14.5 LW Carbine - DD or BCM - Best Quality
Here's the meat of the question:
I'm looking to buy a complete factory 14.5 P&W gun and can buy either a DDM4V7 SLW or a BCM BFH ELW for the exact same price brand new.
The only real differences in the two are that the BCM has their Mod 1 comp, while the DD has a simple flash suppressor, and that the BCM is a set screw gas block while the DD is pinned.
In terms of ruggedness, reliability, and quality is one objectively better than the other?
Here's the fluff:
I'm trimming back to just a Gen 5 Glock 19 and this new 14.5 gun as I just don't have tons of time to shoot or tinker anymore with one toddler and one on the way. I have no desire to change muzzle devices or even triggers at this point.
Going to put my T2 and scout light on this carbine and be done.
Hopefully shoot once a month if I'm lucky and otherwise just forget the gun exists other than when I need it like a hammer or channel locks. Battery change yearly and that's it.
14.5 LW Carbine - DD or BCM - Best Quality
Ruggedness and reliability, objectively, the DD just for the fact that it’s gas block is pinned. That being said, I don’t recall ever hearing about a BCM gas block coming loose, and unless you’re shooting a lot of junkyard prone, I prefer hybrid muzzle devices. The BCM comp is my favorite (though I’ve only experimented with a few), so I’d absolutely pick that one.
I think BCM’s barrel profile is a more gradual taper than DD’s, so maybe there is something to an argument about durability there? I don’t know, probably splitting hairs.
ETA - I didn’t know DD did factory 14.5s with a p/w.
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