Weighed some BCGs

[chadbag]

Well, blame JP for the mass vs weight thing...they're the ones who named their BC.

And they are correct...

The amount of fouling on a BCG would not contribute any more than a tenth of an ounce (if that much). I've weighed my old CMT and ST NiB BCGs when they were clean and dirty (not on purpose...just happened that way). I use a standard digital kitchen scale and when weighed to tenths of an ounce, there was no difference between clean and dirty. If measured in grams, I'm sure a slight difference would have appeared. Not enough difference to have any meaningful affect for our purposes.

[ZRH]

Well, blame JP for the mass vs weight thing...they're the ones who named their BC.

The amount of fouling on a BCG would not contribute any more than a tenth of an ounce (if that much). I've weighed my old CMT and ST NiB BCGs when they were clean and dirty (not on purpose...just happened that way). I use a standard digital kitchen scale and when weighed to tenths of an ounce, there was no difference between clean and dirty. If measured in grams, I'm sure a slight difference would have appeared. Not enough difference to have any meaningful affect for our purposes.

The mass thing was just humor. The meaningful effect of a couple milligrams of carbon on the OP's stated reason of "shits and grins" is up for debate in my mind -.- JP "low mass/full mass" carriers I didn't think implied they were the same "mass" as a standard AR-15 carrier, just the same as a lobotomized regular carrier (SA) compared to their other products.

[BufordTJustice]

The mass thing was just humor. The meaningful effect of a couple milligrams of carbon on the OP's stated reason of "shits and grins" is up for debate in my mind -.- JP "low mass/full mass" carriers I didn't think implied they were the same "mass" as a standard AR-15 carrier, just the same as a lobotomized regular carrier (SA) compared to their other products.

Agreed.

I actually asked them directly how the full mass S/A carrier would compare to standard F/A carrier and they said their 'full mass' S/A carrier was slightly heavier. They were quite clear in their statement.

[SA80Dan]

I took my rifles apart for Spring cleaning and decided to put the BCGs on my postal scale for shits and grins.

BCG supplied with my Noveske N4:
11.5 oz

Spike's NiB BCG:
11.5 oz

JP Full Mass carrier (S/A) with JP Enhanced Bolt:
10.7 oz

In the interest of "science" I just happened to be cleaning a rifle while looking at this, and just had to do it.....my (complete) semi auto CMT BCG weighs 11.1oz.