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Post by Gingerbread Man on Sept 6, 2015 18:09:34 GMT
 This is one of the worst AR set ups I've seen in a good while. Here's what's wrong*: A. He's mounted a bipod to a screw on gas block. How long before he cants the gasblock and renders the gun inoperable? Probably pretty fast. B. The bipod is canted, makes me think the gas block is already canted. C. The sights are mounted on a canted gas block. They're mounted on a cheap chinese 45* offset, then they're cheap copies of the Beretta sights which are too tall for the AR 15. So you have the wrong angle, they're too far away from the barrel at the wrong parallel plane. D. He's mounted a chinese quad rail which is made out of cheap steel. Hot and they flex if the even mount right. Then he went with a VFG probably to protect his hand from the heat retained in the handguards. E. The optic is a chinese 1x4 that will fail. F. The butt stock is a plastic chinese one, not polymer. Polymer and plastic are two different substances. *I'm not busting on this guy. He bought what he could afford and wanted everything he wanted with one trip to the gunshow. What he should have down is just bought an Aimpoint PRO, grabbed a magpul rear sight, handguard and left the pinned front sight on the gun. At least he's using a PMAG. |
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Post by as556 on Sept 6, 2015 22:04:00 GMT
Things he's doing well in my book:
Stance
Trigger discipline
Pmag
A2 hider
The variable optic and 45d BUIS are a sound concept, though poorly executed
Things he's doing wrong:
Everything else
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Post by Browning35 on Sept 6, 2015 23:29:47 GMT
I'm willing to bet that it's one of 3 things.
1) Guy is either new to guns in general. No biggie, we've all been there.
2) Guy is new to AR's in particular. No biggie, we've all been there. That bipod is cockeyed though.
3) The guy in the pic bought a used AR cheap off someone else through the classified section, off the net or at gun show who had stuck every cheap Chinese made AR accessory that the original guy who built it was able to afford at the time and he intends on stripping it down and starting all over again.
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Post by MrEMonkey on Sept 30, 2015 20:50:44 GMT
I'm willing to bet that it's one of 3 things. 1) Guy is either new to guns in general. No biggie, we've all been there. 2) Guy is new to AR's in particular. No biggie, we've all been there. That bipod is cockeyed though. 3) The guy in the pic bought a used AR cheap off someone else through the classified section, off the net or at gun show who had stuck every cheap Chinese made AR accessory that the original guy who built it was able to afford at the time and he intends on stripping it down and starting all over again. I'm kind of hoping for #3--at least that way the guy probably wouldn't have wasted as much money on that stuff; might've caught a halfway decent deal on the rifle. On point 1, yeah, I remember it took me a while to break free from the lure of "inexpensive" (read CHEAP!) optics from places like CTD...ugh. |
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Post by MrEMonkey on Oct 1, 2015 1:03:12 GMT
Pretty sure they're just being ridiculous for the sake of being ridiculous, but here's a doozy.
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Post by Browning35 on Oct 2, 2015 1:20:22 GMT
I'm kind of hoping for #3--at least that way the guy probably wouldn't have wasted as much money on that stuff; might've caught a halfway decent deal on the rifle. On point 1, yeah, I remember it took me a while to break free from the lure of "inexpensive" (read CHEAP!) optics from places like CTD...ugh. Yeah, was kinda hoping for #3 myself. Then he wouldn't have bought all those cheaply made accessories retail, he could just take them off and end up with a decent rifle at an okay price at the end of it. It's almost a rite of passage to buy a military style rifle and overload it with all kinds of useless crap. I've usually done fairly well on optics quality and I've managed to avoid some of the more common pitfalls. Cheapest/crappiest optics I've owned were a Leatherwood CMR and a Vortex Strikefire (which really aren't that bad). Mostly my default scopes that are magnification are either Nikon, Leupold or Trijicon and for red dots it's always generally been EOTech. I did way over accessorize my first real AR (had two false starts with the AR platform in the 90's) though and although it was all quality stuff for 2004-05 it did make it way heavy and after a couple hog hunts I started dumping shit right away to lighten the thing. It wasn't quite as bad as some of those joke pics where the guys have two lights, 2 bipods, 3 lasers, 2 red dots, a Swiss Army knife, a feather duster and a cuckoo clock bolted to his gun, but almost.   |
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