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Good work, brother - good work.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH SHIIT!!!

This is a thread for barrel profiles. More info to come.

You fuk that shoulder up, and JF89 will be making all KINDS of jackoff-jokes against you - be careful, brother... On TWO counts...

Shiit like this just makes me giggle like an idiot, and realize that I'm lucky. Made a contact a couple years ago, had no idea who he was when I was talking to him - until much later, when I actually researched who it was that I was talking to at the time. BOOM! Blew me away. I just made a mag order for this 6 ARC, and I'll only use the Alexander Arms-branded E-Lander mags in this one, so I ordered 5 x 17-rd mags from them. I just tossed in a note at the bottom that said, "Please tell Mr Reddish that Tom-Ass, Grendel Ninja in Arizona, says hello..." Well, Fuk Me! They actually passed that message ON to him, from a comment on the bottom of an order. Here's the reply I got back... Unreal... Yep, that is THE MAN at Alexander Arms. For 3 years in a row, I've hit him up at SHOT. First year was pretty crazy. I just stopped by to tell Alexander Arms "thank you, for making 6.5 Grendel" - and the guy I talked to was interested, based on 4 Grendels and a 5th in planning (the Mod H). Spilled my guts on what I've seen, and found - and the guy says "I need you to come over here and tell someone else this story..." and he led me to James Reddish. Spent about 1.5 hours talking to him, on all the stuff I've seen with my Grendels out here in the dirt, and it was an unreal conversation. No idea who he was until a few weeks after that meeting. He told me to keep in touch with him, get ahold of him... I didn't even know who I was talking to, at the time... But, I've been damn sure keeping contact with him...

That's a bad lookin' little bitch right there, brother - I think you've done well here.

You get your ass stuck in the Mexican Fire Water, Mack?...

From the bike?... Or the girl... Asking for a friend...

I'm not sure about that, brother - seriously. You brought a box 'o Glocks over here that HAD to be about 30 of them. I think you'd smoke me, in a "Mike's Glocks vs. the Total Count of the Tom-Ass AR Collection..." You're there, brother, I'm telling you. I'm just sayin'...

Not only is it taking a huge initial hit - the buffer is letting off, right at the very end - when it need to close the BCG. Again - you nailed it - it's only a few thou - but it's a HUGE issue. That buffer hits the pin, and that buffer doesn't drive that BCG home, seated. That's when bolt bounce will DEFINITELY happen. Not sure it that's the reasons for your malfunctions, again - but you have to rule that out before you move any further forward with diagnosing the gun. You're on the right track, shoot that thing with the offset retainer, and we'll figure out what's happening after that.

I have to pop this one up here, and just wreck the thread more- this was an afternoon ride, 8 March 2014 - when I KNEW that JayRod was coming from Cinci to visit - and @SmoothAction made his "surprise visit..." @DNP is here, @AZMan is here - and it was a pretty badass weekend... Riding this big sand shiit is all about picking a line - and hoping you don't fuk it up. If you pick the wrong line, then you get hurt. We dodged several Witches Eyes when we were up in the big sand - and we made it the long way around to the race hill. This kinda shiit makes you tired at the end of the day, because it's non-stop. You come back to eat, fuel the bike - and head back out again. I love my brothers... 20 minutes, but it just doesn't stop. It's worth it.

^^^ Absolute truth - when they're not speaking your language...

I found the vid, from "The Day The Samsung Galaxy 3 Was Put Out-of-service..." Skip ahead to 1:10 and wait for it. I'm telling you, tannerite makes people forget how to shoot... 12 Jan 2014.

I'm in - Tannerite targets out there usually make people forget how to shoot... It turns quite Epic, to see who can hit it first... I already know what's gonna happen - someone will aim for the tannerite, and shoot the fucking RC car instead... The day we blew up Drew's Samsung phone - sitting on 1/2lb of tannerite - it was a countdown and free-for-all. I'm pretty sure that was 2013, and it was on the Marana Shooting Range. I layed back and watched dirt flying all over the place, people got nervous and closed their eyes and just started jerking triggers, and it was boom, boom,boom all over. I laughed inside, breathed, settled on the target - and sent that fucker to the moon... Mk12 Mod 0 IN DA HOUSE!!!

Ain't that the truth. I might give a call tomorrow, and offer them a deal... Mid-August is when Lee will have the Factory Crimp DIe ready, and Hornady should have the "custom" die sets ready anyday now - I keep watching that one. 200 loaded Hornady Match rounds ready to go, 300 Hornady 6mm 108gr ELD-M projectiles sitting here... No brass available yet, though, and no idea when it will be available... Patiently waiting... Kinda...

There isn't much loss, per inch, and Bill hit's that below vvv... Definitely one of my favorite article to quote, when someone starts talking about velocity loss because I bring out a gun that's short... @bmoney9 - can you SHOOT a 16" gun to 1k yards? Yep, if it's a good gun (barrel and trigger mainly, and ammo, of utmost importance). The whole gun needs to perform well, including balanced gas and recoil systems, though. No fancy parts required, just a solid-built gun. Is it easier on you shooting an 18" gun to 1k yards? It is. It's more predictable, and it doesn't taper off towards that transonic barrier as quickly as a 16" would - and that's the key in the whole thing. As long as your projectile is supersonic - you can plot where that shot is going to go, every single time. If I have an accurate 16" gas gun, and I'm shooting it against an accurate 20" bolt gun - I just need to know the verified drop at different distances, for both. I might have to dial more for the 16", than I would the 20" - but an accurate gun is still an accurate gun. If 1k yards is really the goal, doing an 18" gun will be easier for you to "see results with, faster..." - than building a 16" gun. There's alot of trial and error in making short guns accurate at significant distance. Test it, run it longer next time, gather your data, shoot it longer the next time... You can shorten that process if you have other guns in the same caliber, with longer barrels, though. With an 18" Grendel, I knew what my drop was at 850 yards. Then, I tried the 12.5" Grendel at that distance - I just added more drop, and had a good spotter calling dirt splash for me - it didn't take long to get that thing in steel at 850 yards. The difference was 18" gun went 8.5 mils of drop at 850, 12.5" gun need 10.6 mils of drop to hit 850. Little trial and error to come up with it - but I already had a shortcut because of the known dope on the longer-barreled gun in the same caliber, same load.

This is all part of the reason, brother. 6.5Grendel for me is the perfect AR15 cartridge. Then, along comes .224 Valk. Built one, tested it out - it's not bad, but IMHO doesn't smoke a Grendel. Now, we have this little 6 ARC - very, very close to the 6 Grendel wildcats that were out there. Just standardized. I'm in. I wanna see what the hype is. I do think it'll live up to it's hype, unlike the Valk. The Valk isn't a failure - but it's no Grendel Killer. This 6ARC has potential... Today is one month since I ordered the LaRue upper kit. They told me 1~3 months, so any day now...

I would LOVE to do that - but that's just one-time use, right there, and takes out a wall or two in the process. I think we should try this in the fall - tannerite on an RC car. CHEAP RC car, too... Doesn't need to be fancy - just needs to move tannerite.

We can get is straight. Fear not.

read this first.

This is how you treat people that fuk up when they jump. No slack. Especially this guy, when he busted his nuts on a jump.

You guys here seriously have no idea how much it means to me that this guy showed up here. No idea. I still think it's a plot, and @DNP is involved, somehow. Whatever the reason, this is one of my closest friends, ever in my life. That's a pretty small circle, too. Those that are in it know that. Unreal brothers, no matter what. This Eskimo fucker is legit. As all hell.

This is EPIC DOUG, and it was during an EPIC trip, too.. One that will never, ever be forgotten between us all. This trip in 2006 was pure Legend, pure Comedy, and pure Tragedy, all wrapped up together. Because of ONE DUDE... @SmoothAction let's loose on him, in a fun way - the guy didn't even get it. This brings NJC full-circle with us,...