
Originally Posted by
welchtactical
Well, some folks buy ARs to go to the range and shoot paper, and I do that with mine sometimes but I look at all my weapons as that, a weapon. Something to FIGHT with, so I run mine as so. I shoot alot of drills with mine. I get it very hot, and dirty. Mag changes, movement drills, in the rain, had dirt and sand on the piston, I have yet to hurt it. A lot of people didn't like the idea of a new style of rifle when it first came out, bashed it, and said how much of a piece of junk it was, the M16. How'd that work out. I think the future of US fighting weapons will go 6.8mmSPC, and Piston, in the M16 platform. I've been hearing from folk who know {not who have friends who heard something} that 6.8mmSPC is about to go big. My next AR will be a piston 6.8mm. I think people need to get away from the idea that piston guns are around so you don't have to clean or lube it as much. May or may not be true. The facts I like about them is that the bolt doesn't get hot, so there are no drastic heating and cooling inside the weapon, less to no carbon in the action, less muzzle rise. The one LWRC I have is in 16in, the other is a 8in Personal Defense Weapon. The LWRC PDW 8in is usually in 6.8mm, mine is in 556. Not gonna be my first choice of fighting weapon, but should be fun. For a fighting weapon I'd go with a 16in.
But as asked, a 10.5 or 12in suppressed 6.8mm piston gun would be the ticket and one of my first choices for CQB. YMMV
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