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That sucks with that rifle- but that statement was funny as hell!!!

I wouldn't piss around with any green loc-tite, no matter what the number on it - that's the shiit that the Japanese motorcycle manufacturers use on footpegs bolts - that you cannot get out without a healthy dose of MAPP gas. I'm not putting that on a barrel, no way, no how. Suzuki had a footpeg bolt recall around 2012, and we had to replace all the footpegs bolts in GSX-R sport bikes - I've done enough of them that I can say I hope I never see another one again...

Roman, that sucks, brother. It really just sucks. I feel for you, brother.

Need the internal depth of that, man. Also, something isn't right with that spring. Seems pretty close to AR15 Carbine length, but the coil count is way off.

I think the opinion itself, over there, conflicted with all the serious, professional gunfighters there... My $0.02... I still have a PM from Super-G there to me, offering me "advice" on some poop, and it was something I wasn't asking for, nor needed, nor wanted. Super-G made that PM to me on another board that he was banned from at the time, so I don't know how he pulled that one off... Oh, and he was fuckin wrong, too... 'magine that...

You sayin' that scar eats scopes, man?...

Exactly!... They "did ya" without "Doing Ya!"... You got some without the which is rare in this world. I'd say that's fucking

I have a Cold Steel SRK strapped to the left upper on my roll cage on the Jeep. It's not to keep away zombie attackers or anything dramatic like that. I have that bitch there to cut me out of my harness if I'm upside down...

Brother, that's comparing to your hard-coat annodized uppers, though. I don't have any wear like that in any mil-spec Type III Hard Coat Annodizing, either, after 100 rounds. My old M4A1 looked like that on the insides after 10 years, though. Maybe worse, I don't know now. That was a Colt part, issued. I need to look at the ones I stripped down then painted. They've got metric shiit-tons of rounds through them now...

Last shoot we had, I thought we had a steel gong at 50 yards. I thought it was 50 yards. I was later told it was at 63 yards by the math-heads and their laser measuring devices. One of the "Morning Wood Challenges" just happened... Wake up, walk out to the firing line, and right-hand-only (single hand) rang that sucker with the XD45. One shot. Yeah, that was using sights. Couldn't believe that happened with the slow-flying, never-accurate .45ACP round. But it did. That will never happen to a normal mortal intuitively/instinctively... What do you do when you make a shot like that? You holster that handcannon, and just walk away. Like you MEANT to do it... It goes both ways. I think it was gay that you were banned that way, but it doesn't surprise me that you were banned from an elite group of combat professional shooterists kinda. Mostly. Yeah.

I see both schools of thought on this one. Train, train, train is the paramount priority. You have to be GREAT with sights before you can even get into intuitive/instinctive shooting. GREAT with sights. This is step one... Draw, Present, Fire. Not everyday will turn out like this here. Yo, Homie...

That's a badass rifle, man - great job on that!

That's so damn awesome it's not even funny... Well, it is funny - badass-awesome-fucking-customer-service funny!

I can tell you exactly what's causing this wear mark in the charging handle channel - the small tab on top of the Gunfighter charging handle. It's highlighted in the red circle in the below pic. It might look severe in the pic above, but that's not into the metal of the receiver - that's just surface coating blown off. You can also see in the pics below - my first Gunfighter that's having an issue. You can see the wear marks on the side tabs, from having to force this thing in and out of the upper - and it's been less than 5 or 6 times...

On a bearing surface, it doesn't stay. It doesn't blow right off, though, and I think this was a 100-round-count description and pics - OP, correct me if I'm wrong. Cerakote isn't gonna stay on a bearing surface. I blasted the first few down to no-coating-anywhere, and Cerakoted everything. Inside and out. I need to dig those couple ARs out and see the insides. I don't remember anything like this, but it wouldn't surprise me in the least.

BAD. ASS. AAR.

That's a different story, then - Cerakote will come off in those areas. I thought this was hard-coat annodized, with the Cerakote over the top of it, just for the camo on the outside. I bet they Cerakote the whole thing straight from machining, raw aluminum. Nothing wrong with that. I've Cerakoted several uppers and lowers. At first, I'd blast those things down to bare silver aluminum, and remove all annodizing completely. I quit doing that, because it's too damn much work in the blast cabinet, and just rough them up now with the blaster. I wouldn't sweat it - just run good lube.

FWIW, I've been wrapped up in lube testing for over a year now. Let's rate this to a "6" on a lube scale. Almost everything out there runs a 2 on the testing. M-Pro 7 beats everything else out there, and scores a 3. Strike Industries Anti-Venom runs a 6... Yes, it does. So, I'd recommend, without hesitation, running M-Pro 7, and the SI Anti Venom if you want to spend for it. Those are the two best out there right now. There's another one coming that blows everything else out of the water. Testers here have been running that stuff for over 6 8 months now.

The receivers are tough - that's more initial wear than I've ever seen before, but it's not gonna damage the gun in any way. Just run good lube. There's charging handle wear there, in the channel, and I'm betting it's more from the charging handle than the upper machining. I'll get to more in a second... There's also wear from the bearing surfaces of the BCG on that upper, and you can see those one the outside of that charging handle channel. Now, I've seen reports of a couple BCM/VLTOR charging handles that were machined a little funky lately - but I received my very first one, myself, last week. The tabs on that thing are fat, and it's TIGHT to snap into the upper receiver - you have to fight it down in, and fight it up out, when removing it. Once it's in the upper, it moves fore and aft freely. It's not the AP 5.56 upper I have - that thing measures out. I'll be measuring this new BCM handle against my older ones soon, with pics.

Welcome. Pics, or it didn't happen...

Best to use the "Test Private" on this...

^^^ Holy shiit, there's some good data in that article!

With one exception, it's the same as AR15 parts. AR15 Carbine receiver extension (7.000" internal depth) for collapsible stocks - with a special, shorted 308AR carbine buffer and different 308AR carbine buffer spring. For Rifle-length extensions, it's still an AR15 part, but with 308AR shortened rifle buffer, and a 308AR rifle buffer spring. The extensions are the same as AR15 parts. The buffers and springs are NOT the same as AR15 parts. The exception is the AR-10 recoil parts - the real, Armalite AR-10 parts. They use the same buffer spring for AR-10 carbine and rifle, the EA1095 spring. They use the same RIFLE receiver extension as an AR15. It's the same 308AR rifle buffer (in length, 5.200") as any DPMS-based rifle recoil system. They use a longer Carbine receiver extension (7 5/8" internal depth), with the EA1095 buffer spring, and a standard AR15 Carbine H3 buffer... The longer receiver extension allows them to use the AR15 Carbine H3 buffer. Make sense? If not, I'll get into it more.

Well, in the thread I linked, that was on a DPMS (actual) lower receiver. Aero is DPMS-based. I'd risk it.

This, too - ^^^ right here. WET.