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Hardly any vendors jack up the 5.200" 308 rifle buffer. It's pretty safe to get that anywhere. Have to have a rifle length receiver extension, and hardly anyone jacks that up either. For a spring, I'd personally go with the Armalite EA1095 spring, and be done with it.

Only if he buys it for a 308AR, and not an AR15. I'd still put it together from pieces, so you know they didn't jack the spring up - UNLESS you buy it from Armalite or straight from DPMS. ^^^ Had to humor SS there, and throw that "DPMS perfection" to him.

I can create some havoc with a rental truck. Last time I had a Penske truck, I created a scaffold system inside it - when I turned it in, they didn't even know it.

You have a carbine receiver extension there, in that pic, at 7 5/8" internal depth. That's a carbine buffer, too. 3.8oz tells me it's H1-weighted. Get the length on it, but it looks like 3.250" regular AR15 H1 buffer. Your gas tube isn't doing you any justice, that's for certain. Switching it out for the longer one would help you.

From the view if the back of the cartridge, right like this. When the BCG closes (with bolt in the barrel extension), it's turning the BCG counterclockwise (rotation from the rear of the gun, in the "round's perspective"). That sharp edged ejector is causing that "smear" you see in the brass, to the left (or, counterclockwise) from the big round piece of displaced brass. When the BCG opens, it's turning the bolt clockwise - and that ejector is digging in on it's own indentation right there, and displacing that "hump" or sharp piece of brass, in a "moon" or semi-circle, to the left side of that ejector indentation. Now, the ejector indentation is from a hot round - or something bad in your gas timing. The BCG is already trying to moved rearward, but that piece of brass is still locked in the chamber. That sharp-edged ejector is WHAT is happening, but it's not necessarily WHY it's happening. That make sense? EDIT - if you radius the edges of that ejector, you're still gonna have some ejector smears on that particular load - but it's not gonna chew up the rim faces like that.

Looks like ejector issues. See how that ejector looks like it's almost squared off on top? It needs to have a slight radius all the way around it, or it's gonna catch every single round trying to feed from the right side of the magazine.

Illuminated reticles are very useful for shooting at night - if the illum will turn down far enough. I love them.

Kyber, or some fucker you got cuffed and stuffed?!...

You know she's gonna see this one day - and she's gonna go all THIS WAY on you, brother...

What?!

My 150gr FMJ-BT loads are very accurate at 300 yards, at MOA or just under, through the 16" gun. Gotta know the drop on them, though. I don't know if they'd be as accurate through the 8" gun or not, but this is definitely worth testing out now. The 8" is irons only, so it'll take some "figuring out" for the drop, but I'll put the scope from the 16" on it and see what it does. That's about all I load for Blackout, so I don't know how different ammo will perform. I need to try out some lighter stuff and see how far it will go, accurately.

You evil bastard...

Looks like Tactical Machining sells many of those to vendors - might be worth contacting them on specific parts. I'd bet they are the Matrix pattern, from the looks of them.

Curious to hear what you bought, specifically. That will determine what parts you hunt for. Welcome aboard.

I like that - once I cook them down. There wouldn't be much to drain anyway. I'm ALMOST there on those beans, too, and the whole thing is close!....

Right on - more power to the boss.

It's amazing, brother. Amazing. Here's the chili stock right now - black beans are almost ready to add in there, but not quite yet. This is unreal...

Yes. I did. It served me well, too.

How the hell do you shoot this from an AR15 with a .308-based case? It's like a 300BLK on steroids... I'm interested...

Eugene, would you be interested in making a few more? I'd be in for about 4 or 6, lemme know what it would cost.

WTF is that, brother?!...

@Alan Waters,this is happening right now, brother... I fired up the tomatoes first, added all the seasonings (minus onions), while I browned the ground chuck. That combination of spices if out of this world, man... I diced the onions and got them in there, and the browning chuck was ready at that point. Tossed it in there, and it was a THICK combination... so I added a full beer. The black beans are on now, and as soon as they're ready, I'll add them to the crock pot. This is a great combo, man, and I'm damn glad you posted it.

Nice! That's pretty damn cool, man!

If we can get Doc to bring over a roadkill Armadillo, will you cook it? I'll eat that bastard out of personal vengeance.

You didn't have to watch the whole thing, brother!...