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Out of the box, you can buy THIS Armalite AR-10 rifle, and swap the stock, add the carry handle assembly, and get the look you're after - maybe. It's a 16" barrel, which will be plenty accurate at distance. https://armalite.com/shop/ar-10a-tactical-carbine/

I'm average. Even a blind monkey finds a banana once in awhile...

In .308AR, that look is do-able. Carry handles are available, to add to upper receivers with a picatinny rail. In all honestly, DPMS-patterned parts are more readily-available than Armalite AR-10 based parts, but you could probably buy THAT look in a full rifle from Armalite, the AR-10. Complete. You wanna build it, or buy it and shoot it?

Wow, man... IF that's not an original,then it's a pretty damn good recreation of a 1967~1969 XM16E1 rifle, in 5.56 NATO. No brass deflector, no fence around the mag release... If you really want to create THAT rifle in .308 Win, then you need to do some machining to get it exact. Like, machining off parts of current-production receivers that are available. Also, I doubt you'll find a current .308AR upper that has the forward assist, and doesn't have a brass deflector (which could be machined off...). How serious is this project?

Nope. Obama's mom!...

^^^ BINGO!

Welcome aboard - excellent choices in both the receivers, and that trigger.

Eh, not much...

When I was in Afghani-land, I almost converted over. Every morning, before dawn, I'd head out and face to the East... And take a SHIIT.

Yep, find that thread. It wasn't that long ago. No way, no how...

Schit, I found it in the "reloading bench" thread...

I put that process in the steps I made for making 300BLK cases from 5.56 cases. I chamfer the hell out of them, inner and outer, with a VLD chamfer tool, right after cutting them off, and before final-length trimming. Makes trimming them down ALOT easier. They get chamfered again in the whole, long process, too. Schit, I can't even find my post on making 300BLK cases anymore...

Looks like they're saying that instead of blocking some gas off, it vents it out of the block instead. So, suppressed, and needing less gas, most of it would shoot out of the block, and a little would get through to cycle the system. I think that's what they mean... EDIT - found a vid on this gas block...

Pretty damn good! Impressive, actually. I just found it odd that someone such as yourself, and proclaimed experience, was trying to put the barrel nut over the gasblock. Those two things kinda don't go together. Also, the "barrel harmonics testing in the military" thing. That was more of hip-pocket training on your part, but it sounded like that was something you were conducting on behalf of/sanctioned/assigned by the military... Maybe I read it wrong.

That was such an awesome deal, brother - I'm glad you guys had the time to "divert" the course to the house, and find it...

They were one of the very first to offer a .338LM AR, years ago. We posted about that, and at the time, it was only CAD drawings and renditions on their website. https://www.fd-defense.com/products/fd338/

"HEY!!!... EARS!!!"

Damn, Matt - you're not wasting any time with this, brother!!!

11B in what unit?...

Tell me more about this - as I spent over 2 decades in the US Army. Never saw any barrel harmonics testing going down.

They can fly together - guns and ammo. Have to be in separate, locked containers from each other, but can be in the same bag. Both must be declared. Ammo has a limit, both in weight and round count. Done it many a time, brother.

I'm not sure what that statement is about - you're talking about a gasblock, right? And a free-float handguard. A bipod won't matter, and you shouldn't flex a quality handguard enough to contact that gasblock, no matter how much you load the bipod. Also, the weight of your head, with it on the stock, won't affect anything at the handguard/gasblock area, no matter how large or heavy your head is... That statement you made just has me scratching my head... Maybe I'm misreading something...

I'd stick with Armalite parts. Most reliable carbine-stock option for these bigger ARs.

Prayers, Van - hang in there, brother, and stay tough!

You must be Keith Warren.