Wise choice. I have two of each and enjoy shooting both but I do prefer the mid-lengths, but mostly for more rail for hand placement. Throw a Battlecomp on her and you won't regret it.
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ive got just over 500 rounds in a day thru my dd carbine with not one failure. mixed ammo wolf and brass cased fedral
Careful with that combo. Mixing steel and brass ammo in the same shooting session, without a thorough chamber scrubbing, is a recipe for getting a stuck case. You can get away with it with true 5.56 chambers, but not so much in 223 chambers, but it can still happen. Definitely don't do that in a class. It will be an exercise in frustration when stuck cases suddenly repeat over and over again.
that was one of the reasons i did it. it ran the wolf flwless. so i said lets mix it up. its the new polymer coated stuff and my dd barell is stamped 5.56. but it ran great
I'm seriously investigating the mid-length system, but the carbine AR is a known quantity with years of service and the mid-length is not. Logically, it sounds like the mid-length would be more durable and reliable, but then again maybe not. It's still not a full length gas system. Maybe the mid-length rifle's bolt lasts 3,000 rounds longer than a carbine's bolt? Maybe it's a negligible difference? Until I see some actual data I say it's a matter of preference also.
Run your carbine with a LMT enhanced bolt, H buffer and M16 carrier, change cam pin from time to time and your carbine will outlast a middy with a standard bolt, car buffer and semi carrier by a lot. Parts play a larger role in durability. I guess a middy with good parts would out last it but the barrel would be shot out before this happens.
IMO gas port erosion is the big killer for ARs in general.
I don't understand why when making barrels really short manufacturers don't go ahead and modify the dwell time on the carrier. For the same effect of carbine vs mid gas sytem and the impulse delay, you can add this to to the cut in the carrier in the "dwell" time to get the same effect. You have to be careful because soon the extractor pin that is held in by the bolt group begins to stick out when the bolt is forward but then you just have to step this to keep it in while the bolt is sticking out of the carrier. That is if you go that far, just add enough dwell time to keep it retained and see what that gets you. :big_boss: