My thoughts, precisely.
DPMS's quantity of sales is in no way a reflection of quality. Pretty common knowledge.
Hopefully you get your money's worth out of yours.
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That's all I was saying THANK YOU. I used colts overseas ,shot over priced BCMs and built a AR out spare parts and minus a new barrel and bcg and worked fine . ARs ar parts guns and it matters what parts you use. My colt M4 I had over's sea's was junk compared to my DPMS AP4. MY DPMS AP4 is a tac driver less than 1" at 100yds
The first AR I ever bought was a DPMS for like $600 off a friend. I ended up selling every part of that gun minus the lower receiver and turned it into a killer bullet launcher.
This strikes me as an attempt to mimic the intermediate length gas systems via a shortcut. Since DPMS doesn't have access to the proper gas tubes and they would be more expensive to procure, they just went with the readily available rifle length tubes. I suspect that it would be ammo & temperature sensitive, unless they really opened the gas port up. Even then, it would probably remain sensitive to weaker ammo and cold temps.
Sorry I don't have 10,000 rounds Down it yet......
Here we go again...
another "as good as" style thread that won't last long.
Why a rifle gas/16" rifle?
What is the advantage?
Just put on a Vltor A5 EMOD for smooth