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Post a pic of your serial number, with the K in it. You can delete part of it, but leave the K in there. All DPMS LR-308 stripped lower receivers had a K at the end of the serial number. Last digit. You're talking Gen 2, as well, so who knows what they did with that platform. The discussion and clarification was about the original LR-308 stripped lower receivers. I'd still like to see the K at the end of your serial number...

If the original hosted image is still there - it's fine. You can find a pic from anywhere on the web, copy the link to it, post that link - and your image will always be here on the board. Until someone deletes the picture that you linked to. That's what happened when you : You had linked an image - then you deleted the original image. Then the link to the now-deleted image is dead...

It was linking to an image, Mack - then you deleted the image that was linked... You posted a link to an image. When you copy the image and paste it, that won't happen. Left click, copy image - move over here, left click, paste image. Done deal. No links to fail.

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Damn Shepp - that thing is BADASS!!!

Right on, Mike! Awesome pup!

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That lump right there is your problem. Cut out another 0.010" and clearance that thing, all the way up. I don't machine these things, but I work with precision parts all the time - that's easy to see, right there. From that lump upwards, the lower needs machined.

^^^ I know that WELL. I recognized it right away, too - it was a Blonde, getting ready to feed on a Bear. I know I've given due-diligence to the warnings about a real redhead - they're fucking DANGEROUS. But a real redhead doesn't have shiit on a psycho Blonde. Not in the least.

Now I'm hungry...

Quality torque wrench for locking down barrel nuts - barrel nut range is HUGE, at 30~80lb/ft, so that part of it isn't really a big real - with such a huge range to hit. Look for something in the proper range, too, because all torque wrenches are least accurate in the bottom 20% of their range. That includes Snap-On, which is all I use - I have them for work, not guns, but they get used on my guns, too. For small shiit like scope mounts and things like that, go for quality. By once, cry once. My 1/4" drive Snap-On torque wrench has a range of 40in/lb to 200in/lb - way too high to use on scope mounts and rings, which are typically 25in/lb numbers. Sometimes as low as 15in/lb on some mounts. That badass little torque wrench doesn't even go down that far - and it's bottom 20% is the least accurate... For stuff like that, I have this Snap-On QDRIVER4 - <<<that's the model number. It's range is 5~40in/lb. The bottom 20% of that would go up to 12in/lb, but I use it to install windshield screws that cannot go over 6in/lb, or it can crack the plexiglass windshield - haven't cracked one yet.

What they stated is not true, but it doesn't pertain to a crush washer - there is a direct minimum torque spec for the military, installing an A2 on a rifle, with peel washers, and it's 20lb/ft. The military doesn't use crush washers. Slap a crush washer over your barrel, fat end of the crush washer towards the barrel end. Thread the muzzle device on there until it makes contact with the crush washer. You can "crush" a crush washer 540 degrees - that's 1.5 full turns. Crush washers start to "crush" at 20lb/ft, and they maintain that torque value, even as they crush. More than 1.5 full turns, and you can split it. There's no way in the world that you'd need to turn it more than 1.5 turns to time any muzzle device. Never used a crush washer on a weapon that you're gonna use for a suppressor host - any muzzle device that you attached the suppressor directly to. Never. Use peel washers, or the Precision Armament Accu-Washers for a suppressor host. I've been using Accu-Washers for everything over the last several years, and they're easy to set up. I keep the 1/2x28 and 5/8x24 kits on-hand, for every muzzle device install, even if it's on a bolt gun.

Damn good lookin' 1903, man!!! I love them. That thing is CLEAN!!!

Cycling the snap-caps and live ammo in a brand new action or gun isn't gonna tell us much, honestly. You'll have to shoot it and see what happens. See how if acts and reacts by sending some live ammo downrange. If your headspace was excessively short, a no-go gauge wouldn't close, but neither would an A-Zoom or live round. You've already proven that they both close, even though it might be a little tight. It's not gonna blow up when you shoot it, that's for sure. Run some ammo through it. Lube it well, beforehand, but don't lube (at all) that chamber.

Check out this little tiny desert badass. I didn't know what the fuk he was before this day, but I researched him afterwards - Burrowing Owl. Makes sense afterwards - his hole was right there. I pulled up to a stop sign, middle of nowhere - and this little fucker is mean-muggin' me big time. I was the one that was in the wrong neighborhood - it was HIS hood... That's a tiny little Can O'Ass Whoopin' right there - ready to beat the shiit out of me. He didn't care... Owls rock.

Owls are straight-up badasses, but somewhat looked aside when people talk about birds of prey. They're fucking silent, flying. Amazing creatures, just love 'em.

^^^ He's gonna make one hell of a cell-mate in prison...

That's a badass lookin' pup, brother!!! Hell yeah!!!

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They all look like that. Quoting the pic that you're talking about would help. Gas tubes have a max ID of 0.125", and they're all basically the same, in construction. There's a shiit-ton of 304 stainless gas tubes on the market, and I'll argue to my death that the proper material is 303 stainless, but the aftermarket doesn't care. 304 is cheaper. Next time you people here bitch about some top-brand company charging $50 for a M4 Carbine gas tube, when you can get it for $14 from "whoever" - that top-tier company was probably making that real no-poop REAL mil-spec gas tube from 303 stainless - and it's more expensive. Budget shop "xx" weas selling you that $14 gas tube that's all about mil-spec everything - and it's 304 stainless. My soapbox on gas tubes, and their proper construction...

There's always Wilson Combat, too. No other large management group is gonna buy out Bill Wilson, and his products will always be top notch. I haven't checked, but he might make a barrel for it.

You MUST post pics!... See if you can get a Storm Lake barrel for it, and it should work out. They were bought by Remington, and I think Remington killed the company... I think it's gone now...

He was here 22 minutes ago, but didn't say anything... Probably working on what to say, right now.

Invaluable piece of gear, right there. It will open your eyes, for sure.

@Radioactive, you have no idea what you're just done here...