Moonlight Again
06-11-14, 23:39
Gents:
I'm facing a dilemma. I'm interested in joining the modern age and switching to a free floated handguard for my rifle, but I'm not sure which way to go. Where am I now? Since I'm only interested in the upper receiver group, I'll ignore the lower receiver (except to say that it's a BCM lower receiver).
The upper receiver group is, I think, a damn fine setup. It's a BCM Gov't profile 16" middy, with Magpul handguards. There aren't really any flies on this . . . except that it's not a free floated setup, and it's a little bit heavy, and I'm interested in maximizing it.
Option 1. Suck it up, you wussy. In the Corps (long ago, far away, POG, peacetime), I could make regular consistent hits on center mass at 500 meters from a good solid prone with a rifle set up with handguards, and that's plenty of accuracy, and this Bravo middy is lighter by a good bit than the A2. What, you think you're an operator or something? Stick with what you've got, and if it's too heavy, hit the gym, or hit your face and push.
Option 2. Modify what you've got. Just like driving a car off the lot, your upper receiver group depreciated 20 to 30 percent when you popped the first primer. Pull the barrel, send it to ADCO for an overall slimming down, and have them chop the FSP while they're at it, and then put on a ALG or KMR 13" rail.
Option 3. Sell and build. You know, someone out there will appreciate a lovingly used (sub-800 round, no mag dumps) BCM 16" Gov't profile middy, and you could sell the entire upper, then put together a 16" Sionics middy lightweight barrel w/Geissele gas block, a Rainier non-f/a upper and a ALG M-lok rail, or the KMR if you're feeling really froggy and cutting edge, and you're really only running a Streamlight TLR on it anyway. (This part list can be fiddled with.)
Option 4. Sell and go turnkey. Dude, you must be high. Bravo Company has ELW fluted 16" upper receiver groups in stock this very moment, with a 13" KMR, for a slim beard hair over $700, and Grant's got the unfluted for less than that. Get that and never look back. You could wrench together the parts, but you know BCM will do a bang up job and it's a turnkey solution.
Sometimes I over think things. What does everyone say?
I'm facing a dilemma. I'm interested in joining the modern age and switching to a free floated handguard for my rifle, but I'm not sure which way to go. Where am I now? Since I'm only interested in the upper receiver group, I'll ignore the lower receiver (except to say that it's a BCM lower receiver).
The upper receiver group is, I think, a damn fine setup. It's a BCM Gov't profile 16" middy, with Magpul handguards. There aren't really any flies on this . . . except that it's not a free floated setup, and it's a little bit heavy, and I'm interested in maximizing it.
Option 1. Suck it up, you wussy. In the Corps (long ago, far away, POG, peacetime), I could make regular consistent hits on center mass at 500 meters from a good solid prone with a rifle set up with handguards, and that's plenty of accuracy, and this Bravo middy is lighter by a good bit than the A2. What, you think you're an operator or something? Stick with what you've got, and if it's too heavy, hit the gym, or hit your face and push.
Option 2. Modify what you've got. Just like driving a car off the lot, your upper receiver group depreciated 20 to 30 percent when you popped the first primer. Pull the barrel, send it to ADCO for an overall slimming down, and have them chop the FSP while they're at it, and then put on a ALG or KMR 13" rail.
Option 3. Sell and build. You know, someone out there will appreciate a lovingly used (sub-800 round, no mag dumps) BCM 16" Gov't profile middy, and you could sell the entire upper, then put together a 16" Sionics middy lightweight barrel w/Geissele gas block, a Rainier non-f/a upper and a ALG M-lok rail, or the KMR if you're feeling really froggy and cutting edge, and you're really only running a Streamlight TLR on it anyway. (This part list can be fiddled with.)
Option 4. Sell and go turnkey. Dude, you must be high. Bravo Company has ELW fluted 16" upper receiver groups in stock this very moment, with a 13" KMR, for a slim beard hair over $700, and Grant's got the unfluted for less than that. Get that and never look back. You could wrench together the parts, but you know BCM will do a bang up job and it's a turnkey solution.
Sometimes I over think things. What does everyone say?