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I'll hit the rest of this stuff later - going over to the Gun Pusher's house now for a Coronavirus BBQ. I'll be primed for conversation when I return.

The gas port diameter on that particular barrel is 0.105" - and the max you can go on a gas port diameter is 0.125", because that's the internal diameter of a gas tube. Going larger than 0.125" on a port wouldn't gain anything, because of the ID of the gas tube. And that's with a 0.936" gas block diameter, at the gas port location, on that barrel @DNP posted. There's not alot of dwell time on a 16" rifle gas barrel. Almost nothing. That's why the gas port is huge.

Let's start first with - Where do you live? We'd know that if you posted an intro, in the Intro Section, and told us about yourself. Here's the section: https://forum.308ar.com/forum/22-introductions/ Here's why this is important - there are alot of states with seriously fucked up gun laws. We might advise you on something, and you do it - and later find out that you're "completely illegal" in your state, with what you've done, based on what WE advised you to do... Legal Liability here, for the board. I hope you understand that. You need to get to details,alot of them. Go make an intro, and spill your own beans about where you are, what you're trying to accomplish with this built, what you want it to do, etc. You can't give "too much" information" on this, at all. What you're giving here is "not enough information" to even give you an honest recommendation or opinion.

Okay... you working with stripped lower and upper now, or are you working with changing a complete rifle? I hope you can see the issues here, working with the information that you're supplying - and you're hoping that you get back some accurate information. It's a little difficult, providing information to you, when we don't really know what we're working with. It's difficult enough getting information out of people, but it's even worse on this end when you feel like you have to water-board someone just to get enough information to answer their questions - because those questions are so vague, and lacking information. Spill the real deal on what you're trying to do, - everything - and let's get to the important stuff. Until you do that, we can beat around the bush for months, and never really get anything done here.

That's what happened today, here in AZ, brother. First call went through - second call dropped. Gun Pusher John closed the shop at 5pm (never does that) after that happened. Gun Craze, might have crashed the system, and all the NICS people said "FUK THIS" and went home when they had to start answering telephone calls. Who knows. The only solid thing is - the online system went down.

Aaaaand... you can believe that if you want. That's not practical experience, at least none that I've experienced. But, you do what you want. You did state that you wanted to shoot 700~1,000 yards, am I correct on that? You shoot in any wind at all, and you'll find out fast, what I'm saying. My typical range out here is warming up on the 500, and confirming it on the 850. If you think I'm bulshiiting you, then you're on your own. You can apply as many "theoreticallys" as you want to the information I've already given you.

Proper twist to get out to those ranges - 700 yards to 1000 yards - is gonna be 1:10" twist. That will do better tahn a 1:11.25" twist barrel, because it will stabilize the heavies better. 168gr projectiles suck at 1000 yards, over the 175gr projectiles. If you're going to dabble in long range, a 1:10" twist will suit you far better than 1:11.25" twist. 1:10 does great with projectiles down to about 150gr, too.

Your first two posts were about building a gun with Aero M5 receivers, and a 20"' barrel - have you switched it up now? Why the Stag-10 questions?

ToolCraft for the BCG, or the Fulton Armory BCG. Fulton Armory will test headspace for you, if you buy their BCG at the same time as the barrel.

Common twist rate that you're looking for is 1:11.25" twist. You'll only find 1:11" or 1:11.5" from custom barrel makers, and it'll cost you to have them rifle it in one of those two. Now, why do you want that twist rate over 1:10" twist? Next, I'm not aware of any manufacturers make stainless barrels with nitrided treatment. Steel barrels get nitride. Stainless don't. So once again, that custom barrel makers stuff, and $$$,if that's what you really have to have. Here's a barrel for you, that meets most of your expectations, it's a match barrel, and shoots light out. https://www.fulton-armory.com/barrelfatitan185nmmedss1x10936gasblock.aspx

Something of mine always got broke, busted, all that - when a redhead was involved. Jack didn't have shiit to do with it. Fuk those redheads.

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!! He got the doughnut! I'm betting he made the deal!!!

1966~1977 Broncos are badass... The later years of that First Gen were bulletproof.

Most pistol braces that are made to work on pistol-specific receiver extension - those extensions are AR15 designs, and 7" in internal depth. In order to run that on a .308AR, you need a buffer that weighs 5.4oz or damn close as well as 2.500" long, and run the Sprinco Orange spring. KAK makes a good buffer that's 5.3oz, close enough, and doesn't break the bank. GearHead Works makes two different Tailhook braces which are very good, and SB Tactical makes good braces. Pay attention to what you're buying for a brace, see if it comes with the receiver extension. If you buy a brace without an extension, pay attention to what the inner diameter of the brace is, and make sure you buy a AR PISTOL receiver extension - they're larger in diameter than both standard sizes, mil (1.14" OD) and commercial(1.17" OD). PIecing it together will be easy, but you'll need to pay attention to the parts that you're ordering to make sure it's easy... It'll run fine with a rifle barrel and rifle gas. Gas systems and recoil systems are not dependent on each other. Carbine recoil works fine with rifle gas, etc. They must be balanced, and work together, though. The pieces I just listed for you will work fine.

You're not going to be able to run a rifle gas system on a 14.5" barrel. I think when you reference the 12" number, that was a number for common rifle length handguards, but it's not gas tube lengths. An Armalite AR-10 Rifle gas tube is 15.5" long. That's more gas tube than you have barrel length, which would be measured from breach-face to barrel end. The gas tube extends into the upper, yes, but even if it's close, that places your gas port right at the end of the barrel (if it's not beyond the end of the barrel). If you're dead set on 14.5" barrel, you'll have to have the muzzle device pinned and welded, or silver-soldered, or Tax-Stamp it as an SBR. If you don't Tax Stamp is as a legal SBR, and you don't permanently attached the muzzle device, then you've just created an illegal SBR. That's Felon Status, right there. Not worth it. Here's a pic of a 16" rifle-gas .308AR - look closely at how close that gas block (and the gas port) is to the end of that barrel. There's not another 1.5" of barrel to lose on a rifle gas setup. Here's a 13.5" barrel, AR-10 Carbine gas system (a touch longer than AR15 midlength gas systems), and a permanently attached muzzle device, bring total barrel length to 16.1". Here's gas tube length information:

Well, NICS went down about 3:30pm AZ time today. John managed to call in for a transfer, and spoke to a human, and got the transfer through the old way. He tried another one 15 minutes later, the phone rang, and immediately disconnected. NICS is down. Don't know if that means it was shut down, or it went down. If it was shut down, the only people in AZ that'll be able to do transfers are Concealed Carry Licensees (no background check required here if you present the Concealed Carry). Shiity way for the .gov to shut down gun sales, if that's what happened. Hell, maybe the system just crashed from overload - people are going nuts buying guns and ammo right now. That means they weren't prepared for any of this, and either didn't have guns, or didn't have enough guns... There's no such thing as "I have enough ammo," so I get that part of it. I just hope the ammo hoarding doesn't start again. That took forever to get over, last time. So anyway - NICS went down today.

Post an intro in the Intro Section and tell us about yourself. You made one HELL of a first post, and you need alot of information from this board, it appears - so reciprocate. Go hit this, tell us about yourself. https://forum.308ar.com/forum/22-introductions/ Smack away about YOU... give and take here. Become part of the place, and you'll get all the info that you'll need. Welcome aboard.

Nah, fuk it brother - that's a Jeep thing. Don't sweat it. Had mine now since new from 1993 - it's been with me for FAR longer than any of the crazy bitches that have run me over. I still walk by it and think...

This is perfect, for the end-o-worlds times that we're facing. Bring the pain.

Not really, for a .375CheyTac, brother. Check it... http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/tag/375-cheytac/ https://www.range365.com/375-cheytac-claims-another-long-distance-rifle-record-3800-yards/ Here's the vid on that last link:

Excellence.

Cheaper Than Dirt (CTD) is the worst gun company on the planet, and there's a second close-runner-up - Davidson Defense / Omega Manufacturing / Delta Team Tactical. The Cheaper Than Dirt price gouging after Sandy Hook, with their $90 used surplus GI aluminum mags is an example. Their $600 Beta C-Mag 100rd drums is another example. Their recent decision to offer 1,000 of 9mm ammo at $1,500 is the latest example, and that's now, during La Corona #19 times. I hope people search out this shiitbag company before they buy from them - they don't give one shiit about consumers, they are completely profit-driven all the way, and they only care about the dollar - and making as much as they can, by capitalizing on crises... Now, having said that - I hope THAT SHIIT turns up in a search engine in the future. FUK those assheads - because they're gonna FUK every consumer that they can, whenever they see an opportunity to cash in on a crisis. They are lower than whale-shiit on the ocean floor, in the middle of the Marianas Trench, 12 miles deep. If they were on fire, I wouldn't piss on them to put them out. Hope that turns up in future search engines for them. They can eat a dick, and choke on a bowl of smashed assholes for desert. Search Engines... do your magic.

Good update, man - thank you.

DPMS used the retaining pin like you state, but they did NOT use a one-piece gas ring. Who did you buy this from? What vendor? What did they advertise is as? Got a link to what you bought? Throw us a bone here.

I just have to point this out - this is a brand new, earth-shattering record for a Necro-Post. The total number of days between Saturday, May 1st, 2010 and Wednesday, March 19th, 2020 is 3,610 days. This is equal to 9 years, 10 months, and 18 days. If there was a prize for this @Morgan, you just won it. Nobody has ever done this before, and you are to be commended, lauded, and inducted into the Necro Hall of Fame. You rock, man, this is as epic as it gets. Seriously - that was good, man, bullshiit aside. In my local spot, I can pull 2200 yards. We just recon'ed another one last weekend, just for the .375 CheyTac, that's 2.05 miles (3,608 yards). That's the only gun that's gonna do it, out here. If we're lucky.