Thanks for sharing.

Saw alot of Mod 1s (nearly all unless I missed one somewhere). Somebody else do the Mod 0s?

Bigbore, Any chance of you getting more of the "Real Deal" uppers in stock?

Originally Posted By sjauch: Is this where the upper you sold to Grant came from?

It sure is.

Originally Posted By bigbore: Originally Posted By sjauch: Is this where the upper you sold to Grant came from? It sure is.

Lucky me

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Hmmmmmmmmmmm............ I love this thread.

Originally Posted By bigbore: Originally Posted By Va_Dinger: Bigbore, what upper receivers and barrels did he use when you visited? Colt receivers, Douglas barrels.

10-4 and thanks bigbore. I just sent you and email for a Mod1 build.

Nitpicking and perhaps just my ignorance but I thought for proper torque one had to use the torque wrench 90deg to the barrel wrench?

Any mods or thread locker under the handguardRAS nut? I've heard of some coming loose (mine actually did). I heard they were drilling and set screwing the nut in the field and that they might now be put together with thread locker.

He's checking headspace - does that mean he doesn't use fitted bolts?

Thanks for the pics, it's nice to see where my SPR came from.

Originally Posted By AK_Mike: Nitpicking and perhaps just my ignorance but I thought for proper torque one had to use the torque wrench 90deg to the barrel wrench?

Sorry, those are somewhat posed pictures, and that may be after the nut was torqued..

Any mods or thread locker under the handguardRAS nut? I've heard of some coming loose (mine actually did).

The Mod 0s had to have set screws attached for another reason(not my place to post why, sorry). If there were reports of them coming lose in the field it would be well known. (The real ones have a bit of a mystery substance on the threads.) Also at the request of the buyer, sometimes they werent assembled with loctite. - I'm sure you can understand an AR owner wanting to be able to take his upper apart and swap something down the road.. If you bought a real one from someone else - yours may have been taken apart and reassembled before it was shipped it you. There was someone who got real uppers, took them apart and reverse engineered them to get all the specs to start selling them.

He's checking headspace - does that mean he doesn't use fitted bolts?

"Fitted bolt" is marketing to make something sound more than it is. There is no such thing. If you purchase 10 barrels from a White Oak, or Compass lake, you will get 10 barrels and a bag with 10 bolts. The barrel extensions are set to a minimum headspace, and the bolts are checked, but thats it.
Same goes for the real barrel if you have one - there was never a bolt fit to that specific barrel/extension.

Originally Posted By Ekie: No kidding, must be using new purchased FNMI or Colt's bolts then?

Colt

Is the SPR barrel chambered to 5.56 or does it have a tighter chamber along the lines of the Wylde?

Can you describe the modified AMU Chamber? I'm guessing it's a tightened 5.56? Is there a Spec for this?

Not to be too nosey but where in Ohio are you located?? The hills you are shooting in look really familiar. thanks guy,
buc,