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My first pistol that I ever bought, out on my own, was the Taurus PT-92. I was 21, stationed in California, and had to wait my "waiting period" to go pick it up. It was 10 days, in 1991. I only bought the gun because it was "damn near" the Beretta M9, and so I could shoot when I wanted, and get better with my issued M9 - never enough trigger-time, in Regular Army, with handguns - 50 rounds a year, period, for annual qual - even in a Combat Arms unit, based on it being a "secondary weapon." First weekend I had it, I put 1100 rounds through it. First day, on the range, 22 boxes of ammo. poop was $5-ish per box then - even from a local gun store in California. That particular pistol, I still have, and I'll never sell it - only thing I ever did to it was add Pachmayr grips. Last count on this one was 10k+ rounds - I quit counting on it, years ago, but I don't fire it much these days after retirement. It's been an invaluable gun, for training for the M9 use, that I could never get the round-count to do militarily - just know the differences in the platforms. You can manipulate your M9, defeat that decocker, and always fire your M9 in single-action only - if you know how to work it.

I love this - for some reason, I can see Roman here... I'm just sayin'...

100%, and then some. If you can't shoot - then hardware won't make you better. You can either shoot, or you cannot shoot. And that's all in the Fundamentals. Period. When you get good enough to out-perform your hardware - THAT is when you upgrade your hardware. Now. Let's get back to the issues that the OP is facing, and let's get off your hypothetical bulshiit, that you're interjecting into someone else's thread - respect the OP, and the situation that he has, and leave your own bullshiit out of it. Thanks, in advance. Stay out of this guy's thread with your bullshiit.

When I found that out - I found out a NEW way for doing drop/dope charts, too. I started with this one, for the 6 ARC, and it's MONEY. I develop all my charts like this now - this is the 6 ARC 18" gun chart, with Hornady 108 ELD-M factory loaded Match ammo, measured velocity is mine, through a MagnetoSpeed:

I'm in this boat, out here in AZ, brother - big time. I went out last summer in July here, to test some shiit - JUST got a 6 ARC 18" precision gun done, and I wanted to compare that to all that hype that's out there. I took an identically built (harware-wise) original 18" 6.5 Grendel - and all the hype had it compared to the .308 WIn Hornady 178gr ELD-X projectile - that I have a wonderful 18.5" gun, and custom load for... So, I shot the 18" Grendel at 850 first - couldn't even get on target, and it was about 105 degrees out - EARLY on a July Sunday morning, too! Alright, not wasting ammo for the Grendel, get the Mk11 out with the 178 ELD-Xs loaded for it. THAT GUN was 8.5 mils at 850 yards. No splash, no indication that I was even NEAR target. And I KNOW that this load is ON THE MONEY$$$. FML. I played with the Mk11 until is was on - and it was 7.0 mils ON TARGET at the 850... So 1.5 mils different?!!? YOU SERIOUS?!!? Yes, VERY serious. I developed that load at way lower temps, tested it, and got it on. Then, I shot that load at a WAY DIFFERENT temp - 105*. 1.5 mil difference at 850, for the same load?!@ Yes - and it led me down the path of WHY... Density Altitude. After that range session, that day in July, I went WAY DEEP on the WHY of it all, and it was ALL Density Altitude, for long range shooting. I posted about that somewhere here, in great detail - can't find the thread right now, but I will.

It's not "off by 6 degrees" - the 6-degree inclination is IN the design... It's supposed to be there, by design. It's not speculation - it's in the design. It's IN the prints for a lower. By design.

I've never tried the QMS in anything, because I didn't want that pull weight - but I have used the ACT in several guns - and it IS a good trigger. It's the best mil-spec trigger that you can get, hands down. Bill Geissele nailed that thing. ALG is "Amy Lee Geissele" - which is Bill Geissele's wife. Every ALG trigger you get was designed and tuned and built - by Bill Geissele.

What the FUK are you talking about, and HOW THE FUK does it pertain to this conversation that's going on?... Why are you referencing that information - for THIS THREAD - in the first place?... What's it got to do with anything discussed here in this thread?... EDIT - For the record now - since time has passed, that was the 34th ever Spike's Tactical billet 5.56 receiver set, upper and lower - and it chewed up buffer faces, because something was out of spec in what they did. I'll out it now, because I built that gun in 2010. One of the very first receiver sets that they offered, and I backordered that set as soon as they announced it. I got #34. That STILL doesn't have a damn thing to do with the conversation that's going on here, right now, with this OPs gun, though. So, BRAVO for bringing up something that doesn't even matter here. Get back in your corner, and watch the crowd. If you wanna speak legibly about something, bring it up - if you want to babble about bullshiit that doesn't matter - then you NEED to be in the corner, with your thumb in your mouth.

Nope.

I replied in your other thread - where you posted the exact same thing.

Alright - I'm on this website right now, and I can't find a single charging handle for sale there, to look up what you bought. Nada. https://www.texasprecisionoptics.com/ BUT!!! They have a very serious amount of cheap Chinese scopes on their website, and it seems that they prefer the "Sniper" brand, for everything. So, with all the questions that will come up here, to solve this issue over the internet... I highly suggest you read this topic, before going any further forward. Provide the referenced information, with pics, like is suggested in this thread - and maybe we can get somewhere. Until then, we, collectively here, are dead in the water, floating with the tide...

Your charging handle is probably getting hung up on whatever stock you have on there - you never mentioned that part of it, and didn't give any pictures of what's going on. Pictures of the problem are THE KEY INGREDIENT when you're trying to get something diagnosed, over the internet. Many times, words-alone are never going to do the job...

I hated the Beretta M9, for the reasons you stated, plus more. Decocker and safety on the slide is just stupid = it belongs on the frame, not the slide, and the decocker is an added safety feature that wasn't even necessary. Beretta just complicated shiit with complicated shiit, coming up with that one - on the whim of some dipshiit in the Army that "thought it was a good idea, for safety..." The decocker sucks. Cocks. Beretta had a big problem with the M9. They stated slide-life at 5,000 rounds to Big Army. High-round testing showed that this wasn't true, and slides were coming apart. But, Big Army already bought the gun. Announcements were made that slide-life was 2500 rounds - and slides were still coming apart. Slide-life announcements made again that the new slide-life was 1250 rounds. Once a gun hit the slide-life round count, the slide was replaced - no more slides came apart after 1250 rounds, with slide replacement. The problem with slide life was simple... Beretta designed and built the gun in Italy. They won the Big Army contract with their design. They THEN built a factory in Brazil, and fulfilled their contract, and made every service-issue M9 - IN Brazil, at their new factory. QC wasn't there. Fine Italian craftsmanship wasn't there. All the service-issue M9s were made in Brazil. And, then Beretta finished the initial supply contract of M9s to Big Army. All that was left for Beretta to do was make MORE replacement guns when it arose, and supply replacement parts... They made MAD MONEY by having a factory in Brazil, too, on that huge-ass Big Army contract... So, initial supply run DONE. They sold the factory... To Taurus. Taurus got all the designs, with that factory, too. Including the M9. What did Taurus do? They made the PT-92. They moved the safety to the frame, where it belongs, got rid of the decocker mechanism completely, and changed the way that slide was manufactured -and they offered a lifetime guarantee on their new slide, on the PT-92. Our stories dove-tail together, Cliff. Interesting information, when combined.

AAC used to send a small tube of it with every single muzzle device you bought from them. I don't know it they still do that now, seeing that PSA bought them out, in the Remington nightmare...

Don't know right now - still haven't ordered a piston for the 250R yet, for the one that finally blew up. I need to just get the 72.50mm piston, and have the jug bored, and put that thing back together. Getting hot here already - last week was already mid-90s all week, but the weather-guessers say that's abnormal, and it'll cool to normal for a few weeks. I don't buy it - they're all just completely fucked up. Guessing.

I use it in my .224 Valkyrie loads. That's the only place I use it. It's working. If you find a powder that's good for heavy 5.56 loads, then that same powder will be good for heavy .308 Win loads. I don't know if CFE 223 is any good for the heavies, because I've only used it in my Valk load development. My my personal note in it. It's working for the Valk loads, though.

Measure the firing pin protrusion into the bolt face. Just take the BCG out of the gun, push the bolt into the BCG, all the way back, then push your finger on the end of the firing pin, push it forward - measure how much the firing pin protrudes through the bolt face. Like Jim said above - let's eliminate the hardware first, piece by piece. If that FP protrusion isn't good, rip the whole BCG apart and see if there's anything in there, and clean the hell out of it, and try that test again.

Amazing to work with. I'm a very-long-time customer there.

So, you pulled about a $3.5K or $4k gun for $1800. I think I pushed you over the edge, with criticism over your complete indecision. You scored. What's my cut? And is this payment coming in from @Belt Fed's account?...

No, 0.169" is the Colt Large Pin receivers. They're the only ones that ever did this, too. Trust Bill Geissele for this information. https://geissele.com/colt-rifle-users-guide

Raised that way as well, my brother. Southeastern Ohio, my whole upbringing. Out in the dirt, out in the woods, out all the time, either hunting, fishing, or just being OUT. I'm 1/16th, if it didn't skip me, by calculations. It skipped my sister, and she did some DNA/Geneology test, and she showed up with zero. I laughed at her, because she gets darker than me in the summers... I know it's what led me where I've gone, what I've done, and what I've accomplished. I've embraced it all my life, and I'm lucky to have been the warrior that I have, in my past life/profession. When I look back... It's what made me who I am, and helped me with what I set out to to, and what I've done. It also helps me explain why (to myself), that certain things are completely unacceptable to me, in and with my own views. I'm way better than Elizabeth Warren, that's for fuckin' certain!...

I swear, last time, I wanted to tell him... after the "What do you want..." STATEMENT... "I'm here to kick some ass and get some gun parts from Glen. Do I need to kick YOUR ASS to get my parts from Glen?..."

The dude at the front door makes you WAIT when you push that buzzer-button... and it's all mirrored glass on the shop-front, soyou can't see SHIIT inside. Nothing. And he waits. DO NOT ring the buzzer TWICE, because you cannot see him, inside, looking at you through that mirrored ass glass. You get impatient, and ring it twice - he won't come to the door. At ALL. So, you ring it, and you wait. And when he opens the door - that is ONE HUGE MOTHERFUCKER!!! "What do you want..." He doesn't phrase it as a question, either - it's a STATEMENT from him...

I love Lake City brass, man - it just works, all the time. Even if it's got the "4-corner crimp" on it, you can get that out pretty easy, and that brass is excellent.

Take a pic of your Ejector, and post it up here... New build here, right?