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I think I've got 8 of the VTAC Mk1 slings on rifles right now. I'm a hooker for sticking with a part... <lmao> $hit, I need to go count rifles. This is bugging me.

If you can tune a didgiridoo, you can tune a barrel. I'm just sayin'... <dontknow>

YEEEEEEESSSSSS!!! :hethan:

Stain, I like that loop sling - nothing locks up tighter than a cuff on your upper arm. Damn nice one, too, and I think I'll try one. That barricade sling is effin GENIOUS! On that bolt knob, I just put it on with the small o-rings for now. I'll epoxy it in place for good, now that I've cycled it a few times. It cycles completely different now, and I like it. I saw it not long ago, and grabbed it, basically, because it's so damn cheap. It's worth the money, IMHO. Jon, you better stand back when I get this out - I don't know how big it's gonna get!!! <lmao>

Or he changed sight picture. 308LH, did you take a break (rest your eyes or something, maybe change/move your elbows, move body position?) between those major impact areas? 1-2-3-4 are good, same area. 5-6 moved right. 7-8-9-10 moved up. 3 major impact areas, something changed between the 3 of them.

On a .308, or AR-15? If it's on the AR-15, they make a spacer that goes into the rifle receiver extension, that allows you to run a carbine buffer in it. If it's on the .308, you're $hit out of luck. You'd need to make a spacer that's the exact same length difference, between the .308 carbine buffer and the .308 rifle buffer.

Find a way to get me Ron's MRAD, and I'll gladly put the Elite Iron right on that thing! :banana:

Read this thread, then measure:

Mine is probably the most shot rifle I have now. Love the cartridge, love the rifle. I need to shoot other stuff...

They have them on Labor Day Sale at SSA, too - $54.99/1, $99.99/2, and $134.99/3 http://www.surplusammo.com/anderson-ar15-stripped-lower-receiver/

Stain, my brother, I found something you can use. Well, I didn't JUST find it - but a few days ago I ordered it, and it's on the 700 now. KRG Bolt Lift. http://www.kineticresearchgroup.com/products/boltlift.php

I think I did that on Dawn's, too. I said I'd look at it again, but I haven't yet... <lmao>

You can pick this on up, and just send it to WMD Guns, and they'l NiB-coat it for you.

Any idea what the difference was, in applications?

Thanks for contributing. Have a good one.

^^^ That's some sneaky $hit, right there! Farkle, when the hell did you find out about that thing, and when did it come out?!

This thread just turned a year old - how about you ask your question in it's own thread? Go start a new topic, man. From the looks of your question, it should be asked in the "Want to Buy" section.

And not one picture of any part in their training manual shows you a scuffed up part, man - not one... They show bare metal parts (if they're made of metal), hanging on wire, in prep for paint. Page 7, "properly racked lower receiver," is not a scuffed part, at all - that thing is white. You know that. I don't advocate scuffing the part, in prep for Cerakote - take it down to bare metal, if it's metal. Your finish will last a hell of alot longer if proper surface prep is done.

Those are people that haven't been around the platform for a long amount of time - they don't even know what "normal" looks like, I'd bet. Wish I could show you some upper receiver pics and BCG pics of my old work guns - you'd think they were gonna fall apart, if you didn't know better. No BCG has a smooth surface, after machining. Some coatings cover the machining marks, some don't. Put a new phosphated (dry) BCG into a brand new (dry) upper receiver, and pull the charging handle back - it's like fingers on a chalkboard, and it 110% normal. Don't base what you're reading online as fact, unless you're researching the experience level of the person posting that tidbit of fact... I'm just sayin'...

...and you didn't listen to one sage piece of advice that he gave you. You went on about your way, anyway, after he told you. In what I highlighted, in red... You don't learn from what other people say. That doesn't give you experience. Doing what other people say, and practicing it to the point of proficiency, then failure - that gives you experience. It's pretty easy to see, in the written word, when someone knows what they're talking about - or if they're just repeating something they read. You shoot well enough. Many of the things you say don't jive with that - like you're looking for information, and it's information that you should already know, based on how well you say (and post pictures of) you are shooting. Something about you just doesn't add up...

I don't agree with that ^^^ - take it all the way down to bare metal for the best results.

aluminum oxide, 120. That's what my blast bin is loaded with.

Something you'll notice with NiB coated parts, when you receive them - NiB coating is ALOT thinner than even Phosphate coating. If comes down to painting window frames, in a way - ever have to do that as a kid? Old-skool windows, that had the weights on a string, inside the window frame! <lmao> Strip them down to bare wood, and paint. You put a thin coat on there, and you can still see the grain of the wood. You put that $hit on thick, and it's all smooth - and you can't open the windows. But it's smooth! Phosphate coating covers machining marks, because it goes on thicker. NiB goes on VERY thin. You'll see machining marks that you would have never, ever seen had that thing been phosphated... and it's still the same bolt carrier, or other part. You see something in a Nib carrier, don't worry about it. As long as it's made of good materials, made with the proper processes and techniques, and purchased from a reputable dealer or manufacturer, then you don't have anything to worry about. DId you buy it to look pretty, or did you buy it to function as designed?... <dontknow> <thumbsup>

The Fulton chromed carrier is what I have, and it's nice. That was purchased before all this NiB stuff went crazy. Fulton isn't going to send out a $hit part. I have a Rainier Arms NiB 5.56 BCG, among 4 NiB BCGs, and the Rainier is by far the nicest of the bunch. They don't let $hit get out their door, either.

^^^ Very smart - very good ramp on that, almost like a ramped 9mm bolt carrier. Cuts down on hammer abuse during cycling.