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On Friday, I found 2500 155gr AMAX bullets that I had purchased a year ago and stashed away. So I ordered the parts to convert my .223 setup to .308: 2x toolhead (one w/ powder measure) Large priming system 21st Century Shooting TiN .30cal expander mandrel w/ die body .30cal powder funnel .30cal casefeed adapter .30cal casefeed plunger .308 conversion kit Swage die body w/ lock nut Totaled out to just under $800 for all the parts. My component cost to load 155gr AMAX rounds will be under $0.35/rd. Purchasing the same round would be at least $1ea or a savings of over $1600 on 2500 rounds. I didn't buy a case trimmer as all of my .308 cases have already been sized and trimmed nor did I pick up a bullet feeder but I see both in my near future.

We grow a lot of our food in the spring, summer, and fall. The excess that can stand to be canned gets processed and stored for use in the winter. My wife's pretty awesome like that.

Super 1050 w/ .223 steel dies RT1500 trimmer w/ RT-specific trim/size die Lee universal decapping die 21st Century Shooting TiN expander mandrel The way it's setup: Station 1: Casefeed Station 2: Decap Station 3: Swage Station 4: Empty Station 5: Empty Station 6: Trim/size Station 7: Empty Station 8: Expander mandrel Cleaned, lubed brass goes in, ready to load (after a tumble) brass comes out. The extra .223 toolhead is setup as follows: Station 1: Casefeed Station 2: Decap (poke out anything the flash hole) Station 3: Empty Station 4: Prime Station 5: Powder drop Station 6: Mr. Bullet Feeder Station 7: Bullet seat Station 8: Crimp I knocked out about 3500 pieces of brass in under three hours. I would expect loading would be faster as the handle will be much easier to work since I won't have to overcome the resistance of the sizing die and the expander mandrel. The bullet feeder is rated for something like 3K+ rounds per hour which is certainly faster than I can work the handle. Once those 3500 are loaded, I'm 20% of the way to breaking even on the press and all associated parts. Each caliber conversion will run another $450ish for two toolheads and a caliber conversion kit plus another $500 for a bullet feeder and $300 for another trimmer (I'll get one for .308 and one for 300BLK). It sounds like a lot of money but if you shoot any decent volume, it pays for itself pretty quickly.

It's my own personal "ATF" room. Humidor not pictured but it's on a higher shelf. Most of the reloading components are on a shelf under the bench to help weigh it down. Even with close to 20k .22 and .30ccal bullets, the bench still moves a little when the press is running. The solution is to get more, right?

Yeah, when I get home tonight and clean up a little. Processing a couple thousand pieces of brass made a bit of a mess and there're brass shaving everywhere so I'm stealing the shop vac (my wife wouldn't let me use hers, go figure) to clean up a bit.

So I finally got around to getting this running. The brass prep toolhead is sweet. Case feed, universal decap, swage, size/trim, expander mandrel. The RT1500 trimmer is amazing. No more manually checking cases, trimming, deburring, and chamfering. I need to figure out why the casefeeder is jamming intermittently though. Otherwise, I have no complaints and should have done this years ago.

Yep. It's a damn shame too. The new Megalithic uppers are nice but there's some nostalgic value to the original MTS upper for me.

They are but the machine shop that's making them is having some quality issues. To remedy this, they're bringing some of the subcontracted work back in-house next month. Once they start running more of the operations where they have more control over quality and I see the quality issues are gone, I'll have them available.

Sure but you're talking about a lot of money to be out of pocket with no guarantee of recovery as the countersuit wouldn't be a sure thing. In the end, only the lawyers benefit.

The reason given was cost to defend. IIRC, the defendants tried to get the case dismissed and failed. Two of the three were represented by an NRA -connected law firm too.

That doesn't stop civil suits like cities suing out of state dealers. This just happened last year with the San Francisco suing three out of state dealers who were shipping legal items to California customers. The suits were settled but not before each defendant coughed up $15K plus legal fees.

Post sample machine guns get sold or destroyed if my business does not renew SOT status. But seeing as that won't happen for 50+ years since I love my job, I don't think about it much.

Technically no stamps as everything is company-owned. The rifle itself is a machine gun on a Form 2 while the suppressor is on a Form 3.

I buy the 75gr bullets 2K at a time from Grafs. The ones I buy do have the cannelue and I do crimp them.

I shoot the 75gr Hornady BTHPs in my 16" seven twist and 18" eight twist guns and they're dead nuts accurate pills. Have you tried them in your 6920? I loathe making adjustments to my bullet seating die so I do everything I can to stick with one bullet when possible.

Shout out to mah boi, High Exposure! I built the upper and tossed it on my Mk18 MG host lower to see how it feels. I call it my "Escape from Fergidishu" rifle 7.5" nitrided 300BLK barrel with an AAC 762SDN6 fullsize suppressor inside the Seekins MCSR V1 handguard. This upper weighs and has the same OAL as the DD Mk18 w/ AAC Mini4. However, there is a world of difference when shooting it. Even with the Mini4 can, the Mk18 is loud enough that it requires hearing protection. With off the shelf 220gr Remington ammo, I could shoot the 300BLK upper without ear protection semi-comfortably. I wouldn't want to do it indoors as it's not movie quiet unless I absolutely had to. I'm still playing with the positioning of the light. I can move it all the way forward so the bezel is even with the end cap of the can and there's zero shadow cast by the can. Where it is now, there's an extremely slight shadow and I'd estimate losing 1-2% of usable light as it sits now. Once my buddy finishes up his design for the PDW-type stock that works with the standard carrier, I'll build out another lower for the 300BLK upper. I'm going to beat on it a little and if all goes well, it'll replace my Mk18 that rolls around with me everywhere. Oh and don't mind the chromed screws. The MCSR was a gift from a friend and didn't come with the mounting hardware so I sourced the screws locally based on length and thread pitch. I'm a little ghetto like that

18" Rifle gas 2lb at the most 8 twist 416R SS Nitrided (chamber and bore too) I'm building a lightweight 18" AR for my wife using a barrel that almost exactly meets this list.

What you're describing is a straw purchase. Legal: Your dad buys a lower, does the BGC, and gifts it to you. Illegal: Your dad buys a lower, does the BGC, you pay him, he gives you the lower. Federally speaking, anyway. Not being a NJ FFL, I can't say I'm familiar enough to say there isn't anything at the state level that you'd be running afoul of.

I show people this: It's "my" room in the house hence the wall, reloading bench, scotch collection and humidor (not pictured). So far the reactions have all been positive

Absolutely. Labor, overhead (FFLs get charged extra on insurance in order to do gunsmithing work like installing sights), and standard markup are all in that number.

No public info available on it yet.

I've got a friend who's working on a similar setup but works with a standard carrier so one less specialized part as well as reduced cost. Tell you what, I'll build a 300BLK machine gun with that stock on your behalf

Nope, I don't stock any 6.5G stuff even though I like the caliber. I don't know what has to be done to the follower to make the mags function properly either.

Barrel, bolt, and modified magazine. 6.5G will fit an AR15 receiver without issue.