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I built my Grendel with a #4 contour Krieger prior to the year plus waits, but if you find someone to turn down the blank, there are several sources for standard contours with barrels available from Krieger, Hart, Lilja and others (Bruno Shooters Supply typically has the heavy contours in...

The largest diameter is 1.20" as that is the typical barrel extension diameter ahead of the barrel nut flange. There are many barrel makers who offer 1.20" diameter barrels in the chamber area leaving only the gas block diameter to be turned, and .936" is the largest of the standard gas block...

The monolithic platforms do not need to be thermofit as they are split to accept the barrel extension and in the case of the LMT use a longer extension to increase rigidity even further. I built a .260 of my own fully custom that consitently shoots 10 round groups at 300 yards at 2" or under. it...

I had the barrel chambered by Bob White the former president of the benchrest shooters he is local to me. I did all the blueprinting of components and the assembly and Derrick at Accuracy speaks setup my trigger and added the clearance cut to the chamber. What threw me off is that this is not...

I can see your problem from the picture of the chamber, there needs to be a 60 degree chamfer cut to the bolt body diameter max at the chamber entrance. See Derrick Martin's book for the blueprint of the barrel for exact dimensions. The one I built for myself had a similar issue and once done it...

Whether or not you need a heavy buffer or carrier weight depends on the type of shooting you want to do with the platform. My original purpose in building the rifle was to take accuracy to the limit of the AR design with no regard to weight. To that end the rifle is extremely accurate with 10...

I built a .260 with a Krieger tube and made a dedicated gas tube +3 inches. My barrel length is 27 inches and feel that the gun would have functioned fine with a standard rifle length gas system and an adjustable gas block. By the way, I reamed the gas port in the barrel .085" and also use a...

Re: AR10 build help Having built a few AR pattern rifles from scratch, i.e., completely custom starting from barrel blanks, it is probably possible to get your parts to function properly even though they are form different makers. First off the bolt/barrel/ and extension need to be timed...

Re: READE RANGE "SPRING" SNIPERS CHALLENGE 2013 Sent the money order for 2. Will PM you with the details

Re: Barrel for LR-243 I built mine from a Krieger blank in .260 from a #18 LV profile. Can share the blueprint with you, the only thing is that my port is moved forward 3" so you must take that into consideration when having the profile turned. If you stay with the standard gas tube length in...

Re: Best Precision Trigger I have a pair of Xtremes and a pair of Geisseles and can say that operation and feel are very similar. I actually like the build quality of the trigger components more on the X-treme, but cannot fault the fact that the Geissele comes as a complete package with...

Re: Titanium fire pin does it help? Plus one on the suggestion of a high end two stage trigger like the Geiselle or CG Xtreme whose lock times are in the 4 to 4.5ms range. This is more than twice as good as a standard mil spec trigger whose lock time could be as much as 10 to 12 ms. I could...

Re: Advantage of Blaser Action??? The straight pull type action is supposed to be faster than a conventional turn bolt action with the one in the Blaser also claiming that it is amongst the strongest of action types as the collet locking system actually holds tighther as the force of the...

Re: Need LR-260 loads I have never tried them in the semi, but I did briefly try the 142SMKs in my Krieger barreled bolt gun chambered with the same reamer (both are 1:8 twist)wihtout much success though I never really gave it a fair shake. The semi will make close to 3100fps if I go to 44.5...

Re: Need LR-260 loads 44 grains of H4350 behind either a 123SMK or Lapua scenar in Lapua Palma cases delivers consistent 2" groups for 10 shots at 300 yards. Significantly better with less shots in the group, but indicative of excellent, and more importantly, consistent performance. This is...