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I've been thinking about getting new mid length upper with a Wilson stainless 1/8 barrel and putting some 1-4x glass on top. My first inclination is to get standard mid length handguards and a standard front sight base. This will be for bench shooting at the range and maybe coyotes out to 150 yards.
Am I wasting my money on the stainless barrel if I don't go with free float? :confused:
One of the main things a freefloated barrel helps with is if you use a sling or anything else to put pressure on the barrel. If you just shoot off a sandbag with very little to no pressure up front i'd think you would be ok. With that said i would add a freefloated forend at some point. They arnt all really that expensive but do buy what you need quality wise.
BTW: My first 16" ar was a midlength RRA with the stainless 1:8 twist Wilson barrel. It shot great until i had it reprofiled. Now its opened up a little and less trigger time now doesnt help either. Lesson learned.
What kind of accuracy did you get out of the box with the RRA stainless?
With Federal Gold Medal 69gr i think and some PMC silver box (dont think the make it anymore) I would get around .5 to .75" 5 shot groups. That was with a scope at 100yds off a sandbag. Closer to .75" was more of the norm. Im sure it could have done better than that with a better shooter though. On occasion i did luck out with groups lower than .5" but i call that luck with my skill level.
I think for most people the accuracy of the RRA stainless h-bar is probably good enough and a pretty good buy. There are allot of options out now for a stainless midlength that wernt when i bought mine. Overall i would say i would buy it again but wouldnt reprofile it. Cryotreating may help my situation but i dont know if its even worth it cost wise.
BTW: The profile i had it turned to was a spr under the handguards and a m4 in front of the front sight base. I sent it off right when the assault weapon ban was being lifted to have the barrel threaded and reprofiled. I think my screw up was up front. I wish i would have left that front part alone even though it does look good and make the upper look shorter. I sent in a full scale drawing of what i wanted so the screw up was completly my fault. :(
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