ok let me start off by saying that my only knowledge of this platform is completely through you guys and the reading i have done on this forum...im the newbie but why do i feel like when i talk to most people at a gun range, (that have gun experience and should be knowledgable) they make me feel like i have more knowledge than them.
i mean i dont want to sound rude or like an ass or cocky...the people i have talked with today were very very nice people but i guess its like anything else, whatever they have is the best! i see it all the time in my profession...i play ball for a living and have to deal with people all the time that never played a lick and want to put their .02 in....everyone thinks they know what they dont know...so annoying....so maybe im being that guy but id like to think that i have been prepared at least with a great basic beginner knowledge of this platform by all the experts here.
so heres what happened....i am in florida for work for the time being and i had the day off...drove an hour to a pretty awesome range out around okeechobee....really cool place...shooting my new 16 in bcm middy for the first time because i just got my troy rear flip up sight in...a really nice guy sets in the lane beside me with his bushmaster carbine with carry handle and big ole eotech (i dont know which one it is...AA batteries one)
i make the mistake of not blue loctiting in the threads on the rear flip up so it falls off....dude beside me tells me how badly designed my rear sight is and how i need a carrying handle with rear sight bc thats how his was set up...so anyways i run up to the gun shop to try and buy some loctite...dude sends me to the gunsmith in the next door down...so i meet the dude...really nice guy...he persists on telling me how bad the set up of the troy sight is...so i just wear it...again because he is a nice guy...so now i have had two insults on my set up...the next insult comes when he asks me who makes my rifle....he had never heard of bcm...i wanted to be honest and i told him that i had no experience with the platform and had bought the gun from what i had read and researched on m4carbine.net...from YOU guys! ha...of course he had never heard of the website....not a fault by any means...he was an old dude...so he goes on to tell me not to believe everything i read.
so im headed towards insult number 3....he proceeds to show me the rifles he designs and sells...the heaviest ARs every....rock river arms and DPMS...so by now im chuckling inside...he shows me this rock river with stainless barrel...it had one of those foregrips on it that are solid metal and heavy? dont know what they are called? like the one on the shootrite katana...ha but i know thats a whole other can of worms...so anyways he had milled out the left side of the upper receiver and installed a charging handle to the bolt that made it possible not to have to drop the gun to charge or what not (is that ok? does that mess with the pressure in the chamber? recycling?) i dont know? but all i know is i havent seen it here on this site?
ok so im getting close to finishing my story....but next we began talking about muzzle brakes....i want one and i think it may be my next purchase....so i asked him about battlecomps...and what the process would be like for me to get one and get one installed on the gun...from his response i gathered that he had never heard of a bc...(this is a guy that has been in business for 20 somethin years!)...well he gives me this pitch on these muzzle brakes he makes, i think, and at least sells...he makes me follow him over to the other room and shows me this dmps (again, really freakin heavy) with this monstrous muzzle brake...like larger than a barrett .50 cals....im thinking seriously??? laughing inside....thank god he got side tracked with another customer so i proceeded to act like it the DPMS was interesting and told him thank for his time and took back off to the range...
oh and i never got any loctite...only had red...not even in the smith shop! got my troy screwed in tight and finished out the 300 or so rounds i had today!...
not knocking the place today...it was cool but i cant wait to meet someone like you people in person and gain a real knowledge of the platform...thanks for listening to my long story!
and this link here is the closest thing i could find on the net that resembles the muzzle break that he was telling me that i should get. it was ridiculously big...
http://www.parts4ar15.com/ar-15_acce...uct/BL-25.html
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