willbird Posted December 20, 2018 Author Report Posted December 20, 2018 Dropped a tape measure down into a shockwave tube just for giggles. 6-15/16"(top) and 7.0" (bottom)...no notch in bottom.
willbird Posted December 20, 2018 Author Report Posted December 20, 2018 Brownells 308 AR BARREL EXTENSION TORQUE TOOLS showed up. Nice tool for $38 :-). Worth getting your C&R even if you only use it for discounts :-).
willbird Posted December 22, 2018 Author Report Posted December 22, 2018 Some parts arrived today. Armalite carbine gas tube. Looks good. Toolcraft BCG, headspace checked good.
willbird Posted December 22, 2018 Author Report Posted December 22, 2018 Got everything together and fired a box of Tula and 5 rounds of WW Super X 150 grain Working 100% once I got the adj gas block dialed in. No intensive accuracy work with the TRS-25 but was clustering in a couple inches at 75 yards. Bill
98Z5V Posted December 23, 2018 Report Posted December 23, 2018 4 hours ago, willbird said: Some parts arrived today. Armalite carbine gas tube. Looks good. Dead on the money, right there.
willbird Posted December 27, 2018 Author Report Posted December 27, 2018 (edited) Put a 4.5x14x40 leopold on top to get a better idea how it will shoot. WW 150 grain powerpoint factory ammo best I could get was around 2" at 75 yards. Took 10 fired cases, reloaded them with 42.0 varget, CCI 200 primer, and some 173 grain FMJ. Forst group was .862 for 5 shots at 75 yards, second was just over 1". So the $59 barrel is not a total wash accuracy wise anyway :-). Need to get some better bullets and brass. The 173's are some older M118 we used to buy from DCM (predecessor of the CMP) bulk packed in an ammo can for $.04 each in the 1980's. Not nearly as good a bullet as say Sierra match kings, but not a terrible bullet by any means :-). The bullet would the the one on the left. Bill Edited December 27, 2018 by willbird
RobPLSCA Posted December 28, 2018 Report Posted December 28, 2018 On 12/12/2018 at 8:17 PM, willbird said: I made up a steel buffer body... Artistry, that's what it is... Like Michaelangelo said about sculting... the sculpture was inside the stone...
willbird Posted December 28, 2018 Author Report Posted December 28, 2018 Some fellow maintenance guys at work did not know I am a machinist, I have made up parts we needed using the lathe and or or mill and they ask "where did you find that?"....I tell them "it was inside a length of bar stock that was on the steel rack :-)". Bill
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