09-12-2020, 08:40 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-12-2020, 08:47 PM by Dino11.
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The son and I took our ARC's to the range yesterday and both guns performed very well, especially the Odin barred gun. I finally got to dial in the gas block, I was running it full open as in the beginning I was having feeding and lock back issues. The rifle has rifle gas +2, and that was a problem with the rifle buffer system. I contacted Odin about it and apparently they only tested the +2 rifle gas with a 3 oz. carbine buffer system. It would not function with the rifle buffer.
My fix for it was to replace 4 of the steel weights with 4 aluminum weights that I made from 1/2" round bar stock aluminum. Basically I took the 5.2 oz, buffer and made it a 3.6 oz. buffer, then I added a Wolff reduced power action spring. Then I drilled an 1/8" hole in the screw that held the LuthAR stock to the receiver tube, the one on it did not have a vent hole. This may have done nothing, then again it may have made a difference.
I was able to close the gas block off half way. giving the rifle next to nothing in recoil. Scope stayed on target at all times. The gas hole in the barrel is a whopping .101 diameter, that's huge but it is almost to the the end of the barrel.
There were two nice older gentlemen in the lanes next to us, they were both big time Grendle guys and said that my 6mm had nothing for them that their Grendel couldn't do. That was a mistake on their part. They challenged me to a $5.00 per shot hit or miss @600 yards, and said I could choose my target. There was a row of steel plates out there starting at 18" going down to 8". They were both shocked that I picked the 8" plate and said I will never hit it. Input in my load on the ballistic calculator, dialed in the dope on the scope and took the first shot... Hit that damn plate with authority. Both of them looked at me as if they were staring right through me. Needless to say I came home with an extra $75.00, as neither of them ever hit that plate. I only had to make one shot. Then they said I couldn't do it again I was just lucky. I spent the next half hour banging all that steel out there with only a couple of misses to the right. We had a pretty good wind at times.
The other good moment of the day was when I shot the 200 yard steel with a five shot group in under 10 seconds with all five shots hitting the plate. The one guy said now that's some shootin son. I told him I was taking my time the scope never left the target. Made a coulpe of friends that day.
My fix for it was to replace 4 of the steel weights with 4 aluminum weights that I made from 1/2" round bar stock aluminum. Basically I took the 5.2 oz, buffer and made it a 3.6 oz. buffer, then I added a Wolff reduced power action spring. Then I drilled an 1/8" hole in the screw that held the LuthAR stock to the receiver tube, the one on it did not have a vent hole. This may have done nothing, then again it may have made a difference.
I was able to close the gas block off half way. giving the rifle next to nothing in recoil. Scope stayed on target at all times. The gas hole in the barrel is a whopping .101 diameter, that's huge but it is almost to the the end of the barrel.
There were two nice older gentlemen in the lanes next to us, they were both big time Grendle guys and said that my 6mm had nothing for them that their Grendel couldn't do. That was a mistake on their part. They challenged me to a $5.00 per shot hit or miss @600 yards, and said I could choose my target. There was a row of steel plates out there starting at 18" going down to 8". They were both shocked that I picked the 8" plate and said I will never hit it. Input in my load on the ballistic calculator, dialed in the dope on the scope and took the first shot... Hit that damn plate with authority. Both of them looked at me as if they were staring right through me. Needless to say I came home with an extra $75.00, as neither of them ever hit that plate. I only had to make one shot. Then they said I couldn't do it again I was just lucky. I spent the next half hour banging all that steel out there with only a couple of misses to the right. We had a pretty good wind at times.
The other good moment of the day was when I shot the 200 yard steel with a five shot group in under 10 seconds with all five shots hitting the plate. The one guy said now that's some shootin son. I told him I was taking my time the scope never left the target. Made a coulpe of friends that day.
If you can not see the tyranny of having a gun ban enforced by men with guns... Then you fail to understand why the second amendment was written in the first place.