{"id":3187,"date":"2014-01-29T11:17:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T17:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=3187"},"modified":"2014-01-29T11:17:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T17:17:18","slug":"gun-porn-finally-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=3187","title":{"rendered":"Gun Porn: FINALLY!! Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the holidays I sold the <a href=\"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/2013\/01\/14\/gun-porn-fde-edition\/\">FDE Magpul Fanboy AR<\/a> I built last year. The plan was to take the money from that sale and put it towards an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advanced-armament.com\/MPW_p_628.html\">AAC MPW 9&#8243; AR<\/a> factory SBR. Look at the parts on that puppy and tell me it&#8217;s not worth it. It&#8217;s a great rifle at a great price.<\/p>\n<p>But then&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Talking about my plans with several people, I decided to go in a different direction:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_3925.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_3925-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3925\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3188\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a .308 Remington 700 AAC-SD. I&#8217;ve basically been talking about getting a 700 in 308 since Clinton was President, and since I have a .30 caliber suppressor I&#8217;ve been eyeing this one for a while.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3189\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3189\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_3926.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_3926-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Mmmmm.....Factory Threaded Barrel\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3189\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mmmmm&#8230;..Factory Threaded Barrel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>When these first came out, they came from the factory with an AAC Blackout flash hider\/suppressor adapter. I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;ve come like that for a while, but I didn&#8217;t really notice it until a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Astute readers may remember that my friend James has an older version of this rifle and that <a href=\"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/2013\/07\/30\/range-report-review-of-the-nikon-p-223-and-other-stuff\/\">I was disappointed in the trigger<\/a>. I&#8217;m not sure if his has this, but the newer ones have an adjustable trigger from the factory.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3190\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3190\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_3927.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_3927-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"That hex screw adjusts the trigger weight.\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3190\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">That hex screw adjusts the trigger weight.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be a little while before I actually get this out to a range. I&#8217;ve already ordered the YHM Brake that fits my suppressor, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00162JKH0\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B00162JKH0&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=gucaante-20\">cheek rest<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=gucaante-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B00162JKH0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, and this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003G2S6J6\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B003G2S6J6&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=gucaante-20\">soft case\/shooting mat combo<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=gucaante-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B003G2S6J6\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, but I still need a scope mount, good rings, and a decent scope. I&#8217;ve set about a $600 budget for all of those things and may decide that I need a gunsmith to install the mount because it may require bedding. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to getting it all set up. This is a new discipline for me, Appleseed notwithstanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the holidays I sold the FDE Magpul Fanboy AR I built last year. The plan was to take the money from that sale and put it towards an AAC MPW 9&#8243; AR factory SBR. Look at the parts on that puppy and tell me it&#8217;s not worth it. It&#8217;s a great rifle at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}