Alvin

With all due respect to Blowback9....with my light loads, 131PF, I had the brass dribbling out using an 8 ounce buffer plus stovepipe brass at times. Went back to 5.2 ounce buffer and it's now throwing the brass about 5 or 6 feet out with no stovepipes. 8 ounce buffer works well with factory ammo, but not with light handloads. At least that's what I found out with all four of my AR9s

I've got the plus 4 base pads from Taylor Freelance and they work perfect with my Canik magwell on my Rival. Same color as well. Two thumbs up!!

I thought that back in December during the board's information concerning the poll on rule changes they mentioned a membership of 36,000.

Check under shotgun technician.....vr80 shooters are using wraps to keep gases off of hand

What kind of issues?

BCM charging handle on all my ARs. I only need to use one hand, left, to charge or clear the gun.

Chrome on the bottom, black on the top for me

The ones that come with the SRO work just fine

I don't believe so. I don't have a magwell on mine and it fits pretty close to the receiver

I was little surprised to find no one had any comments. I was interested in the Black River Drum mag for the VR80, but I did go ahead and purchase one after watching a dozen reviews on it. And I must say that I'm impressed. Ran 100 rounds thru the drum last night it ran great! Following instructions of lube and it never hesitated at all. Anyone else trying this drum mag?

I recently sold my T&N 20round Promag drum mag as I wasn't confident that it would run 100% for shooting matches. I'm looking at a Derya import drum and also the Black River drum mags. Anyone running either of these in competition? Any feedback on drum mags for the VR80? Or are they more a range toy? My 19 rounder stick mags are 100%, but I was curious about the drum mags.

Run srp in my .38 super and sti .40 since day one. Use them in the pcc also. Chrono them with the pcc against spp....had less than 4fps difference, much to my surprise.

I've used only Metalform mags(same thing that Brownells sells) in my AR and haven't really had a problem in the past six years(with the exception of a FTF with one of my Hahn mag adapter, which has been corrected now). I did try a couple of the Taylor Freelance follower and springs in my 32 round Metalform mags that had been converted to a +10 extension that I purchased from Taylor Freelance a number of years ago. They worked great! No problems with them at all. Wouldn't hesitate to use them...although if you use them in the regular 32 round mags you will lose a few rounds overall as they will not accept all 32 rounds with the newer spring in them. I just use them on the extended mags and can get 41 rounds in them. I have been avoiding the C products after reading about problems with them. I picked up 25 32 round magazines back when there were deals on them thru Palmetto Armory(I think the price was somewhere around $12-$13 at that time). The Metal form mags are heavy walled and the followers are metal and slip thru the magazines with no binds and plenty of room to move around so I don't expect any problems there either. Shooting partner of mine also uses the Metalform mags with no problems.

Should have replied back to this topic a month ago...sorry for those who were wondering what I found. Bottom line was that the Hahn mag block needed some attention. I swapped out the one I was using for a different Hahn mag block and everything went right back to working again. I've shot four matches with it now and no FTF at all. I also tried out a Macon Armory mag block(also the same one that KAW sells, it's made by the same shop) and it works great also, except for a little tight on some of the metalform mags. Talked with the guys at Hahn and they have had some mag blocks that had been worn out(a complete surprise to me) but at a much higher round count that I had(15,000 rounds). Mine was not worn out, but needed to be readjusted in the mag well, and I polished up the feed ramp a little with the dremel tool. Good to go now.

Thank you for all the replies!!