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We know that, brother. You need a vacation this coming Fall. I'm just sayin'... Jerk your ass back to sanity, in some way...

Once you buy one of the LaRue Ultimate Upper Kits, that "allows" you to buy a LaRue lower receiver - that makes your gun a complete LaRue rifle. There's no better way to go, and doing anything else would simply be foolish. As a matter of fact, you can buy LaRue lower receivers now - anybody. They're selling them to GenPop now.

You fuckers are relentless...

I know that, brother. Broke the 5th metacarpal, right hand, twice. Punch with the first two knuckles, not the side of the hand. No glancing blows. Painful lesson. Left and right 5th metatarsals both fractured, over time. Took motrin, didn't ruck for two weeks. "Metas" are in the hand and the foot, proper, not the phalanges. That's all the shiit sticking out from the hand and the foot, proper. Like cat whiskers.

My Right Inguinal Hernia was even better, that I suffered in a January skiing incident, and had to explain it to a SF Doc in September that year... He was LIVID!

#10. "Your tiny toe or finger is called a minimus." That one is bulshiit, too. That's either the 5th MetaCarpal (hand) or 5th MetaTarsal (foot). I've fucked myself up enough in this life to know what they're called, so I can accurately tell the ER Doc exactly what I fucked up. It shortens their "evaluation" before you get the care that you need. Trust me on this. I skipped the hospital "Triage" one time, and went straight to X-Ray. FUCKED MYSELF UP in a motocross "incident." Came up short on a double, and slammed myself. Broke the fuk out of my left clavicle - more than once. Bunch of other extraneous shiit, I did to Self, too. Track workers get me off the track, get into a buddy's truck (with help), head to Madigan Army Medical Hospital. About a 40 minute drive, from that MX track. PLENTY of time to check myself out - and find out I'm fucked up all over... Walk in, present ID Card, and state, "Multiple fractures, left clavicle, two medial left ribs dislocated from sternum, AC dislocation, and posterior dislocation of left shoulder..." I wasn't in there for 2 minutes, and someone called my name, and took me straight to X-Ray... The X-Ray tech was being a bitch, after I got shot, and I wanted to see what was going on - he's not allowed to show me. I pressured the punk a little, and he showed me the graphic - sure as shiit, broke that bastard twice, three-piece collarbone. FLM. That X-Ray Tech was gonna try to cut off a BRAND NEW Fox hooded sweatshirt, in order to get the radiation - "I'll kick your ass if you cut this hoodie, know that now..." Busted as I was, I muscled out of that thing, and layed on that damn table. Pics taken, info gleaned... Kiss my ass if you think you're cutting my day-old $60 hoodie, fucker... Get sent out of X-Ray, back to the waiting room... Get called in by one of the ER Docs, and he starts... "So, you THINK you have a broken clavicle, right?" No, Doc, I know I do, two breaks, three-piece magic clavicle. Two ribs sticking out of my sternum, AC separation, posterior dislocation of my left shoulder... That dude just about came UNGLUED!... "Who do you think that YOU are to tell me what injuries you have?!" Hey doc, check this out... I've already been to X-Ray... "HOW DID YOU GET IN TO X-RAY ALREADY?!!?" No idea, Doc, just walked up to the counter, told them what I had, THEY sent me to X-RAY. Not my fault... I felt like I was interrogated for a second, before I had to shut this guy down, and I did promptly. Explained what heppened, explained my background, explained why I told the counter-attendant what I did - and it just happened after that. He left me alone, with that - but he was a little rough in applying that fucking butterfly strap, for the clavicle bullshiit... The command got a written complaint about me, the following workday. I got called in - in a fucking shoulder velcro-sling fucking thing that I was cocooned in... and told them what happened. MX race was on a Sunday, I was in the office on Monday morning, to answer this ER Doc's complaint against me. How I skipped "hospital policies" and placed myself ahead of other in ER Triage, yada yada yada.... I didn't do any of that - I just told them what I did, how bad I fucked myself up - and they did the rest. The communication back to that ER Doc was pretty funny - they showed me what they sent him, and told him to never second-guess anybody from there that ends up in the ER, and explains their own injuries...

I knew one or three of them, but not the others. I have the explanation for 5, though. "The cry of a new born baby is called vagitus" Yeah, no kidding - because he WANTS BACK IN. After we're born, as Males, we spend the rest of our lives trying to get back in there. Thus endeth the sermon.

Good Dog!!! Well done. Why would you want to fuk with a police dog in the FIRST PLACE!...

They're "nesting" - and comfortable like that...

WAY TO GO BROTHER!!!! Zack HAS to be happy as hell about this!!! It "certifies" that HE IS RIGHT!!!

It's BCG speed - that thing is going so fast, and so hard from the power of that little stinger 5.7, that the disconnector can't even catch the hammer. Oh, make no mistake, it fully cycles that buffer all the way into the end of the receiver extension, and probably feels like it has some decent "kick" to it. That BCG is going so fast that the disconnector can't get ahold of the notch in that hammer and stop it. The hammer then follows the BCG, and when the BCG chambers the next round, the hammer is right there to let it fire. If you held the trigger to the rear after every shot (proper trigger follow-through), it still might do it once in awhile, but definitely not as often. Proper trigger follow-through would stop most of that doubling - but not all of it. Most of your doubles are probably coming from trigger discipline. I went through this with my .45AR. You need a WAY STIFFER recoil spring, and a WAY HEAVIER buffer. You haven't said a thing about the specs on those two items yet, though. Go rip up the Intro Section, and tell us about yourself. It's right here: https://forum.308ar.com/forum/22-introductions/

That thing, by description, isn't even up to handling the torque range of tightening a barrel nut, which is 30ft/lbs~80ft/lbs. Not dinging you in any way - just stating, the spec that they stated:

I know @Robocop1051 is gonna CRINGE, and HATE ME... but the CMMG Banshee system is pretty badass, for 9mm. "Delayed Blowback" operation, and that little fucker uses what looks like a standard AR15 BCG, complete with a rotating bolt. GPJohn built one, and we ran it a few weekends ago - and it ate every kind of ammo that we threw at it and into it. Even weakass steel-cased stuff. It's a good platform. Mag conversions available, so you convert your AR15 mags to run the 9mm ammo. This thing just didn't stop. Bring the wrath, Rob... I'll take the pain...

This is why you're building some weird shiit... the only explanation I can find...

I like your panache, and laud your stubbornness... I'm here, brother, when the walls come crashing down. We'll figure it all out, and get it running.

Nope, nothing I don't like about it. It fulfills it's purpose, as a "brace" that I can use. I wouldn't change anything about it. One thing that TailHook Mod 2 has GOING for it - is the proprietary extension. NO WAY to get trapped into some BATFE bullshiit with that one. Nothing else will ever fit. With that SBA3, it's running in a mil-spec RE. You COULD fit a true collapsible stock to it - which would be an illegal SBR. In the entrapment game, that's a minor downside. Have to be some croooooked shiit going on, to get that brought upon you. If that came up, my personal mentaility is "YOU go eat a dick, and PROVE it. When you're done, have a desert on this bowl of smashed assholes..."

Got a picture of this thing, or a link to where you got it from? Who makes this rod?

Now, where the exactly in the hell have YOU been, brother?... It's pretty damn good to see you post again. You have no idea how many times, especially in the last couple months - that you haven't had a PM asking what's up. I've been triggered, talking about other people here, any you come to mind. I tell myself I'll send you a PM - and then I tell myself I'll send it "tomorrow..." Damn Good to see you.

Replace that recoil spring with an Armalite EA-1095. Let's see what happens. Gas block WIDE OPEN. It stays wide open, until you get this gun running. Get online, and buy some Federal Gold Medal Match ammo. Sounds expensive, but don't fuk around with any other ammo that could be lower powered. If the FGMM doesn't run your gun, then we seriously need to figure it out - but we have a baseline, in figuring it out. Go get busy, and rip the Intro Section up - tell us about yourself...

That's a good methodology - because eventually, and you just witnessed it... It'll backfire on you...

SBA3 is good, and adjustable; SBA4 should behave just like it - just looks different. I like the one SBA3 I have. Next up, I'll be trying out a TailHook Mod 2 and see how I like it.

But... that's one SWEET Grendel, that you tripped into after that, @Armed Eye Doc

Or, save money, and try that new Aero Precision 2-stage nickle-boron trigger. I have enough rounds on that shorty 12.5" .308 to definitely say that I like it. It's good. That first stage isn't LaRue, but it's a good trigger. Broken in a little, now, that first stage cleaned up a little. Smoother now - definitely not saying it was bad before, though. Just a good trigger, and a great price. It's the same $$$ as the LaRue, around $80. EDIT - DAMN! They chopped the MSRP by $10!!! It was a $79.99 MSRP, not it's showing as a $69.99 MSRP! https://www.aeroprecisionusa.com/2-stage-nickel-boron-trigger

Pump the brakes, people. OP, Whatever you have in that collapsible stock (receiver extension) is not going to work in a rifle stock config. You already stated a 2.500" buffer, so it's a DPMS-based buffer, that means it's a 7.000" internal depth AR15 carbine receiver extension. That 10" spring is junk. You need a rifle receiver extension that's 9 11/16" internal depth - they all are, and are hardly ever screwed up. Measure anyway. You need a rifle buffer that's 5.200" long, 5.4 oz. That's how long .308AR rifle buffers are, for Armalite and DPMS-based platforms(I've seen some DPMS LR-308 rifle buffers that are 5.311", and a tick over). AR15 rifle buffers are 5.900" long, and that won't work in a .308AR. You need the cheap, but REAL, Armalite EA-1095 recoil spring. Not some rip-off or a fake. After that, you need to figure out what stock you're putting on it. If you're going with an A2 stock, like a surplus stock, then you need a few specific things that adapted the A2 to the rifle recoil system. If you're going with an A1-spec'd stock, just mount it up.