My brother and I expanded our range to 275 yards and hired earth moving equipment to make an L shaped berm. We want to make a two gun course of fire range that has a move n shoot through kill house. He has a pile of railroad ties and we have access to some stringer pallets that are 72 in x 48 in which would make decent walls. I dunno, looking for ideas from those with marred brass deflectors and grass/dirt stains on their gear. (I too would like to have more of all those hence the range building)

Was even more pleased that they have a skin that looks like HK RAL8000 (aka baby poop beige) But this thing does work at close to medium range. Here's a short clip of me running around Esperanza being an absolute menace to Castillos "special forces".

Found these photos from 20 plus years ago when I had my first rifle, a Bushmaster XM-15 E2S. I remember having this carry handle scope and can't for the life of me remember who made it. It had a blue ring around the front quarter of the scope. Resolution is way too low on the photos to discern any text.

Wishing I had never got rid of that rifle. Still have the original Wyndham, Me mag though.

Not too much of a difference but enough to give it that extra US Govt patina. Added one modern upgrade with a new set of Trijicon tritium sights. Have a Microbest BCG and an FN Chromed CHF 1:7 NATO barrel. I also thought it was a rifle deserving of housing the magazine from my very first rifle, a very pre 2011 16" Bushmaster XM-15 E2S. Have had that mag around for the past 22 odd years. Added a cut down barrel flashlight mount in the FSB where I'll probably add my 6P with a Weaver 1" ring. Still working that one out. Honestly, everyone should have a Eugene Stoner Musket in their safe. It's a nice rifle.

Need suggestions on a good sling for the time period(s)

Decided to put together an FN CHF barreled H&R M16A2 with a little modern twist with a set of tritium sights. The rear flip sight has a slightly different surface profile where the bottom flat meets the little leaf spring. Made it real fiddly. Lower should arrive any day now.

Flashlight is just a generic Surefire 6P with Z32 LED head on it. Rigged up the tape switch battery cap from a clicky cap. If I like it there I'll probably try and find the real deal.

Barrel mount is the Amazon $8 special one cut down and filed to fit. I tossed the hardware that came with it because those screws were dogshit. Grabbed for Hillman replacements which look much nicer. I mean milled aluminum is milled aluminum. Plus the screws give it a closer look to the Surefire M14/M10 kit.

Ordered the 1 low matte Weaver rings directly from Weaver. Thankfully those aren't that expensive compared to the ones that came with the surefire kit. You know despite being the exact same thing basically (more or less).

So I decided that trying to make sure that the slot was the exact dimensions was a bit unnecessary because at the end of the day the only thing I want mounted this far back is a no lug single crossbolt BUIS. In this case it is a KAC 200-600 backup iron. So I made the slot wider by 2 mm and then placed it exactly where I wanted it. The wider slot serves a few purposes. Number one and differentiates it from the others as being unique and for different purposes. Second, It allows me to precisely align the backup iron over the charging handle the way I want. It also gives me a little bit of wiggle room in case the optic I'm mounting in front of it needs a little bit more or a little bit less room. Once the iron site is clamped down it's not going anywhere.

So basically I just got a square, measured the width of the cut and made two scratch lines across the top. I took my 32 teeth per inch hack saw blade and slowly worked my way through the aluminum down to the apex of the picatinny rail point. Then I took a Dremel tool grinder wheel and removed the material between the cuts making sure not to gouge or touch my nice clean side cuts. Then, once I got the material down within a millimeter of the apex of the rail, I switched over to a flat file using the side to sort of scrub back and forth across the cut. Obviously the file is skinnier than my slot so I had to sort of yaw back and forth hitting most of the cut surface on each pass. This part took the longest since you really don't want to remove too much from the bottom or the sides. Another tertiary reason for the wider slot is my diamond finishing file is this width and it's all I had on hand so it worked out. I wrapped it in some 600 grit sandpaper and went to town. Got it smoothed out nice. Then hit it with some aluminum black and then a coat of Krylon Camouflage Woodland Light Green.

I get to keep my BUIS on the rear and also get some much needed eye relief for the optic. Genuinely happy with how it turned out using a combination of hacksaw and Dremel.

My Bushmaster A4 Flattop upper has picatinny rail slots that stop about an inch before the end of the actual rail portion which is kind of annoying. I really would like to have my optic 1 or 2 rail slots closer to my eye, and I wouldn't care if my KAC600 BUIS hung over the chonky Gasbuster charging handle. Even if it's not the correct spacing, having at least one more would allow the BUIS to move back a bit. Plus it wouldn't really ever be visible since I'd have the BUIS mounted to it.

MK18'ish rifle:

PSA lower, Daniel Defense upper, Ballistic Advantage 11.5" barrel and custom hand cut Daniel Defense RIS II 12.25" to fit 11.5" barrel, Comstock Armory Plan B birdcage flashider, ACOG TA31RCO w/ Larue QD mount, Holosun HS512C with HM3X magnifier, Magpul MIAD, Magpul AFG, SMS Laser HFXC, Knights Armament 600m micro BUIS, custom made Alice pack cam buckle and GP strap sling with Multicam Tropic 1" webbing, SOPMOD stock, Atrius Super Selektor, PSA Enhanced Polished Trigger Group, PRI M84 Gas Buster charging handle FDE, custom MCT Rapco paint job. Weight: 9 pounds 6 ounces.

MK12ish SPR:

H&R M16A1 lower, Ballistic Advantage 18" HBAR SPR barrel w/Ops Inc collar and Wolfpack Armory birdcage flashider, Daniel Defense 12" DDM4 LiteRail, Athlon Helos BTR GEN2 2-12×42 AHMR2 FFP IR MIL scope, Scalarworks Leap 07 30mm cantilever mount, Forcewerx RazorRest cheek riser, B&T Accu-Shot Monopod, B&T LW17 PSR Atlas Bipod, SureFire M640DF Scout Light. PRI M84 Gas Buster charging handle FDE, Knights Armament broomhandle VFG, Knights Armament 600m micro BUIS, custom made Alice pack cam buckle and GP strap sling with OD green 1" webbing, Hogue M16A1 style over molded grip, Rapco Field Drab Brown and Krylon Light Forest Green paint job. Weight: 13 pounds 10 ounces.

Not pictured:

LPM Torch suppressor cerakoted forest green for MK18ish (in jail) and Otter Creek Labs OCM6 flow through Ops Inc suppressor for MK12ish (when it releases later this year)