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Wide Open. And you need to shoot several boxes of ammo to break the gun in, before you start making ANY adjustment downward, in gas. You need the carbon fouling to seal the gas tube to the block, the block to the barrel, the end of the gas tube to the gas key on top of the BCG, all moving heavy-metal parts need to start working together... You need to break the gun in before you start messing with the gas, and you start it Wide Open. Think if you start it closed. Then you start opening it up, click by click, of whatever adjustment yours has. You go through two boxes of ammo, and it STILL doesn't function... Well, is it broken in yet - or is your gas port diameter too small?... You don't know. And you wasted two boxes of ammo to get to that conclusion, too. Where ever you got your information that you start out with it closed - obviously had gotten lucky. That's some pretty bad, misguided information, right there. Always load ONE ROUND on a new magazine, on a new build (that is lubed very well), and shoot one round. Adjustable gas block or not. If it doesn't lock the BCG back - then you know you're heading into a situation that you might need to figure out. "Broken in, OR, New Build, OR No carbon fouling to seal things up yet, OR..." ^^^ You'll never get there, starting with that gas block shut down.

This little guy is at the end of the main road, right by the house here, brother.

Let us know who it was that recommended that... You bastard...

Want some rain brought? Build your own gun, from reputable retailers, and reputable manufacturers. Build a gun on Aero M5 receivers, and go from there. Nothing else that we've seen had been as consistent (in an overall platform that has ZERO CONSISTENCIES) - there is NO pattern to follow. Aero Precision delivers, every single time, and they don't fuk it up. Buy a gun? If I had to buy a gun, I wouldn't buy a complete Aero Precision rifle. Yeah, that hurts. Truth, though - I'd buy an Armalite DEF-10 gun, and figure that thing out later, for what I wanted to do to it. I'd "personalize" it later. It WILL work out of the box, every single time, with whatever ammo you throw at it. You can pull a DEF-10 for about $1k, and it's got a solid recoil system already on it. It's got the properly-lengthed gas tube for the barrel, and it's got the properly-sized gas port IN that barrel... The only thing left ISN'T figuring out how to get it to run right - but the personal stuff that you want on it. Now, for the record - I have 7 of these things. I do not own a single Armalite AR-10 rifle. Not one. Not even. The closest I can come is using all Armalite AR-10 internals (barrel, BCG complete, recoil system, gas system) to build into a set of Aero Precision M5 receivers - just to prove that Amralite AR-10 guts DO WORK in the Aero DPMS-based receivers. I will note this, though - of the 7 builds, 5 of them DO have Armalite AR-10 Carbine Recoil Systems, one has a DPMS LR-308 Rifle Recoil System (but the Armalite AR-10 EA1095 recoil spring in it), and only ONE has a hybrid system that I built up, just to test the AR15 recoil systems in .308ARs. My testament to Armalite AR-10 Carbine Recoil Systems runs deep, but with a purpose. My testament to using Armalite AR-10 Recoil System components in whatever recoil system (rifle or carbine) has a reason. If you run either of those recoil systems, and your gun don't work... it's NOT the recoil system that is the problem. If the gun don't work - look at other problems with your gun - most likely the gas system. Adjustable gas blocks should not be something that you "need" to look at to get your gun to run. If the answer to whether your gun runs or not is "gotta have an adjustable gas block" - then that is NOT the problem with your gun. There's my $0.02.

You took long enough to reply - you had to have seen that days ago when you were here - but you didn't respond then. Why is that? You were here numerous times since he posted that, and you were quoted in it, so you had that notification, as soon as you came back onto the board. Yet, you waited to make a response...

Honestly looks like a fucked up design from a company that made a side-charger. Why would they even machine that into the upper at all, if it was a true side-charger? There's no reason for it to be there, in the first place. They put the Band-Aid on the wrong cut, here...

Right on - it certainly shouldn't, not at all. If that's the case, I'd Rock-Sett that bastard in place. No Loc-Tite at all, straight to Rock-Sett. But that explanation from BCA still doesn't make any sense, at all... No sense at all...

My heavy-drop gets here next Monday... I can't WAIT!!!

I saw my little Burrowing Owl today coming home from work - same spot. That's his den, for good. I'll try to get another pic of him in the next few days. His head was poking out of the hole when I turned the corner there, so I turned around. When I pulled back up, he popped out of that hole and took up the same defensive posture as the pics above. He's a badass!...

The PPU Match loads are really good - I like those alot. They just work, like they're supposed to, and they're consistent. Good stuff.

The paracord "trigger job" does quite well at smoothing those things out. Takes away the grit feeling.

^^^ He nailed it. That's M-LOK. Few different ways to go - you can M-LOK a piece of picatinny rail, or just straight-mount a Mag-Pul M-LOK bipod to the rail. I have a bunch of these bipods, and they're damn good. Another option, if you want to mount a Harris (or similar) and need a sling stud - M-LOK sling stud adapter. I have some of these, too, and they work great:

He's still the King. There aren't any Snipers these days that could do what he did. Old school guns, and alot of badass talent. No so these days, no matter how someone argues it. Nobody these days could take his equipment then, and make this happen, unless it was some modern reality show... Check it: https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/07/28/for-35-years-the-longest-sniper-kill-was-with-a-ma-duece/

What a pioneer, and perfect practitioner of the art of longer distances...

^^^ Legendary Badass Motherfucker, right there.

Thanks for your concern, but I might not have been mistaken at all - if you had researched here before you dumped that money into the Gibbz. 4 out of 4 reports here that it doesn't work, and problems reported here. Check that out, when you have the time. You only need to search on "Gibbz" and it will all come up, here. Use the quotation marks in your search. Just so you know, there is one maker of a left-handed BCG, and it's for an AR15. Stag made it. Here's a picture: Here's the link to it: https://www.stagarms.com/5-56-223-left-handed-bolt-carrier-assembly/ No one else has done this for any other AR15. And no one has done it for the .308AR platforms. I think you're the one that's mistaken. Maybe I'm wrong. Prove me wrong.

It'll be sold out before prices drop. Hell, it's almost sold out right now, and you can't find them. Smart marketing.

Everyone is all Corona'd-Up right now - that might end up being a loooong wait time, brother...

Please refer back to your previous post on this - you were getting better data there. Creating multiple topics on the same subject won't make more magical data appear.

Reason I asked that was... If you'd change the trigger, free-float it with a handguard, change out the furniture (grip, buttstock), maybe have to sink some money into the recoil system - then it's not a good deal. You could build for cheaper than "rifle-cost-plus-upgrades." If you'll take it as is, and not change it - that's not a bad deal, right there. It's a terrible deal if you work it over, though.

That's one badass little package, right there, brother. They do NOT fuk around. I have absolutely ZERO intentions of ever thinking that "they're cute, let's keep one as a pet!" Yeah. Fuk that.

If you bought this for what's being asked, what would you change on it?...

Yep, go rip it up, man, see what it does. If something happens during break-in, try to gather as many details as you can, report them back. There's nothing that we can't figure out, that's for sure.

I'm not upset with this guy, in any way. Not even a little. I just wanted to use this as an example of "people need help solving an issue" and us here, not having enough info to go on. OP, sorry if you feel like that was a personal attack on you, and I never intended it that way. I just used this specific situation to highlight that - it ain't easy trying to help people fix things on the interwebz, and "too much info" is actually something that doesn't exist.

I fuckin' hate it, feeling like you have to waterboard someone for details. We here GIVE details. Freely. It needs to go both ways. I'm tired of waterboarding people for info - when most people come here demanding info... Not you, in this case, OP, but we have those fuckheads show up from time to time. Out the details on your recoil system, or else watch it when you make a move on your fridge, for a midnight snack. If we don't get details, I'll be in your fridge one night, waiting for you to open that door, all sleepy and hungry. Then, it get's real, once that door opens and that light inside turns on and wakes me up. I'll leap outta there and climb up your ass like a Spider Monkey, and spread out...