New .300 Whisper build

[Howlin' Mad]

I've been lurking here a while and learning. I took what I learned and finally built something.

Rifle is a billet upper and lower with 11" barrel and 3 position gas block from TP555 and my YHM SS Phantom QD .30 suppressor. I threw on a Weaver 1-3X variable for load development.




Finally got this group at 50 yards. 10.9gr H4198 208gr Hornady A-max, 1052 fps average for 10 rounds with a called flyer. I managed a group of 1.5" at 100 yards (pic was bad). Not bad considering I was shooting from a card table with one of those triangular plastic rests and no rear support, and the crosshair was only slightly larger than the dot.



Hopefully with the 12X scope I have mounted and a good rest I can get well under MOA.


This is a great forum and everything I learned here made this a relatively easy project.

[este]

Did you attach pics?

I'm not seeing them if you did,

[Rustig]

More Pics please. Particularly of the gas block in the VTAC handguard. I have been wanting to do the exact same thing except 9" barrel in a 10" guard but have never seen it done before with an adjustable gas block.

Also, whose barrel are you using, and what gunsmith did the barrel work. I am very close to pulling the trigger on the project but it appears that most barrel manufacturers do not want to make me a wildcat AR barrel and are forcing me to just buy a blank and find a gunsmith.

Thanks

[Howlin' Mad]

I'll work on getting some more pictures up.

The barrel is a Douglas stainless steel blank, 1 in 8" twist, heavy configuration. It was made by Paladin Machining, tp555 is his user name on this forum. It was ready to install, I just mounted it in my upper. Very good price and good turnaround time when he got the blank in.

The gas block is manufactured by him and is a three position block, low pressure, high pressure and off.

[Howlin' Mad]

More pics as promised.

The handguard is the rifle length (12"). I tried the midlength (9") and the gasblock screw was inaccessible.







I marked the gasblock with a sharpie so I could see the setting better, the block came stamped.

Ignore the marks from the pliers on the gas tube, got it stuck in there once.

[Rustig]

I was just checking out the forums and noticed that I forgot to thank you for the nice pics that I requested and for the swift response. This definately helps me in my build planning. I owe many thanks to all those owners who are posting excellent data/pics/info on their projects. By the way... have you had your whisper out to solely test its accuracy capabilities yet? Just curious as to how it did? Thanks again!

[ohnomrbillk]

Tag for pics influencing my future build. Nice rifle!