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I knew you'd be fun. Congrats - you exceeded even any expectation that I had for you. Very well done, my man, very well done. You're a fucking hero.

This is the WaterBoard shiit that I talk about so much on here. You need to damn near Water Board someone to find out what the fuk they built, just to find out what's going on with their gun. Spill the details - every single part, by brand, manufacturer - on your gun. There's no other way to help you, if we don't know those details. We're not fucking clairvoyant, here. There's no mystical mirror that we can look into, and see your soul. This is all "Garbage in, Garbage out" until you get the information out. Spill it, give it all up - or just have a great day.

What are the real-deal build specs on this gun? Spill all the details on this one, because you haven't yet. List all parts, brands, manufacturers, whatever. You need to out the details on what you built/bought.

So, in that 300 rounds, has that pin walked out yet? Nope. You think it might be overgassed - but what's your recoil system look like? What are the specs on that? What makes you think it's overgassed in the first place?

Best in the business, by far. ToolCraft makes most of the OEM BCGs that you hear everything about. They're ToolCraft. Oh, by the way, stop worrying about nothing, stop creating your own hang-up dilemnas - you're only defeating yourself. Spend your life second-guessing something else, and worrying about it -but don't second-guess what we tell you about this platform. You'll only die worried. You're putting yourself into this "Naked and Afraid" category, worrying about the dumb shiit that you're worrying about. You do you, though. Take the advice - or just worry.

You're worrying about nothing. You're creating your own worry, hypothetical this and that. You can second-guess everything about this platform, in a million different ways. What you're worrying about is not going to happen in the real world, firing the gun. Have you shot this gun yet? Go shoot the gun.

What do you have for an extractor spring? More spring pressure would eliminate ANY chance of that pin walking. Pics, of everything that you're talking about here, would greatly help what you're describing. I get it. I know what you're talking about. Help the general conversation with pics of your setup, and what it's doing. My Fulton Armory BCG will not allow the pin to walk, or the pin to be pressed out, when the bolt is fully extended. It's blocked, partially. And "partially" is all it takes. I'll dig into the ToolCraft BCGs later.

Very, very valid point. Ebola is a WAY different animal than those other respiratory issues listed. Ebola liquefies your insides. SARS, MERS, Bird Flu - have nothing on Ebola.

I think you're both right - and we don't need TWO Dem Senators in this state, no fucking way. Sinema will stay, I'm sure. She earned that. Kelly needs to GTFO. That complete assclown will only hurt this state. He's a fucking moron, astronaut or not. Here's how stupid he is: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Mark+Kelly+fails+to+buy+a+gun https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gun-store-rescinds-mark-kellys-rifle-purchase-questions-his-intent

My rule for carry a pistol - or moreso, determining if a pistol is carry-worthy... It MUST blow through 500 rounds without a single ANYTHING. Perfect function. After it makes 500 rounds, it gets night sights installed. Then, and only then, it's a carry gun. If I'd get 498 rounds in, and have any kind of a malfunction whatsoever, I'd determine the cause of the malfunction, correct it - and start again at Round Number 0, until I got to 500. The only exception I've ever, ever made to this, for any handgun, was the G43X. I got to 350 rounds, from the very first round out of the gun. Zero issues. I had the night sights installed right then. Took it out the next weekend, got the other 150 rounds, and then bought the IWB carry holster for it. It's my daily now. I mainly shoot CCI for the .22LRs, too. That's all I ever recommended to Appleseed students. One thing about CCI .22LR ammo, though - CCI Standard Velocity and CCI Mini-Mags are the exact same load - the Standard Velocity is bare lead projectiles, the Mini-Mags are those same projectiles, just copper-washed. Same ammo. If you get a stoppage or reduced performance from CCI Standard Velocity, and not with MIni-Mags, it's because of something going on with the rifling - a burr, or something, that's grabbing that bare lead SV projectile. The only other two ammos that I'll recommend for semi-auto .22LRs is Fed Auto-Match, sold in 325-rd boxes, and Winchester M22, in the 1,000-rd boxes. Those two work. They're all 40gr round nose, and that's what's important for semi .22LRs. No 36-gr hollowpoints. Save those things for the miniature bolt guns.

Part of that extractor pin should be INSIDE the bore of the BCG, when the bolt is installed... Maybe not much, but enough to make it a physical impossibility for it to walk out when installed in the BCG body...

You may have to source one of the original-pattern Matrix upper receivers, and build your own upper. DI will be the way, because I don't know of any aftermarket piston systems that work on .308ARs. Well, I definitely know of a piston system for a .308AR, but it's not sold as an add-on - it's on complete guns. @Robocop1051... Think it would retrofit, brother?... Any plans on offering it as an add-on?... Pure instigation, right there - after the G43X magazine text I received today... Your best bet in making this happen is placing a phonecall to Live Free Armory, in Florida. The guy you'd mostly likely want to talk to about it would be Chris Reideman. Tell him that .308AR.com sent you to him. Seriously. https://www.livefreearmory.com/receiver-sets.php

That will indeed dut down on dwell time, and the amount of time that the gas port feeds pressure to the gas key on the BCG. Correct. You may need a "gas port adjustment" after having the barrel cut down. Gas port diameter will probably have to go up in size, but not by very much, at all. 0.005" or less.

Disregard - both those pics I gave you were for rail-mounts quadrants. You need one for a carry handle. This is the guy:

Yep, that's legit. I was a 203 gunner for a loooong time, in my past life. That leaf sight and upper handguard are the real deal. If you can score a real-deal quardrant sight, that thing is far better than the leaf sight. You can seriously fuk some shiit up whilst using the quadrant sight. You'd be hunting for this little hooker, right here: LMT sells it, but it's $300. Better to find a surplus legit one. https://lmtdefense.com/parts/l3c

I'm taking two things away from what you posted. #1. Once you figured out your gas block, your rifle ran, both suppressed and unsuppressed. Your gas system was working, and your gun ran. #2. You changed your recoil system, and not your gun is running poorly. The issue is your recoil system. That's the only thing you changed after you got the gas block dialed in - when it ran right. You need a buffer that weighs the same as the one that you took out (the one that ran). You need a recoil spring that's the same pressure as the one that you took out. You'll need a spring that works (same pressure) for your carbine extension, as the rifle extension that you swapped out. That's the issue you're having. It's all recoil-system related, by your own accounting of what's going on.

He can clear that double...

The "time" is all time to practice what you learn, estimating range, learning your scope and ammo, reading wind... The "money" involved is easy - getting, making or having the ammo to get proficient. It's a hoot, man.

I'm not too worried about the Shockie, brother - whenever. When you do send it, make sure it's to my work. I don't want some dumbass delivery dipshiot dropping that on my front porch, only to change the entire life of a Porch Pirate overnight...

550 KFYI conservative radio here in Phx. James T. Harris had Republican Bob Thorpe on the show tonight. No way will the AZ House and Senate let this shiit through. We're safe for right now, as long as the R's hold the majority. The major influence in AZ on who gets elected - comes from all the people that move to AZ. More and more Libs are moving here, and bringing all their political baggage with them. All the AZ R's, according to Thorpe, have taken an oath to each other - remain strong 2A, squash everything Red Flag that even comes up, and never give up AZ Citizen's 2A Rights. Hopefully, they can always maintain the majority. Electors/Voters get off their asses and get out to vote, and we shouldn't ever have a problem. This latest stunt by the Southern AZ Dems was all Bloomberg money. Bribery, literally. "Campaign Contributions" is what it was veiled as. Far from it.

Don't forget to watch the credits in that vidlink, or you'll miss this hidden little gem... Here's those 12 Angry AZ Dems...

Courtesy of @MikedaddyH - The Rageaholic responds to this blatant "posturing" by these 12 Angry AZ Dems... and it's fucking EPIC.

That would be the last thing remaining - gas port diameter. Your gas tube is the proper length. Your recoil system is too weak to handle .308 Winchester recoil, the mass of a .308-sized BCG. There's a way to make your 7.000" internal depth receiver extension work, with a heavier buffer from an aftermarket company, combined with a spring from another aftermarket company - but those two things are going to cost you more money than just buying that Armalite kit, and paying shipping one time. The Armalite system is fool-proof - as well as idiot-proof. It's made in one place, one company, with the same materials every time, to the same tolerances and specs, and it just works. If you want the details of the other system - the buffer and spring - it's the KAK .308 heavy buffer that weighs 5.3oz, combined with the Sprinco Orange spring. That combo makes 7" receiver extensions (AR15 Carbine receiver extensions) work, when used on .308ARs. All that's left is gas port diameter.

Read this: I spent time putting that together, to get all the info in one place. It should explain everything, as far as balancing the two systems, why, how, etc.

That 0.875" is the diameter of the gas block journal, and the size of the gas block that you'd need to buy, if you were buying another. Gas block sizes (standard sizes) are 0.625", 0.750" 0.875", and 0.936". Yours is 875. Gas block journal size has a direct effect on gas port diameter size - two barrels made identical, say 18" midlength gas barrels, one with a 0.750" gas block journal, and one with the 0.875" gas block journal - the same-sized gas port is not going to work perfectly on both those barrels. It's a pressure that needs to be maintained for cyclic function. You change that pressure when you change the cylindrical volume of a gas port: make it smaller or larger - gas port size - or, make it deeper or more shallow - gas block journal size. For recoil - you need to balance the system, and if it's kicking you hard, it's not balanced. The first indication is that 3.8oz buffer weight, and that spring. The easiest, cheapest thing to do is buy the Armalite (real Armalite, not copies) AR-10 Carbine Receiver Extension kit. That will SOLVE the recoil system. The next thing you need to do is determine the diameter of your gas port. Then drill it up, if it needs it. Buy a cheap digital vernier caliper from Harbor Freight, use numbered drill bits, there are numerous ways to determine gas port size. This is the recoil system that you need to be running on a .308AR: https://www.armalite.com/product/ar10rekit01-6-position-receiver-extension-kit/