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Bastard... I just found it...

High today was 78, brother - what a weird damn winter. I usually lose the leaves off 4 of my trees out back, when the AZ winter hits. This year, only two of them have a few brown leaves, and everything else is still up there and green. Al Gore pushed all his global warming down here this year. You guys up north sure as hell didn't get any...

I couldn't get 2 to run from the Lancer 20-rounder. I had some Pmags there, but didn't even try them - I should have. Damnit. I coulda had that thing zero'd now, and be happy about it. I take it you won't have any Grendel range brass showing up in the sale thread... I started with some Hornady Black loaded ammo, so I'll recycle that brass. I'm also just gonna go with new unprimed Hornady brass for this thing, and work up the stockpile. Already have the dies sitting at the bench, and three boxes of projectiles. As soon as I gather up powder, I'll start tinkering with loads for it - after I get it zero'd and the mags show up. Sitting on a box of Hornady 120gr GMX, 123gr ELD-M, and Barnes 120gr TSX. Three 17rd E-Lander mags and two ASC 25rd mags enroute. I'll sort that gun out shortly. Hopefully.

The cacti were calling your name, brother.

Had to get my a#s out and shoot. It's been driving me buggy. Today I got Kim and the youngest boy out for some range time. I've been NEEDING to shoot the Win Mag, and wanted to shoot the Grendel - and Kim still needed to zero her 5.56 coyote gun for her... I wanted a 300-yard zero on the Win Mag, so we set out paper zero targets at 100, steel at 200 and 300. At 25 yards, we hung a 10-in gong and 12-in gong for the boy. He was on the Savage FV-SR today. Here's Kim, all set up after we got the steel out: The boy, Ephram, didn't piss about, either. He got the shooting mat out, set out the shooting block, and started smashing steel right away. Had to get some help with the foamy ear plugs... I just took this pic because. The adult's shooting table: ^^^ That rifle has been driving me crazy. I've had it since the week after the Fall Shoot. It just got out today, for it's maiden voyage... Here's Kim, gettin' after her zero target. Here's the layout for us - 100 zero targets, 200 steel to the right of them, 300 steel to the left of them. I already got the Win Mag zero'd at 100, and there's marks on that 200 and 300 in this pic. I dialed up the mils for the 100-to-200, and put one round on the 200. You can tell which impact is the 300 Win Mag. When I saw that, I moved right to the 300. This one, I just held upper-centermass. I wanted to zero here, so I was going to be making adjustments. First impact was lower left. Adjusted and it went lower right (I went too far). Adjusted back half of that, and got center bottom. Moved up from there and comfirmed - this is where the zero is staying. Ephram was actually putting dings in the 200 - I made him pose it up for a hero shot - he has NO IDEA how easy it ISN'T to hit 200 with a 22LR gun... This little punk actually made a hit on steel on the 300!!! Kim got on the Win Mag before we left. At first, she said she'd only shoot one round. I told her it was WAY better on recoil than the damn 45-70. I loaded 3 into it before she shot. Good thing, too - she connected with the 200 right away, and moved immediately to the 300 for the next two hits. Overall, GREAT day in the dirt. The Grendel - well, that thing just isn't going to run without some dedicated magazines. I tried 3 rounds in a Lancer mag - still wouldn't keep feeding. It'll only load the top round from a 5.56 mag, and not even two. I was loading one round at a time, but that just sucks from trying to zero a scope - it went back in the bag. Ironically, I've got three E-Lander mags showing up for it tomorrow... Just my timing. It's day will come, and that'll be soon. Go put some firing pin to primer, men.

Welcome from AZ, man - now get out and shoot that thing!

I like it. Very nice, brother, and good job on the writeup!

Blue, I've got A2 grips out the a$s, and some other small parts. List what you need, and I'll send you whatever I can.

Damn. Now I need to go play with some brass.

This. Measure the buffer - it's a rifle buffer, so it needs to be 5.200" long for a .308AR (not RRA). I don't think it's buffer, though. I'm leaning towards a mag-related issue here. It's the mag spring, or the feedlip angle, or the rounds are too long for the mag and jamming up at the front of it. Something like this.

Welcome aboard, man. Glad to have you here. Saw your regional posts - Out in the sticks, huh? Had an ex that lived in Roy. I know the whole area well.

Way to go, Angel!!! Your play-by-play commentary is killin' me!!!

She's done... Handled ammo, helped load mags... Read all about it... http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/01/12/las-vegas-shooters-girlfriend-said-handled-his-ammo-helped-him-load-magazines-unsealed-docs-say.html

Depends on the billet upper receiver. Most are just designed to "be billet" and look pretty. If you have a billet upper manufacturer that designed it to be functional, then it has advantages. My best example of this is the Rainier Arms Billet Ultramatch upper receiver for 5.56 guns. One of the main designs in that thing is how square the receiver face is, where the barrel interfaces, which is withing 3 ten-thou - that's worth it. What they do in the machining process, and how tight they make that clearance, is the whole reason there are upper receiver lapping tools in the first place, for "common receivers." Hit the intro section, and tell us about yourself.

I drove by it all the time - never really realized what it was... which is creepy...

Lots to learn from this. Happened in my backyard (for several years) of Sierra Vista, AZ, but that was long before I was ever there.

With the AP carbine receiver extension, for their .308? They've been noted several times as having a longer internal depth than "is standard" for that recoil system. Mine measured out a 7.100" internal depth, and several others have reported the same thing. Internal depth for that recoil system should be 7.000" and nothing more. A hundred thou doesn't sound like much - but it makes a difference in weapon operation... EDIT - once I discovered that, I threw that receiver extension in the trash. Seriously.

Let 'em experience blowing apart some of Ray's teller-glass with the .458. That'll teach 'em TWO lessons. That thing recoils HARD and absolutely FUKS SHIIT UP. And, you own it...

Surefire makes a pretty bitchin' battery holder, and it holds a spare lens. This was ALWAYS in my ruck, when gone.

BROTHER!!! I saw that first pic!!! Only thing that went through my mind was, "Shepp shaved, and lost ALOT of weight!!!" I was thinking "WTF happened, does my brother have a disease or something?!!? " Then I scrolled down one more pic and saw you...

You guys are both right on, and I've been preaching it here - this is semi-auto land, here, not bolt-gun land. In a semi, you need to crimp your loads, or you will suffer bullet setback sometime, and bullet setback spikes chamber pressures to the moon. Doesn't matter how you crimp, where you crimp - it matters THAT you crimp. Taper, roll, cannelure, no cannelure... that doesn't matter. Like SS stated, I use alot of projectiles that don't have a cannelure, and that doesn't affect them.

I'm up to three of them now. Pencil 16" 5.56, Midweight 16" .308 - both of those barrels shoot fantastically. The newest one is the Match 18" Gunner profile 6.5 Gren. I've got an 18" Ballistic Advantage SPR profile 6.5 Gren that I need to test against each other. I haven't shot either Grendel barrel yet, but I can say that the other two Faxon barrels I have really deliver. I don't have any super high-end barrels (No Bartlein, Lilja, Satern, White Oak, etc.), but I've got a bunch of really good ones, to base this stuff from on the Faxons. Criterion, other Ballistic Advantages, a Wilson Combat, Several YHM cromoly barrels (Those things will SHOOT!@!!). Faxon barrels are pretty damn good.

^^^ Yep, that's true, of this guy right here. His full legal name is Mr. Hugh G. A$shole...