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Welcome aboard. This is your issue, right here, pointed out above. Love to see some more specs on your gun, to figure this all out. Here's a great starter on the kind of information that we need -to figure this out over the internet...

I'm glad that you quoted a vendor, that sells parts, and that you ignore years of personal experience on this weapons platform. Ya done good, here, ignoring solid advice. But, you do you.

Ammo is hard as hell to find, but if you can locate some Hornady Match 123gr ELD-M loaded rounds - those are MOST EXCELLENT. I beat that load on my handloads, but it wasn't easy, or fast, coming up with it. It took quite awhile. That Match box from Hornady delivers. It's what everything else should be measured against, for a Grendel.

OH, BROTHER - THIS BITCH IS BAD!!! Damn, this is a nice scope, and it's gonna be perfect for this rifle/pistol... I got the Athlon mount today - placeholder for the LaRue that 4~6 weeks out. It's a 30mm 20 MOA mount - that I might not take off this gun. 30-ish yard laser zero so far, and corrected turrets, and I've still got 23 FULL MILS of up-travel in this one afterwards... That LaRue mount might find another home - if only I had another gun that could use one. My normal scope position is usually "mount the eyepiece at the back of the upper receiver" but this one is different, because it's short as fuk. I've got that scope about 1/2" forward from what I normally do - and it is ON. It's weird-as-hell to think that this 12.5" gun might be my new 1,000-yard gun. We're gonna see - real soon - how all this shakes out. This thing is badass. Leveled this scope 2 hours ago, and this gun is ready to go...

Call 'em on the telephone. I know that sounds weird, in today's world - but call Faxon and talk to a human, for this question.

Hey, you drive on - do your own thing. If you already had it figured out - then why are you here asking questions?... Let us all know how it works out. I'll be thrilled with the after-action report. Best of luck to you. I'm deeply sorry that you were OBVIOUSLY offended by the word "fool", and I hope that the rest of life is easier on you, so as not to offend you, throughout your life. That has to be hard - being offended by everyone, all the time. So, in short, toughen the fuk up, don't be so easily offended, and realize that life is tough. Otherwise, if THAT offended you, then just fuk yourself. Pick what kind of person you want to be in this world that we live in. You have all kinds of options. If you pick to be "easily offended", then life won't be good to you until ALL the Easily-Offended take over. Then you can all attack all the businesses you want with your weak-ass Yelp-Reviews, and extinguish everything that you hate - online, faceless, and with zero balls to live in this world. That's my $0.02 on it. Hope it didn't offend you. Again.

THE Original Intergalactic STUD... Fucked them All, he did... All them bitches...

That one's on you, brother...

This right here needs to be it's own thread - start a tech thread in the "Build Section" on this one...

File Fraud Charges on that transaction with your credit card company, and be done with them, Mack. To them... Thanks for the heads-up on them, though, and your due-diligence. SMOKE 'EM!

This is a quote for the ages, right here...

Read this:

I've stated my Wilson Combat gas-tube length before here. It's written, on what I had to do to mine, for a proper gas tube. The answer that they gave you should tell the story on their gas port location. That's the proof in the pudding that I've been looking for, from them. They know EXACTLY what they're doing with that bullshiit "In-Between" gas port drilling that they're doing. It's not "AR15/DPMS LR-308 gas port location, and it's not Armalite AR-10 gas port location"... it's IN BETWEEN those two locations, and they HOPE that whatever customer, with whatever gas tube, gets their gun to run on whatever ammo... It's complete Horseshiit, from a barrel manufacturers standpoint, because they don't know the real differences between the two systems - and they DON'T CARE... "Let's just toss it up, and it'll work for most people, most of the time, with most of the ammo - and they can get whatever gas tube is available..." It's a crock of shiit... I hope they're reading this - they have in the past, and they FIXED their bad gas port diameter in their 20" .260 Rem rifle-length gas port diameter. It was 0.070, and that didn't work, and I made my information known that it needed to be 0.080" gas port diameter... and now all THOSE barrels ship with a gas port that's 0.080"... Who'd a thunk it.

SO, THEORETICALLY... This is the world that you're working in, and you're swimming in a sea of people that have already done this before, made mistakes, fixed them, and made operational guns out of those mistakes. So, you can either listen, or work in the "theoretical world" that you know. We know proven solutions, and we've bought them, tested them, found out that some of them didn't work - and moved on to what DID work. The choice is yours, and yours solely, from here forward. You've chosen your buffer system. My only advice to you at this point it to forget everything you think you know about recoil systems - since you've chosen your hard parts - and use a Sprinco Orange spring. That's the ONLY spring that's ever been devised, by ANY manufacturer, for the combination of recoil-system parts that you chose to use. You can take that for what it's worth, but you'll be a fool to ignore that recommendation. There's my $0.02 on your recoil system.

Back on track now, about my own gun - the optic came in today. Athlon HELOS BTR Gen 2, 2~12x42. First Focal Plane Illuminated MIL reticle. Still waiting on the mount, but it'll be here in a couple days, barely in time for the Shoot in 1.5 weeks. But enough time, barely. Down to the wire on this one, but made it. I learned from the 12.5" Grendel, and taking it to 850, that the 4x scope on that was tough to do. It was doable, and repeatable, but 4x sucks at 850, and you need to be on it to do it. Feasible, doable, but FOCUS! Gotta be in the zone, not an everyday, anyday thing, with that combination. Looked and looked for something 1~6 or 1~8, meal-dot reticle and exposed, marked turrets, in 1/10th clicks... nothing out there unless you're dropping major bucks for an EOTech or something wild. So fuk it - let's look beyond what my initial thoughts were. Athlon was the answer, with this scope, and this thing is pretty badass. I'll get more into the scope, once I have the mount, level it, and shoot it, but it is THE TICKET for this gun. This little 12.5" barreled fucker WILL be a 1000-yard gun. https://athlonoptics.com/product/helos-btr-gen2-2-12x42-dmr-scope/ It's so close, it's not even funny. I'm a mount away...

Not in my house. I'm stocked with projectiles, powder, brass and primers. And a badass load for it.

Yep, they suck more than anything else out there. There's almost no way around cutting those primer crimps out, no matter what. 3 twists with a VLD neck chamfer/reamer kills them in an instant, and primers go in easy after that - instead of getting mangled.

I will, brother.

Good work, brother - I've been doing the same with all my mixed 5.56 brass over the last week. I primed them all tonight, until I ran out of brass to prime. 1,116 primers used, brass ready for powder-and-ball now. Took a little under 3 hours for it all. This is the harder part of our job - reloading is great, for price, especially now - but time is money. I need a Dillon 550 or 650 for this bulk stuff... I'll probably end up with the Hornady Ammo Plant, as I look at all this stuff...

I've answered everything for you, bit by bit, in between your post - all my stuff is highlighted in red to differentiate it from what you said. Now, you can get to the specs of your build, and describe it. You haven't mentioned a single word about the details of your build yet. This is your thread to do it - unless you'd like to just make another one, and spill it there.

Let us know what you want to do with it, what you want it to do for you, and what your intent is for the carbine - and we'll dispel myths and help you out. There's alot of bullshiit out there. We don't deal with it, and tell it like it is. Welcome aboard.

Watch this when you have 40 minutes - it's well worth your time. This is fully MOST of today's society, right now, and what most companies target to kiss-ass to...

I wanted the carrots in that drip pan, with the potatoes and cabbage. That head of cabbage takes up some SPACE! It worked great this way, though. The only thing I'm going to change is add a 3rd corned beef (cook once, save the 3rd for breakfast in the morning), and double the amount of carrots. Everything else was perfecto! FORGOT to add - after I loaded that drip pan with the potatoes and cabbage and onions, I poured in a full beer - and as that boiled off, it added "beer steam" to the whole affair, in addition to the heat and smoke. I think I got lucky, but this was pretty badass.

Fired this sucker up again tonight, this time with quartered red potatoes, cabbage, green onions, 2 x 3.5lb corned beef briskets, and baby carrots. Test run for the Spring Shoot, same menu. So, quartered red potatoes (salt, pepper,garlic powder) arranged on the bottom of the drip pan, whole head of cabbage cut into 1/8th wedges (salt, pepper, garlic powder) arranged onto the potatoes, a store-bunch of green onions diced, sprinkled over the cabbage. Drip pan goes in. Put hickory chips all around the drip pan. First corned beef slab goes on the first layer, right above the drip pan. Second one on second rack. Baby carrots into a corningware dish on the top rack. Salt, pepper, garlic powder, and a stick of butter. Fired that fool off,came back 2 hrs later, and unpacked everything. Absolutely delicious. I'll get an after pic later, 'cause I'm in a food coma right now. This little easy-to-use cooker is badass, and it's perfect for camping. I can't wait to bust this out to the crowd, and hit this recipe again. Saturday night at the SS-Fest. Maybe Friday, hearing some of the schedules and timelines. If people gotta leave Saturday, we'll hit this Friday for dinner.