Afraid my AR is poor quality

[SteyrAUG]

Yeah, as a redundancy like all dummy cords. The carry handle was secured by the screws. Then a dummy cord via bowline around the carry handle and delta ring. Somebody actually lost one before that became an SOP. This was in the early Aughts of Okinawa’s CTA and NTA training areas. Slightly pre GWOT and a battle lab for losing shit, getting lost, losing your sanity via 120 lb ruck, regaining your sanity and sense of duty and leaving target indicators.

Edit: replying to SteyrAUG cause my xenial ass can’t quote on mid-2000s forum technology.

Got it. Thanks. Btw it's the "reply with quote" button.

[Coal Dragger]

I remember having to dummy cord my carry handle iron sight to my M4A1 upper as a Lance Corporal back in the olden days. It was a sickness. I remember one team’s SOP was to dummy cord their gloves to the cuffs of their cammie blouses.

Yep been there too brother. Those thumb screw carry handles would back off if you looked at them funny. Such a garbage choice for a fastener, if 1/2” nuts had been specified with a decent torque spec there wouldn’t have been a problem.

[SteyrAUG]

Yep been there too brother. Those thumb screw carry handles would back off if you looked at them funny. Such a garbage choice for a fastener, if 1/2” nuts had been specified with a decent torque spec there wouldn’t have been a problem.

Especially with everyone mounting ACOGs to them at the time.

[Coal Dragger]

That didn’t help either, ACOG’s or Comp M2’s on the carry handle just exacerbated an already sketchy mechanical attachment. Plus those carry handles weren’t exactly precise fitment on the uppers, lots of fore and aft play since there were no recoil lugs to interface the Picatinny rail. Just two cross bolts and a lame clamp, secured down finger tight.

The ACOG mounts with thumb screws were equally useless and bad.

[SteyrAUG]

That didn’t help either, ACOG’s or Comp M2’s on the carry handle just exacerbated an already sketchy mechanical attachment. Plus those carry handles weren’t exactly precise fitment on the uppers, lots of fore and aft play since there were no recoil lugs to interface the Picatinny rail. Just two cross bolts and a lame clamp, secured down finger tight.

The ACOG mounts with thumb screws were equally useless and bad.

Yeah, I can remember mid 90s M4s with early version ACOGs and Aimpoints mounted ON the removeable carry handle. Definitely a work in progress. I can also remember people loading those early M4 front rails with so much shit that three or four rounds was all it took for those fitted rails to come out of the mounts.

[ThirdWatcher]

OK, I’ll confess that I haven’t had a good night’s sleep since Magpul introduced their plastic Ejection Port Cover. I’ve even woke up in the middle of the night to look for rust on the ejection port covers on the AR’s I own. Obviously I need to order some to get a good night’s sleep but they’re out-of-stock. I’m also waiting for Magpul to introduce a grip screw that won’t rust.

[SteyrAUG]

OK, I’ll confess that I haven’t had a good night’s sleep since Magpul introduced their plastic Ejection Port Cover. I’ve even woke up in the middle of the night to look for rust on the ejection port covers on the AR’s I own. Obviously I need to order some to get a good night’s sleep but they’re out-of-stock. I’m also waiting for Magpul to introduce a grip screw that won’t rust.

If all you guys would have simply bought Cav lowers when you could, this whole grip screw nightmare would be a thing of the past.

[ThirdWatcher]

If all you guys would have simply bought Cav lowers when you could, this whole grip screw nightmare would be a thing of the past.

Live and learn...

[TomBowie]

Hahahahaha.

[TomBowie]

OK, I’ll confess that I haven’t had a good night’s sleep since Magpul introduced their plastic Ejection Port Cover. I’ve even woke up in the middle of the night to look for rust on the ejection port covers on the AR’s I own. Obviously I need to order some to get a good night’s sleep but they’re out-of-stock. I’m also waiting for Magpul to introduce a grip screw that won’t rust.

Hahahaha