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The brake on this gun is the VG6 6.5 Gamma. That brake just plain works, and I could watch every impact (or miss) on all the shots, right through the scope. It works very, very well. My final load from my Round 2 of load development was 43.0gr of RL-22, CCI200 primer, Hornady 308 Match brass resized to .260 Rem, necks turned with KM Shooting Products 6.5 neck turning tools, 2.785" loaded OAL, 2650fps out of the WC 20" rifle gas Tactical Hunter barrel. I was the onlyone to poke the 500 yard target. First round hit at 2 3/4 mil holdover (no dialing), saw what I got, and moved on. I'll take this all day long. There were several people shooting at the 842 this time - that's just where it ended up in the dirt, when we planted it on this one. I crushed that thing right out of the gate, with 6.5 mils of drop. Shocked the hell out of me. There weren't alot of guys hitting the 1010 yard target, but I was getting that thing with 9.0 mils of dialing. The hits were very impressive. This was mostly .260 Rem and 6.5 Creedmoor contact, here, and there's not a bad shot on this target - and not every shot did hit the target, either. It was a tough day on it. There was anywhere between 1.5~2.5 mils of wind hold to hit this guy - it was changing all the time. That's a 10mph wind minimum, right there, at 1.7 mils.

That's some artwork, right there. Beautiful work. I had the chance to chrono this load - 2650 fps average - much better than I thought. It proved it, too, out there this weekend. 6.5mils of drop at the 845 yard target, and just drilling it... I had hits on 1010 yards with 9.0 mils of drop, and we had some very, very weird wind going on, with gusts to 20mph. This chart tells me I should be 8.5 mils of drop, and I'll try that on a day that's less crazy with the wind. If this is accurate, I'll be supersonic to 1500 yards with 17.2 mils of drop. That's unreal.

They'll tell you that it's good for most of the people with most of the ammo most of the time. Same story we hear from everyone that used that ignorant gasport location.

It's all over the site here, with pics from people, even. I have two WC barrels, and they're great. Their decision on gas port location isn't the best, though.

^^^ That 9 was DIRTY. If you stuck your finger in there, you wouldn't get it back - he tried to get me to do it, but I wasn't gonna risk it...

Try the National Match, and you'll see the difference pretty quickly.

Camp location is always the same, every shoot. Here's camp, from the hill, in one of the first pics I posted above...

Doc, that's fantastic! I love it when a plan comes together... Fine shooting, my man.

Here's what the 370 looked like:

It wasn't an easy walk, but it wasn't a killer, either. That spot is perfect, too, with that ledge right there on the edge. The only gun I took to the distance side was the .260. It didn't disappoint me at all. The one I took up the hill for angles was the 16" Grendel Mod H. Perfect for that situation. You would have loved it, Ron - it was a great time up there. Mike and that damn 10mm, though... We started right away with the jokes, too - "You're gonna hit everything BUT the target with that damn thing!" I ended up shooting a mag at a target that was 214 effective yards, 20 degrees down. I hit it on the last round. Of course, them @Matt.Cross has to shoot a mag and get TWO hits... Bastard... That last pic above is Matt shooting the pistol.

^^^ Mike corked a 376 yard target at 10 degrees down, first shot. .300 WSM.

Nope, but this is excellent information.

Wrapping up - got everything back to the compound, and we're downloading now. Gonna be a minute before I get any pics up. Short version: the .260 is badfukkinass. Flat shooting as all hell, chrono states 2650fps on the 147gr projos. 6.5 mils of drop at the 845, 9.0 mils of drop an a thousand. Unreal. High Angle is the shiit. I've got some great pics of that stuff...

It's beginning - just got Matt here, and it's started!...

^^^ CBD is working...

87.

That PVS-14 is a pound-ish, by itself. I rocked one of those things for years, behind an Aimpoint, on a 5.56 gun. It's worth the weight, once the sun goes down...

Yep. Worried about over-penetration - Which is wrong, from 5.56. The round is designed to frag, and not over-penetrate. That's in it's very nature, unless you get crazy with other projectiles that are designed to do more. You get into this stuff, from the older days, and it just plain "dispells myths." Hit #1 and go up... https://www.theboxotruth.com/tag/original-chapters/

No way would I sell any one of the 3 Aero M5 guns that I have. All run flawlessly - and not one of them is a factory rifle, from Aero. Their hardware is solid, minus their carbine recoil system - unless they've changed that.

55gr M193 will rage right through a windshield, and send 3100fps fragments everywhere inside. That's what the 1:12" was designed for. 1:9" twist was designed for the SS109 (M855) and long-ass tracers. That 62gr bonded is a soft-point. It's gonna suck through glass. That's a hunting round, and deer don't wear jean jackets often. USBP uses it, though. On another note, M193 defeats some rifle-rated armor, too. It's a weird load. Speed kills.

This is my Holy Grail, right here. One day, I'll pay WAY TOO MUCH for one...

I found a bag last night marked, "5.56 Match/LC Brass, CCI 41, Hornady 75gr BPBT, 24.2gr RL-15." The brass was already primed with the CCI 41s, so I counted them. 186. So I loaded up 186 5.56 75gr heavies... Might as well drag the Mk12 Mod 1 out there this coming weekend...

For many, many years, Fulton Armory went directly off the DPMS specs - DPMS even made their receivers. They've changed over on their barrels, now, to the Armalite AR-10 spec on gas port length. Fulton has never messed up gas port diameter, ever. They nail it. My original Fulton chromed BCG from 2010 has that same extractor setup in it. It's always been flawless.

That pic directly above, reposted by Lane, ... That top spring is significantly smaller in diameter than the Fulton spring, below it. That O-ring is even smaller, ID.