Originally Posted by
JSantoro
*snort* It merely doesn't match your intended usage for such items, as seen from a background of two orgs types riddled with institutional inertia, tone-deafness, being 12ish years behind the state of the industry, and willing to fit themselves for a halo over it at the cultural level. That doesn't invalidate your experiences, but it DOES indicate a certain channelization of thought processes that's often to be defeated, not leveraged.
From a materials and design standpoint, the Magpul is a dandy item that could only be made better by being made lighter...but it can't, so it ain't.
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Reframe the language of the assertion (emphasis mine) "....WILL damage..." to the more technically correct version, which is "...MAY damage..." "...WILL damage...," in this idiom, is functionally horseshit.
Consider:
EVERY machine is a smoke machine.....IF you operate it WRONG enough. Say that out loud, it *sounds* almost like wisdom instead of a joke... But, it applies here. -Don't operate these things wrong enough.-
If all you're looking for is preventing burns (same as mine, for my getaway-sticks and the inside of my carbine case), then your biggest *single* worry is actually keeping the thing from sliding off under recoil (I use kevlar twine from CountyComm to tie mine to a hole in the rail, voila...), and understanding that if you get them to the point of smoking in the first place, your questions are "How do I keep track of throughput so I can let these things occasionally cool off?" and "Is it worth it to me to get a spendy one of these, OR instead consider it a somewhat consumable item I'll have to occasionally replace?"
I can't for the life of me remember which ones I have, but I have two of them, and BBQ mitts, use one for the day, shoot with cooling times planned in, and swap to the unused one when I'm done. Mixture of material and procedural control measures.
Can covers are NOT complicated meta-systems; despite some folks efforts to turn a mouse into an elephant, there's zero need to go full-retard on one when there's no organizational/operational requirement to do so.
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