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Right on - I'll leave you to it, then.

Just re-read this whole thing - you guys better gear up now for the Fall Shoot! If we're lucky, we might get some Stain Train involved in this one. I'm just sayin'...

DAMN!!! Curly Bill is gone!!!

Damn, I just went to that link, and Lisa Spoonouer was in there, from Clerks... Sad to see her go, and way too young at 44, but I started thinking about that movie right away... She was "Caitlin" in the Clerks movie. She wasn't the one that sucked 37 dicks... So, that's not "Caitlin," there. THIS is Caitlin, the one that did the dead guy...

Damn, I need to check my original DPMS upper receiver and see if it's got that "N" on the lug - not a slick side, but I wonder if it's there...

I'm diggin' the mohawk - for real, we need more pics of that - you're ROCKIN' it, man, and I mean that!

Somebody has to be the a$shole... might as well be me, I reckon...

What kind? Gotta work through the details here, in order to try to help, or figure out what's going on.

What kind? Pics of this rifle configuration, as it is now, are going to help tremendously.

You sure you didn't accidentally hear "mangina," and start patting him on the back, brother?!!?...

That's a pretty weird combo - I didn't think those two worked together. Welcome.

Also, hit up dwilsonmfg.com. Dave Wilson is one hell of a great guy. The BCGs are fantastic.

You jackass, you're old already - you just don't realize it yet...

Looks just like a genuine DPMS slick-side upper. Also looks like it's got an index clip stuck in the top picatinny rail.

CHeck the post dates, brother.

You REALLY need to post pics of what you have, here in this thread. You've just asked the impossible question, if you help no further. Congrats.

Looks like K1 Speed, brother!!! I love that place! Glad you're back, too, you asshead...

Check out that humidity, though. People always say, "You don't have any humidity - you don't have any "heat index..." You fuckers have a "heat index" so you know what real heat feels like... Your low-a$s temps with humidity feel like they're alot hotter... It's actually alot hotter here... Stick your head in the oven - there's no humidity in there. That's your "heat index..."

Burning off the grill made an impact on the thermo, that's for damn certain!... I'm cooking now, veggies on and wrapped in alot of tin foil. Here's what burning off the grill at 700+ did... Looks like 114 at my house...

Ironic. Getting ready to fire up the grill, and it's too hot to do that shiit out in the sun. I pulled it under the patio cover. Let's see what the grill does to the thermostat...

Try out the PA red dot, man - you can't go wrong at $129 MSRP, and if you don't like it, I will buy it from you at your cost. No loss on your side, whatsoever. I can't tell you if - or not - it will stand up to the long term punishment that my issued Comp M2 would, but I can tell you that PA products really take some punishment. I know my issued Comp M2 lived through many, many aircraft jumps, with shiity landings like a sack of potatoes, and still kept working - worked in Alaska during a Jan-Mar cold weather rotation, and it swam really well. Lived though an Afghani-Land rotation in some COLD weather at altitudes up to 10,000 feet in the mountains. Same Aimpoint the whole time. I can't say if the PA would live through that, or not, and I'm not doing that shiit again just to test one. However, my only real testament to their quality is this - their mini red dot is tough, as are all their products. I've been running that mini red dot (Aimpoint T1 clone, in it's original model), on alot of different rifles for alot of years. Not one has failed. Not one. The real deal is the one I specifically bought to see how long it would take to kill it - on the 45-70 gun. I no kidding only bought that thing to see how long it would last, and document the round count it took to make it's death. I quit counting the rounds. It's been on there as long as I've had the 45-70, and it just won't die. I think that thing has lived for 3 or 4 years now, under heavy recoil...

That 1:7" twist first came in the M16A2, to better handle the tracers, which are weirdass bullets to begin with. Later, it was automatically adopted into the original M4A1 with the 14.5" gov profile barrel. Colt knew what the hell it was doing. Back to M16 stuff - However, at the time, all we had was the 62gr M855 projectile, which ran better in the 1:7" twist than it did in the M16A1 1:9" twist. 55gr M193 was still around, but the big push was to switch all units over to the M855, whether they had the M16A1 or the M16A2. I got into quite the pissing match with a cadre-base in an NCO training school over this - as they didn't understand the concepts behind it all. Went to a school, and the WHOLE cadre were talking shiit about weapons qual, which was a grad criteria. They were all talking poop about how "You might think you can qual at a certain level at your HOME unit, but WE conduct the qual REAL here - you WILL qual LOWER than you do at your home unit - because WE do it REAL HERE!" Alright, motherfuckers, it's on now... They asked us before the range what we usually qual at home station... easy answer for me - "Scaled paper targets or pop-up range, doesn't matter, I shoot 40/40 and Expert, every single time." They laughed - "You won't do that HERE, not at our REAL RANGE with REAL STANDARDS!" Cool, we'll see - you dickheads will eat your words... So, we run the qual range. M16A1 rifles (training house, with old shiit), and all they can get is M16A2 ammo those days, which was the M855 62gr green tip. That M16A1 barrel, with the 1:9" twist wasn't gonna stabilize those 62gr fatties as well as it would have run some 55gr M193, but it's not a bad rifle with that ammo, at distance - IF you know your holds at 250 and 300 yards for it. And I did... Shot a 40/40 on a pop-up range... They almost shiit, and started making excuses. "Well, you got lucky," and "once in awhile someone comes through here and doesn't do bad..." Eat a dick, you idiots. By course design, later in the course of instruction, we had to give a student-led presentation. My topic was on barrel twist rates vs. projectile weights, and how that affects accuracy at distance... They didn't know what the fuk I was talking about...

I had my choice in the .mil world - Aimpoint or EOTech. I always went with the Aimpoint, which was the Comp M2 at the time. Mounted it as far forward as I could, and ran a PVS-14 behind it as soon as the sun went down. Weird how things work, I prefer the EOTech these days. If Aimpoint would release the 2MOA Comp M2 again, I'd buy one in a heartbeat, though.

That's the truth, in a big way - the general public (General Population - Gen Pop in prison terms ) doesn't even realize that most military people are NOT gun people. I was a gun guy, and militarily, the people I worked with didn't or couldn't understand it. Once training was conducted, and shiit explained, they got it - kind of. Glad you joined, thanks for your service, and welcome aboard.

You have done an outstanding job on that rifle, Preacher!