Aug vs...

**RetroRevolver77** · 11-07-19, 17:56

delete.

**freeride1** · 11-07-19, 19:34

Originally Posted by RetroRevolver77

See, you can't buy a 550 or 551 unless it's on the secondary market and then it's uber priced. If you get the 553LB you have to add 922r parts just have the standard stock. Is the LB barrel even long enough? Probably not so you have to weld something onto it or SBR it. Sounds like a bunch of fun or not. Maybe if JDI was bringing in complete 550's, 551's, 553's all made 922r compliant out of the box then you might have something worth getting into. My AUG's, I can just put a 20" barrel on or a 16" barrel, different optics for the different barrel lengths if I wanted- plenty of options direct from their US storefront.

Yea but OP specifically mentioned the 553. You're clueless bro.

**anubismp** · 11-07-19, 19:57

Just to elaborate on the why of this, I travel for vacation and work sometimes and I'd like something that I can put in a backpack or small rolling luggage. I'd also like something neat and possibly collectible. I go interstate sometime so come to think of it SBRing it may be an issue. I think a brace would work nicely though. I currently pull the bbl on my Aug and it goes in a backpack but I thought about something that folds or telescopes as it would all be assembled and ready to go. The shorter bbl would hamper ballistics vs the bullpups but I'm not envisioning anything over a defensive 5-100m max. If I pull the gigantic flash suppressor on my Aug it would barely fit with the barrel installed.

**anubismp** · 11-07-19, 20:05

Originally Posted by ruckusjuice

If you’re thinking of buying AUG parts, hold off until the week of Black Friday. Last year Steyr heavily discounted the spare parts kit and a few other things.

Thanks for the heads up on that.

**w3453l** · 11-07-19, 21:07

Originally Posted by RetroRevolver77

The 106 is a blend of AKM and 74 parts so pretty much has common components everywhere except the bolt head and barrel. K-Var sells the firing pins and barrels. I can use an extractor from a Galil bolt or make one from an AKM. Plus I already have plenty of spare parts. As far as the LE6920, there was nothing wrong with the NHMTG mags or German MEN556A M193 ammo- it was the rifle. Probably not broken in yet. I'll just have to run it some more to figure out what's wrong with it since it's a new rifle. Overall though, if I could only choose one- I'd go with an AUG because it's as reliable as an AK but also allows for swapping parts with ease.

This is the first I have ever seen that an AR needs to be broken in.

**JoshNC** · 11-07-19, 21:32

Originally Posted by RetroRevolver77

My SLR 106's are better rifles that weigh less, just as accurate, and actually have interchangeable parts with a vast majority of widely produced AKM's, Galil's, or Valmet's.

Everything else is second hand trash with either direct carbon injection or worse- no support.

However, if I could standardize on one rifle- it would be the AUG.

RR77

You lost me at AK better than Swiss SIG 55x.

Originally Posted by RetroRevolver77

I owned three SIG 556's but they weren't that reliable and overall heavier even with the aluminum lower than my SLR's. Maybe the Swiss guns are better, which I would expect them to be but then again- they'd still be heavier than my SLR's. So I'd rather keep the lighter weight rifles, plus being able to swap recoil springs, extractor springs, small parts with other AKM's, Valmets or Galil's is a plus. However them being AK's, you can't swap barrels easily and they are now out of production. As far as AUG's, they will take a beating, easy to swap parts, and just about the most reliable rifles I've owned next to my AK's. I recently took one of my new LE6920's to the range, six malfunctions across four mags in under two hundred rounds- unreal. Then my new Colt 1911 was shooting four inches low during the same range trip- so it was not a good day. So looking over everything I own or owned, the AUG is in my top three.

The 556 is not at all the equivalent of the Swiss 55x. It’s analogous to comparing a NYC street vendor faux Rolex to a real Rolex. The Swiss rifles are so far beyond the US made iterations. Barrel changes are not hard if you have the armorers tools, which I do. And like TheAlsation, I have been stockpiling parts, barrels, mags, and tools for a long time. Spare barrels and spare parts are readily available (for now). It’s not difficult to stock up on the necessities.

I agree with you re: the AUG. Love it. I could give up all other 5.56 rifles and standardize on the AUG. If only Geissele would release their AUG trigger.

Re: your Colt 6920 experience, that’s an outlier in my (and generally everyone’s) experience. The whole “shit where it eats” AR thing is way overplayed and widely known to be nonsense at this point.