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Max you can ever make a gas port is 0.125", because that's the I.D. of a gas tube. If you need bigger than that, we'd have to braze in a turbo encabulator into the middle of the gas tube, to bump up gas pressure when you fire.

No issues at all, to 0.076" - take it up, and let us know. Make sure you're getting those decimal points in the right place, otherwise, you're putting more than a 3/4" hole in your barrel...

^^^ That's the one, and it allows the buffer to be placed farther forward, so the BCG definitely pushed it off the pin, and it'll never chew up the buffer face again. Sounds about right. I'll look up gas port sizes based on that. EDIT - That ejector face looks pretty squared off. That never helps feeding, specifically when the rounds are coming from the right side of the magazine.

What lower are you using? I didn't see it mentioned above. Something is wrong, if you bent the retainer pin - that means the back of the BCG isn't pushing the buffer face off the retainer when you close the upper to the lower. Let's solve that first. Next, describe that XL gas system on the Odin 22" barrel - how long is the gas tube? I can figure out the gas system length if you give me that info. Oh, and always run an adjustable gas block wide open when you start. That's the only way you're ever gonna find out if your gas port is large enough.

Gas port is too small. 18" rifle gas needs 0.093"~0.096" to run right (for a 0.750" gas block journal size). Get that Armalite EA1095 recoil spring in there and punch the gas port up, and your gun will run like a champ. All other measurements look good. Faxon runs a 0.750" journal for that barrel.

You had dibs, brother.... PIck it up, it's on your list. I can make time, sometime, and go hassle Armalite right at their place of business. That's the best way to get all the out of stock parts from their website - because they're all there, in the back. I can back the car up to the front door, raise the hatch, give them my money, and load it all up...

...and I'm gonna paint THE FUK OUTTA THAT THING!!!

If Savage doesn't want it, I need one right now as well, for my second .260 Rem upper. Armalite is out of stock at the moment, and I don't have the time to drive up there and have them "find" one for me.

That's a DPMS LR-308 based barrel, where they drilled the gas port location. Any AR15 rifle gas tube will work perfectly. Save that 15.5" gas tube - that's the Armalite AR-10 rifle length gas tube, right there. Don't cut it - replace it and keep it. Cutting it won't work with a damn, because you'll remove the flare on the end.

We still have that thread, which means we still have that vid, brother. I'll try to drag that out of the section it's in, and make it public and live. You were a SAVAGE in testing...

I'm glad you chimed in, brother - I can post that vid if necessary...

WAY back when, when the lube was coming up - I TOLD you these guys were hardcore!...

That test thread was awesome. That was actually in later 2016, going towards 2017... That's about when @JBMatt and I started shooting together - I conned him into coming out to the SDTF to shoot - and everything changed... I've ended up costing him alot of money, over the years now... 🥰 @jtallen83, the frozen pistol with frost on it, in that thread, was epic, brother...

Shiit, my bad, the .308 Win is out of stock... Looks like these guys have Forster gauges in stock - I just added both to a cart for checkout. https://www.eabco.net/Forster-Headspace-Gauges_p_14570.html?lt_c=1&quickcart=1

Brownell's has Clymer gauges in stock: https://www.brownells.com/gunsmith-tools-supplies/measuring-tools/headspace-gauges/go-no-go-gauge-sets-prod26876.aspx

The only firing pin that they offer is a real, no-shiit AR-10-looking firing pin. You better call them, and see what pattern these guns that they're chasing. This firing pin WEILL NOT WORK in a DPMS-based or patterned BCG... https://whitelabelarmory.com/product/ar10-firing-pin/

Never heard of these guys before this post. Ever. https://whitelabelarmory.com/ I think calling them on the phone, as directly asking them where their parts come from, is the best bet. Call us at 1-847-847-4311

I'm grateful for this, brother. Glad they're coming around. Way back in the day, I was on there, and got to make ONE POST, and was banned. Someone asked about a good AR15 barrel, and I suggested Spike's Tactical - BAN! With one post. That stirred me up, like you don't know, and I got on ARF, and praised the fuk outta Spikes. That led to the fucking OWNER of M4C sending me a PM - on the site that I was banned from, and could still read? I read his email notification. Fuk that douche. I lit him up on ARF for even PMing me in the first place, and posted his shiit that he sent me. All the bandwagon long-time guys over there were all over that. Eff 'em all. Looks like - as it turns out - those people over there don't know enough about Large Frames to even hold their own water... Where those old-timers at over there, that were slamming me 10 years ago?... 🥰

Fuckin' Savages, I'll tell ya. These bastards would eat their young.

Just so you know, @JBMatt is the one that actually makes the lube. We tested it here for a few years, and it's the best stuff out there.

Is this really a rifle receiver extension that's 9 1/2" internal depth? That needs replaced. Find someone that has a proper extension, that measures 9 11/16" internal.

Springs in pistols comes down to the ammo that you're shooting, and being able to make follow-up shots without excessive recoil and muzzle/gun jump. And it's valid. We really can't "tune" with spring in this platform, because there's a minimum needed, and most manufacturers don't meet that minimum, at all. Some manufacturers think AR15 springs will work in these things, and that's just a drunken pipe dream, right there. You can go too crazy on springs with these, and there's only two examples that I can even think of. First is the Stag Arms .308 spring. That's the heaviest spring I've ever seen in my life, first-hand. That spring rate is through the roof. I think they did that because they ship their guns with 3.8oz buffers. I'm not willing to invest the time, research, or money, to even see if it's viable - but I've already done that for GunPusher John, on a customer's gun that came into the shop. I couldn't make that thing cycle reliably with all kinds of different buffers, including custom-lightened buffers. I'm over it, with that Stag spring. Second thing I can think of is the Sprinco springs, and accidentally getting the wrong one. Sprinco makes the Orange spring specifically for the .308ARs with 7.000" receiver extensions, running short 2.500" buffers (that should weigh 5.4oz, or very damn close). Specifically designed for that application. Next is the Sprinco Red spring - that's a direct replacement for the Armalite EA1095 spring, which should be used in .308AR rifle recoil systems, and carbine recoil systems with a 7 5/8" extension, running a 3.250" 5.4oz buffer. If someone accidentally got a Sprinco Red spring, and threw it in a 7.000" AR-15 recoil system for their .308AR, they'd be Sad Panda. It won't work. Won't work better than putting the EA1095 into a 7.000" carbine setup, which wouldn't work, either... Therefore, we can only select the proper spring - and make sure the rest of the recoil system is straight, and make sure the gas system is straight. I'll say this now, though - 8oz 9mm extended buffer, with a Sprinco Red spring, is what finally fixed my 9mm AR. I need to get another set like that, and fix my first 9mm AR. Blowback pistol cal ARs are a motherfucker to make run right, if you really, really are interested in making them run right...

Now THAT is funny! Hey, LoneWolf, by the way...

Doesn't make a hill of beans how it does when you manually cycle it, but it makes a world of difference when you pull the trigger - and expect to be able to pull the trigger again. Read this, and it'll break down the two systems that actually make this gun run right: