50 Shades of FDE - Let's see them.

That’s EXACTLY what I want to do with my Barrett M82. Did you cerakote it yourself? I’ve been holding off on replacing the Vortex Viper 5-25x that came with it with an NX8 4-32 because I keep going back and forth on whether I should research someone local who has a large enough oven to cure the parts. I’ve never measured, but I don’t think it will fit in my smoker or my oven. That looks incredible
It's a factory FDE rifle.
 
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trying to figure out how to build this one out.
 
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Damn dude, must be partying with the artist formerly known as the German
I miss that guy. And Reubenski. And all those other mil guys with good info and interesting first-hand experiences. Sigh.

There had to be some mil-wide directive ordering mil members to stop posting stuff because most of them stoped around the same time. At least on the Hide.
 
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Still waiting on the FDE Flow 762 and planning on a Magpul FDE bipod, but I’m really pleased with the burnt bronze cerakote, the Geissele DDC, and the NightForce DE colors along with the FDE furniture. The Geissele 30 rounders are a bit long so I’m going to get a few Geissele 15 rounders for bench/prone.
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Muzzle device is on the way with the suppressor. I’ll be swapping the P4XI for an FDE Eotech EXPS3 and FDE Unity riser as well as an FDE G33 and Unity flip to center mount. I plan to mount a Dbal D2 at 12 o clock and an FDE Modlite on the right with an FDE Unity Axon for the Modlite only.
 
I’ve added a few shades since I posted here last.

5” Prodigy that I’m going to use as my sidearm for the Tactical Games. Trijicon RMR and Dawson Precision magwell:
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G43X with the new MOS so no plate needed for optic Chinese 407k with green dot and TLR7A:
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Wifey bought me this Tisas Raider .45ACP for my 50th birthday. These Tisas 1911’s are super budget friendly, and I’ve got several of their models and they are really good for the price.
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Another budget friendly rifle that I’ve been thoroughly happy with. Killed a deer with it last season. PSA’s rendition of the M110 in .308. Again for me, totally worth the cost.
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This is a mixture of the fde and green thread.

Back when I was slinging rifle builds - I bought a ton of fde builder sets and green builder sets and I mixed them all.
 
Okay that was kinda bull crap.

I'll debut this here ...

LMT tano lower
G$ 18 SPR barrel with phased array gas system
G$ Super 42 braided wire buffer spring and H2 buffer
G$ mk18 rail
Fab defense stock
ATC Gold 2 stage trigger


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Built almost exclusively out of parts I had laying around or part of a build that wasn't being used right now.

I think she needs an FDE scope.

Edit: spent all afternoon changing the safety and take down pins to better match the build.

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Tano take down pins and hera arms 45 degree safety. I think she's pretty much perfect at this point.

Which is good. I've stolen parts from a few different builds at this point.
 
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