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Damn, I saw you reply in this thread, so I jumped in here to read about all the news 6 ARC parts that you've got on order...

These two pics right here, and the height difference. It's not the bolt catch, itself, obviously. What's stopping your bolt catch travel, when you have that plunger and spring in there? Is it the length of the plunger? Depth of the hole? Coil bind on the spring? Measure the depth of the hole, first. Then collapse that spring ON the plunger, to coil bind, and measure the OAL of both (with spring in coil bind). That should tell you what's going on. Either the hole gets deeper, or a couple coils come off the spring, or the tail on the plunger gets shortened. That one issue, right there, because in the previous pics, that bolt catch isn't sticking up enough to reliably get that bolt face every time. Excellent work with the pics and details.

Hell with that horse - you see the ASS on that lady?!!?...

Well, that looks like a CNC Guns billet .45 AR lower,right there. Very well done, brother.

That's my goal for him - get him known enough, worldwide, as the Brass Pimp. Get him into a "retired" living, just to pimp brass. The only problem with that is... I should just send him the damn money upfront, with the amount of calibers that I need/want/get from him... I'm about to ask him just to move out here with me, and be done with it - but I realize that takes him away from whatever magic brass-source that he has there... It's a WICKED Catch 22 for me... Inception-deep... it's THAT deep...

1860's, or 1960's... which books were re-written, brother?

Shoot that fucker in the barrel, brother! Lance has the barrel! Blast it!

It's not even anywhere close to being on any store shelves down here, just north of Mexico. Made it's brief "Limited Edition" appearance last Fall, just to get us all hooked, then... POOF!@!! Gone. Fucker DISAPPEARED!....

You can trust me with your life, and your guns. You probably shouldn't trust me with your wallet, or your booze collection. Those will both disappear QUICK, and you'll have all KINDS of new gun parts coming in...

It didn't do any good, brother - not even a little. That dumbass didn't read the link that I linked to him...

I'm in that boat - FUK THAT THING UP, and beat the living shiit out of it. "Mongo SMASH!!!" kinda shiit. Kinda treat them like full-on GREG would. CRUSH!!! I'm in THAT boat, too. My M1 Carbine and the Springfield M1903A4, and that sweet 8mm Mauser... are to be shot. In a past life, maybe they were for smashing heads open, too, but now... they get babied, and just shot, and taken care of.

Tell Eric we said, "HEY!" and would love to have him here.

Yeah - once in awhile I throw it. Tech N9ne. Fucker rocks - well, Raps - his ass off.

Brass Whores...

I'm GRATEFUL!!! I STILL can't find that shiit down here... If it comes back around, I'm buying CASES of it... You rock, Eric...

This, my brother, was my favorite take-away from what you said. By far. Run it hard, it's not a fuckin' Safe Queen. Beat it's ass, and it will deliver. You NAILED that.

Awesome post! I can't do any other barrel besides the BA Mk12 SPR profile. I just can't. 20" is just too much gun, and 18" moves so much better. Now, that's the personal reasons. For testing reasons, it just can't be any other barrel - because all the others are wearing that same barrel, in whatever-caliber, and it needs to be an honest comparison. There's no other way for me to do it. I can't run the 6.5G BA Mk12, .224Valk BA Mk12, toss in the 5.56 BA Mk12 for shiits and giggles - then try to fight that Kreiger-Criterion old-skool Fulton Armory 18.5" .308 Win gun (the Mk11)... with a 20" barrel by someone else. I'm stuck with that BA Mk12 barrel, if for nothing else, than comparison purposes. It's my favorite personal choice for a barrel anyway, so that's a plus... It's damn sure gonna be apples-to-apples, and oranges-to-oranges, that way. The truth lies in the efficiency of the cartridge, and all the claimed ballistic coefficients (and sectional densities). True test... IF... IF you decide to move on this one and do the PRI rail... I will buy it, and get your $$$ down on it. Don't spend more than you have to, here. IMHFO... this 6 ARC is gonna deliver. I don't think you'd HATE a Mk12 Mod 0 6 ARC. If, for whatever reason you DO hate it... you already have the necessary parts to run that 5.56 Mk12 Mod 0 in the future - you're not wasting money here.

The LaRue lower hasn't shipped yet, but I ordered it on Friday night. We'll see what tomorrow brings. The barrel is enroute, still with a Friday, 19 June delivery guess, according to tracking. I'm starting to get a little antsy, here.

I just used it again, @Albroswift - excellent work, my man.

UUUUGH... It was ROUGH. Start with Crown (Limited Edition) Salted Caramel - pure candy. Next up, the usual, and usually SAFE... Jameson. Then, out comes the fuckin' Kraken, spiced Rum - thanks ALOT for that one, Eric... But, we're still safe... Then Mikey jerks out a bottle of Hennesey cognac. And THAT was the killer...

They are the absolute finest source of deep Grendel knowledge out there. I'm gonna go check out that 6ARC thread.

You're judging NOW. And saying it's Treason. Back THEN, it was definitely not Treason, brother. Try to get your mind back THEN, and put yourself in THOSE SHOES. Think about that. I mean that, really think about it. It wasn't anything near "treason" when all that shiit was going down. Yet, we "think" we can categorize it like that now, in these days? Foolhardy, to even think about it like that. Completely.

Grendel mags, brother, Grendel mags. The case on this thing is damn near identical to the Grendel cartridge. We'll see how this all shakes out, but if I were to advise you on that perfect do-all cartridge - prior to this one, the 6 ARC - I'd HANDS DOWN tell you that you need a 6.5 Grendel. HANDS DOWN. That IS the most efficient cartridge that's ever, ever been developed for the AR15-based small-frame AR platform. HANDS. DOWN. Now, this 6 ARC... if it blows a Grendel away, then EYE will be blown away... (Emphasis on the word, not the spelling...) I'm taking this jump because I think it can compete - and maybe beat - the 6.5 Grendel. After all, it's a 6mm Grendel we're talking about here, with the same long, slim, skinny projectiles... That's what the ballistic coefficient is all about, when - WHEN - it's got the sectional density behind it to back it all up.

Very valid point, right there, brother.

Not at the time, back then. History is different. They were some of the greatest leaders that we ever had, and led troops in combat. Now, WHY they were fighting... that's the rub. That does NOT take away from what they accomplished, not even a little. That fight was THAT FIGHT, and we're not here to second-guess it or armchair-quarterback it. We weren't there, dealing with what THEY were dealing with, in the mid 1800's... All these little "feelings" fuckers that want to ERASE military history, this COUNTRY'S history, will never be able to do it. It's there, and it's real. It already happened, and you cannot change history, no matter how hard you cry those feelings, and express your outrage. Maybe if you were there then, Feelings-People? Would you have stood up? Doubtful, knowing the current makeup and intestinal fortitude of these weakass fuktards. History is what it is - it's in the past. No matter how much they want it to diasppear, erase it, and have it never be spoken of again... It's THERE. It's DONE. Historically, you can learn from your mistakes (many of us do, with marriage), but you cannot change your past mistakes, and you cannot erase you past mistakes. Truth. You can, however, learn from all that shiit, and change who you are, and what you do. Or not. Just keep fucking up. Destroying and removing that stuff is a huge mistake. GIANT. They're just trying to ERASE history, but they're not doing a single fucking THING in order to change their future. They just want it ERASED, and forgotten about. They're trying to CHANGE history. Sorry fuckers, it doesn't work like that. Now, go grab that bag of smashed assholes for your desert. What's next? We have these little Feelings-Fuckers second-guessing why we were so "insubordinate" to the British, in Boston, with everything that led up to 19 April, 1775?... They can Fuk off.