Lumber_Jack

[quote name="DaveTN" post="1078234" timestamp="1386937518"]Cool. I would guess a lot of pain and probably some broken bones were involved in learning how to do that.[/quote] Most definitely. And these videos are not generally done in one take but rather many, many shots. So you should google the outtakes. It's brutal what happens when these guys don't "make it"

[quote name="DaveS" post="1078232" timestamp="1386937074"]R_Bert told you right. However, the use of surplus military ball ammo (FMJ) is not legal. My personal opinion when hunting deer (I've only neck shot pigs with 5.56) is to use the heaviest expanding bullet available and pay attention to "shot placement". Maybe one of our AR hunters will chime in and offer you more assistance. Dave[/quote] Yes, however, I would use the heaviest bullet your AR will stabilize per barrel twist. [url=http://s680.photobucket.com/user/owensnj/media/926FDFF0-E9F8-4E93-ADEF-8E02E84893A4_zpstsijsjk3.jpg.html][/URL] And I would chose a bullet designed for hunting. A lead soft point or ballistic tip

Anyone with a 1:7 twist bolt action could shoot them. Post them for sale

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[quote name="sigbrown1297" post="1077981" timestamp="1386888517"]haha, yeah i was pretty well set on the rail :) The place is called National Precision Machining Services in Franklin. They do a small jobs and big jobs and actually have done barrel work (fluting, threading, shortening etc) and machining for Franklin PD and individual like myself. [/quote] What are you gonna do about the bare metal?

My two packages were ordered today and should drop ship directly to members in the he next day or so.

[quote name="gregintenn" post="1077573" timestamp="1386817587"]So it was just done for the sake of cheap brass? Was commercial ammo ever available in 8mm-06?[/quote] It was done to be able to shoot them, at all. It was easier to ream the gun to fit 30-06 than to form 8mm brass. Never any ammo commercially available. It's a true wildcat

[quote name="sigbrown1297" post="1077578" timestamp="1386817995"]yeah I saw that after I encountered the issue. DOH...[/quote] I'm sure you could sell it and get the Seekins

Apparently it will fit on a Seekins or Spikes billet but not a Mega or Larue, per ARFCOM This one [url="http://www.rainierarms.com/?page=shop/detail&product_id=3021"]http://www.rainierarms.com/?page=shop/detail&product_id=3021[/url] Do you have access to someone with a CMT upper to try?

In the mock up without the barrel nut, the rail tops don't line up.

[quote name="gregintenn" post="1077553" timestamp="1386816276"]Was this an improvement over the 8mm Mauser?[/quote] None that I know of. It was an easy conversion. Just ream to accept 30-06 brass. 8mm ammo wasn't as readily available then as it is even now. My uncle converted a ton of them. All my uncles and a few cousins all have one he converted. Most now feel it is a bastardization of a war relic, but what's done is done. It was a solution to a problem at the time.

[quote name="Raoul" post="1077516" timestamp="1386812627"]I'd never heard of this conversion. Found a few things here. [url="http://www.reloadbench.com/cartridges/w8mm06.html%C2%A0"]http://www.reloadbench.com/cartridges/w8mm06.html[/url][/quote] Yeah it was a popular conversion as there were plenty of post WW2 guns but ammo was scarce.

[quote name="Armed Aviator" post="1077182" timestamp="1386783310"]Ok, I now have three builds to complete. The Crusader and the two TGO lower/upper bcg sets. What to do. . . what to do . . . Does anyone know how to paint/color the etchings?[/quote] There is a thread on ar15.com that details the various methods. The best, I think, is testers model paint thinned a little, applied with a tooth pick and the surface cleaned. I will look for the thread and post a link. Here ya go http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_3_4/405262_.html

[quote name="sigbrown1297" post="1077507" timestamp="1386812111"]Very very little. it may only need to be one on one side.[/quote] Can you mock it up and take a pic. I'm having a hard time picturing what needs to be removed. You'll have to have it refinished after grinding on the upper

Does anyone load for 8mm-06? My father has a Mauser conversion that was done by his brother in the 60's like most that were converted. All the reloads he has were done by one of two of his brothers sometime in the 80s. I don't think they were loaded for accuracy, as it's sporadic. He has asked me to try some loads and see if we can get it shooting better. In the end it may be the gun (or the smith that worked it) but right now I'd say it's mostly ammo to fault.

[quote name="mikegideon" post="1077490" timestamp="1386810756"]I wouldn't machine the receiver[/quote] Me either. I'd get a different rail

I got my two SS packages today. I got two names so I also got 2 in return. Such awesome stuff. Thanks a ton to both contributors. Books on the major gun manufacturers [URL=http://s680.photobucket.com/user/owensnj/media/FB1F3E21-F952-40E9-8BA3-F706A3B84899_zpshfhni8db.jpg.html][/URL] A Glock gun mat [URL=http://s680.photobucket.com/user/owensnj/media/9FE428AD-BDB2-46E8-BDCC-BF005C3925A6_zpsn3shcwza.jpg.html][/URL] A stream light stylus pen light [URL=http://s680.photobucket.com/user/owensnj/media/CA544763-346C-4B6E-AE3F-369DC5094A0D_zps9yejcsas.jpg.html][/URL] And the best of all. Coffee mug [URL=http://s680.photobucket.com/user/owensnj/media/46083D50-D76E-4833-8478-BD741DA5A93F_zps7jsbbhlk.jpg.html][/URL]

[quote name="Joseg" post="1077100" timestamp="1386774799"]Fellas, I'm just looking for a 10.5-12.5" barrel. could you help me out here.. [/quote] I'm really tempted to buy this barrel. https://www.rainierarms.com/?page=shop/detail&product_id=3390 This is the one I have now which I like but is not in stock http://www.shop.ar15hardware.com/main.sc

I plan to come by.  save me a box of .22

  didnt the honey badger have some type of two stage suppressor to help cycle the 6" barrel though?  That may be a rumor, not sure

  you dont want to elaborate for the enlightenment of the rest of us?

Welcome from a fellow mountaineer. Born and raised in P'burg. Moved to Tn to go to college. What part of WV?

Unfortunately that seems to be the only negative review that this scope gets. Wish it was brighter. I am rethinking the possibility if purchasing one now.

What do you want? Have you called Ron Williams?

[quote name="tnguy" post="1076473" timestamp="1386649118"] Just the way my mind works. I like to avoid "permanent". Especially when I'm just feeling my way. If I were churning out a couple of hundred a day for the military, I might feel different :) I don't handle "supposed to" well, either :D[/quote] Just stake it. The only reason I suggested not doing so earlier was because the discussion was on the indecision of end plate. If you are waiting on a new one to arrive or just wanna try it, then fine. But if your set 'for now' then just stake it. YouTube "removing a staked castle nut". At most it takes a whack with a mallet I wouldn't put loctite on the castle nut, but that's just me, others do it.