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Holy crap that thing is nice!!! More pics, brother!

Marshall is an honest man. Very much so. That goes a long, long way in this business.

I can't believe it's STILL on sale! Damn!

Hell no, brother, just like they won't ban trucks after that asshead ran into the crowd in NYC. They only want the guns... for now...

Ryan Cleckner also works for the NSSF (National Shooting Sports Foundation) and makes excellent, excellent videos for them. Here's an example, and it's easy to find all of them.

NICE!!!

Brother, did you see this one?...

I've gotten lazy about weather-gathering before I shoot, brother... I hit weather.com and my zip code, and write down their data before I head out... If it warms up significantly whilst shooting, I grab the data when I get back home, too... Seriously, I do that... One of these days, I'll have a badass Kestrel, and get my own weather while I'm out there, and put it to use while I'm out there. I want the 5700 Elite pretty bad...

We're talking MOA and mils here brother - different. Each 1/10th mil (0.1 mil) is approx 0.36" at 100 yards. One full mil is 3.6" at 100 yards. Basically, 0.3 mils would be approx an inch at 100 yards. If you had a 0.5 mil shift at 100 yards, that's over 1 2/3rds inches. Damn near 1 3/4 inches when you math it out. In a nutshell, the 0.3 mil shift would be the same as a 1 MOA shift. Clean bore shots will be different than "fouled barrel" shots. You'll see it alot less on true match barrels, that have been hand lapped - they're just smoother. Clean bore is CLEAN - you ran all your copper remover through it until there's now none left in the lands and grooves - and all carbon fouling would be gone then, too. We're talking CLEAN. There are all kinds of crags, mountains, valleys and scary shiit when you look down the rifling of a mass produced barrel. I'll bore scope a recording of one and put the video up. It takes copper, stripped from the bullet's jackets, to "fill" those areas and kinda "smooth out" the lands/grooves of the rifling. Once that occurs, the shot groups will be much more consistent. At that point, you have a "fouled barrel." Doesn't necessarily means it's all carboned up - it's "coppered up."

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Geissele Hi-Speed National Match (Match spring set) is in it already. Odin Works 6.5G black nitrided BCG arrived. Gun Pusher calls me this morning while I'm at work. He says, "I've got a customer that needs me to order up a Ballistic Advantage barrel, and I KNOW you need a barrel..." That bastard... I told him to go ahead and throw this one in his cart and just get it coming already... http://ballisticadvantage.com/18-inch-65-grendel-spr-rifle-ss-premium-barrel.html My last experience with the BA match series SPR profile barrel is on the Mod 1, and ho-lee shee-it do I like that barrel! VERY impressive results with it. I figured I can't go wrong with another one of their match series SPR-profiled barrels.

Hang onto that 8mm Mauser for me, brother - I've got one of those things, too...

That's pretty good of them - they kept you on the Christmas list, and didn't forget about you. Damn cool on their part.

This looks interesting...

Shiit, I'd take down a Chicken a la King MRE anyday, over this thing. Even the old Ham and Chicken loaf...

Oh, he's not in Cali - he corrected me on that not long ago. He's somewhere in the midwest, where they don't have to worry about that.

Where you been, man? I was thinking Walter White stuffed you in one of those plastic drums...

Funny. I've built 4 of these Aero Precision M5 lower receivers now for myself, and several others for friends. I only use standard AR15 mag releases. Nothing special, nothing longer, nothing fancy. They. Have. All. Worked. All of them. Like a champ. I'm thinking that you have a serious fundamental misunderstanding about the installation of this part. The regular old AR15 part installs into these lowers VERY easily. And it works.

One last thing this gun will get, after the sling, is some Riptile Camo paint. Riptile Sabertooth

This thing runs like a champ. Just RUNS. Rob shot the shiit out of it at the Fall Shoot - almost as much as he man-handled the Shockwave... I did end up putting a set of Troy fixed back up sights on it after the shoot. Wanted them on there before the shoot, but just couldn't make it happen. I've got a sling from Jacob to put on it, and I'll need a Strike Industries rail section to do that, but I'm calling it done once I get that rail section on there and sling mounted. This one is a winner. What I've definitely learned from this build - you CAN run all Armalite guts in a DPMS receiver set. It DOES work, and man does this one work well...

Baby steps... Thought it was the Gen 2 lower, but it's the Gen 1. They mixed the Gen 2s into these sets, but I didn't get one of them. I'm not complaining, in the least.

Welcome - good to see more people from the southwest.

You can do it, 12.5" and midlength gas. This is the 13.5" with middy gas here - you have the room on a 12.5" for it, as well. I used a standard gas block, and it runs fine on everything I've thrown at it so far. Adjustable block will help you if you'll run a can on it. If you'll never run a can, then the adjustable block will just be money spent...

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