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Fuk that. If you're really in the need to carry something short, for entry, then don't fuk with pistol shiit. Carry this and just get the job done, brother.

This is it, right here. You nailed it. They solicit for great shiit - and they get great shiit from great companies. Exactly AT that point, some fucking cheapass beancounter jumps in and tells them to change something in the slightest way, then contract THAT out to a manufacturer. Lowest bidding manufacturer... "We need you to make THIS..." They went super-cheap-corporate. There's zero room for that shiit in the defense of this nation, but they've done it anyway. One of the many reasons I'm glad to NOT be a part of that process/organization anymore. They've burned enough really good companies in the last decade - they'll soon find out that the people that really DO have the answers for them won't even enter a bid in their "solicitations" anymore - because those companies know that, in the end, they'll get fukked...

This, right here. That is one FAT hole in the end of that 90SGK. I was surprised at that, looking at it face to face... I'm running the RCBS dies for this caliber in a 12-year old Rock Chucker single stage, and I'm not having any issues, thus far. On that note, at this point, I haven't loaded a whole lot of ammo for this thing yet...

I think this would be an excellent idea - but I'd press them and see if they're going to make the actual 25-45 Sharps die. If they don't, I think the 6x45 will work fine.

JB Matt states that this stuff runs pretty well. I'll get the numbers from the tester and report back.

That's pretty damn cool, right there - I never would have thought that to happen. Damn cool, though!

That's pretty much what I did with mine. Timney 517 and AAC Brakeout, though. Welcome back, Ed!!!

That's some damn good military trivia/history, Mack!

In 2015, the Army decided that most of the magazine failures were because of the followers in the mags. Instead of buying the MagPul followers (that they tested), then changed it up and had their own made. Changed the position of the top round in the mag. Fucked up training habits big time with it. "Where's the top round in the mag?..." Here's the "improved tan follower" against the older green follower. Here's a "tan follower" and the MagPul follower. Here's how the MagPul followers have changed. Big Army didn't want to pay money to MagPul - so the ripped the primary changes and move the "hump." Fuckers.

Fuk it. Shoot Barnes all-copper bullets...

Team training, 4-man teams. 4 rifles. Immediate action drills and break contact drills. Daylight Crawl/Walk/Run, then Night Crawl/Walk/Run. Optics, irons, weapons lights, no lights, NVGs... With no kit, with all your kit, then all your kit plus rucks, then rucks at mission-weight... Lots of rounds, lots of movement, very sore afterwards. Best PT you can do. Truth right there. You wish for it to be over. Train to standard, train to standard, train to standard... Hit higher and higher proficiency levels, and you have to watch it close, because you start going backwards. You end up training to the point of failure, and when that happens, you stop and figure it out, and come to a "fix it right now" solution that works. Then, you look over and realize that you still have 1/3 of the ammo pile left to go - push through it. It's a fucking hoot...

Oh, I haven't, brother - this is still going down. It's almost over, but they're not playing well. They have their brass back, and I have a video of packing it up and attaching the shipping label - in case those shyster's try to say that it was damaged on return. They still haven't credited my account back yet, but they got a nice email from me yesterday... Fuk Universal Mania in the neck!

Mine progressed along quite nicely.

Made right here in Phx, brother - shim systems have been around for quite awhile, and Geissele perfected it. Priceless directions for timing it, from them. I only have three GunTec pieces, myself. I've had their AR armorer's wrnch for 10 years, and I haven't been able to break it - that says something. I can break an anvil in a sandpit. I have their billet 5.56 upper receiver and their 15" rail - timed with shims. Both of those are great pieces. The GunTec parts might go for cheap once in awhile, but they are USA (Phoenix) made, and shouldn't be lumped in with chinese junk shiit...

I'm that guy. I've spent alot of time on issued M-whatever triggers, with very, very high round counts, and have never even seen a trigger malfunction. Ever. Late '85 through early '07 - and I never saw a trigger failure or malfunction. All of those were sear-triggers, never down. They were either FA or 3-rd burst triggers in all of them, never a semi-non-mil trigger. Not one ever went down. 24k rounds in a weekend. THAT is alot of shooting. That's just one weekend in a year of training, and training never stops. My $0.02.

Crimp that thing - it'll need it. You get an auto-loading setback with that one, and it can do some harm. Long projo that gets setback, and 24gr of TAC and a magnum primer, and that's one hell of a compressed charge.

Mark LaRue doesn't believe this. There are still a few others out there with the same mentality, but very few. I'm a firm believer in what you stated at the end, too, but with a caveat... Or, fix it yourself with better aftermarket parts. I did this on my 700 with the trigger recall. "Hmmm, send it to Remington, and wait 3 weeks for it? Or, drive my a$s up to Timney, and pick up me new trigger in the morning?... What to do, what to do?..." Damn right I called Timney the next morning, and snatched up my new trigger by noon...

Saw that immediately, and directly thought of this...

Same here. Grew up watching this, with my grandpa, Sunday afternoons...

Scope and irons done. Don't like the length of the scope mount. It's a temp mount, so I'm not that broken up about it, but the real mount needs to get here kinda quick, because it's killing me not shooting this thing yet - and I wanna see that barrel perform!... Irons are MagPul MBus PRO offsets. Scope is Primary Arms 4~14 DMR HUD. More baby steps... LaRue LT-158 mount is already on the way, right now.

It's "midlength." This isn't new to us. With "midlength," we're dealing with TWO things here. AR-15 midlength gastubes, and Armalite AR-10 Carbine gastubes. And, the "in-between" that some companies are now doing, where both gas tubes work. THREE gas port positions for a "midlength" gas system.

Interesting news - maybe this isn't a done deal yet? Even though it's a done deal... https://kitup.military.com/2017/09/m17.html?ESRC=army-a_170913.nl

I keep trying to draw my brother out... Sometimes it works...

Stay safe down there, guys.