98Z5V

https://forum.308ar.com/forum/135-palmetto-state-armory/

My main go-to distance for testing final loads and drops is 845 yards. Come up with loads and test for accuracy at 100 yards, and see how they do, starting at 0.3 grains apart. Pick the best ones with no pressure signs, and reload them in that range at 0.2 grains apart. Retest at 100 yards, and finalize the load. After that, they go to 500 yards and 845 yards for testing of the drop at those distances. It's quite the fun process...

And the dies, and I'm in. Gotta have the dies, or the project goes nowhere with just the barrel and bolt - if I can't make the ammo. Toss that back at them, and let's see what happens. I'm still in, though. I'll talk to Hornady next week and see where they're at on the sizing die sets, straight from them...

I did not - but they were recently on sale for $179 not long ago, too. I've been watching them for awhile now, though, and waiting for other 308 BCG manufacturers to "wake up" a little, and realize that there are some "performance" things that they can design in a BCG. The AR15 BCGs have been picking up on this for years now. Reduced bearing surfaces, sand cuts, etc. DSA has an AR15 "Sand Cut" BCG that is just wonderful. See below:

Doc, you'll probably want that scope alot more forward - try it out. I can't wait to shoot this beast.

This is happening. May release.

This,by itself, is a classic sign of over-pressure in a gas gun. But, hold on... You followed with this info: "Every round I've fired through it (from both barrels, the new one and the old one), the primers on the empty cases are cratered...............badly. So badly, in fact, that when you stand one on it's end (on a table, for instance) it tips noticeably to one side. I've tried a number of different factory rounds in this gun, all had cratered primers (Hornady Superformance, Federal Fusion, Fort Scott, Remington Core-lokt, and Winchester Deer Season XP). My reloading experience is telling me there is a pressure issue, but nearly all of my gun experience is with bolt actions, not semi-automatic, and certainly not AR's." Those aren't over-pressured rounds, as factory ammo - no way all that ammo you picked up was over-pressured... Over sized firing pin hole in the face of the bolt. Diameter of the firing pin tip is pretty much "standardized," as much as they is not a standard on the Big AR... DPMS was notorious on that specific issue on the earlier G II, with an oversized firing pin hole... Really need to know part specifics on what you built, before anyone here can comment on all the possibilities. List it out...

Damn, I can't wait to shoot that thing at some distance! I'll have to run the 9.0mils of drop at 845 into MOA in my head, to get it right. x3.4377. Gonna be about 31 MOA I think. Fuk, my beer is slowing me down...

Strange, I was looking through his posts last night, and we never answered him or got back to him. He hasn't been on in awhile, since the day after he made this post...

Shot the piss out of it so far. It's scary accurate. Heads up on Wilson Combat barrels - you need Armalite AR-10 gas tubes in them. Even the gas tubes that Wilson Combat sells/sends out are DPMS-lengthed, and too short. You'll need the Armalite AR-10 Rifle length gas tube. I'm 100% handloading for this rifle, no store-bought ammo at all through it. The only load I have right now that functions 100% of the time is a 147gr Hornady ELD-M projo, 43.0 grains of RL-22 powder (it's a magnum powder that I use for .338 LM loads and 300 Win Mag loads), CCI 200 primers, at 2.785" COL. Perfect load. The 140s I had loaded up (Hornady ELD-Ms and a different powder) won't even extract the brass from the chamber, and it's not a weak load. There's just not enough gas in there, and that load is suffering. So, do I think you should up your gas port? Hell yeah, start off with 0.081". When mine comes apart for paint, it's going to 0.081", and might go up from there.

Put it together and shoot it, first, with what you're planning. It's easier to diagnose (if necessary) that way. You build it complicated right off the bat, then it's tougher to find a place to start, when diag time comes. Armalite EA1095 spring, right here, $8... https://dsgarms.com/armea1095

The 147s will still be accurate, brother. You'll start seeing the difference at 500 yards and out, though - more drop than your 168s, and more susceptible to wind deflection. The drop and dope you know for the 168s will be a little different on the 147s, starting 500. Might be a little different at 400. At 300 and in, it won't be off hardly at all.

Your police area needs to hire me. I could fix that, and hook your comms up. Wouldn't do that job Pro Bono, like fixing PSAs boned up shiit that they send out to customers.

You literally gotta stack 'em up, man. That's what they do great at...

FUK Cheaper than dickbags, right in the neck.

That's badass right there, Neil.

Internal depth is what matters. Since they can't make a buffer that's supposed to be 5.200" long, and instead make it 5.250" long, I'd check that internal depth on that extension. It should come up to exactly 9 11/16" internal depth. Not "kinda close," or anything like that. This is officially the first time I've seen an aftermarket company fuk up a rifle recoil system for a.308AR.

SO, those parts are not in-hand yet? Don't worry until is shows up, then check the buffer length and weight. IT should be 5.200" long to run in a .308AR rifle recoil system, and weight should be 5.4oz. If the thing is 5.900" long, it's for an AR15. It's probably a typo in the spec listed, on the part of the advertiser. Just check it once it arrives. Or, you got a free heavy buffer...

Same here, on 6.5 Grendel. It runs well enough - no experience on the .308 barrels.

BRCC is a never ending supply of these things...

...quickly followed by, "I can't remember, but how did we get HERE, and who the fuk are THEY?!!?..."

I just wanna keep Rob outta jail. If that can't be avoided - I'll be on that bench next to him...

I feel a bruise on my horizon... Just sayin'... Next week is gonna be a little nutty...

From what I've been able to find, you are exactly right. And you fire this from a 5.56-based gun. I'm all over this... How the hell do we get a bolt strong enough, in a 5.56 gun, that will support a .308 case?!... At this point, I don't care, I just want to build one, and make a Super 300BLK out of the damn thing... 500 Blackout is coming, too. Just so you guys know. It's a reality. It's a done deal. I'm just sayin'...