What's your buffer setup on your 6.5?

I found a 308 rifle buffer with three tungsten weights swapped in works well with a Sprinco Red spring.  Helps close the chamber on sticky new BCG's.

JP AR-10 Silent capture spring. I’ll need to look to see if it’s the H2 variant, as I got a great deal in the receiver set w/ SCS. The SCS was basically free.

Initial bcg did well until I started shooting extended strings of fire. It was already tight, and once it became dirty (100% suppressed), it wouldn’t cam over and go into battery. As a result, a few rounds had to be chambered multiple times. I feel pretty confident that those were the “flyers” I experience during load development.

If I have the same issue again, I’ll play around with the buffer. Thanks for the info.

Proof Research Grendel barrel and 123gr scenars  5 and 10 shot groups at 100 yards, the flier was me.





Proof Barrel, JP bolt, VLTOR upper, Recce 7 silencer, CMC trigger in picture was replaced with an MBT recently (big difference)

Range?

Latest build; 6.5 Creed
Genesis billet 80% lower/upper receiver kit,
MI 15" G2 Keymod rail,
Cerakote OD green
Ballistic Advantage 22" stainless barrel,
APA Gen2 Little Bastard
SLR Rifleworks adjustable gas block,  
Aero Precision melonite bolt carrier group,
BCM Gunfighter charging handle,
Geissele SSA-E trigger,
Magpul trigger guard,
Magpul MOE grip,
A2 stock,
JP silent captured spring/buffer assembly,
Magpul 10 round magazine.
USO LR17 on Badger mount



First time out and I'm WAY out of practice... 100yds
5 shot groups (pardon the flyers): Hornady  Match 140g AMAX





Ten shots...



For some reason not getting enough "down" adjustment with the elevation knob so was shooting at the 3.5mil hash mark above center. That didn't add to the consistency and it was 31* that day. Yes, making excuses but none the less, the rifle shows some real promise. I'm very happy. Once I got the gas block adjusted it ran like a dream with the Hornady.

This is my Odin Works 16" ultralite on a Bear Creak upper, BCG, and handguard.

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I shot this today, 9 shots.  Used factory ELDs 123 at 100yds, sighting in for deer season.  The two shots are me, just not a steady shooter, just the rifle/guard across a block of wood and me holding it.

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Complete Odin Works upper I built with OW billet upper and BCG, 18" DMR profile barrel, OW O2 Lite rail, adj gas block, use a Geiselle SSA-E and a Recce 7 suppressor.

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The flier was me, five shot group.  The target was hung sideways.

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We have been pretty pleased with our LM8 MWS ( 13.5", 16" and 20" barrels )

Pretty solid MOA shooter even with the chrome lined barrels, not even the Match barrels.

With the 20" barrel one of the best single 5 shot groups I have shot with a semi:

Suppressed at 100 meters, Lapua 167gr factory Scenar ammo:



Another suppressed group at 100 meters, same Lapua ammo, suppressor removed between every shot:

Nice

LaRue 6.5 Grendel 18" uu kit that i put together topped with Primary Arms 3-18 Silver Series. I have taken it out to 800 so far.

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5 shots with handloads at 100 yds.

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Goofing off at 200 yards

Any longer shots

Well, figured I'd share this:  screenshots of three strings of 2 sighters + 20 record shots fired in a match last weekend.  FYI, the grid squares are 1 moa (~6").  

String 1:  Just getting started for the morning, little bit chilly (might have just broken 40F)



String 2:  Not much warmer, but the sun came out a little, so I could see the mirage a little.  Doing a little better at playing the wind with those coarse 0.1 mil clicks.  Trigger finger was cold and accidentally pulled right thru the ~4.75lb NM trigger.  Guess which shot *that* was



String 3:  Things started to warm up a little (finally), which meant the wind started getting squirrelly.  Yes, we have wind flags on this range.  No, they aren't in ideal locations and no, they don't always tell the truth - until *after* the fact



Gun is a home-built upper; Aero M4 upper & bolt, WOA 20" SR barrel w/ A2 flash hider, Seekins adj. gas block, MWI fore-end tube, Sav MSR15 lower w/ Geiselle NM trigger, Magpul UBR stock, with a LRA bipod and Redman 'tactical pillow' rear bag.

Load was S77TMK seated to mag length over 23.2gn IMR8208XBR in a Hornady case with CCI BR4 primers (an old lot that I only had one box of, so I'd never used them in any of my 'serious' F-class guns.  Not sure if it was my finger, or the primers, but the vertical sure improved when things warmed up a tad!

Like a lot of us, most of my rifles will outshoot me.

Once in a while I get lucky.

Great shooting. Are you using a 4.5x scope or running irons?

Here's my old school DPMS in 6.5 Creedmoor that I bought in 2012.  It has somewhere around 1700-1800 rounds on the odometer, mostly my reloads.  This is an older picture when it wore a Vortex scope and before I modified the gas system from rifle length to extended length.  It now wears a NF ATACR 5-25 SFP in NF rings directly attached to the upper.

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Here's the target I used when working up loads for the Hornady 140 grain HPBT using H414.  H414 doesn't give the highest velocities, but because it's a ball powder it meters well, and I meter all my reloads.  I settled on the 39.6 grain load.  For a metered load, I'm happy with the accuracy I get.  

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Aero AR-10 in 6.5 creedmoor
22” barrel (I think it is an Aero)
Geissele SSA-E
Leupold 5X-HD 3-15x44
Accutac bipod
Sure fire SOCOM 762

LRP Build
Mega Arms MML Chasis
Lilja 24” 1:8 barrel
Lantac EBCG
Trigger Tech Diamond
XLR Stock
Geissele scope mount
Burris XTR II 4-20x50
Aero Knox grip
Radian hardware

100m - bipod with bag