TACTICAL TUESDAY - AR15s Long Range, Drills & More on TGA

The Pepper Broadcasting Network. We have to hit the reset, but to create a true culture preparedness, starting at a very young age and filtering all. The way up. Welcome to the gun Metal Armory. Here's your host, Dain Dye. What is up, Team gun Metal? How's everybody doing? Tonight? I am going to be talking to you this week about AR fifteens. I've been doing this the last couple of weeks because number one, the AR fifteen is the most popular rifle in America. But I've also been doing it because there's the possibility of a lot of new legislation and other bull crap coming down the line, and I think it's important to try to impart as much knowledge as I can about that system to you guys as quickly as I can. So I'm trying to focus on a firearm platform that you guys like, first of all, and second of all, a firearm that a lot of people have. So, without further ado, we are going to talk about the AR fifteen tonight, like I said, and we are going to talk about the options for making a long range version of the AR fifteen. Now, when you think of long range, what I'm referring to is making a long range AR fifteen with the two two three caliber or uh five five six. I'm not talking about making a six or five Grendel AR fifteen or you know, something to that effect, or a two two four Valkyrie or one of the other you know trendy calibers that are out there right now. I'm talking about using the two two three Remington or the five five six Nato. Okay. So anyways, if for some strange reason you are listening to the gun Metal Armory and you don't know what an AR fifteen is, please look up what it is on a web search, because you're probably the under a rock if you don't know what it is. Every and this is my personal stance on the AR fifteen, every armory should have one. Every armory should honestly have one AR fifteen for each member of the family, you know, young or old. Everyone in the family should have an AR fifteen if at all possible, You should have an AR ten in your armory as well. Now, unless you want to use the AR ten as your main battle rifle, then you're not going to need one for every member of the family. The AR ten is, of course, a thirty caliber version of the AR fifteen, or actually technically it's three oh eight, you know, thirty caliber three oh eight, however you want to go about it. But the AR ten was designed and tested before the AR fifteen was designed, tested and put into service, so the AIR ten has existed longer, but the AR fifteen ended up being the one that the services adopted. Anyways, Nowadays, the AR fifteen is a heck of a lot cheaper than it ever has been before. It's so cheap, in fact, that you almost have no excuse not to own one at this point. If you can afford to buy a four hundred dollars or a five hundred dollars block, you can afford to buy an AR fifteen. You're going to have to buy ammunition for your block, So why not buy some ammunition for the AR fifteen you should have bought instead. The likelihood of a glock being outlawed anytime soon is pretty slam now. The likelihood of them trying to take away the AR fifteen sometime soon is a lot more likely. That is one of those things that you need to consider when you're looking to purchase something like the AR fifteen or an AK forty seven or an AR ten something to that effect, you need to be well aware of the fact that these things very well could get banned let's see here, and the fact that these firearms not only may get banned right now or not right now, may may not only get banned soon, but they're obviously going to take away the variants. They're going to take away all kinds of different stuff, So you need to be aware of that. Hopefully they will grandfather in any other ones that already exist, or any ar fifteens that are currently in the hands of American citizens. If they don't grandfather them in, I have no idea what they're going to do, because getting people to turn them in is impossible. I can tell you that right now. People aren't just aren't going to do it. It's not going to happen, so they might as well completely forget about that. That being said, I have a lot of stuff to get through here, so I'm going to go ahead and lay it all out for you guys. Okay, remember last time I told you guys about the deals that I had found online. Many of them are still available. Okay, last week I saw or not the last week. The week before I saw a sixteen inch barreled five five six NATO AR fifteen. It was the one seven twist with the bolt carrier group and the charging handle, and it was from Palmetto State Armory. It only ran two hundred and nineteen dollars. I saw it a couple of days ago, or actually not yesterday, but the day before, and it was still there. And if you look around on Palmetal State Armory, you will find a complete AR fifteen lower with the stock for one. So you put those two together and you've got an Air fifteen for less than four hundred dollars. You know, if you got free shipping, which they will give you a Palmetto, you'll have a really decent AR fifteen that offers you a great level of protection and home defense, and it offers you the ability to be able to use parts and be be parts compatible with other Air fifteens you may come across, and other AR fifteen's on the market. So it's one of those things that you definitely want to keep your eye on. And if you have the money, like I said, if you have the money to buy a new revolver or a glock or a hunting rifle or whatever, pick up that AR fifteen. Now not tomorrow, not next week now or tomorrow morning, either way, but you need to get a few. You need to put them in your armory, and you need to have them stored away. The other thing you need to do is you need to be stockpiling extra parts for these things. Okay, you need some OOPS kits, maybe an extra barrel, a couple of extra lower parts kits in case anything gets broken or lost. But that's usually why I tell you that you need an AR fifteen for each member of your family. Because that way, if you've got a four member family and one of those ar's breaks, you still got three rs in the family, and now you've got one for spare parts, you know, other than the part the broke, of course, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. You definitely need to you definitely need to pay attention to that, especially in today's political climate. Okay, So Paul Metow State Armory, good pricing on that. Although any local gun shop is probably going to have an AR fifteen for somewhere between five hundred and six hundred dollars at the moment, Okay, I know our gun shop right now has I think three or four of them in between five hundred and six hundred dollars, so you have no excuse. Go get it all right. Next up, if you'd like to buy them, and if you like to build them yourself, you can find them even cheaper than four hundred dollars. So if you look around, one of the companies that I mentioned two weeks ago was Davidson Defense dot com. They've got some pretty kicking prices on there, so check them out. See what you think of that. Okay, again, this is one of those things that you need to pay attention to and do it now. But before I move any further, don't forget. If you have any questions for me, please feel free to email me at gunmetal Armory at gmail dot com. Okay, we'll talk. If you have any questions about AR fifteens, if you want to know about building a long range AR fifteen, if you want to know more about what goes into the two two three round what you need to stockpile as far as types of two to two three rounds, what parts you need for your AR fifteen, so on and so forth. What have you? Email me gunmetal Armory at gmail dot com. I will help you. Okay. Also, if you just built an AR and you are having issues with it, feel free to email me. I will once again help you. Okay, not hard to do. Next, if you can go online and type YouTube gun metal Armory into your web search, you will find my YouTube channel, gun Metal Armory And if you subscribe, that would be awesome. That would help me out a lot, So if you can, please do Also, I have my own Patreon account. Please go over there and join if you want to, it'd be awesome. And don't forget put your head in over at the new Prepper Broadcasting dot com site. There's been a lot of really neat changes happening and a lot of really cool stuff coming up. They're gonna be heading to Prepper Camp. The host of the Saturday night show Jay Fergie, and the host of the Wednesday night show, James, the intrepid Commander of the Prepper Broadcasting Network, I am Liberty. He is going to be heading to Prepper Camp as well. So if you guys want to check out that whole situation, and I'm sure there's gonna be a whole bunch of pictures. There may even be an entire album on the website of what they did, what they saw, and so on. So definitely keep checking back Prepperbroadcasting dot com and see what they got going. All right, all right, let's talk about Second Amendment stuff now, and then we will get back to the air fifteen stuff. All right. I'm a certified ra A Range Safety Officer, pistol and rifle instructor. I've got plenty of other training. But that doesn't mean I know everything, Okay. It doesn't mean I know more or less than this guy, that girl, or anyone else. It only means that I have had this training or that training. Okay. So take my thoughts and my words on the following subject for what they are. They're just my thoughts, They're just my words. Okay. Keep in mind that any tactical movement or firearms use we discuss, and this segment is for information purposes only. I am not training you, nor am I your trainer. If you want to or if you need to get training, then get it, get it in person, get it locally. You'll be glad you did. If you need training recommendations, if you need a recommendation for a company to go to in your locale, feel free to email me gun Metal armygmail dot com. I will send you to someone local. Okay, all right, this is my new segment that I did two weeks ago. Here we go again, my new segment without further ado, I am affectionately calling drill bits. This quick segment, we are going to discuss tactical shooting drills and the results of those tactical shooting drills. Okay, this week we're going to talk about a drill called the L pres or the L president A drill. The L Press was first conceived by the firearms training legend and former gun Site owner SLASH Colonel Jeff Cooper. If you know Jeff Cooper or if you know his name, then you know why this is significant. The L Press was actually designed by Cooper when he was training a South American security team that was being trained to guard their president, so hence the name. Anyways, it was after it was accepted into IPSICK as an official stage the name followed. So you may be wondering, what is the L PRES drill? What is the L Presidente drill? Okay, I will try to talk you through it. Standing back ten yards, your back is turned to three targets that are spaced about one yard apart from each other at one yard intervals. Okay, your hands or the hands of the shooter are in the quote I surrender position. Okay, like when cops say hands up and you put your hands up. That's what that's the position that you're in, like you're surrendering. Okay. At the buzzer or at the signal from the person training you, you turn around, draw your firearm, and you send two shots into the X ring of each bad guy. Three bad guys total. Okay, keep in mind there are three bad guys. You're ten yards away. Each bad guy is one yard away from each other. Okay, So you got a bad guy one yard of space or three feet, another bad guy three feet and another bad guy. Okay, So at the buzzer, you turn around, draw your firearm, and you send two shots into the X ring of each of those bad guys. All right, So it goes like this. You turn you draw, bang bang, next target, bang bang, next target, bang bang, and then you drop your mag You do an empty gun reload, bring it back into battery, bring your name back on target, find your front site, and you send two more shots into the center of each target, again, going in the opposite direction. Bang bang, next target, bang bang, next target, bang bang, and that's the l press drill. You try to do this as fast as you can with accuracy. Okay. They say that an average par time or an average acceptable time for this is twelve seconds twelve seconds to drop twelve rounds of accurate fire on three different targets. That's no joke. That is not easy to do. It's not impossible, obviously, but it is not easy. It is something you definitely need to practice. Okay. Keep in mind that when you move from target to target. This is something else that I will give you a tip on. Ok A lot of people will move their gun and their head to that target, Okay, same time their head just stays on their sites the whole time, and their body swings. It is faster for you to turn your eyes and your head first and let your gun come after. Okay. You turn your head and then your gun. You turn your head, and then you move your gun. Okay. You'll find if you're trying to do both at the same time, or if you're trying to move your gun and then your head, you're gonna swing past that target. It happens all the time on the range. I see it a lot. Okay, So remember eyes in head first, then your gun. Okay, just my thing. If you don't want to use it, or if you find that you're doing it better, feel free to do it your way. Okay, just my thing. Okay. Anyways, it'll only be a split second improvement for you if it works for you. But that split second could mean life or death, so keep that in mind. All right, let's see here. I think I think that's going to pretty much do it as far as the drill bit this week, Just remember to try moving your head and your eyes first, and then follow with the gun. It takes time, it takes practice, but it is faster, okay. Oh. Also keep in mind that during the reload, you should try to do your mag change without taking your eyes off the target. Okay. Try to do your reload up in front of your chest or chin area. Okay, don't put the gun in your face and block your vision, but try to do your reloads in such a way that you can actually still see what your enemy is doing. Rather than looking down to grab your magazine or looking down to reload, try to keep your eyes on your enemy, all right, and and do your reload all right? Makes sense? If not, email me, I'll send you a video of what it should look like. Okay, anyways, just a couple drill bits, just a couple little tips for you guys to chew on this week. All right, all right, man, I'm I'm out of breath. Okay, So this week's product pick, this is an interesting product pick. You guys are probably gonna like this one. This product pick this week is called the Pyro Creations Micro Trip Perimeter Alarm. Okay, Pyro Creations Micro Trip Perimeter Alarm. This is one of those items that I am a big fan of because of what it offers for the prepper. This item arrived in my mailbox a few weeks back, and I have to say right off the bat that I was not expecting it to be as small as it is. It's called a micro trip Perimeter alarm, after all, but I guess I guess I expected it to be a little bit bigger. It wasn't, it's not. It's actually so small that any prepper could literally carry four or even six of these little guys to protect themselves in a bug out or win camping or when setting up any kind of HQ or anything like that. Okay, you're probably wondering how light, how small, what are we talking these are? Are these weigh thirty two grams each? Okay, that's one point one three ounces or point zero seven pounds point zero seven pounds. That's almost nothing. That's very very little. Okay. Let's say you want to carry six of them, because I do, and you want to set up a good perimeter around your jungle hammock or your tent or whatever you're doing to rest when you're bugging out, okay, or when you're out camping. Maybe you're camping and you're testing out some new gear, or you're fishing or whatever. You want to set up a couple of these around your perimeter so a bear doesn't sneak up on you or whatever. Okay. Let's say that you want to carry six of these, right, six of these Pyrocreation's micro trip perimeter alarms would only weigh one hundred and ninety two grams or point four to two pounds. That's not even a half pound, or if you want to get technical, six point seven seven ounces, not much very little weight. Okay. Now, on top of that, if you figure in carrying six of the primers that they're used that they used to signal with, they use type two oh nine shot shell primers, the same kind you would use for loading twelve gaye amo. Okay, these type two O nine shot shell primers way next to nothing as well. You could probably carry fifty or even one hundred of those shotshell primers and not even feel it. Okay, So for a half a pound, you can set up a perimeter around your bug out location, or around your vehicle or your tent or whatever and feel pretty dog on, secure from animals and from most two legged creatures that may want to harm you. Okay, So these are great because they'll give you a little bit of early warning. Now, in my opinion, these little guys are easily worth the price of twenty five dollars each. I've told you the weight, and I've told you the price. How long and how thick are they? Well, let's see what the website has to say about them. The website says these are perfect for those who do not care to use their alarms for shooting flares or pepper gas or any type of twelve gage shell and want something small and easy to carry. Don't let the size scare you away. These are super loud when used with the two to nine twelve gage primers and super easy to use, made completely of rustproof, high quality materials and built to last many uses. Only four and a quarter inches long and nine to sixteenth of an inch in circumference, and again they only weigh thirty two grams. These are about the size of a magic marker or a tiny little bit bigger in circumference than a sharpie, but about the same size as a sharpie. Okay, very very small, and if you can hear me in the chat room, it looks like Friggy left those shoes not, I don't think anyways. Yeah, these little, these little Pyrocreations micro trip perimeter alarms are amazing. They're small, they're easy to carry, their lightweight, and they use readily available twelve gauge two on nine primers. Now, keep in mind the website description says that the twelve gauge two on nine primers are not included, but you can purchase submit any local gun store. Okay, they don't sell them because shipping with the hazmat fee would be too expensive and they wouldn't be able to charge as little as they do for these uh little little micro trip perimeter alarms. Okay, so keep that in mind. If you want to pick one of these up for yourself, go to www dot pyrocreations dot com. That's p y r O c R e A t i o n dot com, pyrocreations dot com and then just go up and click on their menu and you'll see it as a whole bunch of stuff listed there. Go down to perimeter alarms. Click on that. You'll see the different perimeter alarms that they offer. It is one of those things that you will be glad that you looked up is It is one of my favorite items that I now have in my bug out bag. Okay, they also make another perimeter alarm, but I'll probably feature that in a different show. And if you guys keep your eye out on my YouTube, you'll probably see these being demonstrated coming up here pretty soon, but you'll just have to wait for that. Anyways, like I said, these are worth it. In my opinion, these are worth it all day long, especially if you're wanting something that you can use to keep you safe on your bug out, something that won't break the bank, and something that you can pack into your bug out bag without taking up much space and without adding more than a half a pound to your bug out bag. If you're getting six of them, no less. I've been trying to think of another device that this is comparable to. I've been trying to think of something that I can give you an idea of. Okay, it it's like having six flashlights, or it's like having this, or it's like having that. But these these are the smallest ones that I can find that are the most compact and the nicest made. Okay, So I wish I had a good comparison, but these things are just amazing. So get them if you need them, Get them even if you don't, because at some point you may need them. Okay. All right, that's all I have to say on the product pick this week. All right, So I think what I'm going to do is take a quick break and put a link in the chat room for those perimeter alarms that I'm talking about, and then I'm going to come back and we're going to talk about AR fifteen's okay, So I will be right back right after this. Don't go away. Hey, y'all, Jordan here, you're a host of a family affair. Catch us every Saturday evening at nine pm Eastern as we discuss prepping on every level. And remember everybody, everybody okay. Medical readiness is an area that preppers off and overlook. It's James Walton, host of the I On Liberty Show. 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Ohkay, Team Gunmetal, we are back and I am talking to our Saturday night show host in the chat room, Jayferg from a family affair. She is talking about some projects she's making at home, and I made the joke asking if the project she's working on has a holster, because I think everything should have a holster. That's just me anyways, very very cool. She's making some kind of a hand sewn outfit. I don't know the difference, but it sounds to me like it's handmade work, which is awesome. You know, handmade knives, handmade holsters, handmade dresses, handmade shirts. Anything handmade is always special. So very cool, very very cool. If you guys are listening and you have not checked out the Saturday night show yet, A Family Affair, you should. It is a very good show. Also, don't forget to check out the Tuesday night show Next Generation with Ryan and his son. Don't forget to check out the Wednesday night show as well with Jane the Man himself on I Am Liberty. All right, all right, so moving on, moving back on topic, let's talk about the AR fifteen and the long range version. But first we have to do our little disclaimer, because I want to make sure that anyone listening for the first time knows that I am not your gunsmith. Okay, so I'm going to give you a disclaimer just like Miles does. All Right, let's see here, I am a gunsmith, but I am not your gunsmith. Keep in mind that any and all suggestions I give you or anything we talk about on here is for info purposes only. If you choose to work on your gun, you are liable for any work you do with your own hands. If you think there is something you are unsure of, please don't be a moron, don't be stupid. Take the firearm to a competent gunsmith close by. Okay, don't be an idiot, use common sense, and as always, remember safety first, okay, And here are the safety rules. Number one, always keep the gun pointed in safe direction. Guns are always loaded. Number two, Always keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to fire. Number three, Always know your target and what is beyond. Number four, never cover anything with your muzzle that you are not willing to destroy. Number five. Always keep the gun unloaded until you are ready to use it. And I like to add, always secure your firearm front unauthorized persons, kids, thieves, gorillas, anything like that. Okay, all right, let's talk about a R fifteen's and the long rain side of things, because we've talked about a lot of different stuff when it comes to the AR fifteen, but we have not really talked much about the long range side of the AR fifteen. So last week we did a conflicted show, and we talked about what we would do in certain survival and into the world type situations we had. We had Miles from Archangel Dynamics on there with us, and we had Jim from Archangel Dynamics on there with us as well, which was awesome. I really enjoyed having him on there. It's just nice to get opinions that are not my own when it comes to any kind of a survival or into the world situation. So that was a really really cool show. If you get a chance check it out, I think you would really really enjoy it. So this week we are going to head back into the world of the Air fifteen. So we've discussed troubleshooting. We've discussed a bunch of calibers and cartridges that are available for the R system, the three hundred blackout, We've discussed the two two three. Hey, that nub just popped into the chat room. How's it going, buddy. We've discussed various uppers, a little bit about lowers. This week we are going to talk about the lowers when we're going to talk about the longer range options with the air system. Like I said, some of you guys may know this or may not, but marine sniper units and army sniper units are both well versed in using the long range AR ten type platforms. Most of the AR tens they would use we're in the seven to sixty x fifty one NATO caliber platforms, but they've also tested numerous other calibers. There is also another type of soldier that uses a longer range rifle as well, but they use one that doesn't have quite the range that a sniper rifle offers. The soldier I am speaking of, of course, is the designated marksman, the designated marksmen along with his Designated Marksmen rifle. Most dms use a DMR that was actually designed for the military, but it can be remade by a civilian if so desired. Okay, so what I'm getting at here is that if you saw a designated marksman's rifle, and you know, in a picture of the military, you know, doing their thing in Iraq or Afghanistan, and you said, I really like that rifle. I want that rifle, it would not be difficult for you to make. You could remake that rifle, or you could have a competent gunsmith like myself remake that rifle for you. The only difference will be in the capability of the trigger system. Some very few DMRs have a select fire trigger. Most of them have a nicer trigger on them, but usually a designated marksman's rifle doesn't have any need or use for a three round burst or a fully automatic trigger, so usually they stick to a really nice two stage or one stage, really crisp breaking lightweight trigger. So anyways, if you wanted to get yourself a DMR, it is not difficult to do. Basically, their rifles consist of the following. The AR tens have a heavy, accurized or match grade seven to six to two NATO threaded barrel. The barrels always have a muscle break or flash heighter combo. The usually have railed four ends for bipods or laser designators, possibly a flashlight. They usually have a stock with an adjustable cheek rest and length the pole. They usually have a shoulder pad, sometimes sometimes no scope riser, and for the AR tens, they will sometimes be seen with a u NERDAL ten X scope or a loopholed Mark four M three scope Okay that is for the AR ten. Sometimes these scopes are on an accurized M fourteen or M twenty five from speaking for the armory, also known as the M one A. That's the civilian version, but again the civilian version is not going to be select fire. There are also designated marksmans that use match grade heavy barreled M sixteen A threes. Usually, obviously those are going to be in five five six NATO. Most of these M sixteen's are going to be topped with a either a trigicon, a COG four X scope, or a loopholed four X scope. Most of the time, those are what they're going to be topped with because the the range of the M sixteen A three or the five five to six caliber is not going to be quite as long as the seven to sixteen NATO or the three zero eight. Okay, so they don't need a ten X scope. A four X scope can't get the job done for them. Now, these marksmen are usually known to favor the heavier bullets in their match grade DMRs. The ones that are using them sixteen A three. Sorry I should have been more specific. The guys using the M sixteen A three's with the tragacon or the loophol four X They they're known to favor heavier bullets in their match grade DMRs bullets like the sixty nine grain Cerra match King or the seventy seven grain Cerra Special Match seventy five grain and sixty eight grain Hornity match Grade, the hollow point bolt tail version eighty grain nozzler match grade bullets. Hell, there's even ninety grain Cerra match Kin hollow point boat tails. Okay, there are quite a few heavy bullets for the five, five six or the two two three, and these guys love them. It's pretty easy to see why the two two three five five six could be used as a DMR. Now, imagine that level of accuracy, a very heavy bullet and a massive thirty round, sixty or even one hundred round capacity. Now, if you want to think about that and then consider how easy it would be to keep heads down as a soldier. You know, you've got a whole bunch of bad guys running up on you, or you're covering your squad while they make entry into a home or whatever. Having those heavier bullets that capability, along with a larger magazine capacity can really save lives, especially in those situations. So one of the things that I do want to mention is the squad automatic weapon with a high capacity and simple scope is nothing new, though it is not a new concept, Okay, A squad automatic weapon is a rather old concept. Actually. The Russians use what's called an RpK seventy four M. That is the five four five caliber version of the RpK. The M stands for modernized, and then it means that it has polymer furniture on it. It's got a standard full league stock, the upgraded polymer mags, so on and so forth. Now you remember I mentioned a higher capacity. Well, the RpK seventy four M and the RpK seventy four both use forty five round mags and those are the standard size for the RpK seventy four and the RpK seventy four N Okay, Now that is what they would refer to as a squad automatic weapon, whereas our guys, the US military, we have a squad autumnic weapon two something comparable to what they use. Now keep in mind that the RpK seventy four can be mounted with the scope. But the one I'm going to go a little off topic here, but the American squad automatic weapon is a combination belt fed, magazine fed rifle. Now, if you've heard of an American soldier talking about a saw, that is what they're talking about. The squad automatic weapon. It's made by FN and the Fabrician Nationale calls it the minime ni am I minime. I know, that's really funny. If you've ever seen Austin powers, it's not mini me, it's minime. Okay. Anyways, back at it. So that is the American squad automatic weapon. And then we've got the Russian squad automatic weapon. And of course, like we were saying, we've also got the American designator Markman's rifle. Now I could go into what the Russians use as a designator Marksman's rifle, and I just might you never know. But like I was saying, the our belt fed or mag fed saw machine guns are a little different obviously, because you know, they have the ability to accept a mag or a belt, whereas the RpK seventy four can't accept belts. It accept mags only. But you probably would be shocked to find out that the Russia and the USA have a lot of firearms and weapon platforms in common. And bet you would be shocked to find that out at all. The M sixteen or the M four and the AK forty seven or the AK seventy or the AK seventy four and the AK seventy four s U, the M two forty Bravo or the M sixteen ees and the RPD are Springfield Armory twenty one twenty five or an accurized M fourteen and its counterpart, and the Soviet Dragon Off or the Soviet SVD. A lot of firearm doctrine are very very similar. The reason I think these various parallels exist is because of fighting doctrine and the techniques that are used are very very similar, so similar weapons platforms are needed to accomplish certain mission types. Now that's my personal opinion on this. I could be wrong, but that's the way that I think, or that's the reason that I think they are the way that they are. Anyways, back to the long range side of things. All Right, we've only got about ten minutes, so I got to get through as much as I can and then I'll have to finish up the rest next week. Okay, all right, So long range AR fifteens are a neat beast so cool in fact, that the original AR fifteen had a twenty inch barrel. Let's see. Oh man, the chart room always makes me laugh. Anyways, the Air fifteen had a twenty inch barrel. Originally, that twenty inch barrel was used to squeeze as much ballistic potential out of the Air fifteen sixteen as possible. The speed of the five five six NATO fifty five Grande rounds out of a twenty inch barrel can easily exceed three thousand feet per second. Now, I know that we were just talking about heavier bullets, sixty nine grain, sixty eight grains, seventy seven grain, even ninety grain cra matchkinks. I know we were just talking about heavier ones, but I figured I would mention the fifty five grain rounds. They can easily exceed three thousand feet per second. It's a very easy feed for them to do. Now, if you hit any living thing with a bullet going that fast, even a smaller fifty five grain two two three or two to four inch diameter bullet, you will impart a significant level of damage to that target, be it a deer, a wolf, or some other kind of troublesome to leg an animal. You are going to put a heck of a lot of energy into that target. Okay. So if you're looking to build a decent long range AR fifteen, here are some things you can do. You don't necessarily have to use a twenty inch barrel, but you can if you want to, You can use eighteen inch, but if you want to be an originalist, twenty inches is where it's at. Okay, assuming that we're talking about building a two two three Remington or five five six NATO caliber AR fifteen like we have been, make sure that when you build that rifle that, above all else, you get a good quality barrel, like a Ballistic Advantage or Kreger. Those are two really good barrel companies. There are plenty of others, but Kreeger and Ballistic Advantage are two of my favorites. Okay, so spend the money on a good quality barrel. Next, I would go for a quality trigger. Really, yes, a good quality trigger. Okay, you're going to want something that is two stage. I would say something I forgot what the oh, never mind, I'll get into the trigger in a little bit. But you want a good quality trigger, okay, and a good scope. All right. The rest is pretty much side show. So we had a good quality barrel, a good quality trigger and a good quality scope. All right, The barrels I like for accurate ars are almost always going to be stainless steel now, and a lot of people are like, oh, you need the carbon steel barrel with the chrome lining, blah blah blah. Okay, The reason is the reason I'm choosing the stainless steel barrel is when you have a non stainless barrel most of the time, the barrel will have a chrome lining, of course, right, and that chrome lining can be flawed. Okay. Chrome doesn't have to be perfect when it's put on, all right. Chrome lining can be flawed, So the rifling under the chrome lining also can't be cut as precisely as the rifling in a stainless steel barrel because they have to leave a tiny bit of room for the chrome lining. Okay, then, don't get me wrong. Air fifteens with chromeline barrels can easily be tack drivers. Okay, do not email me about your angry tirades with you know, talking about how your air fifteen with chromeline barrel is a tack driver. I know it's possible, but building your air fifteen with the stainless steel barrel will give you more accuracy potential, or that has been my experience. All right, your results may vary. So what about twist rate? I would suggest either one in eight or one in seven twists, so that way you can run lighter bullets like the fifty five grain that we were just talking about, or you can run in the chat room that I've just asked if they can do angry tiraids in the chat room instead. Yes, you can do angry tiraids in the chat room. That's fine, all right, Where was I? I'd suggest either a one to eight or a one to seven twist so you can run lighter or heavier bullets like the fifty five grain or the ninety grain or the seventy seven grain that we were just talking about. Okay. As you may know from my previous shows, the one in nine twist ar fifteen barrels are much better suited for light weight bullets like the fifty five grain, So I prefer a longer, stronger barrel to max out my velocity, So I would go with the eighteen inch or the twenty inch. I would probably prefer the twenty inch. In fact, that's not probably. I would definitely prefer the twenty inch because I want maxi ballistic potential. You've probably also seen twenty four inch varmin barrels, but I don't really think we need a twenty four inch barrel for two two three. That's just me. I would also suggest you get it when you order it, or when you buy the barrel, you get it with a two two three wild chamber, so you can run two two three or five five six cartridges safely. Okay. I would definitely suggest you do that all right. Now, when you're shopping for the barrel, be sure that you get a decently thick contour to the barrel Okay, heavy or at least a medium weight profile. You do not want a pen it sold barrel. You definitely do not want that, all right, and that yes, you are correct. The one to seven twist would give you more revolutions while in the barrel. Okay, it's a faster twist rate. Ah, where was that? You don't want a pencil barrel. Pencil barrels will give you too much barrel whip during use. If you don't know what barrel whip is, look it up online. Look for YouTube videos. You will see what barrel whip is. Okay, now we have our stainless steel barrel. It's a kreager, is a ballistic advantage. It's one of the nice barrels. It's stainless steel. It's either eighteen or twenty inches long. It's got a heavy or a medium profile. It's got the two two three wild chamber like we talked about. And if I have to tell you to get one with a threaded muzzle and a decent crown or a target crown, I'm gonna be mad. Okay, So we have our barrel specs, the upper and lower. Honestly, you don't have to get matching ones. You don't have to get, you know, some kind of special upper and special lower. It's not a big deal. You can mix and match if you want, if that's all you have, or you can get a match set if you want to too. It's really up to you as far as the upper and lower go. Okay, just get a decent brand like aerow Precision or Spike's Tactical BCM, any other really decent upper and lowers, Okay, something like that. Let's see here. If you can only afford something like an Anderson or something like that, that's probably fine too. Those are a little bit cheaper, and I'm sure they're probably fine. But if we're trying to build a precision instrument, you probably want to get a decent foundation for it, you know, like I was saying, with the arrow precision or the spice tactical or whatever. All right, the furniture again, it really doesn't matter, but keep in mind the come factor. You may want to adjust your cheek. Well, you may want to adjust the length of poll or the lop, so keep that in the forefront of your mind. The four end may you may want the fore end to have the capability of attaching a bipod, so you may want to go with an m lock or a Keemond type four end. The choice is yours, though. Okay, there's about a million good muzzle break flash hider combos, or good muscle breaks or good flash hiders. Okay, so get a good one. One of the ones that I like a lot. And this is the last thing I'm gonna say before I leave. I like the VEG six Epsilon five five six, okay, from a company called VG six Precision. That's Victor Golf six Precision, Victor Golf six Precision. Okay, it's tough as hell, made from seventy to four pH he treated stainless. It's tuned for the five five six already. It's got one half by twenty eight inch threads or one happ inch by twenty eight threads, so you can screw it right on. Make sure you time it correctly, but you should be able to put it on, no problem. Okay, just follow the dogon directions. And it only weighs two point five ounces, so that's a good one to get. They're available over at VG six precision dot com. Okay, very very easy to find, very very easy to use. All right, man, we are out of time. So next week I will tell you about stocks furniture a little bit more. I'll get you a little bit deeper into what kind of a trigger I would suggest that you get for your long range R We'll talk about the glass, the type of scope you want to get, different types of radicals. We'll also talk about a little bit deeper in about some of the AMO types and what the stuff that I like for the two two three or the five five six platform. All right. Other than that, that's it, man, We've run out of time. Thank you, thank you, thank you for joining us tonight. I hope you guys learned a lot. If you guys ever want to try your hand in podcasting, message James on prepperbroadcasting dot com and ask James about the Friday Night Open Bunker Night. Okay. Speaking of which, don't forget to check out the Friday Night Open Bunker Night Tomorrow night, Okay, don't forget to check out Saturday Night's Family Affair Show. Don't forget to check out my Buddy Ryan on Tuesdays or the Next Generation, and don't forget to check out James on Iron Liberty on Wednesday nights. Check them all out, guys, you'd be glad you did. Thank you for joining us tonight. We'll be here next week as we restock the Armory full of five five six AMMO and long range ars deep inside the gun Metal Armory. 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