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That's an awesome lookin' pup, man! What a great breed, too. Those fuckers are SMAAAAART!!!

I haven't shot a Match M1A in a long time, since I moved away from a buddy that had one of Rob Leatham's old competition guns. What a badass gun that was. For the ammo - I LOVE the Federal American Eagle M1A Match ammo. It's cheap, and it's GREAT 168g Match ammo. This stuff:

I think I have an ammo-boner... I need to hit the reloading bench now...

This is about to get Spicy, Doc... For several years now, I've been loading the Hornady 178gr HPBT Match round. It's just a plain, badass projectile to load for longer distances. It excels at 850 yards and over. I've been trying to NOT load Hornady 178gr ELD-Ms - though I love that projectile, in other calibers. There's such a small jump in capability (of the projectile), that it wasn't worth it to me. Well... Hell Yeah for the new 178 ELD-X - the expanding hunting projectile - it beats both the others. That's worth a switch. The BC for G1 and G7 are worth looking at... I'll change my whole load development over to the ELD-X for this... Click it and it gets bigger... Here's the Federal data, that includes that 185 Juggernaut... For distance, those G7 drag model numbers are where it's at - they're more accurate to plug into ballistics calculator - for distance - than the G1 drag model numbers. This is gonna get good, brother. This will be a good ammo test, right here.

Inbound...

I'll run it, brother. That 185 Juggernaut is a bad bastard. I can do bolt and AR, if it fit's a 2.800" COL and makes it in a magazine. EDIT - I see a review that a guy was shooting it out of an AR... I'm in for running it out of both platforms.

Looks like he's mad-doggin' us, mean-muggin' a little... He needed an ass-whoopin'... Great job!

Yep - that's the one based off the DPMS High Rider... It's worth $129 just to get the lower, but that upper... You'll need a MagPul PRS stock with the cheekpiece cranked way up there...

I shot last Sunday with a local guy that's got one - we didn't shoot it then, though. He's not impressed with it. I'll grill him more later on the why of that.

I'll see if I can scan the Sig Pistol Armorer's Course book. If I can keep the size respectable, I'll upload it.

Does this mean we're shooting this coming Sunday?...

@Robert@FULL30... we know how to summon you now... even from the virtual world...

That shot just demolished her heart and lungs. There was no way she was going anywhere but sideways-over. Good shot.

You need a 5.4oz buffer to run a run-of-the-mill eat-any-ammo .308AR in the DPMS or Armalite patterns. That's the reason Armalite only uses 5.4oz buffers. These aren't Race Guns that you need zero recoil on for your next timed follow-up shot, against the timer, against other competitors trying to take home series points or a trophy... You start using lighter buffers, weaker springs, and you have to compromise the design of the gun to get it to run right. Most guys with lighter buffers and weaker springs THINK the gun is over-gassed, because it's recoiling hard as hell. Indeed, it is not over-gassed. It is under-recoiled... They mistakenly "solve" the problem with an adjustable gas block. .308 Rifle Buffers are 5.4oz. They're 5.200" long. Armalite AR-10 Carbine buffers are 5.4oz. They're 3.250" long. AR15 Carbine H3 Buffers are 5.4 oz. They're 3.250" long. (on this and the AR-10 Carbine buffer, you MUST use a carbine receiver extension that is 7 5/8" internal depth... AR15 carbine receiver extensions that are 7.000" internal depth, or Armalite M15 Carbine receiver extensions that are 6 15/16" internal depth, will not work...) KAK makes a heavy buffer that's 2.500" long, to use on a .308AR with the AR15 carbine receiver extensions. It works. It's 5.3oz. Close enough for reliable operation. Run a Sprinco Orange Spring with that combination. It was directly developed for that configuration. This pretty much sums up the information on barrel gas port sizes and gas tube lengths, as well as buffers and buffer weight: Here are known, verified Carbine Receiver Extensions that are a true 7 5/8" internal depth: All AR15 and .308AR Rifle Receiver Extensions are 9 11/16" internal depth. The aftermarket manufacturers very seldom screw that up. AR15 A1 and A2 - use the exact same rifle receiver extension. So do the .308ARs...

Right on - that's kinda what I was thinking. Those are some good people.

Good to see you back in here, brother!

You guys have been getting crushed, and it keeps letting up before it gets here. Or, it rols through here weak AF, then finds it balls before it hits you guys... I think we're in for another wet winter here, brother...

What other forum recommended us? That's pretty cool.

Stick with it, and hang in there... Something will come up, sometime...

You could straight run that N6 upper on an Armalite AR-10B lower, too. It has to be a lower receiver with the angle cut in the back of it. No gunsmith is gonna machine (and no machinist is gonna machine) that upper to fit a DPMS-based lower receiver that's got the circle-cut at the back of it. Machining the lips out of the bottom of the upper receiver, to clear DPMS-based magazines is another story - but it won't fix the upper/lower fitment between those two patterns. If you run the 10B lower receiver - you're locked in to Armalite AR-10 magazines. There's no bad side to that, because they're reliable mags. You just won't be running P-Mags or D-50 drums in the gun. Running the Armalite AR-10 based guts in a DPMS-based gun - perfectly doable, and it works. This thing below is an Aero Precision M5 receiver set and rail, with Armalite AR-10 Carbine Recoil System, AR-10 BCG, 13.5" barrel, and AR-10 Tunable Competition Brake (pinned and welded, 16.1" long barrel assembly). Runs like a champ, never a hiccup. In your shoes, I'd do as JT suggested above - just pick up a set of M5 receivers from Aero, run the guts from that N6 upper in that, with an AR-10 Carbine Recoil System, and you're running DMPS-based magazines that way, without any headaches. Save that N6 upper receiver, and keeps your eyes out for either the N6 lower, or an AR-10B lower sometime. If you score one in the future, you can rebuild the gun into those receivers.

Thanks, brother, on the shooting stuff. I do what I can, and I always remember wise words from a former mentor - "Even a blind monkey finds a banana once in awhile..." These two new jackasses are something else. I think they're possessed. They're maybe 3lbs each now, but they sound like a herd of elephants slamming through the house. It's unreal. They have TactiCat on edge, and he'll put them in place every time his opportunity comes up - SMACK!... Bitchy Cat keeps her distance, because she just wants to eat them and be done with it. It's straight mayhem in this house right now...

That's a badass BA barrel right there, brother - for the money, you couldn't beat that if the sale price was $50 higher than $110...

Took this thing out today,with GP John and another local buddy. They were both zeroing in and shooting new 6.5 Creedmoor guns. John was on a Bergara bolt gun, and the other guy was on a Ruger Precision Rifle. I took the Valk out there, and the Mk11. Set zero paper targets and IPSC steel at 100 yards, and put another IPSC steel at 475 yards. This is a keeper - it did really well. It literally took 3 rounds to re-zero the scope to this rifle. This barrel is also almost 10 years old now, so it definitely didn't need broken in at all... After getting the scope on paper and centered back up, I just plugged the steel. After that I got the Valk out to play with it. Here's the 100 steel - Valk in the head, .308 Win in the chest. After running those two at 100, I switched right over to the 475 target. It was 3.0 mils of hold for both guns - Valk and Mk11. There's a bunch of hits on this plate, because we were all shooting it out there - but it's easy to see what was 6.5C, .224 Valk, and .308 Win... Here's the 475 view from the gun: This is when I was pulling the target for the day, looking back at the shooting location: Good day, men!!! NEXUS 168gr Match ammo report - had a bad box of ammo, out of the 3 boxes I took out there. Shooting 100 steel at the end, I put the rest of a mag in the steel. Changed mags to a full 20-rounder, reduced "pop", very little kick, and NO IMPACT on steel at 100. Weird, I was just thumping it... Pulled the BCG, looked down the barrel - clear, no obstructions. I had to manually eject that piece of brass - the BCG didn't move at all. Alright, bad load, on to Round #2 - same exact thing. Checked the barrel, clear, on to #3, same thing. Did NOT check the barrel, just manually ejected each round, individually, and shot the next. All 20 were bad. In all honesty, ALL of the .308 Win ammo and half of the .260 ammo that we received from them was "2nds." This was the only box of 168 .308 Win that did this - fired another box right after it, thumping the hell out of the steel...

These jackasses that I have are better than some people... and WAY better than my ex-wife!...