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That's on you - there's a warning label printed on them - it's just a smaller label, based on body size. You're used to looking at that Large Print on the ones you hire in...

Don't listen to this bullshiit - the AZ Crew here is solid. Come out and shoot with me sometime.

It's worth it to wait for the Wilson Combat barrel. For 250 yards, hunting, you definitely don't need anything longer than the 16" barrel. In the meantime, work on the rest of the parts for the build, and by the time you gather everything up - that barrel will probably be back. You'll like the .338 Fed cartridge. I'm working on a 16" .358 Win right now. The complete gun is done already - I just need to make ammo and run this thing.

John Ondrasik, singer for Five for Fighting. Like all Americans, I was stunned and horrified at the images of falling bodies from planes, mothers handing babies over walls, and terrified Afghans being crushed to death at checkpoints due to our precipitous withdrawal from Afghanistan. I am deeply troubled by the plight of Afghan women forced to live under the return of Taliban rule and felt great sadness when reading a story about a popular folk singer, Fawad Andarabi, being dragged from his home and shot by the Taliban. Though I believe the decision to withdraw or not from Afghanistan has good arguments on both sides, I cannot comprehend why the Biden administration would not extend the August 31 deadline thus leaving American citizens, SIV holders, and Afghan allies behind to a terrorist Taliban regime. As a life-long supporter of our military I believe “no man left behind” applied to all Americans as well as those we promise to protect. On the day 13 of our soldiers and over 60 Afghans were killed by a suicide bomber I sat down to write this song. After our last solider left Afghanistan, I received a call from a friend organizing rescue evacs of “AM-CITS” and SIV holders. It was a highly emotional call and moment of clarity. Private citizens now had the burden of risking their lives to rescue Americans and Afghan allies that our government left behind. America has broken her promise, but these brave Americans have not. America was built on the foundational freedom to criticize one’s leaders and hold them accountable. It is what separates us from our communist and dictatorship adversaries. How else can we as a nation learn from our mistakes and make better decisions moving forward without honest reflection on our actions? To date, I have not seen that accountability. There is a great tradition of artists speaking their minds and calling out their leaders for answers. Many of those have been inspirations to me. I understand that this song might be perceived by some as a political attack, but those who follow me know I am an American with a history of calling out both sides. If Donald Trump were President and he put us in the same situation, the song would remain the same, only the names would change. After hearing “Blood on My Hands,” a friend said he found the song to be politically neutral, but morally-forward. My hope is that this song helps demand accountability, so the American promise is never again forsaken. JO 9/21 Note: In my haste to release this song I uploaded a video with an incorrect lyric. The army motto is "This We'll Defend" not "This will defend". Though we have corrected the error on other platforms YouTube will not allow us to swap out the video without deleting a link that has been widely shared. Therefore we will keep up this video for now. I apologize for the mistake and upon reflection am taking steps so it does not happen again. I hope those mentioned in this song one day find it in their hearts to do the same thing. 🙂

Knowing what I know now... For most people here, I'd look at the pictures you posted of that shotgun, and say "That's pretty cool, there!" Now, knowing you, HERE... That's your Last-Ditch, right there, when that Valk doesn't kill HogZilla, and you MUST fuk that thing up - NOW! Makes perfect sense. It's in the context, and I get it.

I just caught that last week on another build... I was ready to pounce, and read yours...

My final comment is - you always verify your measuring equipment FIRST, when a number that is normal, comes out different. Verify your measuring equipment. True it up before you measure something important. Calipers come with verified dimensional slugs, just for this purpose.

This is tough. Hear me out. When you're dealing with precision parts, dimensions matter. So... #1. You're dealing with TWO very reputable companies. #2. Your stated measurement was 0.65mm. Weird measurement, but that's exactly 0.025" - 25-thou. #3. In precision measurement, and fitment of parts, 0.001" difference is usally called a "press-fit". You know the parts are different, and they're gonna require some external force to make those parts mate together. Wheel bearings in a hub are a perfect example. When you get to a 0.002" difference is often called an "interference fit." There's a reason those parts need to be held together. with that much press-force, and never come apart under "intended use." #4. With press-fit force, you can accomplish this with no additional actions, besides making these things go together, press, hammer, whatever. With an interference-fit, you need additional steps. You either heat parts, or freeze parts, or a combination of the two - in order to get those parts to mate. #5. You are stating that the difference is 0.025". That's a pretty serious interference-fit, right there. In order to mate this barrel to this upper, you'll HAVE to do two things, and it'll go RIGHT together. You have to heat the bare upper receiver in an oven to 300* for one hour. You have to freeze the barrel in your freezer overnight. Period. That's it (wear an oven mitt...). Pull the upper out of the oven (oven mitt), and pull the barrel out of the freezer, and slide them together. Might take some pressure, at 0.025" fitment, but it shouldn't be much. This isn't my first rodeo with interference-fit parts. They're in engines everywhere, and I've built alot of engines. And guns. That's my $0.02 on this whole affair...

That can be solved, you know...

Brother, I got tag-teamed by idiots one-after-the-other in a 2 week period before this this thread was created. It was RayGun, Greenmist, and some others. All at once. FML. I miss me some @Jgun brother...

I would MOST DEFINITELY RISK IT! Probably have to put out a few front snap-kicks to the chest on some groupies and half those horny band-mates of hers, but that would be worth it, and really get the adrenaline flowing... That's just Bonus Material, right there. I'd be hornier than a 3-peckered Lemur in that scenario. Cannot argue. If I stated otherwise, my track record will come back to haunt me, just like it does for Bill Clinton. Hey man, you can't hold that against me... That was THE HOTTEST Blonde Midget Wrestler I've ever seen in my life. For real. She was BAD!...

Yes.

Success! Well done, man!

Coil-bind is a motherfucker. Every single time. This is exactly why I state that companies that don't make full guns, shouldn't be allowed to make gun parts in the first place. Specialty companies that only make a single part - like Sprinco - those guys ONLY make springs, period, for guns - they get a pass, because they only do that ONE THING and know what they're doing. All these other companies make hard parts - and don't even know how the guns really work in the first place...

The trace is badass - we can still do that here for another month-ish. Takes humidity for that, and once our humidity goes away, it's WAY harder to see. That load components you posted @BigNate - that's close to what I load for mine. Running the 225 ELD-Ms, but RL-22 powder, with the CCI large rifle magnum primers. If this guy in the vid is local - you need to bring him out sometime with us. We'll get him on the mile target with that boomstick.

I think what caused this whole thread was... I just lit a motherfucker UP, and hard, too, a day or two prior. With all my prior warnings about "being nice and playing well with others"- I just straight ripped into some shiithead. I knew my BAN HAMMER was gonna drop, but I couldn't stop myself. I had at it. Warned, and did it anyway. Fuk it. When this came out, I knew it was the end, and I was getting canned. Any attempt to access this site in the future, after my tirade, was gonna be re-directed to midget porn or something. I can't remember who it was that I unloaded on - after major warning after major warning after major warning... I just knew... But! Since - looking back now - Rusty Wallace came up in here, I have something that I forgot about. Lemme show you my Rusty Wallace official leather jacket!... This thing is LEGIT AS FUK!!!

Decided to do it myself. It's in the "What you need to know" section...

This is not your typical firearms board, here. This is a work in progress, for more than a decade, after many of us being on other gun boards, prior to that. This was a quest to resolve all the conflicting information out there, about the Large Frame AR Market - one place, to gather all data, on as many .308AR platforms, as possible, figure them out, put the information out on what was found - and keep it all here. Right here. So far, it's been quite successful - there isn't any other place on the 'net that you can find the information, that you can find here. Nowhere. Just here. This started with the .308AR platform - but there's no discrimination, none. We don't care what you shoot, any caliber, and platform... We just care THAT you shoot. Ask about wrist-rockets if you want - somebody here is a PRO with those things! What makes this place different is the bond, and the like-minded individuals, that have stuck it out over time. What makes this place different is the willingness to TRY. Someone asks about a certain caliber? Nobody here has that? We've seen members here say, "Eff it - I'll buy one of those or build one of those, and figure it out..." Another thing that stands out is - we fix our own gun problems. In turn, that solves alot of gun problems for future gun owners. We reload. MAN, do we reload. We push ourselves for a better load, all the time. We work at it, until we perfect it. Or we work at it, spend a PILE of money on it, and a BUNCH of time on it (years, sometimes), before we say... "That's just not gonna work..." Recommendations for products do not come lightly. Recommendations for solutions do not come lightly - they come with years and years of experience on this platform - and any other platform that you can imagine. In light of all this, what got me going on this rant, was something that happened here last week. Information was given to a myriad of bouncing questions. At one point, the original OP didn't like some of the responses given, and his answer was... "it seems like at a point - when person A mentions something... if person B feels any way other than comfy.. there are attacks made. " The response is pure perfection. It sums up WHY we have all gathered here, in the first place, and what we do... "Alright, I kinda got drug into this diatribe, so now I feel like I need to throw in my $0.02. Wanted or unwanted. From the outside looking in, you appear to have read every single thing that is a thing about what you're wanting to do or build, even though that is still not exactly clear. Maybe you've talked to a few people "in the know". Half of what you've said/asked about makes no difference for what you are doing or attempting to do. Some of it is totally unnecessary. Literally splitting hairs and the improvements will only be seen in a controlled environment with an expert/champion shooter that has a rifle where the groups are measured to the .0001". Some of what you've said is interesting. It probably worked for someone, somewhere at some time I have no doubt. That being said, the resistance that you are identifying is because the majority of us have learned all this by doing it. We've set a goal, built a rig, loaded the rounds and went and tested to get our results. Rinse. Repeat. A dream parts list on paper might look good and sound like a real winner, but when it's all put together you'll quickly learn that some of that schitt doesn't make a hill of beans difference or you paid a lot of money for a part that just flat out doesn't work as intended. But on paper and in theory it should work! Because every rig works differently, every shoulder holds it differently, every eye sees it differently and every finger pulls it differently. And there's a lot of things that make more of a difference that you've kind of just skipped over. Just my observation from reading what's here, but it's easy to assume that all of the things you listed in the posts above are from research and not your real world experience. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's how it comes across. Granted, some people may have done some things and others may have done other things that work, but the only real way to know is to build it and do it. For yourself. What works for that guy may not necessarily work for you and that goes for information received here, as well. Go through all the steps, buy all the high dollar stuff, spend all the time doing everything awesome and badass and go test it. Then get back to us with the results. All it is now is piss in the wind until it's proven. You've thrown around different ideas/theories. Some will stick, others will not. I have a feeling that you'll end up ditching half the parts/procedures you've talked about as the time/effort just won't be worth it in the end. Around here, we run our bolt, not our mouth. While we may not know everything, we definitely know enough to get the job done and we know BS when we hear it. There's something to be said about being able to out perform your equipment, and it comes across that you're armchair quarterbacking this so far. You can build a 10 second drag car on paper, but what matters is where the rubber meets the road. Enjoy the journey." @JBMatt - VERY well done, brother.

I whole-heartedly agree with this. That is legendary material, right there, and full-on worthy of being pinned, all by itself.

Oh, I see he already replied - that's what I get for reading-and-replying, instead of reading all the way to the end BEFORE replying...

He pissed me off with this one. Bad. That was 3 out of 4, right there. He was ON THE MONEY right when the wind died, and that was the last 4 rounds in his mag. That fuqr.

YOU have a great day tomorrow, brother! Get one first, then be camp cook bitch the rest of the time!

Those things run, man. They run. They look like the warts on a fat chick's ass, at the bar at 2am. But at 2am, does it matter?...