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RIGHT ON!!! Damn good meat, right there, man!!! Excellent work...

We did it...

@Matt.Cross found out that the Chollo cactus are equally as evil, and they never stop attacking you, as long as you're moving. They just climb higher the more you shake!

If that fucker was a Saguaro cactus - those needles NEVER soften, no matter how long they're in you... They are the DEBIL!

I have some nice Cactus, too - I need to get a collective pic together of all cactus I have... I collect them... Just like the guns, some of them will fuk shiit up, others just give you a leak...

Like a bolt gun... What I like about it is simple - you find a bolt gun in .223 Rem/5.56 NATO - and it's chambered in .223 Rem. Look at the Remington 700 options in .223 Rem... Don't shoot 5.56 NATO through that thing for a long time, or it's GONNA blow. That's not internet-hysteria, there. It'll happen, over time. This is chambered in 5.56 NATO - shoot what you want. It takes AR mags, and runs every kind of AR mag I've tried, including a SureFire 60 (Because...). Mag-fed bolt guns give me a boner. I have alot of bolt guns, and only 4 aren't mag-fed. 8mm Mauser, Springfield M1903A4, a single-shot .22LR bolt I inherited from my Grandfather, and an original Kimber .308 bolt gun (made in Clackamas, OR). The rest are mag-fed, even another Savage FV-SR .22LR bolt. What I don't like... it's 1:9" rifling. Okay, so deal with that. What will it do, and what can it shoot? It'll shoot my Hornady 55gr FMJ-BT range-trash handloads under MOA. Hornady 52gr Match and 55gr GMX shoot at .75 MOA. So, know the limitations of your rifle... What can I accurately shoot with that light ammo? Not my favorite 845-yard target. I can get them to 500 yards accurately, and within 300, they rock. So, that leads to what optic to put on such a gun? Fixed 3x Nikon P-223, with a BDC to 600 yards. Perfect for this gun, barrel twist, and available projectiles. I love it, for what I set it up for.

I like that, Mack - very well done! Combine that one with Lesson 65B, and The Rule, and it's a work of art!

Why is that not surprising?... FUk him, in the neck.

Mossberg MVP in 5.56 chamber,18" fluted barrel, non-threaded. Runs AR mags. Put a fixed 3x Nikon BDC scope on it. Love that light little bastard. I can't find the thread I did on it, but SureFire 60s fit in it... I found 2 pics - I'll keep looking for the whole thread...

Keep in mind - my "carbine" gas system on that gun above is AR-10 Carbine gas - which is AR15 midlength gas. I have less dwell time, so my gas port is slight larger than something with more dwell time. You should be pretty close to that 81-thou, though, slightly under...

Toolcraft, and several others. Toolcraft is the manufacturer for so many aftermarket companies and OEM suppliers, it's not even funny. Search for them, from many vendors, because the deals are out there. 3 of my Grendel BCGs are Toolcraft nitrided, and I got them for $74 each from Huckleberry Arms. Great company to deal with.

Incredible coverage of a deployment into Afghani-Land. Worth watching every one. Fuk that place.

Here is current recoil system discussion: Here is gas system discussion: You solve that, and you'll only have 99 problems - but your Big AR function won't be one of them. Recoil System first, because it's SO FUCKED, on this platform. Gas system problems second. In that, gas tube length is primary these days, and gas port diameter is secondary. Gas systems on this Big AR platform are fucked, too. Here's more recoil system information, that's recent: When comparing recoil systems, for Carbine Receiver Extensions ("collapsible stocks"), there are two buffers that can be used, but the systems cannot be interchanged. You go ONE WAY, or you go THE OTHER WAY. Here's the data on the short carbine buffers: You solve those problems - that manufacturers cannot possibly grasp - and your gun will run.

^^^ Done 3 of those now, and they time up just right with that system. No torque wrench needed, just follow the instructions - which comes back to not even knowing what torque you're setting it to. I trust Bill Geissele, though, completely, and what he says will be right, certainly will be right.

Barrel nut shims, strictly for timing a barrel nut and handguard = put the barrel in the upper, put the proper amount/size of shims on there, then put on the barrel nut and torque it. With the broad torque range of 30~80lb/ft or torque, they're often not even needed - unless you need to hit some lower torque spec from a specific handguard manufacturer. All this "barrel nut timing for proper torque" bullshiit came about, because so damn many people put these things together, and don't own a decent torque wrench, or the proper tools. There's so many "AR builders" that couldn't even identify a torque wrench for what it is, if you showed them a decent one... My $0.02 on it.

This. It's a surface treatment that gets into the metal. Not a coating. It doesn't affect any tolerances. I'll take Nitride (and any other name for it) over anything else, and phosphated BCGs suck now, because of the developments in this area. Are they worth it? Hell yeah, they are.

My gas port diameter on this .308 Win 13.5" carbine gas barrel is 0.081". 81-thou. You need to be pretty close to that. During: Final:

^^^ Yep. Need the internal depth. It's needs to be 7.000" internal depth, and that's not a "ballpark figure" or a "minimum starting number" like one guy here awhile back thought. Second - yes. Get to the gas port diameter. If you wide open that adjustable gas block, and it STILL won't function - with a proper recoil system - you have a gas port diameter problem, and you'll be drilling it up. You listed an accurate description of how to tune an adjustable gas block, but that's not how you test one. First round downrange is with a wide-open gas block - to see if it even functions. If it doesn't function, because of a bad gas port diameter, you'll never tune it. Ever. Wide-open is always first. Then, you commence to tuning it for your load. We can pretty accurately tell you, right away, if it's too small, just by you reporting the number.

Ah shiit, it's here... https://store.srcarms.com/product-p/sharpsxpb308.htm I don't know it this is a Black Friday/Cyber Monday deal or not, but $199 for a .308 BCG that packed full of technology is a damn good deal. I've been waiting for this kinda function/feature to get to the .308 BCGs for awhile. It's been in the 5.56 stuff for about 2 or 3 years now, but nobody brought it to the bigger BCGs until now.

Welcome aboard, man. Watch what's going on in that state - it keep getting nuttier by the day, and the Lib-Tarts keep taking more ground. You just suffered a huge 2A loss up there...

Drive on, hard as hell... Ignore it, and go smash shiit here...

That was mild, bro, but solid contact. It gets way crazier than that.