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For those of you that DON'T know, this is what you hear when @Matt.Cross is your spotter, and you're WAY off...

We did that with 5.56 guns, too, at 850. Got out there, set up, and the wind kicked to 14.9mph, full value, left to right. RIGHT when we set up, and it stayed up, constant 14.9mph. Leave, pack uip, go home, because it's gonna suck today? No way - let's figure this out. 75gr Mk262 clone load from a Mk12 Mod 1, 850 yards, full value wind at 14.9mph... equals 5.75 mils of wind hold. we stayed in it, and figured it out. First call was "What the frick are you shooting at?!!? that was 50 yards OFF!!!" Okay, let's figure it, and make this work - no better training day than that right there - unless we don't hit it... so Let's hit it... somehow...

^^^ That was a lucky stage for me, by the way. I was on fire, but it was lucky fire... I'll still take it...

I make deliberate shots. Damn, homie. I'm trying to get faster. I'll get it, one day. I laughed today when I was on the NEXT TO LAST target, and missed it, then immediately hit that biotch, and hit the last one - I heard the "GROAN" from those guys when it hit dirt... "YOU HAD IT, MAN, AND DROPPED ONE SHOT!!!"... Hey, fuk, all day long I'll take that, and not complain - over a 8 or 10 or 12 shot string, or whatever that one was... I used an extra round... I'm in on that.

We live in AZ, bro. What kind of question is that? In the summer, it's hawt as fuk, so we can only shoot early in the morning, or overnight on a night shoot. You know this, Roman. I think you've been gone too long, and need to move closer, and get reindoctrinated...

This match is shot across 3 biggish canyons, overall. We've had wind before, but nothing major, just a little wind. Might blow your shot off a little left, right, high, low... Today, we had MAJOR WIND, across all 3 of those canyons, and it fucked alot of people up, pretty bad. I think we came out pretty well on the good side, all things considered. In a nutshell, with what we were facing, we were ready for it, and SLAYED IT... Kinda... Compared to the other really good guys...

It made some of the "regularly Great guys" suck even worse today, and we whipped a BUNCH of them at this match. I guess we shoot wind better - because we always have wind at the SDTF? Wind sucks, but it makes you better, just to get out there and really shoot it. We've done that, here, and all you that have been out here have done it, too. It's not always "pristine course conditions." Sometimes, it's just a big bag of shiit, that you have to deal with. I was shocked by the overall results, when the came out, seeing some of the placements overall. Truly shocked.

This was pretty good... I'm called as the first shooter on Stg 4, our start, so I'm the first shooter for the whole course this month. GREAT. LOVE doing that. Set-the-example and all that shiit. Wonderful... So, first target(s) - two of them, are at 10" circles at 290 yards. The fuckin WIND IS HOWLIN'... There's a canyon to the right, that sweeps uphill, and I know the wind is blowing right-to-left. Shiit, it's 290 yards - it's not gonna be that bad, right? I hold right side of the plate, and shoot. @JBMatt is spotting. I SEE the dirt, far left and up from the target, and Matt doesn't say shiit. I knew it, and held the same hold, and shot again - FAR left and Uphill of the target!@ Matt THEN says, "what the hell are you shooting at?!!? That's 2 targets wide and 2 targets HIGH!!!" I laughed, held the SAME hold, and hit that fucker, and it's twin brother right beside it... It was the wind... ripping up that canyon, right up that hill, and at 290 yards, it literally BLEW my damn shot uphill and further left. And I was the Guinea Pig for that stage... I told those guys after that - you better watch that Evil Wind that's out there. I changed nothing, in those first two shots and the third shot - then fourth shot on the twin target - this shiit isn't right out here today... I knew right then, it was gonna be a great shooting day...

We could make MAD MONEY on yt with this shiit, with the collective squad that always shoots together. Sqd4 is a bunch of comics, sadists, and smartasses, all combined into the same cinnamon roll that comes out of the oven at the end. It's pure comedy, tragedy, and hilarity, all wrapped up into the same tube. I wouldn't trade these fuckers for the world - and I'd definitely fight people with them. We're collectively a "really bad idea" for some people, on very many levels... This comes to mind, if the wet dream of the country-fatalists ever comes true... ...And, we're all local... One guy today, Stage 1... missed the last target on the stage, because of a mag failure. Before the buzzer beeped, well under time, he cleared his gun, and hurled the magazine into the canyon, and yelled "Fuk YOU!!!" at the bad mag... It was the most Epic gun-clearance I've ever seen in my life...

Sounds like cars, trucks, furniture, and washing machines right now. Not even surprised with that info. Thanks, Pete Butti-gig.

They'll work WELL. I have one now, on a backup .260 Rem gun. Here's the rundown on that Short, Medium, and Long stuff that they're talking about... Found this out, on their length information: The short/small with clear the M110 charging handle when fully collapsed. The medium with clear the M4 charging handle when fully collapsed. The long/large is designed for side-chargers and rifles equipped with side-folders like the LAW Tactical. <<<Buuuut... you can't charge the rifle with the LAW folder (folded), and the action won't cycle with the LAW folder (folded). That large/long once doesn't make sense to me... I found that all out after I purchased the small - which I needed for the build I did. I lucked out, guessed right, when I told my Gun Pusher to get that one for this gun. The stock will work VERY WELL - I love it already, and haven't even shot it yet. It'll work. Once I get the scope I'm waiting for, I'll tell you all about it. Here's the gun that I'm waiting for the scope, for: Here's folding stock adaptor information, as they referenced. The LAW Tactical is the original. I reviewed this thing when it first came out.

Free-float it with a modern looking handguard, that's not a quadrail. You'll get far better accuracy for hunting, that way. There are tons of options available for that.

Oh, Kimmy didn't make this trip, so I don't have ONE SINGLE PICTURE to upload this time. I'll get the course description up, like I always do, I'll start working on that to post it up. I have a couple vids coming from the LEO Sniper that we've become fond of shooting with. He'll get them to me as his schedule permits, and I'll get them in here as soon as I get them. Other than his stuff, I have no shoot-pics that I can add this month. I'll get the course layout up soon. EDIT - That LEO Sniper that we shoot with - he didn't give a shiit about the weather, either, and he crushed it, with his .260 Rem gun.

Fuk. My. Life. That's the Official Name for this match today. What craziness, weather-induced. Match start time in the summer is 7am, since it's surface-of-Satan's-A$shole hot in Arizona in the summertime - they want the match OVER before it hits 115, here. Today was previously projected for 112*. We didn't hit that, I'm 105* on the back patio right now, about where it maxed for today. That's not the whole story, though. There's a reason it didn't get as hot as the "Weather-Guessers" called. Shiit rolled in on us last night - hard. I live 80 miles away from the match. Starts at 7am. Squad briefs are 6:30am. I like to get there an hour early from when the match starts. Because. I planned to leave at 5am to arrive at 6:15am. Got up at 4:15am. Kinda missed my mark, left at 5:09am, arrive at 6:20am. @JBMatt was already there. He lives 25 minutes away. Let's go back to leaving at 5:09am again... I was through my little town, and up the ONE State Route (SR 347) that feeds my town from Phx, and called Matt at 5:20am. "Hey brother, this is weird, there's FOG out here, and people are driving like fucking idiots right now, it's pretty crazy - I'm crossing over the river bridge (it's a "dry river" all the time), and I can see the lights at the concrete plant - but I cannot see the concrete plant..." Matt laughs... Weather rolled in last night, and remained this morning, and it was just starting up... SO, I'm in this "fog" and I start seeing people pulled over on the side of the road with their hazards on - typical AZ Dust Storm protocol, for those that are terrified of the dust storms here... I start counting, and telling Matt - "this ain't "fog" brother, from the monsoon humidity - this is a full-blown damn dust storm I'm in..." He's laughing MORE... I count out the cars on the side of the road, hazards, skeered to deeath of dust, and I get to 19 cars, and say, "I'm just gonna battle these dumbasses and go now - gotta drive." He laughs again, and I'll see him up there, Now, this was an Omen... Matt already told me that he got up, wind was HOWLING at his place, and he checked weather - there's a weather radar map that says "Danger, this is gonna whip your ass" headed his way - which is the way to the shoot. Great. I laughed back, before we got off the phone, and battled my dust-driving-impaired friends on the highway. I battled a damn dust storm for about 70 of the 80 miles up there, and finally broke through it - did I out-drive it, or did it give up? No idea, but it sucked. I arrived at 6:20am, just 5 minutes off my time-on-target, after leaving 9 minutes late. After I got through the skeered fuk-tards, I hammered that thing down, and got there as well as I could. Not bad, considering. It was DARK up there, from overhead cover - black cloud cover. Ish. Wind was moderate. Kind of. Everything started, and we always start on the uphill-side of the course, Stg 4, move more uphill to Stg 5, then we go down to 1, 2, 3, working back uphill again. By the time we started, the wind was RIPPIN'! I didn't pull out the weather meter and check, because I was called as the first shooter for the squad - GREAT! Let's just get out here, fight this shiit, and see how bad I fuk it all up, and LEAD THE WAY for the rest of the squad! Hoo-Ray! FML. I got up there, did it, layed it down, and I think I missed the last target before I ran out of time. Not bad, all things considered, 9 out of 10 hits, and I was looking at the wind and THROWING rounds out there. I timed out. I actually hit that last motherfucker out there, but after my 9th hit, the timer buzzed it's 90 seconds, and I didn't even hear it. So, I went after that 10th target, shot and missed, spotted, shot and hit that biotch. And I was HAPPY! And they said, "your time ran out after that last one, bro, you didn't get the final target..." FML. Matt was laughing hiss A$S off back there, spotting, and the timer buzzed, and I kept shooting - he said, "Just let him go, he's gonna do it anyway..." So much for setting the example as the first shooter of the match, right? Damnit. I didn't even hear that buzzer, and I was happy as SHIIT for cleaning that one, in the wind and shiit weather, first one up! Nope! Sit down, get in your CORNER!!! So, we get up to Stg 5, and the wind PICKED UP EVEN FUCKING MORE!!! Well, FML, I just shot first on the first stage for us, so I already know I'm LAST to shoot on THIS ONE! I got the wind meter out. We were 1/2 value wind, on the highest part of the course, shooting out to 650 yards, and I was seeing a consistant 8mph~11mph, and the highest gust I saw on the meter was 15.9mph... HELL YEAH, MEN!!! That stage SUCKED. AS$. BAD. I ended 6 hits out of 9 on that one. This is NOT a good start to a "great shooting match" right here. So, as everything shook out, it got better for me, kinda. I cleaned Stg 1 and Stg 2 (the timed stage), and almost cleaned Stg 3, went 8/10. Overall, I hit 44 out of 50 targets, in shiit weather, with alot of wind on the stages that the wind affects the most... I'll take it. It wasn't pretty, but it was still great - shooting in shiit conditions is what it's all about. Do THAT decently, and you'll do well in better conditions. Well... you SHOULD do better, in better conditions... I usually end up about the same, though... When everything shook out, and scores were posted, @JBMatt and I whipped alot of the "regular REALLY GREAT SHOOTERS" that show every month. It was surprising, seeing the results. Some really, REALLY great shooters, this month, didn't do so well, with weather. With WIND. Hey, it happens. We, here, shoot wind alot - almost every single time we go out to the SDTF. I'll let @JBMatt tell his story...

Entirely BACK on track, for a rare occasion (by me)... \ Did NYS ever unfuck that stupid law they passed on "body armor." They completely boned that rush-job up, badly. They fucked it up so bad that Homer Simpson is saying...

He's just our Resident Victim, here. I don't think there are any "experts" in NYS. Just a bunch of people making shiit up, and the massive amount of remaining LibTards that still live there and think it's great, FAR OUTNUMBERS the remaining people with Common Sense. Hence, bullshiit gets passed into law, and the real Americans that are trapped there get fucked by it all. NYS has ONE GOAL in supposed "Gun Safety Laws" - beat whatever California comes up with. Ol' Gavin Newsom just came up with a DOOZY for Cali, too. Let's see NYS beat THAT one...

I hear ya. I'm looking at that one, but I'm looking at the version from FN even harder, just for the more modern amenities. I like ambi safety levers on guns that have safety levers. Here's the FN: https://fnamerica.com/products/fn-high-power-series/fn-high-power-fde/

Good update, man - hang in there. We are here whenever you need us, for whatever you need us for.

Just remember ONE THING on these Large Frame ARs... Rule #1. There is no definitive pattern to follow. Every manufacturer will do what they want to do. Based on that, on every single build that you do, you ALWAYS have to check the basics, very first. Get the Recoil System straight first. Get the Gas System straight second. In that order. If you do that, and balance both systems (and aren't working with shiit-parts from junk vendors), then the gun WILL run. End Of Sermon.

Two places to start. When you get to the end of them, come on in here and fire off the details. And this one:

Your recoil system hard parts are good. Replace the recoil spring with either the Armalite EA1095 spring, or a Sprinco Red spring. Then, for sure, nothing is questionable in the recoil system. Gas tube protrusion is still in question. Your gas port is way too small. You have a Go at 0.078" (5/64"). You have a No Go somewhere over that. You need between 0.090"~0.096" to run Rifle gas on a 20" .308 barrel with a 0.750" gas block journal. It'll be more to the higher side of that, than the lower side. Always test an adjustable gas block Wide Open. You adjust down after the gun runs. Otherwise, you waste ammo, and never, ever find out that your gas port is too small. Adjustable gas blocks can only choke down the amount of gas going to the BCG - they can never add more gas to the equation. Use numbered drill bits - they have a greater size variance over fractional bits. Click this: https://littlemachineshop.com/reference/numberdrillsize.php

You talking .50 BMG? I've learned alot about the presses that can handle that one. It's all about the size of the dies. You need to be 1 1/4" on your dies. Only Hornady (still) makes a press for 1 1/2" dies, and RCBS used to, but that one is discontinued now. Every other standard press can handle everything else, brother.

Pistol gas, if the gas tube is that short.

Just wait to you put it all back together - that's even more fun!... Question on that BCG - both ejectors held in place with one pin? Or is there a separate pin for each ejector?