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Major differences. Here's two mentions of it right here: Those posts are from our section, "308AR - What You Need To Know" https://forum.308ar.com/forum/65-308-ar-what-you-need-to-know/

Even a Blind Monkey finds a Banana once in awhile, right?...

We just had someone post the bolt catch for that configuration, here, in the last two weeks. Someone will bring it up, so hang on... EDIT - Found it. Check this out:

The only other things that I use RL-22 powder for are my .300 Win Mag loads, flinging 225gr ELD-Ms at 2932 fps through a Rem 700 26" heavy barrel, and in the .338 Lapua Magnum loads with the Hornady 285gr ELD-Ms.

You should be higher on that muzzle velocity, for that load - wouldn't matter which projectile, as both are 140s. I punched in my load information to ShootersNotes Velocity Estimator, then added your info as the change. You should be jamming those things pretty close to 2950fps. Click it a few times, it gets bigger... If it were mine, I'd verify the internal depth of the rifle receiver extension - it should be 9 11/16" internal depth. Then, I'd change the spring to a known, quality spring, and that would be the Armalite EA1095 spring. Buffer weight is good, as long as that buffer is 5.200" long. The only brass is use for my load is Hornady .308 Win Match cases, resized for the .260 Rem, and all necks turned. I check length after every firing, and bring them all to 2.035" if any went longer. This just gives me a uniform crimp everytime, through a Lee Factory Crimp Die. I load RL-22 at 43.0 grains, use CCI 200 primers, and use Hornady 147 ELD-M projectiles, loaded to 2.795" OAL. This is giving me dead-on 2650 fps through a 20" rifle-gas Wilson Combat Tactical Hunter barrel. That load you're running is very hot. I'd back that thing down, and start over. That short gas tube is leaving some gas timing on the table, that you could use, but with that load, I don't think it would matter if the gas tube were correct - that BCG has to be just MOVING...

There's another one-sided catch, that someone posted recently - maybe that will pop back up.

Lots of companies do this - Aero and DPMS come straight to mind.

I'll dump my .260 Rem load details here, but only after I hear your load details first. I'm really curious about the details - especially your muzzle velocity - and how you came up with that powder load. I'm reloading with nothing but RL-22, since I built this gun 3-ish years ago - no other powder has ever touched this gun. My MV is 2650fps from a 20" rifle-gas barrel, and it's a laser, for precision, and still supersonic to 1,500 yards on 17.2 mils of dial, and that's a 100-yard zero for dope. My next goal for this gun is getting it to 1,760 yards, beyond that trans-sonic "shake", and see if I can repeatedly get it there. That 45.4gr charge of RL-22 is high as hell, especially for the dwell time of a 24" barrel that's rifle-gas. That's alot of dwell time, and alot of time to dump that pressure into the BCG. Please spill the details. Cases, primers, trim length, where you're getting the brass from, loaded COL, etc. All the other details of the gun need to spill, too - all the ones that I referenced above. This is workable. We just need details. EDIT - For clarification from my part - I only have one .260 Rem, and it's an AR. I don't have any others, and no bolt guns in that caliber. The only load development I've ever done on .260 Rem is all gas-gun load development.

I became Normal... really... Before that, I don't know what I was...

The Trickery here... Or should I say, The Fuckery...

Oh, fuk that. I just sent her a text.

I'm still Normal. Been Normal since 2002. It'll probably never change... Fuckers... @DNP...

Well sonofabitch... The math works.

Whoa!Whoa!Whoa! We never talked about INTEREST, brother... But, I guess, there's interest, to be paid. I'll figure out something, to pay off the interest... We used to have a smilie here, waving his ass back and forth - I miss that one...

Especially bolt-gun loads that you shoot in semi's... I've got some bolt gun loads that are fine. In a bolt. If I shoot that shiit through the ARs - I'll have blown up AR guns.

read this thread, to get the scope - of the kinda detail that we need to "diagnose this over the internet..." You stated the buffer weight change - but you never mentioned the receiver extension length, or what specific spring you're using. That's just an example. Same thing with gas system specs. All we know is "rifle gas system on 24" WC barrel." That's it. No reference to what gas tube used, how far it protrudes into the upper, gas port diameter, etc. Check it: After checking that one out, just to kind of understand the level of detail needed - online - to figure out your gun... then read this one: There's alot to shake out here - and WAY MORE information will be needed. P.S. Your .260 Rem load is hot as fuk. Please get me that muzzle velocity.

That's a fuckin' STOUT LOAD for a .260 Rem and RL-22. That thing has to be just screamin'!. Not to mention the extra 4" of dwell time that you have, over what I shoot. What's your muzzle velocity out of that thing?

TOO funny!!!

Lefty, that pistol rack has me inspired... I'm gonna pick up one of those 12-holders and rig it up. That's awesome work, man.

Call my gunpusher, and tell him that you'll pay over the phone, and he'll arrange shipping to your FFL of choice. I just built another 20" .308AR for him last weekend, and still have one more to build... DPMS LR-308 pattern. Tell him Tom told you to call... http://www.arizonalawdawgs.com/index.html EDIT - if you're in a Ban State, don't bother. Some, it's too hard to ship to, others, it's impossible to ship to.

Got an update on those Fedex fukkers. I'll test fire this thing in the next 2 or 3 days, and cook something with it!...

That's correct. Anything that will fit a DPMS LR-308 or the SR-25 will work. Armalite B-model magazines will not work. Oh, you don't have an AR-10, either. Only Armalite makes those, and nobody else, and there ARE design differences between AR-10s, and any of the DPMS and RRA patterned rifles.

Been wanting one of these things for awhile, and we age gonna EAT at the Spring Shoot! Cabela's had this sucker marked down to $119 yesterday... https://www.theorioncooker.com/collections/the-orion-cooker/products/the-orion-convection-cooker

Neither one can be adjusted.

That's a bad dyno session!...