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Darwin. He's been out of work for a long, long time... He needs to get back on it already...

Roman will know where that button is. Calling @sketch

Man, you'll get here for the first one - and you'll be hooked. You do one, and it's just over...

I look forward to shooting this one, Nate!!!

Damn, I can't catch a break anywhere...

I love a success story, Bubba! Well done!

Nice, Todd!!! Hell yeah!!! Only with Roman at the wheel. @sketch doesn't fuk around in Baja Mode!

WHAT THE FUQ, DOC!!!

"The System" is behaving weirdly, and I fully think it's because they'll have to testify "on the Hill" again... Reporting "Average Wait Times" will be a focus in hearings. I firmly believe that's the only reason this is happening. 16 hour approval. Check it:

I'm 100% success rate so far just by running the fired Grendel through a Grendel die first, then straight into the 22 ARC die, annealed or not. I'll anneal them all first, just to make that process easier on the brass, and hopefully make it last longer.

Not with annealing it first, brother, and trying to run fired Grendel straight into the 22 ARC die. All were crushed... and right out of the annealing machine, too. Brand-new, in terms of work-hardening, et al. Since this isn't really just "reloading brass," and more of "converting brass to another caliber," I'm fine with running the fired Grendel brass through the Grendel die first, then running it through the 22 ARC die to final form it. All this stuff is only "converted brass" at this point, and all of it needs to be shot, and fire=formed in the chamber. THEN, it'll be "real 22 ARC brass" at that point. Tell ya what, though - this is WAY easier than making .300 BLK cases out of 5.56 brass!...

Here's what I'm talking about KS... It's ALL ABOUT the optics, now that lawmakers are involved in asking questions - about how fucked up their process is. With Congressional eyeballs on this, they're only trying to get the "average" down, so they can report that number the next time they're called up to The Hill to answer questions. And they're gonna testify, "We've drastically improved the system! The AVERAGE wait times are now... (insert their bullshiit here)..." \ That screen-grab came from this vid I just looked up, based on where this coversation is going - here's the vid I snatched that from:

No, it's real. My local Gun Pusher had one approved in 24 hours. He's had an absolute PILE of them approved in 48 hours. It's happening, and it's real, not fiction. I personally think it's because it has House of Reps visibility now... They've bitched about it to the BATFE, vaunted agency that it is. They're SMOKING some of these through, fast as FUK, just so it directly affects "the average wait-time" mantra that's been hanging over their head. I think that's the ONLY reason some of these are rippin' through in 1 or 2-day waits. If we average 4 people, 2 of them were 14 months. We average 2 more, and their wait time was 48 hours... What's the "average wait-time" to get a can approved?...

Here's how to make 22 ARC brass from fired 6.5 Grendel brass... All testing complete, this is the process...

Do's and Do Not's... Working with a Hornady 22 ARC die set here, and a Lee Factory 22 ARC Crimp Die - they are both available now. I have good news and bad news, depending on how much you reload, and how far you want to get into a 22 ARC, if you decide to. So, first 10 Grendel cases I tried, they were straight up, fired Grendel cases. Ran them through the 22 ARC Hornady deprime.resize die. I went 10 for 10 and crushed them. This is how they came out. Smashed the shoulders straight down, before the neck-down was even complete. Half way through necking them down, it just smashed shoulder into the case. No Bueno. So, I annealed 10 more, first, and ran them through the 22 ARC die. It was a little better, but not a great success rate - I smashed 7 out of 10. Even going super-slow with the ram on the press. Didn't matter. But 3 came out good!!! Needed a different game plan, for sure. I have a pretty good supply of fired Grendel brass to convert, but not enough to lose 70% of them trying to convert them over. So, I set up two presses, one with the 6.5 Grendel deprime/resize die, and the other with the 22 ARC die - NOT annealed. Ran them first through the Grendel die, to get the fired Grendel brass back to it's basic size - and deprimed. Right into the 22 ARC deprime/resize die - without the strain of removing the primer that was already popped out - it's only necking it down in this process.... 10 for 10 success rate. All 10 went through both dies perfectly, came out the other side perfect, as 22 ARC brass. Next test was annealing first - sent 10 Grendel cases through the Annealeez 3 machine, ran them through the 6.5 Grendel die, then through the 22 ARC die. 10 for 10 again. So, that's the deal, if you're converting Grendel brass to 22 ARC brass - you need to pass that fired Grendel brass through a Grendel resizer die first - THEN, neck it down in the 22 ARC resizer die. It'll work, every time. Now, here's that bad news I was talking about - if you're gonna acquire fired Grendel brass to convert to 22 ARC, and you DON'T already have Grendels to feed, and reload for... You need to buy a Grendel deprime'resize die to pull this off. Or, smash Grendel brass trying to pull it off with just the 22 ARC dies...

22 ARC Ballistic Advantage SPR profile barrel, 18" barrel length, Rifle gas system, 22 ARC Chamber. #41 drill bit is largest that clears, so that gas port diameter is 0.096". Right in line with other 18" Rifle gas barrels, with a .224 bore. Love it.

No, they don't list the relaxed length, wire diameters, coil counts - just the good descriptions of the intentions of the springs for use. The numbers are in the HeavyBuffers info.

Hell yeah!

Between the two of those vendors/resources - that's all the information that you'll ever need, if you're looking to solve recoil system problems. If you have gas system problems, that's another story. Get the correct recoil system in your gun, and I'll solve the gas system problems. It's a short list, after the recoil system is straight. Minus weird shiit, it comes down to gas tube length and gas port diameter, per caliber, barrel length, and dwell time.

If you want to REALLY know wire diameter, coil count, relaxed length of the spring, and all that, there is no better resource that Clint @ HeavyBuffers.com. He lists ALL the details of what you need in a spring, to make a functional gun - that's gassed right. If it ain't gassed right, and you think his spring info and buffer info didn't help you - he'll fix your recoil system. If what he says doesn't fix it - then you have a gas system problem. Period. https://heavybuffers.com/reference.html ^^^Keep clicking until it gets WAY bigger...

We already have info here, on alot of that, through the years. The best source of n0-bullshiit information in Sprinco. They list it all. https://sprinco.com/ This page of theirs is worth it's weight in Gold Bullion... https://sprinco.com/ar-buffer.html

We'll see, brother. .224 Valkyrie was supposed to be an absolute badass. It doesn't suck, at all, but it wasn't the absolute badass that is was portrayed as... I should pick up my Garmin Xero chrono tomorrow... I'll use that, when I go out there for the testing of this. This is what I was sent, and what the owner says is ready to go.

That'll work, too. They do spec the Orange for highly-overgassed small-frame guns. Not designed for it, but works just as well for them. I'll say this much - when I've changed buffers during testing, and it makes zero difference - it's a gas system issue, not a recoil system issue. That's exactly the process I used to narrow down the gas block that wasn't drilled all the way through... "H3 buffer, and it won't cycle? But should? Let's take ALL the weights out of it and see what happens!" Same functional issue, with an unweighted buffer body. That means gas system, and detailed teardown inspection...

Oh Shiit!!! I missed that, Rex!!!

Fucking brilliant, Eric!!! I never even thought about that before. I'm getting ready to final-trim a bunch of 6.5G that I converted to 22 ARC, and this is gonna make it MUCH easier!