
Originally Posted by
77nodnarb
1. Anything "California Compliant" such as bullet buttons, anything "featureless", 10rd mag limits, or any other state-regulated handicap imposed for notional safety (unfortuntley I live in this communist/socialist shithole and as a result suffer with many "gay-R15 rules").
2. Cheap lights/lasers with coiled remote switches hanging sloppily off of the (usually wobbly) carbine length railed handgaurd. Your 10,000 lumen gun show table navy seal tactical light doesn't need a cable like the kitchen phone from my childhood home.
3. Grip pods. Hate em. That cubic foots worth of plastic up top at the mounting point makes them horribly unergonomic imo. Usually found mounted beneath the aforementioned wobbly handgaurd and fitted with a strip of sticky back velcro for the aforementioned tape switch.
4. Cheap "lame point" or "fake-cog" type optics that typically switch between green and red reticules. Invest in good glass or get good shooting with irons (which everyone should be before glassing up in the first place, right?)
5. Lowers with skulls or a spartan helmet or whatever shaped magwells. That shit is gay. If you own one you probably wear Affliction shirts in public and sit down to pee in private. They should make one that looks like a little misshapen dick cause that's what you'll look like showing that thing off.
6. 3-point slings. Overly complicated and cumbersome. I've seen bondage gear with less strapping and buckles. It's as if some worker at a sling factory in the late 80's was being paid by the yard to come up with something new.
7. Pink or purple furniture. I get it. Make em cute with barbie-brand accessories so our girls will like this sport like we do. Cool. Whatever you need to do I suppose. My wife also has an AR. When she was picking out plastics I told her if she went with a bubblegum scheme I wouldnt let it in the safe with any of mine. She rattle-canned it in dull greens like a piece of kale and named it "kale-er" (say it out loud). That combination is sexy. Plus it blends. As a result I'll suffer a vegan restaurant every now again for her.
8. Anything "zombie".
9. This obsession with shaving every possible ounce and gram off of the rifle. Some of these setups are more perforated and porous than a tennis racket. If 7-10lbs is too much rifle for you, get some Kryptek or Multicam yoga pants to prance around in while doing crossfit or whatever.
10. Those little rail-covers/panels with the gadsen, molon labe, punisher skull, biohazard, III%, 2A, sheepdog, or whatever graphics. Any available rail space does not need to be a sounding board for you to slather with tacky bumper stickers like the bizarro version of a lesbians subaru. Leave the rifle alone. You most likely already have the same patches on your velcro cap.
Can't think of anything else really. Every shooter's different and what works ergonomically for one doesn't for another. So I don't harp on VFGs (except #3) or AFGs or handstops, buttstocks or whatever. If it fits your form and makes you a better shooter to have your hands/cheek placed a certain way then get at it. My AR setups have evolved considerably over the years and will probably continue to do so. But gimmicky shit is just that. Shit.
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