I’ve had a 6.8 spc upper with a 16” barrel from Green Mountain Barrels a few years ago. No matter what I did, the upper would short-stroke and not pick up another cartridge about 90% of the time.
I finally decided that the gas port was probably too small. I had measured it once, but don’t remember what it was.
From my previous post, I decided to use the hand guard from the 6.8 upper on my 300bo brush gun.
I got to thinking… a dangerous game lol… since I already had the 6.8 upper disassembled I might as well give 6.8spc another try. After all, I already had money spent on ammunition, BCGs (I had a new spare 6.8 BCG also), magazine, etc.
A shout out to stangpanther because he wrote good things about ARP 6.8 barrels a few years back.
So just to be goofy, I ordered a 10.5 ARP barrel from blackstone.
I was impressed that he called me to ask my intended use for the barrel so he could drill the gas port accordingly.
I received the barrel in one business day and was even already dimpled for the gas block.
I installed a new gas block, gas tube, new BCG and pinned and welded a 6” flash hider. Everything I already had on hand except for the barrel.
I noticed that the gas block and barrel extension had a good snug fit.
Took it out and ran a few boxes of factory ammunition through it today and had zero feeding issues, so I’m very happy.
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I finally decided that the gas port was probably too small. I had measured it once, but don’t remember what it was.
From my previous post, I decided to use the hand guard from the 6.8 upper on my 300bo brush gun.
I got to thinking… a dangerous game lol… since I already had the 6.8 upper disassembled I might as well give 6.8spc another try. After all, I already had money spent on ammunition, BCGs (I had a new spare 6.8 BCG also), magazine, etc.
A shout out to stangpanther because he wrote good things about ARP 6.8 barrels a few years back.
So just to be goofy, I ordered a 10.5 ARP barrel from blackstone.
I was impressed that he called me to ask my intended use for the barrel so he could drill the gas port accordingly.
I received the barrel in one business day and was even already dimpled for the gas block.
I installed a new gas block, gas tube, new BCG and pinned and welded a 6” flash hider. Everything I already had on hand except for the barrel.
I noticed that the gas block and barrel extension had a good snug fit.
Took it out and ran a few boxes of factory ammunition through it today and had zero feeding issues, so I’m very happy.
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