I'm trying to setup an AR for my DIL, who is quite petite. Also it will be used by my Granddaughter, shooting off a support for now, and my grandson who in a few more years will be able to start using it some. I searched and found a lot of good information on the subject here but I still have some questions I'm hoping y'all can help with.
In reading several of the post I never got a good fill for how light you can reasonably go. I used a digital fish scale to weigh a couple of my AR's and some of the light weight builds didn't really seem much lighter then my stock 6920MP at 6lbs 9ozs. Accepting that my scale my not be 100% accurate, but going with it anyway, here are my thoughts. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
1, I want to get it as light as I can in the front end, this seems to be the biggest complaint from the DIL as she has trouble holding it up steady.
2, I want to make it as smooth operating as possible, mitigate sharp recoil.
Here is what I have done so far to reach these goals.
1, I ordered a BCM 14.5 LW mid length pinned with BCM's comp. I don't wish to make it a SBR. Should be here tomorrow.
2, I'm going with a MOE handgruard. Already arrived.
3, I've ordered a H and H2 buffer to see which will work best to help smooth out recoil and remain reliable. Already arrived.
I haven't decided on a stock yet. Here's what I'm pondering on the stock. Go light to keep overall weight down, or go heavy to counter the front, making the weapon heavier but giving a feeling of a lighter better balanced fell.
Please comment with your advice on what else I can do, or if I'm going down the wrong road all together.
Thanks for your input.


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