In case these may be relevant to these discussions, I offer the following reference images as some initial work I did the other day when getting comfortable with some of the tools:
Initial OAL tool efforts
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Magazine Limitations
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'Modified Case' in chamber - looking at generosity of chamber's neck length
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A view of the throat and rifling transition therein
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This makes me sad - seems like the gas port might not be perpendicular to the friggin bore's axis...
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gas block resting very lightly on a pic rail attach nut - prolly bad from a bbl whip perspective
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lol - the hotel might not be too happy with me if they knew I was playing gunsmith in the room (I'm on an extended TDY - shipping all this stuff home might impute me driving back to MI vs. flying home (which is fine - I'd rather have the distraction of being intellectually stimulated vs. drowning muh sorrows in beer/whiskey or netflix)). I did, however, check with them to ensure that having weapons in the rooms were allowed. It is.
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This is the gas port on my 16" 5.56 Franken AR (looks a hell of a lot cleaner than the port on my Grendel...):
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Getting good results at the range with the 6.5G in its current state (hunting scope, old-eyes me shaking the cob-webs loose, etc.) with factory ammo (123gr Hornady AG)
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Initial OAL tool efforts
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Magazine Limitations
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'Modified Case' in chamber - looking at generosity of chamber's neck length
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A view of the throat and rifling transition therein
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This makes me sad - seems like the gas port might not be perpendicular to the friggin bore's axis...
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gas block resting very lightly on a pic rail attach nut - prolly bad from a bbl whip perspective
[ATTACH=CONFIG]15416[/ATTACH]
lol - the hotel might not be too happy with me if they knew I was playing gunsmith in the room (I'm on an extended TDY - shipping all this stuff home might impute me driving back to MI vs. flying home (which is fine - I'd rather have the distraction of being intellectually stimulated vs. drowning muh sorrows in beer/whiskey or netflix)). I did, however, check with them to ensure that having weapons in the rooms were allowed. It is.
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This is the gas port on my 16" 5.56 Franken AR (looks a hell of a lot cleaner than the port on my Grendel...):
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Getting good results at the range with the 6.5G in its current state (hunting scope, old-eyes me shaking the cob-webs loose, etc.) with factory ammo (123gr Hornady AG)
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si vis pacem para bellum