Wanted to share this product from Carolinalaserworks.ecwid.com designed for Accuracy International/Remington 700 style UID tags. It scans with the info you provide. But it also protects the factory finish behind the ejection port from brass dings if you shoot your M24. The ejector spring seems to be more robust on the SWS compared to standard 700 actions; Ive had M24's with the Rem-Tough coating completly worn away in this area. It also looks tits. $11 shipped cant go wrong. These were never issued with the system, and can easily be removed. Better than a strip of velcro

I’m gonna get flamed here, but Faxon pencil profile barrels shoot pretty well if you need a lightweight barrel and will keep it inside 100 yards or so. For a lightweight build upper, you’re probably not gonna find one much lighter for any given length, and at their price point it’s not a bad choice.

I’d SBR the lower and run a 9” or so 300 BLK barrel for shorter range stuff myself, but a pinned 13.9 (use a NOX or similar), or a pinned 14.5” 5.56 with almost any muzzle device and you’ll be gtg too.

Or a pistol brace now that that nonsense if over and done with…again…and for now! LoL

Trtlvr said:

Is the barrel you have threaded? How much you want for it?

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Yup. Its threaded 1/2x28. I'd need to get $200 shipped for it to be worth it to me. It has less than 1000 rounds on it. Honestly, ar15discounts.com has them on sale for like $275 right now. I'd spend the extra $85 and get the brand spankin new one. Still, if saving around $85 is worth it to you, let me know.

My two accurate AR uppers are WOA Bartlein service uppers! Really happy they are going to continue to live up to their history. May have to see if they will do a heavy bartlein/Kreiger ( not service profile).

I am running a Rush 24 for EDC and work because of the work laptop. I make use of the zippered internal compartments, but also use a couple Maxpedition Admin pouches with custom name tapes for content ID. A couple other similar sized pouches of indeterminate manufacture organize bulkier items. This is after using quart and gallon z freezer bags to organize things.

Do NOT confuse US Army Special Operations Command units with the Regular Army.

The Army WILL provide USASOC units with whatever the service's weapons are, BY LAW. Arms rooms will have M17s, M7s (eventually, if USASOC does not refuse them and stays with M4A1s and M110s. The Army isn't going to stop making 5.56 and 7.62), and M250s.

They will also have USSOCOM-purchased Glock 19s, MRGGAs, and Ss.

There was a period when Special Forces companies had M16A2s, .45s, Berettas, and Colt 723 "CAR-15s".

Maurygold said:

Couldn’t agree more on this one. They missed the mark here

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Pretty much going to get SAC Mod Die system. The Wilson Single stage only accepts 7/8", atm. Kinda a deal breaker as SAC said their future 338 Lap Mod Sizing dies is 1".

memilanuk said:

I put a deposit on the arbor press... figure I'll give them another month before I start bugging them

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I wish Bruno had it already, their 50th anniv sale is awesome on the LE Wilson stuff. My inline seating die was almost half off.

Their new barrel maker and gunsmith is retired USAMU Staff Sergeant Ben Cleland.

Ben fired the first-ever perfect score of 800 with a service rifle at the 2019 Charlie Smart Memorial Regional in Oak Ridge, Tennessee on 1 June 2019.

The 800-point course is 20 shots standing in 20 minutes at 200 yards; two 10-shot rapid fire strings sitting at 200 yards in 60 seconds each; two 10-shot rapid fire strings prone at 300 yards in 70 seconds each; and 20 shots in 20 minutes prone at 600 yards.

nagantguy said:

Seen it , watched with your mom .

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Well my mom likes guys with really small dicks, so now we know.

Modoc said:

The lightning map from yesterday’s storm.
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We got hammered again tonight.....lots of rain to go with it though. Here's a couple days shots from the fire night before.

Needed some tapping when new. I think the surface anodizing inside the upper holes needed just a little polishing.

P-38 and P-51

Still got it.

hafejd30 said:

You also didn’t think you were allowed to have a LH 300 WM bolt either…

But 8 short years later and here we are!!

You hang in there my wrong handed friend

2034 is your year…I feel it

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Just in time for his right-handed grandson to inherit it...

DocRDS said:

That's the whole science vs engineering

We know how (science), we forgot how to (engineer) and yes mfg and building is a HUGE part. There is a ton of 'craft' is getting things 'right'

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I disagree that we don’t have the knowledge or the people to accomplish a second trip. iPhones have more computing power than the whole damn Apollo craft. We clearly can do it again.

I think the real revelation is that what’s broken is government. In the 1960’s, we still had a government that was capable of functioning. They wrote NASA a blank check and put no-bullshit people in charge of seeing it done. Nowadays, a $1,000,000 part from the 60’s would cost $1 billion, and not from just inflation. The permit to manage the stormwater runoff from the parking lot of the plant required to build the part would cost $1 million. And then .gov would make them dig detention ponds to clean the runoff, spend $25 million monitoring endangered turtles, and $50 million on paternity leave for the engineers annually, etc.

TLDR: government has gotten so bloated, corrupt, and beholden to regulations written by self-important bureaucrats that the efforts of even the best and brightest engineers with bleeding edge tech are strangled to nothingness.