What have you done to your AR(s) today?

**Stickman** · 02-11-18, 17:11

Originally Posted by m24shooter

Picked up a Blast Shield over the weekend while out of town.

Who makes that one? It is pretty decent looking, I like it.

**WTF?Shane** · 02-11-18, 17:16

Late post for yesterday:

Test fired 9mm build. I need to buy more ammo to see what works best.

**Stickman** · 02-11-18, 17:23

Slapped this together for a buddy today.

**m24shooter** · 02-11-18, 17:37

Originally Posted by Stickman

Who makes that one? It is pretty decent looking, I like it.

That’s the SilencerCo ASR Mount Blast Shield. It’s fairly stout. Not as heavy as the Warden, but same concept.

**Diamondback** · 02-11-18, 17:38

Originally Posted by Stickman

Why you no GL/SSC bro?!

Because not all of us have insider connections...

(Besides, if it works out as I hope it will and the weight-and-balance mockup suggests, once finished the current "Mk 18 Mod Briefcase" build should fill the Home D/"1911 inadequate but 16" carbine too unwieldy" spot on my dance card adequately for me to stand between the invalid rels and any would-be home invader with.) Since you said it "out-Mk 18's the Mk 18," if things progress beyond an entry in my Conceptual Builds spreadsheet I'm stuck between fighting with justifying budget for a single-use tool and going with the URX II "alternate configuration" URG allegedly used by West Coast SEALs or just trying to find out the barrel specs and just build a 12.5 pistol around milspec barrel and BCG... I think you mighta mentioned a Centurion quad as not-quite-but-similar once, so I've been looking at their catalog for ideas too.

Stick, here's a brainteaser for ya as an owner: If you were designing a 12.5" URG for the same set of mission requirements but taking advantage of today's technologies, and were using only cash-and-carry COTS components, which handguard would you use? My first rookie guess would probably still be a quad because trying to mount an M203 or M320 on Keymod or M-Lok rails adds another point of failure... (While I have no need of a GL and am not outdoorsy to even use a flare for signaling, and won't be going into suppressors unless HPA passes, as noted when I do a build I like to try to stick as close to proven mil-issue setups as I can and do just enough adapting to fit my needs.)

That Noveske/Centurion pistol build's pretty slick, BTW. 8.5"?

**Diamondback** · 02-11-18, 17:46

Originally Posted by m24shooter

That’s the SilencerCo ASR Mount Blast Shield. It’s fairly stout. Not as heavy as the Warden, but same concept.

Ever tried an Indian Creek BFD, and if so how's the ASR compare for performance? Between light sensitivity and builds oriented for indoor-CQB, I've been looking at blast deflectors as "poor man's suppressor stand-ins" but haven't really been able to find any comparative performance data.

**m24shooter** · 02-11-18, 19:10

Originally Posted by Diamondback

Ever tried an Indian Creek BFD, and if so how's the ASR compare for performance? Between light sensitivity and builds oriented for indoor-CQB, I've been looking at blast deflectors as "poor man's suppressor stand-ins" but haven't really been able to find any comparative performance data.

No, sorry but I haven't. I've shot the SureFire Warden and it did a good job. I haven't had a chance to shoot the SiCo yet since I just got back into town.