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Thread: I never want to hear anyone say the forward assist is useless ever again!

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    I never want to hear anyone say the forward assist is useless ever again!

    Kyle Rittenhouse just said live on the Tucker Carlson show that he saw his AR was out of battery and hit the forward assist right before he shot Gage Grosskreutz.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kirkland View Post
    Kyle Rittenhouse just said live on the Tucker Carlson show that he saw his AR was out of battery and hit the forward assist right before he shot Gage Grosskreutz.
    Saw that. Amazing how well he did under pressure.

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    While that may in fact be true in some circumstances, forcing a round into the chamber has never been one of the things I would partake in. Yeah, I guess in a "right-freaking-now!" situation it could be plausible, but instinct and decades of gun handling have instilled in me a sense of finding out what the issue is when encountering such a stoppage.

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    I took a class with a famous tier one guy. He stated that they would press check under NODs on approach and didn’t want to risk the sound of a whole team dropping bolts. They would feel the round on the bolt, ease the charge handle into battery then use the FA. Very niche use but it isn’t expensive.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Renegade View Post
    Saw that. Amazing how well he did under pressure.
    Haha, no time for SPORTS (anyone remember that acronym?). He went straight to the "T" part!
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    Slap
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    Quote Originally Posted by mRad View Post
    I took a class with a famous tier one guy. He stated that they would press check under NODs on approach and didn’t want to risk the sound of a whole team dropping bolts. They would feel the round on the bolt, ease the charge handle into battery then use the FA. Very niche use but it isn’t expensive.


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    I don't care what some proclaimed tier 1 guy used to do. Not running the rifle hot is a very dumb idea, closely followed by the ignorant practice of "quiet loading" with the useless forward assist.

    Championing the forced inserting of a round into the chamber under the guise of a "what if" one in a billion scenario is plain stupid. Kyle had a low end rifle and likely zero training coupled with minimal trigger time on the gun. He got lucky.
    Last edited by Mysteryman; 11-23-21 at 18:23.

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    The lad fought for his life, and won.

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    5 pages minimum of mental masturbation....

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    People who understand the purpose and limitations of the FA like ‘em.

    People who use them to smash a malfunction deeper into the upper think they’re useless.

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