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That was very cool - I love the adjustable sights on the M1 Carbine - they rock! For those of you running the MaTech rear sites, get one of these for them -theBAD-BSM: https://tnvc.com/shop/b-a-d-bracket-screw-for-matech-buis/ They might be hard to find now - I don't know if BAD still makes them. Couldn't find it on their website.

I screwed up and found a YT channel called "Cooking with Shotgun Red" - this is gonna be bad, when you see how many more videos he has... ^^^ I did it that way, butter too, in the skillet on the stovetop. It was SO GOOD that I didn't get any pics... I'll have to get another flat iron steak so I can get pics...

This free light deal ends on Tuesday, the 16th...

Toolcraft .308AR BCG. Wilson Combat barrel, off the shelf from them. https://shopwilsoncombat.com/7mm-08-Remington/products/979/

They are gas-piston based guns, and you'll need an 11.000" custom gas tube to make them work as a DI gun. Know that now, brother.

Same on my 13.5", with that bigass Armalite brake on there. I thought that was gonna SUCK having that big .308 Win brake that close to my face. Nah, it shoot so nice... I'm about to get into one of these 12.5" SIG barrels, just because of the price. Stash it away, worry about "making it something," later...

^^^ What he said. It all comes down to the mount. I've never had a need to lap a mount from LaRue, either. I've lapped more two-piece scope rings than anything else (just two ring mounts to mount a scope). I've never had to lap any Warne Maxima Steel rings before (either the QD or traditional), and those are my go-to, but I've lapped others.

^^^ Correct.

Even if it's a little heavy, it will be worth it, in the long run, shooting the gun. It's gonna be lighter than another .308AR anyway, and "light" in these things equals "more felt recoil." Even if it's only a little bit heavier - that will help, overall, firing the gun. Nice!

Good news, man, and thank you for updating! Confirmation only helps, when the questions come up in the future, so this is excellent info.

Brother Roman!!! Didn't you do some kind of write-up on the prep of your flat iron steak? I seem to remember something about it, but I can't find it anywhere. I picked up a flat iron steak a couple days ago, and it's gonna get fired up tonight!

Damn good lookin' right there, Jim!!!

The Fulton Armory parts are DPMS-based, not AR-10 based. I completely missed the "Fulton Armory" before the "AR-10 extractor" part of that. This has me thinking though - I'm going to try an Armalite AR-10 Extractor in a Toolcraft DPMS-based bolt.

It was one-per-household, so how did you get TWO?! And, who did you Broke-Back for that second one, brother?!...

You got in there and bought something else...

Nice hand cannons in that thread, by the way.

The only other Grendel mags that I have are E-Lander 17-round mags, either straight from E-Lander, or from Alexander Arms - have both, and they're flawless, feeding 5x Grendels with those (both types of mags, E-Lander and ASC). FWIW.

The ASC Grendel mags are good, in the 25-rounders. I don't have any others but the 25s, but I wouldn't think the 10s and 15s aren't as good - the 25s work, with Grendel, and work well. PA has them on some serious sales right now, so here they are, 10, 15, 25: https://www.primaryarms.com/asc-6-5-grendel-magazine-10-round https://www.primaryarms.com/ascs-6.5-grendel-magazine-15-round https://www.primaryarms.com/asc-6-5-grendel-magazine-25-round

The 6.5mm went to SOCOM. That drives the Regular-Army train right there, in the future. I'll bet right now that anything "new" in cartridge development in Regular Army follows exactly what SOCOM does. SOCOM doesn't care what Regular Army Generals are mouthing off about to the press - they just do what they do, and make shiit happen. The Talking Heads can all sort it out later...

However, there hasn't been any "6.8mm anything" that does what they state this new cartridge for the military will do - do it has to be some wonder-round that someone dreamed up. No 6.8-anything that's out there can do what they state this round can do. It MUST be something new, and when they adopt this magic round and release it - it's gonna be a ground-breaking leap in 6.8mm technology... Or, it's some 6.8mm PipeDream that just keeps getting pushed around the Pentagon, and pimped by people that only know what someone is briefing them on, with zero personal knowledge on ballistics... which doesn't make it accurate... The development of 6.8 SPC came from 5th Special Forces Group, and one person in 5th Group was also the "father" of the Mk12 SPR design, and all it's derivatives. They were movers and shakers in AR development and progression, hands down.

You haven't seen our pistol section yet, obviously. Go check it out. Look for the "Show off your 1911s" thread. We shoot everything, on this forum, man. All of it - and even some things that nobody has ever even heard about yet, ever...

I'll send you some cactus to try out. I have 4 big ones, two are taller than me, and don't have needles. The other two are fucking vicious evil. If I cut a chunk off, I can stick it in the dirt, and it'll grow a brand new cactus. I bet USPS priority mail could get you a chunk that still lives, if you stick it in your dirt as soon as you get it...

I risked it.

That one, right there in red, brother... If the M&P 308 upper didn't mate to it, it's because there something "non-DPMS" on that M&P gun, not the other way around... I had the same issue with a PSA PA-10 upper - couldn't get it to lock on to several different Aero M5 lowers. I had to strip the upper down, rebuild everything (guts) into an M5 upper, just to test fire the components and mods made.