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Jon, my house, and we'll travel 10 miles from there. Place I set up out on the desert, with the mountains as a backstop. Sunday morning works for me.

^^^ The padlocks and welds won't stop me - I travel with a portable plasma cutter...

DeLeon will be running his fucking mouth for sure now, if that damn thing was an 80%. $hit.

Pics, or it didn't happen... :fawkdance:

Count on that being 32.5 up and 32.5 down, so you'd be able to dial in 32.5 MOA of drop in that scope. A .308 Win with 175gr SMK moving 2600fps, 100 yard zero, will have a drop of 221 inches at 800 yards. At 800 yards roughly 8" = 1 MOA. 221/8 = 27.625 MOA. At this distance, your scope would probably make it, but that's a maybe. Only way to find out is to have Bubba shoot it. :)) At that distance, don't make it a rough estimate, though. 1 MOA = 1.047" at 100 yards. 1 MOA = 8.376" at 800 yards. 221/8.376 = 26.385 MOA of drop at 800 yards. If you needed 26.385 MOA of drop to hit your target at 800 yards, and you dialed in 27.625 MOA of drop, that's enough of a difference in bullet impact to be a miss and not a hit. Probably about a 10 inch difference at that distance. Lesson? Buy a ballistic calculator, download a ballistic calculator app for your phone, or take paper, pencil and calculator to the range with you... <thumbsup>

You can put them together like that - buffer not locked into the spring. This situation will fix itself the first time you pull the trigger. Definitely could have been the case, if this rifle has never been fired. I still think it's the wrong spring, though.

No built in drop in the mount = have to zero further out, to hit the longer distances. Still depends on the internal max adj in the scope, though.

I was thinking that same thing!!! :LOOK OUT!!!

BOTH gamers today were damn good! Makes me wish I did sports betting. Nobody thought either one of those games would be that way.

Bubba will get you right at the distances, and quick, too. <thumbsup>

Working on Saturday, brother. Superbowl Sunday is open. Hit the range in the morning, watch the game later. <thumbsup> I have a ton of new steel to setup, too. We have enough to set many multiple targets at as many distances as you want. At the same time.

I'm talking about any drop built into the mount - 10 MOA drop, 20 MOA drop, 30 MOA drop... That stuff. Gets you more range out of a scope that doesn't have enough internal adjustment.

Can't believe he went there - to himself!!! <lmao>

That scope should out-range that rifle, in .308 Win. That's plenty of scope. Zero is personal preference. How much total elevation adjustment does your scope have, do you have a mount with offset, and what's the max distance you'll shoot? (800 meters, I know... <lmao>) That determines what you need to zero to in order to reach your farthest targets.

Just wait 'til your 7 triggers show up... <lmao>

Not weird at all - the more magnification you have, the more movement you're going to see. The greater the magnification, the easier it is to see how shaky you are. Dial it down, things move less, and you get more comfortable on target. When you see the target moving, at higher magnifications, most people have the tendency to "ambush" the target - jerk the shot right when the target is centered in the crosshairs, and not moving around. My $0.02.

Action spring coil bind. $hitcan that spring.

Details on the barrel, so we can track crazy-dimension barrels?

That is damn awesome!

This thread initially confused me... <lmao>

Yes, changing that out shouldn't be an issue at all. Nice build, and nice write-up. <thumbsup>

Yes, 2.5" buffer for a 7" internal depth carbine receiver extension. I think you're hitting coil bind on that weirdass spring - whatever that thing is meant for. It doesn't match any .308 AR or AR-15 published lengths or coil count, at all. EDIT - That might be a spring for some RRA .308 Carbine design - have to hit up the RRA owners.

That measurement you gave in the first post - 10.5". That's about 3" too short, and 4 coils too many. That's why I asked. Sitting it on the table is the relaxed length - not compressed. Wrong spring for a .308 AR, for certain.

Wrong spring? You running a rifle spring? Measure the relaxed length of the spring.

^^^ Yep, exactly...