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Verify that the receiver extension is 9 11/16" deep, internally. Shiit-can the spring and find a real Armalite EA1095 spring, or a Sprinco Red spring. Use know good springs intially, and it cuts down on diag in the future. Both barrel makers you listed are excellent. Don't overlook Ballistic Advantage. After that, keep an eye on Faxon. BA before Faxon, but both are very good.

Just a Mossberg 500 or 590...

Well, that G5 17 escalated quickly! well done, brother - very well done.

Not a big deal, man, in the least. But Shilen didn't even know what 6 ARC was 3 years ago - they'd never heard of it, and neither did anyone else, that wasn't active in SOF. SOF derived this cartridge, and made it happen. The announcement on 3 Jun 20 was an accident - someone let it slip...

Baddest .308 projectile on the market, I swear by it. Best BCs by far, and it flies really, really well. As soon as that thing came out, I switched up all my .308 Win loads, and dumped by beloved Hornady 175gr HPBT projectile forever, that I'd used for about 10 years. I've never looked back, and glad I made the move, even after all the load development that I had to do for the new projectile - completely worth it. 6 ARC was publicly announced on 3 June 2020. You might want to check your math on that order date... I'm just sayin'... I had parts on order that day (BA Barrel and another Grendel BCG), and had one completed by August, for it's first firing, and I was one of the first ones firing one, that wasn't a gun-mag-sponsored rig, for reviews...

This is fixable, since it's an 80%... Thread the extension back into the lower, determine how short it is, to make the end of the extension cover the edge of the retainer when it's in there, and machine that much off the flat back edge of the lower receiver. Another way is this: that receiver extension should be 9 11/16" deep, internally. You want the forward edge of that extension to stop right at the top of the lower receiver. Measure what it is now, fully threaded in, from the internal back of that extension to the top edge of the lower. Machine off enough (off the back of that receiver) to get to 9 11/16" for that measurement. Either one of those two methods will solve the problem. You're already machining anyway, just go for it.

This is what I REALLY like...

I don't fuk around, brother. Get after it. Like getting after Cindy.

I love a good plan...

The RCBS ChargeMaster Lite is the baddest scale out there right now, and blows away the ChargeMaster 1500, and the Hornady scale, by far. The only thing that can smoke it is that new RCBS "Precision" scale, that runs about $900. I don't need $900 of scale-drama in my life right now, or maybe ever... You won't be disappointed. If you are, I'll extend you my money-back guarantee, and buy it back from you, for all you had to pay for it, plus the shipping and tax that you had to incur to get it to you, plus the shipping to me. You won't be out a penny, brother. And I'll be running two of them...

Oh, I noticed it. I think you needs some fucking Warning Points. I'm just sayin'... Just BECAUSE...

This made me laugh - you remember that plywood and 2x4 doghouse that Anthony built, to cover that crazy-noisy generator that he had for his camper, when we went on dune trips?!

This makes me happy to read it - this place is 12+ years of development, experimentation, money-spent, trial-and-error, some failures... but knowledge gained, in order to be passed on, so others don't have to go through that. Welcome aboard - officially, now ^^^ That's not a bad thing, brother. When the electricity is off, I can still use my flashlight to look at the card catalog, and go through the library aisles and find the book in order in the Dewey Decimal System... We still train in reading wind, estimating range, running your dials and knowing your scope dope, and using math to solve your shooting solution, too. Just in case all the batteries die in all the fancy gadgets... Knowledge is power, and knowledge is confidence.

You'll see it when it happens, brother. Mine is off maybe 3 times in 100 drops, and it shows it low or high. It doesn't mean that you'll always hit 19.1gr, and what it says is +/- anything - just that once in awhile it might drop +/- from what you set it. When it drops high or low, it'll show you right there on the scale. You dump that one back in and run it again. Fine ball powder, it never misses. Extruded stick, in chunks, it might miss 3 in a hundred, so those get dumped and run again.

D, best thing I've ever done for my reloading was this, right here: RCBS ChargeMasterLite. Most accurate of the modern scales, and you can pull it for $230~$280, depending on which sale you catch at what time. It blows away the Hornady in the same price range, and the RCBS Chargemaster 1500 (it's bigger brother), based on reviews. Mine rarely fuks up, and it really is badass. Been running it for almost a year now. You could bump up to around $900, and pull that RCBS Match-Super Accurate thing that they have now, but to me, it's just not worth it. This is the one, brother...

I need an optic for this gun before Spring Shoot, so I'll raid something off another gun for that. I'm looking, right now, but I can't find anything that I like that will work on this gun. Swampfox Arrowhead 1~10 in mils is the most promising thing I can find right now, but I'm still looking. Whatever it is, it'll have to be a mil scope, and I'll figure out the dope for it.

Those are all first-formed brass, necked up from generic .308 Win brass, whatever-headstamp... I wanted to make 20, so I got 20 ready, and split 2 cases. Grabbed another 2, just to get my full mag of 20. I'll revisit those 2 that split, and see what their headstamp was. they really SPLIT when they went through the sizer die, with little pressure. It took 3 or 4 passes to get the rest necked up, but those 2 weak bastards didn't have hardly any pressure on them, and just split. Later story, on those 2. These 20 in the mag right now will look slightly different, after shooting, and fire-forming them to this chamber. After that, I'll know how much the shoulder needs bumped, for future reloading on this...

So, this gun has been done for almost a year now. I looked for ammo - stupid move, unreal prices... but it was available! Because... NOBODY shoots .358 Winchester... I got pissed a few weeks ago and just (finally found and bought) GOT the reloading dies. Nailed a Lee set, for $35, and that includes the Lee Factory Crimp Die - BONUS, and killer price, including that $15 crimp die. When Kimmy was having her neck surgery a month ago, they wheeled her away from me around 9:30am. She was going into pre-op, lasting 2+ hours, then they'd take her into surgery (3+ hours), then they'd get her into recovery (1+ hours), before I'd be able to get back to her... I had time to kill... So, I called @JBMatt... "Hey, Fuqr, I know you're either working hard, or hardly working, and I'm right around the corner from you, time to spare, WTF are you doing?!" Turns out he was between work runs, and was heading right up the highway from me to hit up Bruno's Shooters Supply... Deal, it's a date. We met at Bruno's, and lo and behold, they had some Hornady .358" 250gr SP-RP projectiles... I bought a box, and decided to get this thing running... That was a month ago, with Kimmy getting chopped up and bolted and welded that morning. 2 weeks ago was getting the dies on the way. This last Sunday was Kimmy over here at the house, and I taught her some reloading basics - with .358 Win. Now, we have our first 20 rounds to run through this gun, and finally make it get moving. I thought the .338 Fed was fat. This thing is FAT!...

1 of 2 things going on here, since you're using a rifle recoil system (complete). 1. That UTG rifle receiver extension is out of spec, because it doesn't come forward enough - even fully threaded into the lower receiver - to even GET to the buffer retainer pin. 2. That 80% lower is out of spec, and is too deep in the backend, and NOTHING will thread into that thing to capture that buffer retainer pin. It can only be those 2 things, nothing more. Start measuring, and comparing specs.

Should be a 6* angle, exactly. That's the spec for it.

Punch it up, with confidence.

For those that don't know... The Glock 45 is - IS - the 19X, just in black. It's the same damn gun. Just for informational purposes. You're bidding on a black 19X here, is exactly what you're doing. You can't go wrong with that gun.

For the money, and how long I've been doing this, and how much I've spent on a bunch of Harris bipods with specialized adaptors over the years... I'll always use a Magpul bipod. Nothing on the market can give you the cant and swing - and the durability - that the Magpul bipod can... unless you drop some major bucks on it. I found that out the hard way, over time.