Custom LR-308

[Rogue Rakkasan]

Greetings! Eight year U.S. Army Infantry veteran 1982 to 1990, Panama-Ft Campbell and West Germany . I started putting my LR-308 together in late 2013. It has DPMS upper and lowers, Maten 20 inch medium contoure with RH 1-10 twist barrel, Surefire muzzle brake, CMMG BCG , DPMS standard buffer , DPMS free-float tube, YHM gas block with pop-up front sight, Rifle length gas system, Magpul furniture and the rest you can see from the picture. My best groups with this have been  2cm at 100 meters using Hornady 178 grain Superformance at 2715 FPS and very low velocity varriations. Magazines are Magpul and work great. Last month I switched out the standard buffer for a JP captured spring model and my groups went to hell and had light primer hits. After some anger and confusion I discovered it was a low mass buffer where I needed a heavy model. Solution was to put the standard back in and not be bewildered by "shiny-shiite" again. The two scopes are a Burris AR536 for CQB and an M8 Leupold with aiming dots out to 1000m done by Cheryl at Optical Services Company in New Mexico, I just wish I had access to a real range like I used back in the day going through Ft Campbell's sniper course in 1985. Would appreciate constructive advice and as allways, "RAKKASANS!"

[98Z5V]

2 minutes ago, Rogue Rakkasan said:

Greetings! Eight year U.S. Army Infantry veteran 1982 to 1990, Panama-Ft Campbell and West Germany .

 

Those were the good years!  Nice job on the rifle - looks great.  ADM scope mount?

[Rogue Rakkasan]

Thanks! Yes, the Eighties will not be forgotten!  ADM QD  Recon-SL on SWAN riser with pop-up rear sight. using ADM QD mounts for the monopod, a Sparc-2 red-dot and the Tang Down bipod has the ADM QD mount installed, I use it on my AR's and upgraded HK-91 which I have had since Ft Campbell, it gets 1.5 in at 100m with surplus Hirtenberger 7.62mm NATO. My LR-308 "Beast" is what I would have carried if I could.

Edited September 5, 2016 by Rogue Rakkasan

[shepp]

Welcome to the forum from southern wi, thank you for your service 

[Rogue Rakkasan]

Thanks!

[unforgiven]

Welcome From Indiana brother and THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. so what did they do at optical services?

[EngrBob]

Howdy from the Texas side of the border(s) and thank you for your service.

[jtallen83]

Welcome from Iowa!

[Rogue Rakkasan]

1 hour ago, unforgiven said:

Welcome From Indiana brother and THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. so what did they do at optical services?

They put ! MOA dots for me. Three to the left and right with three MOA between for windage and range estimation ( Shoulder width of target ) and dots from center of crosshairs for 300m and additional dots down to 1000 meters.I used JBM balliatics page to get the trajectories once I had the chronograph and other range data. OSC did the rest, 270 $ total. 

[MikedaddyH]

Welcome from AZ and thank you for your service !