Like Sig?
It’s lighter in recoil but I have pinned MAAMs so I’m sure that does help with that.
I really think it’s the barrel more so than anything else. The carrier is heavy but it doesn’t seem heavier than my G36/SL8 conversion or 805 Bren.
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Like Sig?
It’s lighter in recoil but I have pinned MAAMs so I’m sure that does help with that.
I really think it’s the barrel more so than anything else. The carrier is heavy but it doesn’t seem heavier than my G36/SL8 conversion or 805 Bren.
Not that it applies to me but you can purchase a 6.8 APC barrel assembly directly from Bushmaster which is pretty cool.
This was one of the coolest concepts as the Masada its a shame it didnt work out in reality.
Biggest problem I've had with mine is poor fit of mags to mag well. Shooting monopod prone often causes the mag to hit the bottom of the bolt carrier. This will shave material off plastic mags and shave finish and/or deform metal feed lips. Along the same lines, the feed lips are unsupported in the ACR so rounds can pop out during an open bolt reload.
In the ACR's defense, the gun was designed and spec'ed around the original Magpul magazine. The one that was too big for some brands of AR and wouldn't always drop free. As Magpul has tweaked the PMAG over the years, the ACR has failed to evolve.
Everything about the ACR barrel assembly is custom, so nothing was "laying around", it was all intentional. You should have felt the anger in the room during our pre-SHOT 2009 Bushmaster/Magpul meeting when the Magpul team learned the specs of the gun. We were PISSED. Example of one exchange I remember:
Magpul: "Why did you specify 1:9 twist?"
Bushmaster: "That's our best selling twist rate."
Magpul: "That's your ONLY twist rate!"
Yeah unfortunately things like this kind of doomed the ACR from the start, at least to the public’s eye. Yet in ways it was ahead of its time. Now everyone accepts nitride/qpq/melonite as a good barrel treatment, but back then people were livid that the barrel was not chrome lined.
Why the M4 profile than? At least on a civilian AR, the M4 profile, while basically useless....is at least..kind of an established, recognizable feature of AR platform weapons. But on the ACR it seemed just *completely* illogical. I mean the "step" was almost hidden by the handguard IIRC.
I think that's why I always bought the anecdote that Bushmaster was just using existing stuff they had surplus amounts of.