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NO. No Loc-Tite! Use a crush washer or peel washer if it's not going to be a suppressor host. Mount it directly to the barrel (machining might be required to time it) if it will be a suppressor host. Use RockSet if it's going to be a suppressor host.

The rail should not have contact with the front sight tower, if you're talking about the handguard. As far as rear receiver height, and rear sight mount, you can adjust for that small difference via front sight height adjustment.

DAMN!!! That's a great deal. <thumbsup>

No - no need. It's old. If it was linked here, it would be perfect. All the info available from one thread, with a link.

Yes, it is. <thumbsup>

On the first one, I used air-dry only. That was the BCM Jack copy that I built. Cerakote Sniper Gray. All I did for prep was etch the hell out of the upper and lower with some meanass shop degreaser - which ate annodizing. Sprayed it on, let it cure, assembled. It only takes 24 hours for it to cure enough to assemble parts. For application, I used a cheap, disposable air spray setup that I picked up at Ace Hardware. The next two I did were bake-on Cerakote. I put those parts in the sandblast cabinet and took them to bare, silver aluminum. Sprayed, baked, and assembled as soon as they were cooled down. Those two were Sexual Chocolate and the Ghost Gun. For application of these ones, I picked up a decent (CHEAP!) airbrush gun at Harbor Freight.

Any rear sight will work - pick what you like the best, and it will run with that front sight. <thumbsup>

Don't count on the range marks being accurate on the .308 ARs. They're pretty damn accurate on 5.56, though.

Hope you don't get Effed in the Aaaay on it. <thumbsup>

Anything that is PMC Bronze-equivalent, and up. 147~150 grain, loaded by a major ammo manufacturer. PMC, Winchester, Remington, whatever. As long as it's mainstream ammo, it'll function your rifle. Lighter loads, with 147-grain being the minimum, run at a higher muzzle velocity over heavier loads. Anything 180-grain or over might have issues fitting into your magazines. 175-grain is the common max projectile weight that you can load to magazine length, though there are a few heavier projectiles that will still be okay loaded to 2.800" - not many, though. As a rule, stay away from 180s and up for magazine loading, unless you do homework on the projectile, and it's loading.

Yep, the assembly is the same. You're just building something that's 30% larger. Watch the AR15 build videos, assemble your .308 AR in the exact same manner - but make sure you don't screw up the parts. You're working with 3 major different patterns in this platform, and not all parts play well with others on your build.

Cerakote. Bake-on is very tough schit. The Air-dry is the higher temp stuff, though. Determine what you're painting. Receivers, handguards, receiver extensions - Bake-on stuff. Barrels or cans? Use the Air-dry stuff. Cerakote. Carekote has my vote. Did I vote already? I can't remember. Oh, I vote Cerakote. <lmao>

We've posted this topic before... Someone should find the old thread and link it in here.

It's a damn big magazine, and damn big round. I'd like to see the .308 Win and .338LM convertible, though. Even with different receiver sizes needed, and different mag sizes needed... It can be done. Otherwise, the MRAD wouldn't be able to do it all, between .308 Win, .300 Win Mag, and .338 Lapua Mag. It's possible. Come to think of it - Ron... grab some pics of Armalite .308 Win magazines compared to MRAD .338 LM magazines... <dontknow>

^^^ You need to find a mailing agent that will do that. The main choices are USPS, UPS, and FedEx. There are requirements for mailing firearms. USPS won't do it, not for a complete firearm. UPS and FedEx are different, and in certain (many) circumstances, they require that the firearm be Overnight Air Shipment. That's a hefty pricetag. Also now, we have intra-state firearms shipments. Different states have different laws - laws, not regulations. You'd need to research the laws for both states in order to pull this off. Sometimes, from one certain state to another, the only way this is going to be legally possible is if you ship from an FFL to an FFL. Dealer to dealer. Check shipment regulations and state-to-state laws before anybody thinks they can mail a rifle out to another person. <thumbsup>

Yes you can. Show me why you can't.

That Centurian C4 is a damn badass rail...

Because they don't know what the hell it will fit...

18.5" Fulton here, and it shoots the lights out. Personal opinion on LW customer service has me in a position to not list that as a recommendation. Barrel might be the baddest thing on the planet, but with what I've seen on the CS side, that makes it a no-go bigtime.

Very first, you need to study up on New Jersey firearms law. That will guide your build more than you realize, because there are some jacked up gun laws in New Jersey. Welcome aboard.

Not true. Where did you read that?

You could run a DPMS-based barrel and a DPMS-based bolt. The bolt will run in your Armalite bolt carrier just fine. Just a thought.

Nope, you are correct. You DO NOT GIVE the TSA bag-smashers and ramp-monkeys access to any of your firearms equipment, ever. If you're flying firearms or ammunition, you CANNOT use TSA locks, for that very reason. YOU are the only one with keys to your goods. You must be present for inspection, they check it - they don't touch it - and YOU lock it back up and maintain the only set of keys, and the only access to that case. Any TSA fukk that thinks different - you let them know that they're fucked up, and they need to study up on their own regulations. This will be one of the only times that you can light a TSA shitbag up and get away with it, so enjoy it... <lmao>

NO TSA LOCKS, brother. Don't use 'em. Go for a #5 Master Lock, or equivalent.

This is what Ed snatched up - $100 off, free BCM BCG with it right now. Helluva deal.