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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.

I've done a .338 Federal and a .358 Winchester. Easy peasy, because it's just necked up .308 Win cases, so stardard bolts/BCGs work, as well as .308 Win Go/No Go gauges. Wilson Combat makes the barrels already, and they're not bad at all. What do you want this gun to do for you? How are you planning on using it.

Went through this one tonight - very, very good. Best aviators on the planet. I've flown with these guys alot, both training rotations and combat. Their skills can't be rivaled. You go to a planning mission with them, brief YOUR mission, tell them your TOT (Time On Target), and they guarantee that they'll deliver you on your predetermined point at +/- 30 seconds of your TOT. Unreal aviators, and the absolute masters of rotary wing flight. Had some pretty hairy flights with these guys, both sides of that field, training/combat. The only combat side with them was Afghani-land. They can perform the impossible. Routinely. Mad Respect. The only extractions I've ever done with them have all been training, thankfully. They are badass as picking people up. They plan it, you say what you want, and they DO IT... Exactly like you state it needs to be done. The only thing they deviate from is if it might be a hot extraction - you need a lift, and you're under fire. They'll land exactly where you tell them to land - unless it's hot. If it's hot, they'll place that bird directly between you, and the threat, and those miniguns will be blazing. They will protect you, on extraction, and place themselves in harms way to get you out. I've briefed extraction points as this - far recognition signal, near recognition signal, to guide them directly on top of you -and I mean RIGHT ON TOP OF YOU. I've briefed them far recognition signals, and near recognition signals. Far recognition is my IR strobe, in the pouch, not out in the open - they pick that right up, and hone in on it. Near recognition, IR chem light on a 6-foot piece of 550 cord, I'll be swinging it, laying flat on my back, making it an "IR buzz saw" - I want you to land the wire strike system directly on my nuts... They fucking do it. They land the helicopter directly on top of you. It's a rush...

Plow trains are so damn cool, brother - great find...

That's my good news story for the day. Good Guy with the Gun wins again.

There are some huge problems and outright errors in that PA article. There's also alot of information that's pretty good. I can't overlook the mistakes in the article, though. I would not use that as a reference, and stand behind what's written in that. Read this when you have the time. It breaks it down over months of information-publishing, and after years of experimentation:

Keep that aluminum-bodied 2.500" buffer - it only fits 2 weights, and they're both tungsten. That's the only way it makes it to 3.8oz in the first place. You won't gain anything replacing one of the buffer's tungsten weights with one of the ones you have on hand. You can buy a cheap, stainless-bodied buffer from DSG Arms, and it comes with steel weights, weighs 3.8oz. Swap the tungsten weights into it, and it give you 5.15oz. That's running in my .260 Rem right now, and still works. It's at the bottom end of what I'm comfortable with, but it runs. Here's the DSG buffer you'd need, and it's $22: https://dsgarms.com/lower-receiver-parts-dsg-4201-0021

For that barrel profile and cartridge, you could use a gas port diameter of 0.070". Your gas port is WAY oversized. We can't shrink them, so you'll have to put an adjustable gas block on there. My references for that are 20" rifle gas .260 Rem with a 0.750" gas block journal size, and it needed an 0.080" gas port. That's also on a balanced recoil system, so you'll need to very receiver extension internal depth, buffer length and weight. We'll make sure you know what the proper spring is for those dimensions you give. It's either gonna be the Sprinco Orange spring, or Armalite EA-1095 spring (or Sprinco Red spring). Buffer weight needs to be in the 5.4oz area - damn close.

I've got a ,45 AR, Olympic Arms upper and CNC Guns lower, that takes grease gun mags... Easy to shoot, recoil is a joke, and it's already subsonic when it leaves the barrel.

I've got some pretty severe Tinitis, thanks, Big Army. I have a 40%+ hearing loss in high and low tones in my right ear, and was finally issued a hearing aid for it, just mere months before retirement at 21.5 years. Regretfully, the hearing loss in my left ear was only 38%, and that didn't meet the 40% threashold for getting a free hearing aid from the Big Army. Imagine that. Ironically, hearing loss is not listed as a "disability" for my VA paperwork. But, those fuckers gave me 10% disability for Tinitus? How's that work, VA?...

HUH?!!?

Unreal - just happened this morning. That guy could energize a crowd. Sad loss.

That is exactly an Aero Precision M5 lower receiver with a real DPMS LR-308 upper receiver on it. I will 100% guarantee you that is accurate information. If you say it's low, then it's low. Your measurement number does not indicate it's a high profile. You need to find a DPMS LR-308 Low Profile compatible handguard.

Damn Rene. I'm glad you both took the time, and had the time with her. Remember that always, brother.

#4, #6, #8, and #9 were by biggest pet-peeves in the military, and what I tried my damndest to train into my subordinates, or battle into my superiors. Substandard superiors can learn, too - you just need to risk alot, put alot on the line, in order to teach them... Leadership is a curse that you live with for the rest of your life... Once you recognize it, understand it, and perform it - you have to do it for the rest of your life...

I would definitely recommend the Arken scope line - I've shot them, but don't own any, because... I'd also recommend the Athlon Optics. I own a PILE of those scopes, and they're punching way above their MSRP prices. WAY above their weight class, and a badass warranty. Like mentioned before - don't sell yourself looking for a budget $250 scope, or you'll certainly end up with budget results. Not telling you to buy a Nightforce or a US Optics scope - but there's plenty of great glass out there if you step up to the $500 - $750 range, and they will give you a lifetime of service, with a great lifetime anything-goes warranty.

Nice, consistent timesheets! ^^^ That notchback is killin' me, though. I love those...

Ken Block passed away due to a snowmobile accident. News: https://jalopnik.com/ken-block-hoonigan-killed-in-snowmobile-crash-1849943581

I love those guys...