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'Bout damn time. John Noveske is smiling down, right now, and happy that it's finally brought up by someone else.

Good followup, hunterbob - thanks for the info! Couple of nice looking pigs, there.

Welcome aboard.

This is "The Larry Project..." @392heminut Turned into an all-paint weekend, here. Cerakote everywhere. Larry had a couple pistol projects he'd asked me about, and I got them completed this weekend. Did the slide and main receiver on one pistol in SOCOM Blue, in a medium gloss finish. Not Matte/flat, and not gloss. Man, did this color scare me! Cerakote always comes out of the bottle darker than what it will bake at, and this looked like a dark blue in the bottle - but I thought it was black when I took it out of the oven! Damn! Did I mix the two bottles up?! Nope, that's what it is... The other is Armor Black, flat finish. Once you get them side by side, it's easier to see the difference in the colors.

^^^ Yep, what JT said. Measure that internal depth again. You want 7 5/8" internal depth. If you've got more than that, stack quarters in the base of the receiver extension and take up that space. Each quarter is 0.069" thick.

Then it's definitely not the AR-10, man. Check a single round, by hand, see if it slides right in to the chamber. It should, and if it does, it rules out the tight-chamber theory right away.

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All been talked about already. Your best bet,as a new guy that didn't post an intro - is to search out your information. It's already all here. Welcome. Get to searchin'.

Yep, mark that buffer retainer centerline right there, and notch that thing with a Dremel Chainsaw Sharpening Bit. You need to take it in another turn, but if you don't notch it, you won't be able to. You'll have to depress the buffer retainer on that last turn, to get it to rotate past the buffer retainer. That should help things greatly. Here's one I had to notch, for the same reason... Notice that the receiver extension face is almost flush with the face on the lower. If the receiver extension face protrudes beyond the face of the lower, you won't be able to close the upper on the lower - the back end of the BCG will snag on it, and prevent it from closing.

Just call them and ensure - without a doubt - that it's a 5.200" long rifle buffer. Other than that, it should be good.

You setting the shoulder back on that reload, and bulging it? Is this a reloading issue, or is it a Chamber issue on the barrel? Listing the rifle specs will be pretty much mandatory, for this. It's gotta happen. Haven't hear of too many Armalite AR-10s with tight chambers before, but there's always a first.

This is what got me motivated to try this scenario:

This shooting was possibly over a girl... http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/20/texas-school-shooter-targeted-girl-who-denied-his-advances-her-mother-says.html

I used the Ruger Elite 452 trigger in this. Primary Arms has it for $113, so I figured I'd give it a try. At first, I didn't like it. Not smooth, kinda gritty,and a weird second stage. I'm used to a 2-stage where you take up the initial first-stage travel - and it's set, right there for the second stage pressure. This one actually travels, in the second stage, too. It's in that graphic above ^^^. There is about 0.060" of second stage travel before the trigger releases the hammer. I wasn't gonna like it. Once i got it home, I did a paracord trigger job on the four main contact points, and it smoothed right out. Next was some Rat-A-Tat lube on the pivot points and contact points, then alot of dry-firing in the trigger jig it comes with. After all the paint yesterday, it got put in the rifle for the first time - and I hit one other pivot point with the lube - the disconnector pivot. Made a huge difference in the trigger, and I actually like it now. Smooth trigger travel, distinct first and second stages. I can get used to the second stage travel, and it's feeling lighter than a 4.5 lb overall pull weight. I need to get a trigger pull scale, and test it out.

Better pics in good sunlight. NOW you can see the low-pressure part of painting it,done right at the end.

The components have the correct dimensions. The receiver extension isn't screwed all the way into the lower. You can see that it's set back from the face of the lower - it should be almost flush with it. You'd probably have to notch it to screw it in another turn, though. Can you get that same pic, with buffer removed?

Aaaaah, you DID IT!

To tert, whatever - For what it's worth - before the very last build I did, when trying out a new lube - I wouldn't put the BCG in a bag. I put it in a tupperware dish and covered it on the oil, the night before. The morning of,I pulled it, and hung it on a hanger, and let the excess drip off. Then I installed it and shot the damn gun. Perfect, every time. "A few drops of oil on contact surfaces" isn't gonna get it on this platform, Not at all. You'll be back here, bitching about double feeds, bolt-over rides, and all kinda of crazy shiit (because you don't know how to properly describe your malfunction), and blaming it on all kinds of stuff... When the answer was simple. MORE LUBE.

It's done. When I got the Ergo rail, it's black - and comes with black top pic rail ladder and three M-Lok rail inserts. I immediately thought, "Fuk, gotta get the brown ones." Now,I don't know. I kinda like them. Was gonna get some Cerakote air-dry C-Series and paint the scope - but now I don't know. Kinda like it. I think it might stay this way. Bitchy Cat HAD to get in there and check it all out, as SOON as I laid it down. She's a bitch, and wouldn't move, so she's in the pic. If it says anything about her, she kicks Tacticat's a$s once in awhile - and he's the Dog-Eater... She's tough. I almost want to hate her... I'll get better pics of this gun in the morning, when the morning light is better... pics inside with flash just don't do it justice...

Exactly. Check it out yourselves... https://heyjackass.com/

"Antiqued" the hell out of this, with a base coat of FDE, full bake, then another coat of 2/3 Burnt Bronze and 1/3 Black (I should have gone darker, for the effect). Quick bake, to get it tacky. Bring it out, rough it up, blow it off with compressed air, and back in for the full bake again. This took all damn day,for this thing,with the initial Acetone soak and the bake for flash-off, before the first paint and bake. The lighting outside now sucks, and camera flash doesn't do this justice. It's BadFuckinAss, all the way. Now, to put it back together again and level the scope for final...

^^^ That sign is very necessary. Because "common sense" isn't so common, anymore...

Which set did you snatch? I'm just as excited as you are...

I agree, on keeping them locked up. You don't let your firearms out of your control, when you're not around them. Ever. If you aren't physically controlling them - then they're not in control. My $0.02.

I've been through this discussion before. The SSRIs are a HUGE fucking problem- and I've lived them my whole adult life,with my kid, who is now almost 22. SSRIs fucking SUCK to try to manage, because doctors are just "guessing" at drugs and dosages -and rely on YOU to tell them how it's all working out. MAJOR impact in what's heappening these days, and people up high WON'T listen. Because they're in the deep pockets of Big Pharma...