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FWIW, he IS a badass... Just because he's a Ranger, but he's also an attorney... " In 2011, Cleckner appeared as a trainer in the second season of History Channel's marksmen competition show, Top Shot. In a 2012 video filmed at Colby Donaldson's ranch, Cleckner shot a Barrett M82 while standing up and hit a target 1000 yards away on his first shot. "

Get some of THIS!... Also, research Ryan Cleckner. You'll know that the info is VERY valid. As well, research some of his videos, if you want some real, no shiit training in long range shooting. https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2017/04/robert-farago/atf-told-sb-tactical-pistol-brace-ryan-cleckner/ "In a March 21, 2017 letter from the ATF to the inventor of the pistol stabilizing brace, the ATF reversed its opinion. The ATF says they just clarified a misunderstanding, but the industry was stuck with what they put in black and white on paper, not what they may have meant. The ATF finally acknowledged that their concern was about people who took actual steps to re-design something into something new. For example, the letter explains that if the Pistol Stabilizing Brace was mounted long enough down a buffer tube to prevent its use as an arm brace and instead was at a length that was only useful as a shoulder stock, then they have redesigned it into a shoulder stock. The ATF also clearly acknowledged that merely shouldering a pistol stabilizing brace while firing it does NOT turn an AR-15 pistol into an SBR. They wrote, “…an NFA firearm has not necessarily been made when the device has not been reconfigured for use as a shoulder stock – even if the attached firearm happens to be fired from the shoulder.” "

Unless it's not released yet, and you've got the entire rifle finished - you're right, might as well wait. If the whole thing, minus stock, comes together - and that stock isn't out yet... You can just refer back to the part numbers here and get yourself rolling with something to complete the rifle.

Depends on "cheap," man. Most companies that have their own uppers and lowers don't make their own stuff - they buy the forgings, and have someone finish them for them. There are very few places that actually "make" their own stuff. Someone else is really "making" it, and branding it as theirs. Cheap out to the level of buying Blackthorne/Hesse/Vulcan parts? No way in hell. Check in first with what you're thinking - bounce it off the people here. You'll get honest opinions or experience on just about anything out there.

That would be fine out there, man - as long as we didn't try to do it during Monsoon Season!

Rainier Arms makes some pretty damn nice house-barrels as well - look into those.

You can't go wrong with a Criterion barrel. However, Faxon barrels are completely good to go, as well - may be worth the wait to see what comes from Faxon. Comes down to this - when do you want to shoot? You can get the Criterion now, then all the better. Looks for posts here from Faxon Firearms - that's Nathan - and send him a message on the availability of their barrel.

That's normal - if it just slipped in there, it wouldn't seal very well, and you'd need to shoot the hell out of it to develop a carbon seal. Pound a gas tube roll pin in that thing, and you'll be fine.

DAMN! That came out GREAT!!!

I think there were 6 or 7 of us out there. We had 8 or 9 at the Fall shootfest.

That's a good looking barrel! I like the profile on that. I ended up with the heavy barrel on the 18", at least heavy out to the midlength gas port. It's a constant .740" after that. Can't wait to see some of the loads you come up with - I'm playing around with a couple Barnes 100 TSX tonight, to see if I get them seated to max mag length.

Repeated reloading and use is what will work harden the brass, and at that point if you don't anneal, you will split brass. Annealing takes the work hardening out, and extends the life of it. Simply expanding it won't work harden it.

The year they drove out was equally epic - from the midwest/sno-belt. So, they load up a snowmobile trailer and head this way. New Mexico fukked them, with a trailer tire flat. Try finding snowmobile trailer tires in the desert... They fix that one after many hours in the New Mexico desert, and keep heading west. Outside of Fountain Hills, AZ, the OTHER tire gets a flat - and those dudes had pretty much HAD IT! They were calling into Phx, to a few of us, asking for guidance/assistance/straight help - and we said... "Find a GOLF CART TIRE - it's the same damn size!" No kidding, any one of the 500 different golf cart stores in Phx had tires galore for those fools...

Since it's a severe warning to so many people, and that dude's trigger was a POS, I just wanted to rub it in again. I hope he subscribed to this topic when he created it, and he gets an email notification tomorrow at work,that there was a reply... I'll still give him 50ft of used garden hose for his sucky trigger. Take it off his hands and help him out, ya know.

Magwa touched on this, but, for the record... 308 trigger in a 308, AR15 trigger in the AR15. I'm personally running the Elftmann AR15 Match trigger in my 16" 308AR, and I've never, ever, not even once, had an issue with it. Every single time I pulled that AR15 Match trigger, my 308AR went bang. Every time. I'm just sayin'...

Last RSOP I saw did. Somewhere in a box, I've still got a 50ft roll of black Glint tape. That was the shiit, when the black stuff came out, and you didn't have to use the silver tape. One dude told me that the roll of it was xxx-thousands of dollars. I have no idea how much the shiit cost, but I know it was hard to get ahold of... EDIT - Just now realized that, as of April Fools Day this year, 1 Apr 2017, I've been retired for ten fuckin' years. Holy shiit...

If it ran fine yesterday, it's not the buffer... Did he clean it? You suggested it, but did he do it? How long has he had this rifle, and how much has he shot it? Need more background info to see what's up. Might just be a broken ejector, or ejector spring... details, man, details...

He's already fired 1,500 rounds through it with irons - it's broken in.

DNP was part of this one... Had a couple Midwest Brothers come out to the dunes for T-Day 2006 or 2007. They got addicted. They returned a few years later, like 2009 or something. THAT time, we had "borrowed rides" for them, and they flew out - late as fuk, too. First, they meet up at the airport, and proceed to try to drink one of the airport bars outta beer. THEN, they KNOW that they've spotted a child-porn child-molestin' phone-camera-pic-takin' slimebag AT the bar with them - taking pictures of young girls or something... They proceed to apprehend the dude, and that didn't work, so they elicit the help of the rent-a-cops at the airport. THAT didn't work. They were almost booked. Needless to say, they didn't fukkin GET TO YUMA on time, missed several flights - because,what the hell,we can't make THIS connection, so let's drink! Make one connection, delayed, rescheduled, whatever, but get to the NEXT one late... Overall, I think they were gonna be out there in the sand with us for something like 5 days, and they were only out there for 2 days. It was something like that... I hope DNP tells his version of this... @DNP, let it rip, brother!...

Dogtags don't have a chip in them, but Rangers wear Glint tape. Gunships paint the engagement area with an infrared spotlight, and the Glint tape shines bright as fukk in the gunner's targeting camera, individually - and he doesn't shoot the bright spots. Needed to get that part out - because dogtags don't have chips in them, and targeting isn't done on dogtags. Sorry, brother. A 1"x1" square of Glint tape makes you safe. Sew it into the top of your patrol cap, onto the upper portion of a uniform top sleeve, whatever makes you feel that the gunship will see you. That's why all the cool-guy tactical baseball hats have velcro on the top of them - to attach your Glint tape.

I'm IN your fridge, bro...

Damn, Fireman, that thing is NICE!!!

^^^ HAHA!!! That would SUCK...

Doesn't have anything to do with us, man... You'll be surprised with some better ammo, it'll shoot well. Mil-spec ammo is designed for anything between 2 and 4 MOA, usually the higher end of that.

Mangy-A$s Coyotes. Javelina, also, if they present me the opportunity during the rifle season.