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    6.5 Grendel

    I tend to run a stiff nylon brush in and out of the necks and that helps. I use the one's from Brownells and I chuck them in my vice milling machine on medium speed (Milwaukee Holeshooter in my vice). Since I have the time and the tools, I anneal every time and also use mandrels so my necks...
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    Fouling past the case neck

    I saw that number and just discarded the two zeros he had at the front. I suspect he meant .3 of a grain. I tend to have long barrels (26" at minimum) so I am in the 2835 fps range with hybrids or VLD's, but my charge of H4350 is higher than the OP is running. I do not remember loosing many...
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    Cleaning JP Adjustable Gas Block?

    As long as you put a drop or two of a good oil on the screw every couple hundred rounds, they don't seize in my experience. Well, that and cranking them in and out a set number of clicks (4 in, 4 out , and back to my setting). Matter of fact, I need to do this again....
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    Fouling past the case neck

    I'll throw something against the wall and see if any stick. 1-Hard brass. I did see where you mentioned you anneal. Did you really anneal. Depending on your machine/technique, you may just be heating the brass up some. 2-Larger "neck" chamber (not likely anyway). You mentioned you had a tight...
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    Struggling with 5.56

    Try the N140 before you move to something else. I use Varget, Re15, and N540 with 77's out of 10.3" with no issues. I don't notice any unburned powder in my suppressors.
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    6.5 Grendel

    I have 500 or slightly more pieces of AA brass. As I also have hundreds of Lapua 6.5 Grendel brass to compare it to and I can say the older AA brass is Lapua. I've weighed it, annealed it, sized it, sectioned it, shot it, converted it to 6mm ARC (I'm a glutton for punishment), and loved it. I...
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    Replacing the barrel on my Medium weight 14.5 inch run and gun upper

    While my Criterion Hybrid doesn't shoot as small of groups as my Proof, it does have only a 1-8 with a thick reticle compared to the Proof's 5-22 MOAR-T. It will shoot under an inch for 5 at 100 so I am not unhappy. Someone else mentioned the Criterion barrels behave and that is my opinion...
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    Who cleans BCGs in an ultrasonic cleaner?

    I have before but my BCG's get wiped off everytime I shoot so rarely get crudded up. When I have used my US for the BCG, I use hot water (and put the heater on) and a squirt of dawn. I do disassemble the BCG and will use a patch on a stiff nylon brush to get the normal carbon out of the bottom...
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    MK 16 handguard

    Maybe I should clarify my earlier post. The .750" SA set screw GB will fit under the mk14 and mk16 but the handguards may not work on all uppers. I have run into both rails not fitting "thick" uppers to include a CMT I just installed a mk16 on last week. A small amount of measurements and...
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    MK 16 handguard

    It does. I just put 2 15" mk16 on builds using SA gas blocks. All are .750" fwiw. The .750" SA GB fits under the mk14 too (a few of them in the safe). As mentioned above, set screw versions.
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    6.5 Grendel

    Same same on the "friction or not enough lubrication". A stiff nylon brush chucked into a vise milling machine (drill in a vice) will work wonders, be a filthy creature and don't clean your brass, or try the dry lube in the neck like Neolube No.2. All will work more or less. I'm not a filthy...
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    6.5 Grendel

    I use the Forster Ultra BR (and the standard Forster BR) and have since I started with the Grendel in 2010ish. I polish the ID of the stem and the only time I ever got a ring is when my case necks were sized too small. That issue was related to one particular sizing die that is in a box...
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    Is my brass ruined?

    Don't know if you've done it before, but I've cooked some a few times. If my parboiled brass would collapse or even go out of round between my thumb and index finger, I consider it well done and I chunk it. That appears to be expensive brass so I hope the case mouth keeps it's shape.
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    Same price, which choice: WOA 16” SPR vs Criterion Hybrid

    Nah. I'm typically an Intermediate type of guy but was feeling a little subconscious lately. In my defense, I also went Carbine +1 on a 10.3" Bartlein (or Craddock did).... No doubt it is a soft shooting rifle. Hard to describe if you haven't run one. I was aware you like a long gas system....
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    Same price, which choice: WOA 16” SPR vs Criterion Hybrid

    This particular version came back in stock from Criterion a few weeks back and I ordered one. I've only shot it twice (3 times in about an hour) and it started out shooting under a minute. 77 SMK, 24.2 Re15, CCI 450, and Winchester brass (after the first 100 rounds) shoots .750" for 5 off of a...
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