Does anyone have an opinion on these yet? Seems like some interesting stuff is going into them but 1700 seems pretty fucking steep for an AR.
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I’ve got a preorder in. I like the idea of it being lightweight because I find lighter guns easier to shoot offhand. The only real downside I see is not being able to change the buffer length and that the JP buffer tends to fail (although after many many rounds) in a way that does not lend itself to fixing in the field. Karl is kind of a whiney fag, Ian isn’t really a shooter as much as a historian, but Russell Phagan is definitely one of us. He’s the one putting all this shit together and I believe he’s made a good lower and has kept us all up to date on the progress made.
There used to be kits to put spacers into old A1/rifle buffer length stocks to use newer fancy carbine length buffers, I have to imagine they're still out there.
Far as the lower, I think it's legit, the rest of it is a bunch of larping faggotry in my opinion. AR's are already light and managable, making them this light isn't "What stoner would do" it's what a bunch of two gun chumps would do and Phagan while I respect his abilities is just doing it to sell lowers, if he keeps using a WWSD rifle for matches then I'm wrong and im fine with that but I don't think something like this would be adopted by anyone who actually uses an AR for 'work' because it's going overboard with a bunch of untested stuff, carbon fiber handguards and all that?
Putting a bunch of gucci bullshit on an AR to save 2.7 pounds when a stock AR15 is already only 6.5 pounds seems silly. I do like removing the forward assist, all of my uppers are slick side, I like ambi controls but as a whole gun losing 2.7 pounds and paying 1700 boggles my mind.
But I hope you like it.