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Less than a year ago, I decided to dive in to building an AR. I never built a gun before and had only dissembled one. I chose .308 so I can use it for hunting. When I went to look up what I needed in parts, it was overwhelming at first, especially with limited knowledge/experience with guns. The questions I had started with "WTF is a BCG!" and went to "Why is everything I want so expensive and/or out of stock!" (Also, "Where's the ammo?!"... which is how I found this forum lol)
I had collected all the parts over a few months (some very hard to find parts sometimes!), including the equipment to mill the lower. One step of this was restoring an old drill press I had sitting for years, it has a different style collet designed for light milling. Machining is very therapeutic I discovered, I enjoy the attention to detail and precision required.
But after I had milled my lower, I got busy with work and let them sit forever. I told @ScatPackLife we should pick a day to go shoot and that would motivate me to actually put the rifle together instead of having them as nice desk ornaments.
When assembling, I thought I screwed up my lower because my FCG wasn't working correctly, but I just needed to mill out the trigger pocket a bit more as I'd played it too safe. I got it working smoothly, installed some KVP lighter springs and had been checking the trigger function again and again. It turns out the wife does not approve of that at 3am, I was at my desk and she could hear it from the bedroom and came out to ask what the hell I was doing.
At the range, that first trigger pull, I was a little nervous... wondering if it would go boom or kaboom. Besides the adjustable gas block needing turned up, it ran very well with no issues. In the first few shots, while standing, I was hitting steel easily without even dialing in the scope. I was quite pleased until I went to aim at paper targets and wasn't hitting bubblegum... turns out the linear compensator was lose. Tightened it up and was good to go.
We realized I need a muzzle break, as it's got a lot of kick. After about 100 rounds, I have a nice bruise on my shoulder. The rifle weighs in at 7.5lbs without scope/bipod. I was planning on something light as I don't want to drag a lot of weight through the woods, but now I see a benefit of weight to handle the recoil.
On to the specs:
JMT Carbon 50 lower (Carbon fiber impregnated polymer)
Aero FCG with KVP light weight springs
Aero Upper
Rainier Arms BCG
Rainier Arms 16" Ultramatch MOD2 fluted SS barrel, TiN feed ramp
KVP linear compensator
Aero AGB w/ rifle length tube
Luth-AR AR10 rifle length A2 buffer kit
Lancer Systems CF stock
Lancer Systems CF XL hand guard
Aero ultra light scope mount
Vortex Crossfire II 3x12 56mm scope
Lancer Systems L7 AWM mags (10 and 20 round)
Magpul 50 round drum (just because lol)
I was shooting Freedom Munitions new 147g, and reman 175g match grade. Didn't get a chance to try out my 50 round drum... gotta get lessen that recoil with a proper muzzle break first. Anyone have experience with a hydraulic buffer, gimmick or good?
BTW, I searched the internet and the general consensus for reducing .308 recoil is something like this lol:
-Robert
I had collected all the parts over a few months (some very hard to find parts sometimes!), including the equipment to mill the lower. One step of this was restoring an old drill press I had sitting for years, it has a different style collet designed for light milling. Machining is very therapeutic I discovered, I enjoy the attention to detail and precision required.
But after I had milled my lower, I got busy with work and let them sit forever. I told @ScatPackLife we should pick a day to go shoot and that would motivate me to actually put the rifle together instead of having them as nice desk ornaments.
When assembling, I thought I screwed up my lower because my FCG wasn't working correctly, but I just needed to mill out the trigger pocket a bit more as I'd played it too safe. I got it working smoothly, installed some KVP lighter springs and had been checking the trigger function again and again. It turns out the wife does not approve of that at 3am, I was at my desk and she could hear it from the bedroom and came out to ask what the hell I was doing.
At the range, that first trigger pull, I was a little nervous... wondering if it would go boom or kaboom. Besides the adjustable gas block needing turned up, it ran very well with no issues. In the first few shots, while standing, I was hitting steel easily without even dialing in the scope. I was quite pleased until I went to aim at paper targets and wasn't hitting bubblegum... turns out the linear compensator was lose. Tightened it up and was good to go.
We realized I need a muzzle break, as it's got a lot of kick. After about 100 rounds, I have a nice bruise on my shoulder. The rifle weighs in at 7.5lbs without scope/bipod. I was planning on something light as I don't want to drag a lot of weight through the woods, but now I see a benefit of weight to handle the recoil.
On to the specs:
JMT Carbon 50 lower (Carbon fiber impregnated polymer)
Aero FCG with KVP light weight springs
Aero Upper
Rainier Arms BCG
Rainier Arms 16" Ultramatch MOD2 fluted SS barrel, TiN feed ramp
KVP linear compensator
Aero AGB w/ rifle length tube
Luth-AR AR10 rifle length A2 buffer kit
Lancer Systems CF stock
Lancer Systems CF XL hand guard
Aero ultra light scope mount
Vortex Crossfire II 3x12 56mm scope
Lancer Systems L7 AWM mags (10 and 20 round)
Magpul 50 round drum (just because lol)
I was shooting Freedom Munitions new 147g, and reman 175g match grade. Didn't get a chance to try out my 50 round drum... gotta get lessen that recoil with a proper muzzle break first. Anyone have experience with a hydraulic buffer, gimmick or good?
BTW, I searched the internet and the general consensus for reducing .308 recoil is something like this lol:
-Robert