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  1. Gtscotty

    Surefire ICAR

    I'm not sure the driver for putting the 6 ARC in the ICAR format is extra mag length, most of the bullets I've tried in my ARCs hit the lands before 2.27" and that's part of the appeal of the cartridge design. If you're shooting heavier than 108gr ELD there might be a benefit in more mag...
  2. Gtscotty

    Surefire ICAR

    This cross compatibility with standard lowers is how PSA should do their ARC uppers if at all possible, but the last time I asked either on YT or in the industry section that wasn't the plan.
  3. Gtscotty

    6 ARC powder consensus for heavies in AR

    I've played with CFE223 some, and it seemed similar, but not really better in any way than my go-to LVR. It would be amazing if they could bring out a Staball powder that emulates LVR burn rate and density characteristics.
  4. Gtscotty

    FRT's - What is good? And what is Rare Breeds real website?

    That seems to be a theme that a decent amount of folks have a general aversion to push button safeties. I suppose many of the rifles I grew up on had push button safeties, so while I prefer levers I can still use push button fine, and honestly prefer them to a safety setup like my Garand has. I...
  5. Gtscotty

    FRT's - What is good? And what is Rare Breeds real website?

    If you have a printer you can also print a lower that will take AR trigger groups, finish off with a pretty cheap hardware kit (or order your own). Folks are running super safety's with them, but I don't know if the Super Selektor will run with them though. You need to use a slip trip for the...
  6. Gtscotty

    Single Pistol powder for mid range loads with cast bullets in 357,41,44, mags & 45 colt?

    Midrange powders I've had good luck with in .44s: HS-6 AA#7 Longshot W231/HP-38 I've been playing a lot with 300 gr subs in my rifles lately, AA#7 has been excellent, HS-6 nearly as good, and Longshot also good, all of them have more headroom, but I've been impressed with the accuracy of AA#7...
  7. Gtscotty

    The bolt of the AR-10\308 rifle is broken.

    That's not how engineering works in a relatively large liability conscious organization. Ruger's bolt isn't a direct copy of the POF, even if it was there's 0% chance that they just copied the POF bolt, picked a similar material and did no validation of the strength, fatigue life, or just ran a...
  8. Gtscotty

    KAK products

    I couldn't ever get my 12.5" 6 ARC to do better than 2"-2.5", which was a waste to me for that chambering. To their credit even though KAK said that was within spec for them, they did refund my money. I wound up doing what I should have to start with and ordered another X-Caliber, 13", 7 twist...
  9. Gtscotty

    FRT's - What is good? And what is Rare Breeds real website?

    Luckily I don't have any qualms with push button, so I printed a leber V2 lower for my AP5-P, bought a hardware kit for it and am only waiting for a SS to populate it with to give it a try, can't wait. AS designs is taking pre-orders for a 7075 mp5/ap5 lower that takes AR FCGs, looks like it's...
  10. Gtscotty

    FRT's - What is good? And what is Rare Breeds real website?

    In case anyone is perturbed by RB patent trolling all the SS producers and trying to stamp out affordable FRT availability, here is the GoFundMe legal defense fund site for some of the SS producers responding to RBs lawsuits. https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-the-super-safety-legal-defense-fund
  11. Gtscotty

    FRT's - What is good? And what is Rare Breeds real website?

    It should get struck down in the courts, but that totally depends on these small shops that are producing an open source design, being able to put the money and energy into fighting RB to resolution on the courts. If RB can out spend them in court or intimidate them into giving in without a...
  12. Gtscotty

    FRT's - What is good? And what is Rare Breeds real website?

    Rarebreed seems to be doing their best to limit people's ability to get those affordable Super Safety's, saw a post on Reddit the other day where they were now suing a few more of the SS makers, to include DNT...
  13. Gtscotty

    New 6mm Advanced Rifle Cartridge

    Are those cases reloadable?
  14. Gtscotty

    212eldx in .308 hybrid cases?

    I haven't gotten around to doing much with Fury cases in the .308, but they've been doing pretty well in 6.5 cm. Almost all of my cases are Sig 6.8x51 marked, it honestly didn't click that I had a few 277 Sig Fury marked cases mixed in until I was reading about the different head stamps folks...
  15. Gtscotty

    Ruger STAR 308 ?

    I've been happy with my SFAR, shoots fine for what it is, a lightweight small frame .308. I did send it back before ever shooting it because the barrel assembly was canted such that the gas block was in contact with the handguard. I think Ruger replaced the barrel assembly and sent it back, was...
  16. Gtscotty

    AAC ammo grenading rifles

    I heard about a few bullets coming apart and damaging cans, don't think I've seen on the interwebs reports on the level of "replete with stories of AAC ammo destroying rifles". Do you have some links to the kind of stories you're talking about? I've used some of the 77gr otm and 75gr black...
  17. Gtscotty

    StaBall HD vs H1000

    I've only used it in 7mm PRC, but Staball HD didn't really live up to the billing for me in terms of velocity.
  18. Gtscotty

    6 ARC Gas Guns

    Did you get the black oxide coated overruns? I wonder if they'd shoot with the same loads as the uncoated variety. That's a good deal, I shot the regular uncoated variety some as well as the 90gr TGKs, but availability was pretty variable. They did shoot well though, and are supposed to be on...
  19. Gtscotty

    AR suppressor problem

    In that situation, what I've done is tune the rifle to run optimally suppressed and run it suppressed all the time. I'd assume the OP isn't using a x39 AR as a go to war type rifle, but rather for hunting or something like that. I also like SA bleed off gas blocks, in my experience it's been...
  20. Gtscotty

    AR suppressor problem

    You keep seeing posts about it because it's absolutely an issue that lots of folks have and are able to easily sort out. Your assertion in this and the other thread that over gassing cannot exist in an AR, isn't an issue and can't cause feeding issues is just plainly incorrect from a mechanical...
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