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I've ordered from them for years - but it's ben a few years now. Everything came USPS from WA State to AZ State, via USPS, for just pennies. It is worth a shot.

Heard you were losing all the hair on your ass, and your nuts... Commit toa plane ticket to the US Side tonight, and I can still get you in, barely, brother. I wish you could be here, and school some people on machining these things...

Call them in the morning - before they ship that order. Ask for USPS or something cheaper. They'll probably do it.

Kill it. Get an Armalite AR-10 Carbine Gas Tube. Armalite Part number 10007005. Only place I can find it in stock right now is Rainier Arms - very reputable. Price is $15, which is fair. Hit the link: https://www.rainierarms.com/armalite-ar10-gas-tube-carbine/

That was all Chinese. I can recognize that shiit from the amount of Chinese that included into Korean. I went through Korean Hell for 20+ years.

Pics, man, for confirmation. You've done the research, but appease us. Grab a pic looking straight down into that upper, BCG removed. Confirmation will arrive shortly after that.

No shiit - I still have a full head of hair, for that balding Ginger Bastard...

No fucker - I'm 5 years OLDER now, and MORE GRAY. One day, this will affect you, too, and your Flowing Ginger Locks will turn fucking gray... Wait for it... WAAAAAIIIIT for it!...

He owes you. And Greg. And Me... That was a beer-fueled rescue mission if I've ever seen one...

I need a new Hornady hat - they better have hats this year. I've worn that bastard out.

Shiit, that was 2014 in those pics above, brother - Now I look like I've been ridden hard and put away wet...

It should be. It will perform for you.

I"m DOWN with that, man - let's make some crazy shiit!... I DEFINITELY see a 500 Blackout in my future, and that is NOT a typo.

Been 5 long years, but I'm going back...

I see no reason at all to NOT do this...

He layed that comment as bait... Who's gonna post the video clip?...

WOW! Mine is 13.5" barrel, "midlength gas" for lack of a better comparison to "Armalite AR-10 Carbine gas" - damn close enough - and 0.081" gas port diamater. That seems SMALL, for 2" of gas system down. I would punch that thing to 0.070" right now, just because the gas port is 2" shorter than mine - carbine gas versus midlength gas. 1/4" wooden dowel down the barrel as stated, drill bits out, go slow. I wouldn't send it back for that. I'd take the Makita drill to it.

Yep! I completely agree. MIrage disappears at 12mph. Your screen goes blank, figuratively. That tells you that you have no wind, or your wind is above 12mph, and you know the difference between those two. Move off-target by 45 degrees and try to read the mirage. If you can read it at 45-off-target, multiply what you observed by 1.4. If you cannot read it 45-off, try to read it 60 degrees off-target, and multiply what you observed by 2.0. Say it washes out on you, looking at the target. It went to 12 or over. Move off 45 degrees from target. You're can't tell what you've got for mirage, so you move off-target to 60 degrees. Lets say you observe a 7 or 8 mph wind at 60 degrees from target. Multiply that (split it to 7.5 for personal comfort) by 2.0. You have a 15mph wind on-target that you need to hold for, or dial for. If you got that 7~8 reading at 45 degrees, you'd multiply that by 1.4, which would have given you 10.5 mph on-target. Sometimes this is very helpful, because it's tough to tell a 10mph wind on-target - it looks like flat mirage, it washes out and disappears and comes back as flat mirage... You don't have to wait for the mirage to disappear to use this technique. You can also use mirage to accurately determine wind direction. It's WAY easier to use a spotting scope for this, but you can use your magnified optics on your rifle. Start watching the mirage, and scanning (under a 12pmh wind). Slowly move in a 90-degree arc and determine where the mirage goes straight up - that's your wind direction, either to your face or to your back, and it's pretty accurate.

They are. Just not as prolific as Aero, for sure. At the deals you can find on the Matrix sets, it's crazy not to have at least one built on them.

Fucking Instigator.

That's no way to measure a gas port, honestly - not trying to piss you off, so get that now. You need to "pin it" with measured drill bits to get it right. I can make a 0.030 difference in a gas port size, in how I hold vernier calipers to it. Insert indexed drill bits that fit - until you get the next one up that doesn't fit - and measure that one with the digital vernier calipers. Then go measure the last one that fit. That's the only way you're gonna know the true diameter, without a precision pin-fit caliper that's designed for this small stuff. Gotta pin it, man, and see what it really is. Your buffer is about as stout as it needs to be, in weight, and from that manufacturer, the length is right. Blue loc-tite is never used on a gas block or rail. Anti-seize is never used on a barrel nut. Don't hate your "gunsmith" for that - those things are not used on those areas, and they didn't use them - from me, that's kudos for them for not fucking it up by using that stuff in those areas. I've done this before for another guy here that I didn't know beforehand - but I've done it for many guys that I DO know here. If you want that upper receiver setup teched out and fixed, I'll do that. Ship it, I'll find out what it's doing and FIX IT, and ship it back to you. I'll go through whatever I have to in order to test fire it, with a video (swapping uppers if I need to, if your upper doesn't mate to something I already have) - and when it runs, great, I'll send it back. We're talking one working weekend on that, not weeks.

That depends on how close I can get to that squirrel that is pissing off Shepp...

It's an EXCELLENT resource, brother. There's a VALUABLE TON of information in Rex's vids. They are fantastic. He's got some insane skills, too.

This is really what I'm talking about, right here. You went a completely different direction, will, and I understand why now. The isn't a challenge, call-out, anything like that - this is two different disciplines were talking about here. You're the Camp Perry flat range shooter, all your distances are known, and you only have to worry about wind - and personal skills. Camp Perry is the ULTIMATE TEST of personal skills, right there. I used to go to Camp Perry every summer, as a kid, for different reasons, and I've seen it in action. Once one puts themselves into an unknown distance arena, with no electronic technology - the world changes. Great shooters suddenly suck. Know why? Range estimation takes a toll. Wind calls might be there - but that doesn't matter if you don't know how far the target is. Wind is secondary. Range Estimation is primary. If I can range my target, but suck at wind calls, I'll get close, then I can adjust - most of the time, in a wind that's under 10mph full value, I can "half-target" the shot and hit the target, at distances to 800 yards. I just need to know if it's right-to-left, or left-to-right. If I can't range my target, I won't even get close - it's just a guessing game. Toss some elevation in there - and zero electronic aids - and the whole world goes upside down. Everything gets crazy after 15 degrees of elevation. It is literally exponential beyond that inclination. We're talking about completely different skills, from completely different perspectives. I understand why now.

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