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    Tactical Latch for Charging Handle

    What Tactical Latch for Charging Handle does evertyone recommend? I like how the Badger Ordnance generation 1 & 2 look. Is one better than the other?

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    I really like the latch from the Gas Buster. I use the GB on suppressed guns and the identical latch on a standard charging handle on the rest of my guns.

    Brownells calls the latch the "Military Latch".

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    I like the same one Rob is talking about: PRI's "Military Big Latch." I don't have a Gas Buster, but I have a standard charging handle fitted with the Big Latch on my 10.5" LMT. I will eventually have them on all my ARs.

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    Another vote for the PRI latch...it's big enough to hit without being HUGE.

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    IMO, the Gen. I latches aren't that great and have a tendency to get caught on gear at the worst times. Gen. 2's are good and so is the PRI latch.

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    Another vote for the PRI "military" big latch.
    Full disclosure - I am an Engineering Supervisor at Trijicon, Inc.

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    Question

    Is there a latch that bolts on rather easily to POF's charger? I don't want to give up my electroless nickle charger!

    Bob

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    Quote Originally Posted by The_War_Wagon View Post
    Is there a latch that bolts on rather easily to POF's charger? I don't want to give up my electroless nickle charger!

    Bob
    Is the handle somehow different than a standard AR? If not, drive out the pin, slide new part in place, drive in new pin. Done.

    I can't think of a way that you'd be able to reliably keep any other kind attached.

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    Thanks, all. Think I'll go with the PRI big latch.

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    Question

    Just curious... is the "Gas Buster" useful? I don't recall ever experiencing "gas blowback". It has been over thirty years since I fired an M-16 (and now shoot AR-15s) and I was wondering under what circumstances you get gas blowback? (Of course, if this was a valid concern the cost would be justified.)

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