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^^^ That's a goddamn human Anaconda!...

McGowen. I just added up their 14" custom barrel on this page of their website for $265 - it's an 8-week wait. 14" was the closest I could come to 13.5" that you need. I'm sure, if you called them, they'd do it in 13.5". I hit this part of their website to configure it: http://mcgowenbarrel.com/shop/custom-ar-barrel/

I wouldn't stop the quest, if I were you. @ARTrooper built a 16" midlength .260 Rem recently - I think his barrel is finally to him, but haven't heard. It would be easy to cut that down to 13.5", thread it, crown it, and change the gas port size. I'm sure he'll get in here with the details.

I stumbled on some OLD posts the other day, that you were in, and I thought... "What ever happened to that guy?..." Good to see you back.

That was good work. I don't know how LEOs do it anymore - the world has gone crazy.

Here's some Aero Precision Special Edition hardware to honor the occasion... https://www.aeroprecisionusa.com/ar15-receiver-set-special-edition-dtom-anodized-black

Hell yea it is! And he's got @Sisco in the damn boat, too!@....

Heads up - that stuff is weak. You might have to change your gas setting just to shoot it. No kidding.

He already slipped up a few times, and DIDN'T TELL ME I was on speakerphone... That went... great...

I like it - his absence from mandatory presence at the festivites are... DENIED. He just doesn't quite realize that "he's not optional..." What If I said, "Eh, Meh, I'm sick. Can't make it this year..."... Not happening... @Matt.Cross, call me brother. Let me talk to your wife again... It kinda goes south everytime that happens, but I think I can fix it this time... NO SPEAKERPHONE this time...

God Speed, my good man.

Rubber-stamping Matt not being here?! Are you fucking kidding me? My Wing-Man on the writing of the Training Schedule for the event, and my Proof-Of-Concept for all the stupid shiit I think up to do - and then he proves it?!... I'll rubber-stamp that all right. With a Purple 3ft Double-Headed Jelly Dong upside his head, for even thinking about not being here...

Not even happening... Nope. Not gonna do it.

You missed that PILE above, that I posted the pics about... If I had to weigh everything, I'm just sayin... I"m starting to think that you're not coming out this time?...

There's no argument here,brother - it's already been decided, by weight... You are SMOKIN' @Matt.Cross right now, and BADLY, on Fall Shoot Prep. You win this one, hands down...

Meh, whatever. The floor can support it. I think he's given up. He hasn't shipped anything here in a LONGASS time... I'm just sayin'... His stash is running low, too - I'm thinking about just combining it into two cans, so I can re-purpose the other cans for something else...

#1, I'm down with your sickness. Crazy Blondes have NOTHING on you, brother - your place in my history is quite well reserved... Oh, for the record - I didn't let you into my life - you let me into yours, ... and it's never been the same since you did that... Shiit it true, and you know it...

What are you trying to do with the gun, first off? Be accurate with it, and test it's accuracy? Start with 165s and 168s, and move to 175s. You'll see an accuracy improvement, unless that barrel is completely FUBARd when it was manufactured. 1:10" twist rate is "Over-Stabilizing" 145 grain projectiles. http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2013/07/over-stabilization-of-bullets-why-is-too-much-spin-a-problem/ https://sierrabulletsblog.com/2015/05/07/understanding-twist-bullet-stabilization/ I can shoot 55gr 5.56 projectiles 600 yards. They suck, but it can be done, with an "average" of "accuracy" through a couple different badass guns - and they're built for distance, with badass barrels and everything else. It's not gonna be MOA, though, but it'll hit a full sized IPSC plate most of the time. Doesn't matter what the twist is for that projectile at that distance, as far as accuracy goes - but twist matters. They're gonna suck from a 1:7 5.56 barrel. They'll be a little better from a 1:8" barrel. They do pretty damn decent from a 1:9" barrel. They excel from a 1:12" barrel. They just don't ever "excel" at 600 yards. I can drive a 75 or 77gr 5.56 projectile to 800~900 yards, semi-accurately. It's gonna hit more than it's gonna miss - but I wouldn't hunt that round at that distance. I'd risk a shot on an IPSC plate at that distance, and hit it more than miss it. I wouldn't hesitate to hunt a (5.56) 70gr Barnes TSX at 500 yards on bigger animals, or 600 yards on a coyote, though. You're doing the same thing with 145s in a .308 Win gun. You just about blow through the ultimate range of the 145gr projo in a .308 Win load around 400 or 450 yards - IF you were shooting it through a 1:12" twist barrel... - after that, it's gonna be shiit. It's not a long-distance projectile - it's too short, and too fat (sectional density comes into play here, as well as BC).

I think you forgot about another box... This is not a "small closet" we're talking about... and this is just the start... of "All Ron..."... Just for a "weekend..."...

^^^ And those shots could only happen at higher elevations, such as AFG. Not even possible shots at sea level, or in the war zone surrounding Iraq. Those guys maximized the environmental conditions for the terrain they were deployed on - and God Bless Them for it.

YOu guys are completely missing the boat on this one, and it's about projectile weight vs. barrel twist rate. 145s through a 1:10 is gonna suck, and it's gonna keep getting worse the hotter the barrel gets. This isn't about rate of fire - it's about the right ammo for a 1:10 twist barrel. 145s would do much better through a 1:12 twist barrel, but they're not gonna be the greatest, or anywhere near, through a 1:10. OP, you need to move to heavier projectiles and ditch the 145s except for plinking ammo. Your rate of fire is not that high, based on what you're describing.

Badass, brother - I told you I was in a mud hut in AFG with a bunch of guys, listening/watching Mat Best and another guy banging' a guitar and singing some hilarious songs... One of them was something about alien ass-rape...

145gr outof a 1:10" twist barrel is gonna be marginal at best, even if it was loaded to match-standards. Too light of a projectile for that twist rate. I'm sure it's getting worse if you shoot it fast. A little bit of barrel-heat difference is gonna make a bigger difference, because that little bullet is being spun so fast...