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I was gonna say something - I'm running 24-ish grains of RL15 for 75gr 5.56 loads. I figured you found a great subsonic load.

Damn, that's my loadup for 9mm Berrys 115gr FMJ, brother. I did 502 of those bastards last weekend. I had 505 cases, but 3 primers went in sideways, and I wasn't gonna mess with them, so they just went in the trash...

I'm not buying it...

I've never done that... Wait a minute... I HAVE done that... Caught quite the lot of you that way, too.. I think I already had the part in-hand when I posted about it...

With the photographic proof you've exhibited of the size of your bear paws, I kinda figured you were another Andre The Giant...

Scary, what's happening. This is tragic, and completely crazy. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/28/annapolis-newsroom-shooting-leaves-5-people-dead-suspect-in-custody-officials-say.html Pelosi is already beating on her "Gun Violence" war drum. It was a shotgun, by the first news accounts, but that's not positively ID'd yet.

After seeing the performance of the 6.5 Grendel, I ended up with three Grendels. I see no need for a Valk now. I'll take the Grendel over it any day. (Spoiler Alert! There is probably gonna be a 4th Grendel hatched pretty soon...)

Holy shiit, was HEAT badass when it came out, in 1995 - never seen gun-handling like that in a robbery movie before. They were ON IT! Den Of Thieves is the "new" HEAT. I kid you not. This is worth watching. If you can get your hands on the "unrated" version, it's 20x mo' bettah...

HOLY SHIIT-HIGH SCOPES RISERS, BATMAN!!! You gotta be 3.5" over bore on that thing! I know you have big paws, from the pics of the FNX in your bear-paws, but you gotta have a giant head, also!... Brother, you might be bigger than Larry, and he's a monster...

Leave it to Shepp to post some MUGSHOT MONDAY shiit on a WEDNESDAY...

Strangely enough, I want to try them. Even if they're $8 apiece...

The ammo will ship out here to AZ, and it will be onsite waiting for you when you get here...

Very, very good article, CG!!! Thanks for posting that one.

A unique perspective, that the gun-grabbers can't grasp... Ten Years after Heller decision, gun rights continue trend toward more freedom, not more gun control http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/06/26/ten-years-after-heller-decision-gun-rights-continue-trend-toward-more-freedom-not-more-gun-control.html By Frank Miniter | Fox News The cornerstone gun-rights decision, Heller v. D.C., the case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment of the U.S. Bill of Rights is indeed an individual right, has reached its 10th anniversary. Over the last decade this decision has helped to propel a cultural shift on how guns are viewed in America. Its ramifications have boosted freedom in too many states and in too many ways to list. Nevertheless, its affects are misunderstood. Given the way that much of the media treats issues related to guns, and given that Heller and the subsequent McDonald decisions were 5-4 votes by the high court (a divide the court likely still holds today), it might seem like common sense to think America is closely divided on this issue. This is the view CNN, The Washington Post and more are pushing. The left sees the public’s acceptance of gun bans and other gun controls as slow but inevitable social change. They think it will follow the same type of public opinion shift that the gay-marriage issue went through. They are wrong because in this case they are doing the illiberal thing; they are trying to reduce rights and to undo long-held American freedom. If the left was right about even some of their talking points on guns and violence they might have a chance of deceiving a majority of Americans into voting away their freedom, but they aren’t. The number of homicides in the U.S. has fallen precipitously in America over the last half century as the number of firearms in civilian hands has risen. Most murders today occur in the areas with the strictest gun-control laws. The left has also gone way off the factual rails in its quest to ban so-called “assault weapons.” (I say so-called because there is no definition for “assault weapon” outside of how a particular law defines them.) As they demonize “scary looking” semiautomatic rifles they miss the basic fact that year after year the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting finds that rifles of all types are used in less than 3 percent of murders. The anti-gun left also avoids addressing the basic fact that AR-15-type rifles have been sold to U.S. citizens since 1963, the same year the U.S. military adopted the M16. Meanwhile, “mainstream news” reporters don’t know or they won’t report the fact that semiautomatic rifles have been sold to sportsmen and more since the very early 20th century by companies like Remington and Winchester. Clearly the problem that a few terrorists and some mentally ill people are attempting, and at times succeeding, to accomplish mass murder isn’t the fault of rifles—or of vans and trucks for that matter—but is a more complex problem we need to focus in on to solve as best we can. The left isn’t even right about the so-called “gun lobby.” The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for firearms manufacturers (full disclosure: I’ve done some contract work for the NSSF), spends a lot of time and resources advocating for gun-safety programs. (I’m not using the term “gun safety” as loosely as gun-control proponents do today, as they use it as a synonym for “gun control”; instead, I am using it as the dictionary defines the terms.) The NSSF has joined the National Safety Council’s designation of June as “National Safety Month,” for example, by promoting its “Project Childsafe,” its “Own It? Respect it. Secure it.” program and other initiatives to try to further reduce accidents and other deaths related to firearms. Such efforts have been working, as the number of accidental deaths is a fraction of what it once was. People have noticed all this and vote accordingly. In 2000 Al Gore found he miscalculated when he made gun control a central plank in his push for the presidency. It was a position that arguably cost him his home state and with it the election. Hillary Clinton made the same mistake, which cost her blue collar votes in Pennsylvania and the Upper Midwest. Now a decade after the Heller decision pro-gun laws have swept through many states. A dozen states now even have “constitutional” or “permitless” carry for handguns. There are over 100 million gun owners in America and more than 16 million people have permits to carry concealed handguns (up from about 1 million in the mid-1980s). A recent United Nations’ Small Arms Survey found that American civilians now have 393 million firearms (46 percent of all of the guns in civilian hands in the world). Clearly more and more Americans are taking their Second Amendment rights into their own hands. So no, the cultural shift isn’t toward gun control. It is clearly moving toward greater freedom.

Load them with 130gr Barnes TSX and get the speed up. That'll park a deer in it's tracks. Or pick up the loaded Barnes VOR-TX ammo, in 110gr.

Hit DSG and PA. Look for the AR-10 Carbine extension AND the VLTOR A5 extension - same/same. My last one runs the VLTOR A5 on it. EA1095 spring and the H3 buffer = done. Here's a VLTOR 6-position: https://dsgarms.com/vlre-10a5sr At Primary Arms: http://www.primaryarms.com/vltor-re-10-a5sr-a5-receiver-extension-re-10-a5sr

There are some hellacious deals in that group of scopes, too. 1~6, 1~8, all of them...

Only thing I can think of - it's the extra 0.050" in receiver height that's getting you.

I thought it was INCREDIBLY COOL to see this in an email from Primary Arms today!!!

Blueprint not necessary. It will work. I have an AR-10 barrel mounted in a DPMS-based rifle - fits. It'll work.

Thanks for the update on that offset pin, man - right on. I'm pretty sure that the 308 spring that Slash provides is the Armalite EA1095 spring; same spring works in both rifle and carbine 308 recoil systems.

YES, brother!!!

@Gopher let me know how your gun is running, when you get the chance.

Get after it, brother. I just watched this yesterday, and was thinking about you...

In my true fashion, I'm tired of fixing problems for manufacturers, fixing pissed off customers of manufacturers, and tired of seeing the same issue, over and over. If it's a one-off thing, or a tolerance stacking issue, that's a different story. When a manufacturer KEEPS doing the wrong thing, and doesn't take input, that's when I say I've had enough. PSA, you have a PROBLEM with your PA-10 Carbine Recoil System. You should have called me back... I tried to handle this on a professional/personal level, outside of the board. I called PSA Customer Service on Friday, 8 June 2018. I spoke with a very nice lady, and told her that the company has a big problem with the PA-10 Carbine Recoil System, I can fully explain that the issues are, and I can provide the details to fix this for good. No more angry customers that way - and to please get that message to Jamin - please have Jamin call me. I provided my phone number. Right after that, I sent Josiah a PM here, and explained that I'd called, explained the message that I left, and asked if Josiah could please follow up and make sure that Jamin got that message. I didn't get a call, and I never heard back in a PM from Josiah. Ok, cool. Here's how I got into this mess in the first place - I'm TIRED of seeing all the messed up large-frame carbine recoil system problems from PSA, on this board. Sick of it. The company, PSA, needs to fix the issues, or start paying customers for the correct parts that they have to buy in order to have a fully functional large-frame carbine recoil system. While we're at it - maybe they can pay some of us for troubleshooting, diagnosing, and FIXING their large-frame guns for their customers - and making HAPPY CUSTOMERS for PSA. In this thread right here, I had my last straw: You get into that thread a little bit, and you see that it's @Bigfoot's thread, but @Gopher is also having an issue with his PSA large-frame gun. At this point, I'd seen enough. I told Gopher that I'd strip one of my guns, and send him a complete Armalite AR-10 Carbine Recoil System for FREE, and give him $10 (to cover shipping) for him to send me his PSA PA-10 Carbine Recoil System. "Don't send anything to me until you get my parts, and once you have them, please send me your faulty large-frame Carbine Recoil System." It went down. These are Gopher's parts: The numbers don't lie. That buffer spring is 28 coils, wire diameter is 0.070", and the relaxed length is 11.5". That buffer spring isn't even up-to-spec to run on an AR-15 Carbine Recoil System. Now, there is no denying that Clint Butler (Slash) of HeavyBuffers.com is the end all/be all for AR recoil systems. There isn't anyone out there in this industry that smarter on recoil systems than him. There just isn't. Here's his reference chart for big and small ARs. Click it to make it HUGE, and soak in the information... Now, to further compound Gopher's issue he was having (his bolt carrier was hitting the ears on his lower receiver, and the gun was "over-gassed"), here's more measurements: Internal depth on the receiver extension is 7 11/16". That's not bad. It should be 7 5/8", but your customers, PSA, can make this difference up by adding a quarter into the receiver extension first, then putting in the spring and buffer. the thickness of a quarter is 0.069", and one will do the trick. But why should your customer have to do this?... That dimensional challenge right there - THAT is why the BCG is crashing into the ears on the lower receivers. Solved. For you. Next, that buffer. Yeah, it's 3.250" long - so that's right. It's an H buffer. What should be running in the large-frame ARs with Carbine Recoil Systems is the H3 buffer, at about 5.4 ounces. There's not nearly enough weight in that buffer you ship, PSA, to control the gas and mass (mass of the BCG) of the .308 Win round in a large-frame AR. What happens when you use that lighta$s H buffer is: the gas system provides the force for operation, but the recoil system doesn't have nearly the A$S it needs, and the gun has premature unlocking of the BCG. And, your customers think their gun is,... what?... OVERGASSED. Fix your large-frame recoil system, PSA. Would have been a hell of alot easier to do this over the phone, I'd think. Jamin, I respect your service, and I really respect what you're trying to do in the firearms industry. I commend it, and you, and you're doing great things. You were a 1LT, right? This is something just like the US Army, right here. This comes to you from an angry retired 1SG that is tired of fixing your shiit. Tom-Ass out.