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M855 Green Tip fucks AR500 up bad. Real-deal M193 55gr can be worse, at short distances. I always know when someone's bangin' Green Tip on my steel...

You worried about me for some reason? I lived in WA for 12 years, WAY back when Aero didn't even brand their own lowers - but made them for 80% of the industry. That's way back when they were located right outside the back gate of McChord AFB. For me to connect with these guys, talk shiit, tell stories - EPIC. They knew. Oh, and Ballistic Advantage was in the booth with them? Bonus. Met Clint, owner of BA, told him my BA Mk12-barrel success, multiple barrels lengths and calibers - drank beers with him once they broke the kegs out. You jealous,or something? Worried that people here are making connections in the firearms industry? If that's the case, you'd be jealous as hell that I talk to the CEO of Alexander Arms routinely, talking about Grendel info. It is what it is. Don't hate. I might get him out to the Fall Shoot this year...

I just watched the video, and can't determine the issue here. First, you look like you're 13 years old. Not a slam, just an observation. Are you worried about the ejection pattern? Or are you worried about the brass being chewed up by the extractor? Next, do you reload? If you don't reload, then don't worry about it - as long as the brass is getting out of the gun, it's working (through a wide variance of ammo that you're using, every single time). If you reload, and you're worried about the brass - then check the extractor first - sharp edges at the corners? That chews up Grendel brass, on some suspect Grendel Gbolts. That's the first thing to look at. Something ejecting at 1 or 2 o'clock doesn't usually rip rims on cases. You being able to push that extractor pin out while the bolt is installed is an issue. It's not one that I'd ever worry about, due to spring pressure - but I just checked a brand new .308 Toolcraft BCG that I bought today, and even with that bolt fully pulled out, I cannot push that pin out. I can "nudge" it, but the BCG body stops it right there. That's an issue. But again, it's not an issue that I'd ever worry about. Shoot the gun. If that issue ever presents itself, and the BCG doesn't close, you'll know exactly what it is.

You can only open an adjustable gas block to wide-open, and it's gonna flow exactly what that gas port diameter lets it flow. What an adjustable gas block does, is limit what the gas port diameter can do - an adjustable gas block can never allow more gas than the gas port diameter will flow... You might need to drill the gas port diameter up - we won't know until you shoot it, or measure the gas port diameter that you have right now. I can give you a pretty good idea of what you'll need to have. You've never stated the barrel configuration - what's the barrel length, gas system, etc. You need to know what your gas port diameter is.

Drive on, Fat Dan. Get back with your info when you can find it - with sources. I'm really looking forward to it...

Aero Precision isn't "getting into that game" at all. You don't have any idea how hard I hung out with the Aero guys and Ballistic Advantage guys at SHOT this year. You're fucking clueless. DPMS is now out of business - if you've been "keeping up with the games" - you don't know WTF you're talking about... Good luck, though...

I was at the last SHOT Show Range Day. This year. Didn't even see SIG out there. Remington just dropped all MSRs, no longer producing them, so I don't know what planet you're talking about - but it's not the big rock that we live on. Right here. Please quote your sources for your magical information. Direct links will do.

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.