West Jersey

Nice looking rifle, good choices on parts, great choice on barrel, you won't be disappointed. If the LOP is too short for your comfort you can add a MAG350 butt pad to gain another 1/2".

It has nothing to do with sights or optics, gas length is either carbine-7", mid-9", rifle-12", and now an intermediate is being used by some, the longer the tube the longer the dwell time for the gas to push the bolt back, therefore a somewhat perceived softer recoil. An adjustable gas block will allow you to decrease or increase the amount of gas to tailor it to the load you are using. I can cut mine back to almost feel like a 22, with a light bullet. A free floating handguard will allow the barrel to move on its own without disturbing the harmonics of the barrel.

I used a Black Hole Weponary barrel 18", rifle length gas with a Syrac adjustable gas block, stainless steel - black shot peened and target crown, the nice thing about this company is you can order almost any option/configuration you can think of. An 18" pencil barrel is only 1.55 lbs. but fluting is not available on such a light barrel.

Here's a BHW 1-8 18" barrel w/ a rifle gas system and adjustable gas block, can dial down to shoot w/ almost no recoil.

I've recently bought from Cheyenne Mountian in Bordentown, CCI small and large pistol primers along with Bullseye, Unique and CFE pistol, CFE pistol works well for both 9 & 45. Wideners and Midsouth are also sources online, if you buy enough sometimes even with the Haz-Mat fee it's cheaper.

Another option is to use a target crown barrel to eliminate the brake.

According to Hodgdon's website; "Lead bullets and copper plated lead bullets yield very similar pressure and velocity results, so when the weights are the same, the same data may be used for each." So I would start with Hodgdon's data, 3.9 for LRN for Tightgroup.

Maybe Perkins on 571 just off of 130 in East Windsor, they have a "back dining room" for groups.

No info on the Oculus but I have two AR Bushnell's a 1x4 and a 4.5x18, your welcome to look at them at Range 14. I was set on a Vortex but I liked the reticle and the shorter length of the Bushnell's. (From what I've read the Oculus is similar to the Bushnell Elite series.)

I thought there would be many responses to this, maybe some people don't know or remember Red Skeleton but looking at this video he was ahead of his time, what I remember most is that he was a gentleman and he never used foul language to get a joke.

I use a Primary Arms brand extended mount, ($59.) it will put the centerline of the scope 1 1/2" above the rail.

I just bought a Black Hole Weaponry, many options to order the barrel how you want it, mine is a 18" 5.56 1/8 Twist, Black Shot Peened, 416R Stainless Steel, 3 Polygonal Rifling, Target Crown. I paid less than $220 on sale. http://www.blackholeweaponry.com

I purchased a LPK with Magpul grip from PSA w/o a trigger and used an ACT trigger with Wolff springs, Magpul fixed stock with extended butt pad and the buffer assembly from Anderson.

Mosquito, it's the only gun I ever traded.

Black Hole Weaponary has many choices, I just bought an 18" 5.56 1-8 Target Crown SS Black Shot Peened, haven't assembled yet, waiting on Handguard.