What did you do to your AR today?
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Assembled, sort of, my new DMR in 6.5 Grendel. I bought the upper and put it on the lower from the 350 Legend just get a look. Tomorrow I'll pick up a new lower and build it out, then add a Luth-AR MBA-1 butt stock.
I put a Vortex Venom 5-25x56 on it with an Athlon 20 MOA cantilever mount. Bipod is a cheap chinesium Atlas clone (but it works pretty well). Once all final parts are collected, I'm going to cerakote the hand guard, upper and lower receiver and butt stock in FDE. Stainless barrel will get cerakote carbon black.
Probably going to have to buy brass and bullets and roll my own, can't find anywhere locally or any of the places I shop online have any 6.5 Grendel ammo in stock.
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I put a Vortex Venom 5-25x56 on it with an Athlon 20 MOA cantilever mount. Bipod is a cheap chinesium Atlas clone (but it works pretty well). Once all final parts are collected, I'm going to cerakote the hand guard, upper and lower receiver and butt stock in FDE. Stainless barrel will get cerakote carbon black.
Probably going to have to buy brass and bullets and roll my own, can't find anywhere locally or any of the places I shop online have any 6.5 Grendel ammo in stock.
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Bought them more ammo.
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Hydro, that’s a sick scope. How much did it run price-wise? And what kinda distance can that scope reach?
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I got it shortly after Vortex released it a while back, My LGS had them for $459 (either MOA or MRAD, your choice), a special introductory price. Right now I see them priced anywhere from $499 (current sale at Optics planet) to $699 depending on the site.
It's almost the twin brother to the Strike Eagle, but it doesn't have a lighted reticle and it is slightly longer than the SE. 34mm tube and nice turrets. My only real complaint is the zero stop. For some reason Vortex decided that when you set your zero, the stop still allows it to wind back past zero by a few clicks. I thought something was wrong with it, but found out it's designed that way intentionally. Still for the price, the glass is really good. I can read the little numbers on the grid lines of target paper at 100 yards. There is some chromatic aberration on high contrast areas (white paper against black background) but it's not severe and I don't mind it.
My gun club's range goes to 600 yards and I have no issues seeing the steel they have hanging out there.
It's almost the twin brother to the Strike Eagle, but it doesn't have a lighted reticle and it is slightly longer than the SE. 34mm tube and nice turrets. My only real complaint is the zero stop. For some reason Vortex decided that when you set your zero, the stop still allows it to wind back past zero by a few clicks. I thought something was wrong with it, but found out it's designed that way intentionally. Still for the price, the glass is really good. I can read the little numbers on the grid lines of target paper at 100 yards. There is some chromatic aberration on high contrast areas (white paper against black background) but it's not severe and I don't mind it.
My gun club's range goes to 600 yards and I have no issues seeing the steel they have hanging out there.
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not "today" but recently installed a folding brace (Sylvan Arms) on my CMMG Banshee AR Pistol in .45acp.....pic of the brace in the folded position
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Cleaned it as I may shoot it tomorrow. It hasn't been shot in several blue moons.
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Didn't do anything to the AR's, but I did get them some more equipment to give them (and all my firearms) more lovin...
My new A&D FX-120i scale arrived today. I also ordered the Autotrickler V4 to go with it, but that won't be arriving probably until December or January (seems it's so popular the inventor has a heck of a backlog).
Pricey for the pair, but it will do a few things for me. Increase load accuracy, makes loading safer in general, speed up loading, and most important, it'll weigh powder charges I can trust enough to load 380 with. Another added benefit is I can now remove two pieces of equipment off my bench.
My new A&D FX-120i scale arrived today. I also ordered the Autotrickler V4 to go with it, but that won't be arriving probably until December or January (seems it's so popular the inventor has a heck of a backlog).
Pricey for the pair, but it will do a few things for me. Increase load accuracy, makes loading safer in general, speed up loading, and most important, it'll weigh powder charges I can trust enough to load 380 with. Another added benefit is I can now remove two pieces of equipment off my bench.
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I put an Armaspec Stealth H2 buffer system in and replaced the cheap feeling hard plastic grip with a Magpul MOE K2+ on my 300blk pistol. Also decided to spruce up my 15-22 after an issue with the grip that was on it last weekend. That little issue led me to a new Sig MSR, K2+ grip, Magpul BUIS, Armaspec safety selector, NDZ Performance charging handle and mag release, a Strike Industries curved foregrip, and a Kaw Valley linear compensator all in FDE just because.
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That'll work. Minute-of-Gnat accuracy, perhaps?
If you can't end up with good-quality ammo with that in the mix, it's the "nut behind the wheel."
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Very true, but I decided to drop the coin on the scale and the Autotrickler for other reasons as well. I have and shoot 380's and if you look at load data, the difference between starting and max loads is very very narrow. My current scale drifts so I don't trust it for loading that. For rifle, it's been fine.
Also, because of the autotrickler and how it works, my work flow will change: drop powder charge, put into case, put cup back on scale (it then auto drops the next charge). While it is doing that I will seat a bullet in the case I just filled, rinse, repeat. No making sure I move the funnel to the next case or worrying if I accidentally double charged a case, or spending time checking the batch to make sure, plus it speeds up operations in general.
If my velocity spreads don't tighten significantly, then I will move over to playing with ways to get more consistent neck tension, etc.
Also, because of the autotrickler and how it works, my work flow will change: drop powder charge, put into case, put cup back on scale (it then auto drops the next charge). While it is doing that I will seat a bullet in the case I just filled, rinse, repeat. No making sure I move the funnel to the next case or worrying if I accidentally double charged a case, or spending time checking the batch to make sure, plus it speeds up operations in general.
If my velocity spreads don't tighten significantly, then I will move over to playing with ways to get more consistent neck tension, etc.
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Made it to the range today with the 6.5G DMR. Only had one box of ammo, Hornady Black 123 grain. Used 12 rounds to get it sighted in at 50 yards (forgot the cantilever mount is a 20 MOA cant), so kinda wasted some there. Once it was on at 50, the last 3 rounds were nearly same hole. Stretched it to 100 and below is the results. 2 groups, the first three shots are on the right and then I tweaked the scope a little, but brought it back left a little too far for the last group on the left, 4 shots. 2 of those were same hole. Sub MOA, at least on those few shots. For a $250 cheapo BCA upper, I'm not going to complain one bit. Might even tighten things up with some hand loads, and will try some other bullets too.
I bought 2 magazines for it, a 5-round Alexander Arms E-Lander and a 10-round CMMG. Tried the E-lander first and it would not strip a round. Switched to the CMMG and had 100% flawless function. Went back to the E-lander after removing and reinserting the last round and it ran with 1 failure to feed on the second to last round. Unfortunately, it crinkled the heck out of the shoulder of the case on the lugs. Last round fed fine. I bought the E-Lander based on reviews and posts concerning 6.5 Grendel mags...the E-Landers get the most nods for "best" mags for this round, but so far, I'm not impressed. That CMMG at almost half the price ran 100%. We'll see how it goes after they get worked a little.
The rifle itself ran flawlessly, gas is spot on, ejecting at 3:30-4:00. Goes into battery smoothly and man, I love that side charging.
Probably going to need to add a 1/4" riser under the scope mount. I have the adjustable cheek piece on the stock all the way down and I still have a little trouble getting my eye lined up in the scope. Minor details.
I thought about replacing the barrel with a 22" or 24" if this one didn't shoot worth a hoot, but looks like I'm not going to have to worry about it. Next up (when I get the time) is burnt bronze cerakote on upper and lower and hand guard, then black on the barrel.
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I bought 2 magazines for it, a 5-round Alexander Arms E-Lander and a 10-round CMMG. Tried the E-lander first and it would not strip a round. Switched to the CMMG and had 100% flawless function. Went back to the E-lander after removing and reinserting the last round and it ran with 1 failure to feed on the second to last round. Unfortunately, it crinkled the heck out of the shoulder of the case on the lugs. Last round fed fine. I bought the E-Lander based on reviews and posts concerning 6.5 Grendel mags...the E-Landers get the most nods for "best" mags for this round, but so far, I'm not impressed. That CMMG at almost half the price ran 100%. We'll see how it goes after they get worked a little.
The rifle itself ran flawlessly, gas is spot on, ejecting at 3:30-4:00. Goes into battery smoothly and man, I love that side charging.
Probably going to need to add a 1/4" riser under the scope mount. I have the adjustable cheek piece on the stock all the way down and I still have a little trouble getting my eye lined up in the scope. Minor details.
I thought about replacing the barrel with a 22" or 24" if this one didn't shoot worth a hoot, but looks like I'm not going to have to worry about it. Next up (when I get the time) is burnt bronze cerakote on upper and lower and hand guard, then black on the barrel.
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Forgot to add, while at the range with the DMR, I got the chance to pop off a few rounds from a Daniel Defense Delta 5 Pro chassis rifle in 6.5CM. What a sweet rifle. One of the guys in our club is, shall we say, quite wealthy. Single, was into investment banking, retired in his early 40's. Yeah, he has the toys.
He bought this rifle almost a year ago and is just now getting around to shooting it for the first time. My 4 shots with it were the 11th through 14th round down the gun. He also had a SIG Cross sitting on another bench, again, a new one that has had for 6 months and just getting around to putting first rounds through it. He had 5 other rifles along the line, each with a suppressor and he had a bag that had another 12 suppressors in it! Said he ordered 2 rifles last night, one in 300 PRC and a 300 RUM. This dude don't mess around.
I think I just got a glimpse of myself if I ever hit the lotto...lol.
He bought this rifle almost a year ago and is just now getting around to shooting it for the first time. My 4 shots with it were the 11th through 14th round down the gun. He also had a SIG Cross sitting on another bench, again, a new one that has had for 6 months and just getting around to putting first rounds through it. He had 5 other rifles along the line, each with a suppressor and he had a bag that had another 12 suppressors in it! Said he ordered 2 rifles last night, one in 300 PRC and a 300 RUM. This dude don't mess around.
I think I just got a glimpse of myself if I ever hit the lotto...lol.
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I installed one of my new anti-tilt buffers into my AR45 piston driven PCC.
I find having machining equipment in ones garage leads to making stuff that that can't be purchased.
Reduces having to return items I don't like, all I have to do is toss them in the scrap pile.
Custom anti-tilt, A5 length buffer:
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Rear access plug to facilitate weight changes, also is cut to match taper in rear of Adams Arms piston bolt carrier.
Started off as an off the shelf M16x1.5 titanium drain plug from Pro-Bolt
Load bearing surface is coated with KG Gun Kote, which is very hard, slippery stuff.
If it ever starts to wear through, I'll just re-coat it.
I find having machining equipment in ones garage leads to making stuff that that can't be purchased.
Reduces having to return items I don't like, all I have to do is toss them in the scrap pile.
Custom anti-tilt, A5 length buffer:
Rear access plug to facilitate weight changes, also is cut to match taper in rear of Adams Arms piston bolt carrier.
Started off as an off the shelf M16x1.5 titanium drain plug from Pro-Bolt
Load bearing surface is coated with KG Gun Kote, which is very hard, slippery stuff.
If it ever starts to wear through, I'll just re-coat it.
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What did you get? Pics please.
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H&R M16A1 Clone from Palmetto State ArmoryWhat did you get? Pics please.
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Man Rifling!! I haven’t seen you in a loooong time! I thought you disappeared like for good! Lol
How’s it been, everything alright? Good to have you back!
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