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^^^ I've been eyeballing those things. Makes MUCH sense to me. They working for you so far? You say they're good, and I'll get a couple.

I just got an email from Armalite a couple days ago that the AR-10 Carbine gas tubes were back in stock, too. DSG Arms just ran out of them... What barrel/upper config did you order, Robb?... 18" midlength gas?

Welcome. We're here to help. Just build the lower right, and it'll cut down on your issues. Once you get the upper, just go ahead and take it apart and measure the gas port. Visually check the gas tube protrusion into the upper receiver, and get a pic of it, before it all gets ripped down.

It will have the Allen Engineering hardware, too. I'll need to call them.

I might as well get this shiit started already. All the lower parts just got ordered, minus a trigger. DSG Arms hooked me up. Here's the lower - perfect lower for this one. Bought it last summer when they dropped it, and it's been sitting in storage, waiting to grow up into something. This might progress faster than I want it to. This is what a Mk12 Mod H is, if anybody was wondering - it's a Mk12 running a 16" barrel and a different top rail (not full length):

There's not much velocity loss in the .260 and 6.5C, per inch of barrel, so it won't impact it much. If anything, you might be a little off at 800~1,000, but it's a .260, with a little teeny bit more velocity than the 6.5C in the first place. I'll find out next week what barrel length and load they used to write the user's manual. I'll bet I can get a copy of the manual, if they've already got it written. I know once the scope is released, I have to test it on my .260, and get the zero information back to them. I might try to get one early, get the info to them, and get it included in the manual. I'll pitch that next week, bet it flies.

Sprinco. Damn, did we spend over an hour at Sprinco. The guy at the booth was KILLIN' US!!! Once he (quickly) figured out the amount of smartass contained in each of us, he cut loose - it was back and forth bullshiit for over an hour. My sides hurt from laughing so much. Insult after insult, flying everywhere. It was a riot. So, anyway - Sprinco is building and selling "adjustable buffer kits." Buffer bodies that you easily take apart, with a combination of weights (tungsten and steel) and all the buffer guts. You figure out what weight buffer your rifle needs, and it's all in the plastic box. I saw 4 kits/sizes out there: 2.500" buffer bodies, 3.250", 4.000" (VLTOR A5 buffers), and 5.900" (AR15 rifle). I'm sure they're doing the 5.200" (308AR rifle), but I just didn't see it sitting out there. Pretty cool news.

This is gonna get expensive, brother. That 6.5/284 is just under the 30-06 in OAL, so you'll have to use receiver sets that could chamber a 30-06. There's no way that anything in the .308AR platform will get it done - the receivers just aren't long enough. One option would be the Noreen BN36, but you'd probably have to buy the whole rifle, then convert it. There's tons of info out there on those things going back to the factory, too. I don't think they've got it completely figured out yet. I know a company that COULD figure it all out, though. CROM. They have so much on their plate right now, though... @Robocop1051, that would be the FOURTH receiver set to nug out. + recoil system... You up for it, brother? (psssst.... I have the recoil system figured out already... )

MIlitarily, it became a big deal when I was at Fort Ord, and I left Planet Ord in 1991. The primary small arms ranges were on the beach. "Green bullets" was a major push then. Save the Monterey Bay Whales, and all that shiit...

ZERO DARK FIFTY will eat up a BUNCH of space, quick!...

See the funky silver buttons on this one? Well, those serve a pretty damn cool function. Those dials are zero stop - and they STOP on the zero stop that you set them to - just like other zero-stop dials on other scopes. However, there are really times that you need to dial down below a zero-stop on your scope. You push that button, and you can go 5 (five) clicks BELOW your zero stop... Pretty damn smart, right there...

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Good LORDY, Wolf! How much ammo you got to store, brother?! (I'm jealous, I feel it now...)

Other developments, products, and announcements: 1. Primary Arms has a scope with a dedicated Grendel BDC reticle in it, and it is badass, with holds to 1k yards. Primary Arms has LOTS of developments, with new scopes in a Gold Line, Silver Line, etc. Even the mini red dots have new reticles, some having BDCs built in. I told them about the mini red dot I put on the 45-70 - in 2015. They liked that it was not dead yet, at 800+ rounds. They also have a 6.5 Creedmoor-specific reticle in a few scopes - and I'll be working those over on the .260 Rem. One of the 6.5C scopes is a REALLY NICE 3~18x scope. 2. Ballistic Advantage is making a Grendel 16" Mk12 profile barrel, 1:8" twist, midlength gas system. It's identical in profile to their current Mk12 barrels, will accept all Allen Engineering collars and brakes, and suppressors (OPS INC 12th, etc., legacy cans). Their Mk12 barrels are great in 5.56 and in Grendel. Ask me how I know about those two... 3. PRI has a carbon fiber rail out that's Octagon shaped, M-LOK compatible. They have a complete top rail for it. I feel a Mk12 Mod H coming my way, in Grendel, with that BA barrel listed above. This will become a reality sooner than I hope, I feel it already. 4. Alexander Arms has a 10.5" Grendel barrel. I will be testing this at distance, and I bet I can get MOA from it at 700 yards. I already made that bet with them. Right now, it's a complete upper, barrel not available separately yet. I will confirm this with them next week, for sure, on availability. I will try to see if the barrel can be purchased separately. There's so much more, it's not even funny. I'll post it as I go through the information I brought back. EDIT!!! 5. Primary Arms has developed a scope mount system that kicks absolute ass. They were taking grief from customers over their own (previous version) scope mounts, because most customers have no way of measuring 15in/lb, don't know what that feels like, and would strip the hell out of them. The bases (to Pic Rail on the receiver) are 3-bolt, and you'll never strip them. They reinforced the ring mounts, and you can't fuk that up, either. Toss in another dimension to this - THEY. LOOK. GREAT!!! MSRP will be $69. The new mounts are badass. 6. HoloSun made a pistol MRD that has the Trijicon footprint. It's the HoloSun 507C. For pistol guys that know, this just tipped the scales. BIGTIME. It's so backordered right now it's not even funny. You hit the HoloSun website, and it's just gonna tell you that it's not available. Oh, it's available - it's just incredibly backordered, like 3 months, and they shut the orders off...

Read the comments on that article - classic! One guy said,...

No Joke... He was NOT ready for anything remotely close to that, on Day 1... I told you this was gonna go down. Too bad he was just a victim, in our way...

Exactly - nailed it. Oh, and that magazine. They crushed it with that magazine. It's a quad-stack mag (think SureFire 60-round mag). They also have a 17-round extension that you can put on it, so it's an even 50-round mag. Due to it being a quad-stack, those extra 17 rounds only make the mag a little more than AN INCH longer... As soon as we walked into the first door in the show, we were ambushed by ZEV Tech, and their brilliant pistol design. After the guy had to shoo us away with a push broom, we rounded the corner, right into Kel-Tec's booth. It was a furious tag-team event for the poor worker that tried to greet us - he didn't even get his greeting out... Rob: "Where's it at?" ---------simultaneously----------------- Tom: "Someone holding it?!" Kel-Tec worker: "What are you guys tal..." Rob: "You know what we're talking about! Where IS it?!" -------------same deal, talking at the same time------------- Tom: "You better point us towards that .22LR pistol, QUICK!!!" Kel-Tec worker, nervous, can't speak, just POINTS us towards the pistol. I think there were some people standing around it at the time, and they got bowled RIGHT over...

YES!!! When the floodgates opened directly at 0830 Wednesday morning, he came STRAIGHT bee-line for the booth!!! He was there for 30 minutes, taking MAD notes and pics. He even NAILED the name!!! ZERO DARK FIFTY.

Brace yourselves for the 350 Legend, too. Just announced at SHOT. Straightwalled 5.56 brass loaded with a .358 projo. Backed by Winchester. https://www.guns.com/news/2019/01/23/winchester-steals-new-cartridge-show-with-350-legend

SMOKED today! At least 10 miles of walking all over the place. Had a GREAT conversation over at Alexander Arms, about 6.5 Grendel ballistics, and what I'm getting. I'll have a 10.5" Grendel in my hands soon so I can go to work on it on the distance range. Followed that up this afternoon at Primary Arms, again talking Grendel information. I have another meeting tomorrow with the gentleman that writes all their manuals for the specific scopes. I thought tomorrow was gonna be a lax day, just roam around and score some last-minute deals. Nope, gonna be another slammed-ass busy day. Good things will come of this, though. There are several people that have requested contact next week, once they're back at their work locations, all over the place, so it's only going to keep ramping up. I have some REALLY COOL SHIIT to announce from Faxon Firearms. You know those 5.56 Pencil barrels? They do a 14.5" and a 16" - I did the 16" on my lightweight, because I didn't want to mess around with pinning and welding it. Well, they're now making a 16" that has the "muzzle device" machined right into the barrel, as one solid piece. You can have a skinny brake, or you can have a skinny A2 FH on there - it's basically the 14.5" with the muzzle device machined right in there as part of the barrel, getting it just over 16". Bitchin'!!! These were literally the first 2 off the machine, last week, last minute before the show. They'll be ready around the end of Feb or beginning of March, MSRP $259. Not even on the website yet.

Measure your bolt, locked to the rear - to the chamber face (the furthest rearward edge of the barrel extension). See if that's gonna be enough room for the length of the single-load longer cartridges you have planned. You can usually put the BCG back another 3/16" beyond that, beyond the bolt catch, as well. You can always guide the projectile into the chamber, and cheat that dmension a little. Your limiting factor on cartridge length will be how large that chamber is when the BCG is back, because once that buffer bottoms out in the receiver extension, it's not going back any further than that.

It doesn't write anything to memory, that you can recall or review later; only the lst recorded shot string is what's viewable. It only keeps it's last recorded shot string in memory, and that will clear from memory as soon as you start (GO button) a new shot series - or it clears everything when you shut it off, or it shuts itself off from inactivity. Nothing is written to memory, in any permanent fashion or manner. Only thing stored (be it temporarily) is the last string it recorded.

10" rail oughta work just fine with that barrel - the rail will still cover the 9" midlength gas system. Gas block diameter will need to be 0.750". Here's mine with an 11" rail:

Most interesting new pistol (complete) that I've seen so far? This, right here: https://www.springfield-armory.com/products/1911-emp-4-concealed-carry-contour-9mm/#PI9229F Most interesting pistol innovation I've seen so far? This is ingenious, right here: ZEV Technologies OZ9 http://www.zevtechnologies.com/OZ9-Story

I can't believe I almost didn't mention this part - yesterday afternoon, we go by the Geissele booth, and Bill Geissele is giving an interview. We wandered over to the Springfield Armory area and get HEAVILY distracted with the free draft beer. I didn't think I was gonna get Rob away from there. I say, "I wanna head back over to Geissele, and say Hi to Bill Geissele." Rob and the guys are on the move, we go back. Bill was talking to another worker, it's at the end of the day (close to 5pm), and we're waiting patiently. Bill says to the other guy, "Hold on a minute, I want to say Hello to this guy..." I took my cue, walked over gave him a firm handshake and said, "It's both a pleasure and an honor to shake your hand..." His response shocked me - "I know you - I remember you. How have you been?..." I was floored. I told him the last time I was at SHOT was 2014, and he says, " Yeah, it's been a few years..." I was dumbfounded. We talked for probably half an hour, well into the closed time for the day. So, shaking hands with a true Patriot, that believes in what he does, and does it well - excellent. An honor. Finding out that he probably never forgets anyone? Priceless...