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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14.5 LW Carbine - DD or BCM - Best Quality
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Originally Posted by
Tx_Aggie
On the DD? About 200 rounds, so not much. I think he had around 1000 total on the rifle before my time with it. I've only shot PRVI m193 through it, and it ran great, but I can't say how it would run on cheaper, lower powered ammo.
Apparently the stock trigger was garbage. The SSA in the gun now was of course perfectly fine.
Sorry, should have clarified - the Triarc.
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Originally Posted by
Walker_Texasranger
I’ve looked in to this a lot and I’m convinced people that report those things are misinformed or uneducated on them and here’s why;
Some people get the BCM comp expecting it to be a full on brake. They are then disappointed by it not performing like a brake for recoil control.
Some people buy them expecting them to perform like a Vortex flash hider and are upset when they aren’t the best at flash suppression.
You can’t avoid physics and flash suppressor/comp hybrids move on a scale. You can’t get awesome flash suppression AND comp/brake performance. Think of it on a slider scale. If you move towards compensation, you are moving away from flash suppression.
The BCM comp is a hybrid but skewed towards flash suppression. You get 25% less recoil compared to an A2 at the expense of a little more flash.
Something like a battlecomp is a hybrid but skewed towards compensation at the expense of more flash and concussion.
Want a badass brake to where the gun doesn’t move? Surefire SFMB but you are going to get fireballs and massive concussion.
Want awesome flash suppression but 0 compensation? Vortex flash hider or A2.
Or pick something in the middle but understand it’s a give and take.
Agreed. You’ll definitely hear and feel the BCM comp, especially if you’re standing off to the side. I’ve never noticed flash issues though (even in my limited low light shooting) and the few videos I’ve seen in low light look pretty good. It is more blasty than an A2 but I feel that it does a far better job at reducing recoil, better than my closed tine WarComp and FCD 6315, much less an A2.
ETA - also I’m pretty sure Centurion doesn’t p/w.
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