Need Advice on a 7.5" Pistol with 10" rail

[Sticky]

Go with the 10.5" bbl and your rail... I have a 7.5" 223 pistol and if I had it to do over I'd have gone a few inches longer. I like the compactness, but it does pack quite a bark.. and some flames too..

I've learned to like it, but it took a bit.. lol

I added a linear comp and that helped a lot, but it's not 3" long, only about 2".

[JusticeM4]

Go with the 10.5" bbl and your rail... I have a 7.5" 223 pistol and if I had it to do over I'd have gone a few inches longer. I like the compactness, but it does pack quite a bark.. and some flames too..

I've learned to like it, but it took a bit.. lol

I added a linear comp and that helped a lot, but it's not 3" long, only about 2".

Yes, i'll probably be going with a 10.5" at this point. its a bit more expensive, but the payoff is worth it and I'm still getting some useful velocity for that length, and also carbine gas.

I don't mind the muzzle blast of short guns. I have a Draco AK and a Mosin M44 so I'm quite used to the recoil and flames

[Djstorm100]

You can remove the stock and keep the buffer tube like it is and be good to go no?


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[JusticeM4]

You can remove the stock and keep the buffer tube like it is and be good to go no?


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AFAIK, yes you can remove the stock no problem. as long as the lower has never been installed with a complete upper, you are free to do as you wish with the lower. The upper that I have in the picture is obviously incomplete.

[Sticky]

Many will use paracord to wrap the std M4 stock tube to make it a bit more obvious that it cannot 'easily' be converted to an SBR by simply sliding on a stock, which many of us also have as a spare part in our inventory of parts for AR's.

I did this to one of my pistol builds (the 300blk) that used a std M4 tube.

And yes, to build a pistol from a lower it must not have ever been installed on a long barreled upper receiver. You cannot convert a rifle to a pistol, but you can do it the other way around if you want (pistol can be converted to a legal 'non nfa' rifle (unless you get a stamp for the nfa variant))

[DS-11B]

Exile Machine also produces rubber carbine buffer tube covers that work nicely as well. Paracord is one route, this is another.