Project Featherweight

[Boss Hogg]

I recently saw this carbine. It's slick and GotM4 did everything he could to shave weight.

GotM4 built me an upper with a VTAC TRX 11" and CMMG 14.5" lightweight midlength with pinned Phantom. It's 5 lbs 9 oz w/o optics.

[Lumpy196]

That is an outstanding blaster man.

[JohnVassilakos]

Very cool. I think I might attempt something like this on my next build.

Did you look at the carbon uppers/lowers? I know BM used to build a carbon 15 that weighed around 4.3-4.5 lbs...not sure how well they hold up though.

[longrange18]

What about a Les Baer upper with no forward assist at all?

[Robb Jensen]

Weight ?

5.66lbs (90.6ozs)

Very cool. I think I might attempt something like this on my next build.

Did you look at the carbon uppers/lowers? I know BM used to build a carbon 15 that weighed around 4.3-4.5 lbs...not sure how well they hold up though.

I thought about those but haven't seen one that actually ran well. The barrels have proprietary barrel extensions so you have to use their barrels too.

What about a Les Baer upper with no forward assist at all?

I thought of using an upper that didn't have a forward assist but since I already had the flat top that I used which I had scavenged all the parts for another project. The ADCO forward assist plug was $5 IIRC.

[till44]

Very nice rifle. You gave me plenty of ideas for a "kid" build.

[QuietShootr]

My wife would still bitch about the weight.

[JohnVassilakos]

My wife would still bitch about the weight.

Paint it her favorite color(s).

Women tend to overlook something like the weight of a rifle if they like the looks of it (to a certain extent - obviously they won't care what color a .50 BMG is, they're damn heavy).

[BretShooter]

Paint it her favorite color(s).

A color match for shoes and purse?
j/k

[JohnVassilakos]

A color match for shoes and purse?
j/k

Hey, whatever it takes to get them shooting.

I let my wife hold my KISS rifle earlier and she complained that it was heavy. It's a basic 16" gun with no bells and whistles, not even an optic.

Of course, it was right after she had been practicing dry firing with her Ruger LCP so ANYTHING would have seemed heavy compared to that.