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Looks good Shane man.




Dave

Primary Arms has made me a customer. I was a little skeptical of the quality of their optics before, given the price. Not any more. This 1-6x24 ACSS, another poor man's ACOG, is nice glass for $246 with $43 Amazon freebee $$'s. Illuminated BDC reticle for 7.62x39 or 300BO. 12 brightness settings. Very clear edge to edge. Picks up light very well in low light situations. If everything they make is like this, I'm sold.

http://www.primaryarms.com/primary-...k-7-62x39-reticle-pa1-6x24sfp-acss-300bo



Hoping to stretch this one's legs in Montanastan in a couple weeks.

I read a lot of reviews and watched a few youtube vids on Primary Arms stuff before I took the plunge. They seem to get good reviews.

Shall I make up the spare room?




Dave

Flave, thanks. But, I was groggy late last night and it should have read Wyomistan.

Greatly appreciate the offer, though.

Another range session. I'm really liking this carbine. Calm day, and M855 green tip holding decent accuracy at 100 yards, sub 2-inch.

Also some shots with the 308, and 208 Amax.

I ended up going back to the carbine stock. I really like this prism sight, but eye relief was a little too long on the rifle stock, and only got worse with heavier clothing.




I followed this excellent advice,



New extractor including new spring/plunger/o-ring, and an H3 buffer. Runs great now with an authoritative 'thu-thunk' as that H3 buffer drives the bolt home. Brass shows barely visible extractor claw marking.

I'm done.

Nice.




Travis

I'm liking the reticle on this sight. Seems to track right on with M855. I've had it out to 670 yards and right on the money.

The reticle is etched so it all shows black when illum is off.

I think I put something similar on my Ruger Scout.

Other than the weight I really like it. Well thought out.




Travis

Yeah mine isn't exactly a featherweight at 17 oz.

I was weighing it against a SWFA 1-4 Illum. That one is 14 oz, but when you add mounting hardware the weight difference is a wash.

Shane did you by chance weight the upper? I looked on their website and no weight listed. I had been trying to find a DD SLW upper (pencil barrel) but curious what this one weights if you know off hand.

I just put the upper on the scale,


With BCG/CH - 4lb 2oz.

Without BCG/CH - 3lb 6oz.

That includes a YHM M-LOK front sling point, and Krylon. Probably a couple ounces in that.

The whole carbine with optic, sling, 20 round mag with 18 rounds of M855 as shown in the last pic is 8lb 8oz.

Add the Harris 9-13 swivel/notched leg bipod, we're at 9lb 5oz.

Thank you for that, 4 pounts/2oz. I wonder how much a pencil barrel actually saves in weight? Then I cannot believe a DD barrel is any better than a double chromed FN barrel, both probably 2MOA or so best case with M855.

I pulled the stocks on my 6920 and 6720 that are otherwise equipped exactly the same, 6920 weighs 6.2 lbs, 6720 weighs 5.8 lbs.

6 ounces... I just have to wonder if the DD barrel is worth the additional $600 you would put into a DD upper, if you put a Colt BCG into the PSA I think your at about $500 but the PSA is out of stock for a while now.

Which barrel are you looking for?

For shooting ball ammo? No.

PSA has some good deals and the FN barrels seem to be pretty good from reviews but I have no experience with them. If they made a pencil barrel at 16" I would change that, I don't like 14.5" barrels simply because they are a PIA to change up not to mention the loss in velocity. If one didn't change things around like I'm prone to do then it would be ok.

Looking at DD's website, they list the following weights,

14.5" LW, stripped - 1.25 lbs
14.5" M4, stripped - 1.6 lbs


I think that works out to about 5 oz difference.