Originally Posted by
dmcmanus
Grant,
Only been on here a year, but this is the first time I have seen you stir up such a hornets nest when it comes to people just not wanting to hear what your saying, and going for the sting...;)
The more I learn about all AR-15 platforms is that buying the first attempt at any major "fix" seems like a bad idea. The platform itself has 40+ years of innovation that have helped it get to where it is today. The "hybrid" fixes (my term for the piston guns ext) are so new that they haven't even come close to passing the test of time. Which to me seems to be why you are being vocal. I agree.
What I would like to see is a test group of twenty-thirty of these rifles go out to a group like Magpul for the purpose of having them tested in a high capacity carbine class like environment. The goal? 7,000 + rounds fired through all of the rifles, each rifle stays with it's same user until the end of the experiment. No user has more then one rifle. An armorer is the one that cleans all of the guns, and does any fixes. I'm curious what the result would be.