The AR platform is successful. No need to start messing with this success. :nono:
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The AR platform is successful. No need to start messing with this success. :nono:
No love for mid-length gas systems? A5 receiver extensions? These new fangled red dot scopes? :D
I like the idea of improvements and this sounds like a better solution than the all plastic lowers.
With all the advances in materials science I am sure this will not be the last of the "new material XYZ part" for the AR-15.
I am sure someone with money can get a lower made in a Metal Matrix Composite or CMC of some type.
It's a survival lower. Shave off a little in the bush and you have a fire starting method. :rolleyes:
Both practical AND gimmicky.
Aircraft components (the CH-46 helicopter, for instance has quite a few magnesium components) can be made strong and lighter than comparable aluminum assemblies. On the other hand magnesium is also more liable to corrode when exposed to maritime conditions (aircraft at sea and on ships).
My friend Larry "Bad News" B. was afloat on a Naval ROTC Cadet cruise the summer between his junior and senior years when a -46 crashed on the flight deck and burned. He has a melted magnesium blob that looks like a small pancake as a souvenir of that destroyed aircraft.