It's the little things that all add up!
Just some best practises for anyone doing their own AR build. I'm Pro forged upper and lowers. I only use 20 inch SS barrels of 8 or 9 twist because a 223 is limited to really 75 grains. The 223 case has a short neck and not enough powder to drive anything heavier at acceptable velocities. Many years ago I bought gross bulk 62 gr HPBT very high BC bullets. You can't get them anymore. But they achieved dime size 200 yard groups. I'm very pro rifle length or even +2 inch piston or gas guns.
My friend bought an upper truing device from Midway which he loaned to me. Uppers might look nice out of the box, but sadly the barrel faces have always been off probabably because of the black coatings.
This is an upper after truing!![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
The next step I do is hand polishing the barrel inside with a bore snake and chrome wheel polish. I then polish the feed ramps. You don't want to scrap the copper on the beautiful bullets that you painstakenly loaded to perfection from days on the range and chrono work.
NO sharp edges anywhere not even the chamber.
One of my light weight 20 inch piston guns with a titanium brake and slick sided upper. Blue tape over my serial number. 3 pound trigger. This is a prairrie dog machine. 8X32 60 mm objective. Ambidextrous safety and long pull down ring pins
Just some best practises for anyone doing their own AR build. I'm Pro forged upper and lowers. I only use 20 inch SS barrels of 8 or 9 twist because a 223 is limited to really 75 grains. The 223 case has a short neck and not enough powder to drive anything heavier at acceptable velocities. Many years ago I bought gross bulk 62 gr HPBT very high BC bullets. You can't get them anymore. But they achieved dime size 200 yard groups. I'm very pro rifle length or even +2 inch piston or gas guns.
My friend bought an upper truing device from Midway which he loaned to me. Uppers might look nice out of the box, but sadly the barrel faces have always been off probabably because of the black coatings.
This is an upper after truing!
The next step I do is hand polishing the barrel inside with a bore snake and chrome wheel polish. I then polish the feed ramps. You don't want to scrap the copper on the beautiful bullets that you painstakenly loaded to perfection from days on the range and chrono work.
NO sharp edges anywhere not even the chamber.
One of my light weight 20 inch piston guns with a titanium brake and slick sided upper. Blue tape over my serial number. 3 pound trigger. This is a prairrie dog machine. 8X32 60 mm objective. Ambidextrous safety and long pull down ring pins