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Thread: Handstops vs Vertical Foregrips?

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    Just my personal preference...

    On free float rails 10" or shorter I run the hand stop at the end of the rail flat side facing forward and ahead of the light that mounted on top. I do this so I don't over extend my grip and grab the barrel of FH and it allows reference to my light switch.

    On free float rail 12" or longer I like a hand stop with the flat side facing rearward and mounted below and behind the light mounted on top. I can grab the rail quickly and have my support hand stop and allow me to pull the rifle in tight while also putting my hand in position to reference my light. Only exception is the rifle my 9year old shoots, it is a 12.37" with a hand stop at the end so he can bench shoot it comfortably. It uses a TRL-1 mounted at 12 O'clock in front of the front sight.

    Non free float rails I prefer the KAC VFG as a hand stop of sorts. I place my pinkie and ring finger on the front face of the VFG and my middle and index finger under the rail and thumb against it. The light is usually mounted near my thumb so I can access it. I currently only have one rifle with a VFG and it's a Dissaptor with a KAC M5 rail.

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    Stubby but usable VFG. Useful for more than just grabbing like a chicken neck (PC analogy).


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    Quote Originally Posted by WS6 View Post
    Stubby but usable VFG. Useful for more than just grabbing like a chicken neck (PC analogy).

    Oh yeah, getting all tactical in the laundry room lol.

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    Thumbs up

    AVG - got me to gripping the front of my rifle correctly!
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    I like a vert grip. Right now I have a Magpul RVG; it has other handling uses over just an index position.

    Personally, I think it depends on how your support hand grips or drives the front end of the gun.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The_War_Wagon View Post
    AVG - got me to gripping the front of my rifle correctly!
    I said no avg recommendations lol.

    I grip my gun in the c clamp, thumb over bore, drive the gun method.

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    Dunno what rail you're running (if any), but as a hopefully helpful FYI, I just got this in the mail yesterday:

    http://www.brownells.com/shooting-ac...172-62440.aspx

    And it fits perfectly as a direct mount into the rail attachment screw hole on my CASV-S as well as provides exactly what I was hoping it would, a very unobnoxious hand 'stop'. I assume that since it's made for a YHM rail but fits my VLTOR rail that the screw/thread size is fairly standard so it might work for you as well, again, depending on if you even have a rail that has rail attachment screw points.

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    Quote Originally Posted by britishtq View Post
    I said no avg recommendations lol.

    I grip my gun in the c clamp, thumb over bore, drive the gun method.
    This can still be accomplished with an avg, if it's a tool that works, why be so against it?
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    Quote Originally Posted by WickedWillis View Post
    This can still be accomplished with an avg, if it's a tool that works, why be so against it?
    Not to pick on you specifically but simply to give an example for all those suggesing foregrips, the OP already said no foregrips in the OP as well as even explained why in post #7.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ColtSeavers View Post
    Not to pick on you specifically but simply to give an example for all those suggesing foregrips, the OP already said no foregrips in the OP as well as even explained why in post #7.
    I was referring directly to the C-clamp thumb over bore, drive the rifle grip he was mentioning in the post that I quoted.
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