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Give Me the Eyes of an Eagle.The Courage of a Lion and the Balls of a Combat Helicopter Pilot. ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
I guess I'll be one of the few who actually likes the idea and concept of piston guns. While I don't presently own any piston guns, I have owned an LWRC upper along with a few different AA piston kits and I really like them. Are the necessary for what I do? No, but I do feel more comfortable using steel cased ammo than I would in a DI gun. Ironically both of my current uppers are DI guns.
At the end of the day you can't save people from themselves. I've had three guys ask me for input on buying an AR. I told all three to start with a 6920, and two of the three did. The other was originally obsessed with buying a piston, so I visited a gun shop with him and put a 6920 in his hands and at that point he seemed to "get it." Long story short, he ignored all advice and ended up buying a DI frankengun that blew up in his face on his first outing to the range with it -- luckily he wasn't injured.
“Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils.”
- General John Stark, July 31, 1809
Give Me the Eyes of an Eagle.The Courage of a Lion and the Balls of a Combat Helicopter Pilot. ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
I've never been one to walk around with blinders on and be a "Fanboy" of anything in particular. I like my S&W M&P,s (handguns and MSR's) I also have a fair number of Colts,Ruger's,Remington's and a few other High end weapons in my collection. I have found nothing wrong with the piston driven MSR's (AR's) and have also moved up to the MSR's in 308. Not much standard/compatable getting into the 308 MSR's (my standard is they (308) can use the same PMag-Magpul mags. Anyway,I do enjoy the piston driven weapons and think we will be seeing more people adding them (not replacing DI's) as time goes on. "Most" of the people I have asked about them,have never even held one let alone shot one. It's always been "Well it's what I was told or read about them" is why I don't like them.![]()
Give Me the Eyes of an Eagle.The Courage of a Lion and the Balls of a Combat Helicopter Pilot. ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
Reminds me of the term "Askhole", they ask for your thoughts and go there own way anyway.
I too find my myself limiting the advice I offer to people who seem to actually be willing ask for it...what they do with it after that is their business.
As for AA...I do not own one, or any piston for that matter, but I have toured their plant here in FL, and I have participated in a T&E of one of their uppers. They certainly seem to me to a quality operation making quality products and I don't think I would be upset with someone for buying one of their rifles. Now they could have been lying to me, but from what I was told, their return rate is extremely small, and they said about half of what is returned wasn't working properly due to user error, things like wrong buffer weight, etc.
All your piston hate aside Adams Arms stuff is good to go. I have 3 AA uppers, one of has been being ran for about the last 4 years and has around 7k through it...no issues. If you are buying a piston gun AA is a good choice.
The product of my research when I wanted to buy my first AR (post deployment, so I had money to burn) was an LWRC. It shoots great, and I've taken it to some courses and a competition or two, but my God is it heavy... the thing is an absolute boat anchor compared to my DI gun.
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