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Thread: The case AGAINST free floating rails

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    free floating rails?

    The three most heard complains over them[free floating rails] are heavy and hard on the hands due cold or hot from shooting ,easily broken ...I found all wrong with good ones !
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    What is with the influx of ****ing retards again? If someone is taking out ads for the forum in SWAT or something, a little heads up before the issue comes out would be nice

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    I musta seen John Carpenter's Escape from New York a dozen times and never noticed the lack of hand guards on those rifles. Makes me feel unobservant.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JackFanToM View Post
    I musta seen John Carpenter's Escape from New York a dozen times and never noticed the lack of hand guards on those rifles. Makes me feel unobservant.
    I guess you're not into it enough.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JackFanToM View Post
    I musta seen John Carpenter's Escape from New York a dozen times and never noticed the lack of hand guards on those rifles. Makes me feel unobservant.
    Funny...it's the first thing I noticed right off the bat, the first time I watched back in the day.
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    Never mind. I think I misunderstood. At least I hope I did.
    Last edited by kwelz; 08-13-11 at 17:38.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Failure2Stop View Post
    Further, many rifles prove to be more capable than threshold failure before some semi-mongoloid had their faithful followers scrape gouges into the crown.
    My DI took a dremel to the crown of my rifle, after qual thank god.
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    I heard a similar story from someone I know last week about free-float rails being easy to break. Glad I found this thread to shed some light on the topic.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JoeSixPack View Post
    ...the only reason I was looking for a rail to begin with was I wanted a QD Swivel socket and specially was looking for a rail with the socket made into the rail for a more slim-line sling attachment...
    Get the forearm you want, freefloat or not, as with a little imagination, a QD cup can be mounted to any of them without much trouble. I installed one in my PRI


    HeavyDuty mounted one on a MOE using a cup from Mount-N-Slot


    Next time you see your friend, hand him an AR and tell him to show you how easy it is to break the freefloat tube over his knee. Even if he does manage it, it'd be worth it to see him limping around for the next few weeks
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    A non FF gun will have slightly less POI shift with a suppressor than one with a FF rail.

    Found that out myself this weekend.

    Friend of mine had a Colt 6720 cut down to 10.3'', by ADCO, and left his M4 handguards on it. Has about a half inch less POI shift than my 11.1'' gun does.

    He's using an NT4 as well, but there are too many variables to be sure it was the FF guards. I'm just saying that markm may very well have been right.

    Other than that... FF is the way to go. IMHO.
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