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Every day is nasty weather there, unless it's August and September - and that's not a 2-month window, more like 5 weeks, max. I did your hood for 12 years, bro. You're on the Wet Side. News channels bragging about "It's 100 straight days of RAIN!" and it's only April... I know your hood, brother. Take care of your gear.

Measure it when it gets there - I'll be curious to what it really measures. 12" is not an AR15 gas tube length. It's also not an Armalite AR-10 Carbine gas tube length.

I have a couple of those now, and think I mentioned something about them in the rifle builds that I did - they're pretty impressive. I hadn't used any MI rails for a long time, but that Combat Rail popped up and it matched something I was doing at the time, so I grabbed it. Very nice. Liked it enough to "not think about it" when it matched up to something else I was building. You've done well on this gun here - glad to see the DD Rail turn into a very nice gun. I wish I had 20 more of them.

Top quality gear all the way there, man. I was deployed with the badass that made that company. I love everything they make, it's pure perfection.

Keep working with that, brother - that gun is doing what it needs to now.

If you're still talking about the Lee parts that you have, that's only for measuring the LENGTH of the fired brass, and cutting it down. It's not really for "measuring" either, it's for cutting down cases that stretched during firing. Cutting them back down to minimum length. That's not used for checking cases that you've resized, checking shoulder bump, case swell, checking loaded overall length, any of that.

DPMS High is standard .308AR height. DPMS low is supposed to the the same height over bore as AR15.

Do you have it in your hands yet?

Yep, looks like cutter and lockstud in there, with an inner chamfer tool, and a primer pocket tool.

I'm DIGGIN' tha Face-Fro, brother!!!

That's for their trimmer, to trim your cases to minimum length. So, that's 1/2 of what you need for the .308 Win cases. The other 1/2 is this:

Damn! Looks delicious already!

RCBS bullet puller - cheap and effective.

Lee Factory Crimp die, for whatever you're reloading. Everything that goes through a semi auto needs to be crimped, and that's the best tool out there for the job. It's probably less than #20. Get one coming. Everything else on your list looks pretty complete. Wipe out your powder measure with a dryer sheet, so there's no static in your powder measure.

Bushmaster was DPMS, and that was all AR15 gas tubes.

They have an investment cast single-sided safety. Nevermind - I see what you're saying now - regular M16-looking lever ends... D'oh!

Very legit part, and company, man. I run a bunch of those on the AR15 guns.

Indeed. When you're around them all the time, and using them all the time, the true definition. "An everyday thing" is what they were. Ubiquitous. For everything. We stored tools in them, for the motorpool guys - packed, not used, but ready to go - send it when you need to send it. Boat engines for the guys at the Dive Locker. Whatever. Containers packed, maintained, ready for... whatever.

ISU-90, for reference - this was my main "go-to" for shipping .mil-gear: Air Force people, pushing one...

Dude, I used Hardiggs like these ones. Small "containers" to ship, when you had to ship something that had to be smaller than an ISU-90.

I don't want to see Ron in those pics. I'm just sayin'...

So, you replaced them? And they still do this? I beat Pelicans up militarily as well. For a long time. Never had a latch fail on me. Beat up some Hardigg cases as well, and never had one fail, ever. The Hardiggs were for all our computer equipment, and we could kick them out of the back of a plane, truck going 50mph, slingload them and crash - they didn't care.

Same as all the Pelicans I've used, never had a problem with the latches. What the hell did you do to them? Pelican won't replace them?

It's almost impossible to find primers in stock anywhere in the country. That's the nature of the game, right now. It's not a NJ thing - it's everywhere, all over the country.

^^^ I don't have a Camp Chef pellet grill - FUK ME! I don't have ANY pellet grill. But I've been into the Camp Chef stuff for several years now, so I can take it out to the dirt, and just beat it up - both on cooking and in transport. Nothing rivals this hardware, for what I need it to do, and for what I have to do to it, just to get it there, and get it back. I'll never turn back, and will always support them. They make GREAT shiit - especially if you have to beat it up in transport.