even know that there's a height-over-bore difference.

Gonna need a 0.095" gas port diameter. Could vary a couple thou in either direction, but it's gonna be right in there. ^^^ That is based on a 5.4oz buffer weight, and the appropriate recoil spring for whatever receiver extension you're using. Tell us planned recoil system specs, and I can tell you what spring will work properly. This is almost turning into a waterboarding session...

Good plan on the bolt gun - it'll always chamber that way. You just running one gas gun right now? If that's the case, measure fired brass with a comparator, see what the measurement is, and set your die to bump that one back 0.002". Less work on the case shoulder that way, instead of bumping it 0.005". Sounds like you're already doing this, if you know the gas gun bump is 0.005". If it's just one gas gun, bring it to 0.002" so you work that brass shoulder less.

You have a 12-man tent. His head will still fit...

Sb dies are for reloading, and shoot the same load across multiple rifles. Example, I have one 5.56 55gr "range-trash" load - training ammo. It'll go into a million different guns, with different chambers. Use the SB die for that instance. That's the only reason the SB dies exist.

Those have also never been fire-formed to the chambers. Never been shot, just reloaded ammo. You won't know anything until you shoot them, then measure them with a comparator. You don't know what the chamber is yet, until they go BANG!

Don't know - you didn't give enough specs on the barrel, besides below VVV... What's the gas system length? What's the gas block journal size? Pertinent (mandatory) information, to give the information you're requesting.

You are one sexy BIG SUM'BITCH...

For the 0.875" gas block journal diameter, you'll need the gas port at 0.090" on 20" rifle gas.

Measure the buffer you have now, and tell us what the dimension are, that you come up with. Need buffer length, need buffer weight, need spring length (relaxed), with wire diameter, coil count. ^^^ That will go along way, in trying to figure out your gun over the internet. What is your gun doing now? What malfunctions? How does it run? Is it running well enough to accept it like it is, or does is suck to shoot? I can go on an on... Best thing is for you to tell us what you don't like about it's operation. Give up the recoil system specs, you'll get advice. All those other questions I asked are subjective - you might think your gun kicks like hell - I might think it's a soft-shooter, for what it is. That's all feelings, not actual operation.

Man, I'd LOVE TO HAVE the setup that Hickock45 has out his front door, and off his front porch...

I was looking for the actual vid that didn't cut it off - and this one cut it off from the draw down, and stopped. News states that he shot the guy 9 times. Must have had a 9-round mag. Don't stop, until the threat stops. Until the threat stops, you're not done yet. Protect yourself foremost, protect others if you're able.

Military quote on that one, brother... You can either talk about it, or you can be about it...

We can work on that - if you'd show up for a shoot down here...

I would positively recommend the Pro Ears Stealth 28 HTs, or the Stealth 28 HT/BTs. The "BT" is bluetooth, if you want that. The BTs are about $179 MSRP, and the non-BT version is half that. I have the BTs, and they're amazing. My Walker Silencer 2.0s turned into backups in my chest rig, because of these Pro Ears. HTs: https://proears.com/product/stealth-28-ht/ HT/BTs: https://proears.com/product/stealth-28-htbt/

^^^ Exactly so. Auditory Exclusion. The reason for it, and then the possible tunnel vision and time compression is the massive adrenaline dump and cortisol dump that hits your body. We were talking in another thread/subject about a bunch of related stuff, and I specifically brought this up. Your body is amazing, in the shiit that it can do...

Check it out. This is pretty cool.

Nope. You just don't thread the mag catch threads all the way flush with the button face. On the large frames, it's usually about 3 threads short of flush.

Since you SBRd it, it doesn't really matter, but Tac-Sol makes this short-barrel with a can shroud, 16.5" total length. Benefit - short barrel, but not SBR. Add can, one tax stamp. Not two tax stamps. This barrel make a "rifle", add can with it's single tax stamp, and you're set. https://tacticalsol.com/Detail.aspx?PROD=1366891&CAT=13415

I don't have that .358 Win fully sorted out yet. 16" Wilson Combat barrel, midlength gas. It kicked the living shiit out of me the first time I shot it, with a 5.4oz buffer. I immediately ordered up a Heavybuffers.com, the XH Carbine, weighing in at 8.5oz. That solved alot of the "keel you" aspect of the round, but my initial rounds were way too hot. I pierced 16 primers. Bottom line, running the Hornady 250gr SP-RP in it, I need to work way more on the load development on it before I can really enjoy shooting it and see what it can do. I know it's gonna be great - I just need to put more work into it. Now, that .338 Fed... DAMN! That is a great gun! 16" Wilson Combat barrel. Right out of the gate, everything worked great with the 5.4oz buffer (AR-10 Carbine system), I didn't need to drill out the gas port, I DID have to run the Armalie AR-10 Carbine gas tube. Loaded with 225gr Hornady SSTs... That thing shoots softer than the gun I compare it to, and built it against. I built it identical to the 16" .308 Win gun, for the purpose of comparing - that .338 Fed build blows that same-almost-identical .308 Win gun straight out of the water. So, until I can sort out the load on the .358 Win, and resolve that whole gun - I'd have to say the .338 Fed is the best short .308AR that I've built. It's just ridiculous, fun to shoot, easy to shoot, and it's delivering 225 grains onto target.

I got stuck on another Task Force 160 interview last night, but couldn't finish it. I just did, and it's an unreal story. This one is ultimately about Robert's Ridge, in Afghaniland. I've read 2 different books on Roberts' Ridge. This battle occurred between March 3rd and March 5th, 2002. When the first aircraft went in there, that's when Neil Roberts fell out of the aircraft on the mountain. Later, another MH-47 went in loaded up with a Platoon of Rangers to recover him, and it was a hellish battle. This is the pilot of the first aircraft. Alan Mack. I've never heard this story about that action. This whole thing is a tick over 2:15 long. It's worth it. At 1:23:00 they really get into what he was doing in Afghanistan. At 1:24:30, they're talking about the terrain. He mentions Gardez and Khowst. In November 2003, I had 18 hours on the ground for mission planning, and launched on the first mission, which was into Khowst. That area is ROUGH. Load out, fly at night (these guys) to FOB Catamount - which was later renamed to Camp Blessing, after SGT Jay Blessing - he was the only casualty on our deployment, taken out by an IED. From Catamount/Blessing, we Toyota-trucked it into Khowst. Now, back to Roberts' Ridge. That second MH-47 that went in hauling a platoon of kickass Rangers was led by CPT Nate Self. There's a specific book on that part of it - this is it: Well, our job was to walk from Khowst, 20 miles up that narrow valley, "visiting" each village, and literally trying to make friends with them. For real. Gain Intel through friendship. No American had been up that valley since 1996, and it was a lone CIA dude that did it by himself. The Ranger Captain in charge of that little walk, was CPT Nate Self. Small fuckin' world. Listen to Alan Mack talk about the terrain again, at about 1:32:00, he mentions something that I've mentioned here before -PACE. Primary, Alternate, Contingency, Emergency. In there he talks about the area, their ground, valley floors at 8,000 feet... On the 3rd valley we were sent into, flown by them about 1:30 am TOT, we landed in MH-47s, into 1.5 feet of snow, at 8,000 feet. My final map recon had me picking a spot around 10,000 feet, and I took a 5-man team plus a Terp up there. I had to do it twice, because of the Terp. That's another story all by itself, and I've already told it here, I'm pretty positive. We were rocketed the second night there - down in the village, not up in the hills, where my team was. That led to a gunship mission, the the position those rockets were fired from was wiped OUT. We were on the radios, checking everything, and we spilled the real deal to the Ranger Company Commander. Over the next several days, we tossed that whole village, and tore down one complete house. They'd used two of the rotor blades out of the MH-47 that was shot down on Roberts' Ridge, to build their roof, in that structure. Building demolished, rotor blades recovered. Again, small fuckin' world. When I tell you guys I'm lucky I'm alive, and I'm lucky enough to have met you, now, as we have met... I mean that. I love you fuckers... I'm super-lucky to have met @DNP - I met him at Thanksgiving 2004, on my first Dune Trip. My Thanksgiving 2003 was in Afghanistan, doing all this shiit. Proud that you call me your friend, my brother. Proud again that we've kept in touch for this long, so long.