stagpanther
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I mentioned this on another thread to someone who was having accuracy issues in their AR10 build depending on whether or not he had his gas system "turned on" or not. He mentioned his groups opened up significantly--though not terribly, when the gas system was cycling.
The hardest part for me doing AR10 builds has always been getting the cartridge to cycle all the way through with minimal "damage" on its way into the chamber. Among other things, there's the extension lip and lugs that the bullet will at least drag by, maybe smack right into, on the way to the chamber.
Today I was out shooting my 7mm-08 build and noticed the brass was getting scraped pretty good while cycling, one cartridge I did a test drop of the bolt and then ejected showed a deflection in the bullet's tip.
Here's a group of 120 vmaxs I shot at 113 yds using the burris RT3 prism sight. The first two shots out of the magazine are the higher ones that hit the target circle. The last three shots I hand fed directly into the chamber and they impacted a bit lower but made a ragged hole. Could be a coincidence, but I don't think so.
The hardest part for me doing AR10 builds has always been getting the cartridge to cycle all the way through with minimal "damage" on its way into the chamber. Among other things, there's the extension lip and lugs that the bullet will at least drag by, maybe smack right into, on the way to the chamber.
Today I was out shooting my 7mm-08 build and noticed the brass was getting scraped pretty good while cycling, one cartridge I did a test drop of the bolt and then ejected showed a deflection in the bullet's tip.
Here's a group of 120 vmaxs I shot at 113 yds using the burris RT3 prism sight. The first two shots out of the magazine are the higher ones that hit the target circle. The last three shots I hand fed directly into the chamber and they impacted a bit lower but made a ragged hole. Could be a coincidence, but I don't think so.