Best buffer - 16" middy?

[brianc3]

I run a standard A/1-A/2 rifle buffer in my 16" middy. Never missed a beat with a variety of ammo

[bkb0000]

how can that 9mm buff have 3.4 oz. of reciprocal weight if there are only pads in it?

the buffer body is steel, rather than aluminuminum. weighs boucoup.

[ra2bach]

the buffer body is steel, rather than aluminuminum. weighs boucoup.

ok, I get that. maybe the "reciprocal" part is messing me up. all the other buffers list a total weight and a reciprocal weight.

I read it as the movable weights - steel or tungsten - are doing the reciprocating.

if there's no weights in the 9mm buff, what's reciprocating? and why would the weight be different than the total weight?

[bkb0000]

not sure what "reciprocal" weight means in this instance.. i would imagine its something to do with the transfer of energy- which wouldn't require anything to move other than the buffer itself.

perhaps its the amount of weight not absorbed by the action spring- the amount of weight added to the overall recoil of the weapon?

randal has been posting again lately... since it's his picture, maybe we can get him to esplain it.

[hals1]

So.. I have a Bushnaster carbine with a non-H buffer, A BCM 16" middie with an H buffer and a BCM 20" rifle length with an H buffer (got the uppers and lowers separately). Maybe I should swap the buffers between the Bushmaster and the 20"? I did stake the key and the castle nut on the Bushmaster and upgrade the extractor spring , etc with a BCM kit. I plan on unloading the Bushmaster on a sucker.

Comments?

Hals1