Aftermarket buffer's.

[BumpShadow]

Does anyone have an aftermarket buffer they can endorse? I was wanting to buy one and didn't what to buy. I was thinking of maybe a hydraulic one, or a tungsten weighted one. Thoughts?

 

[shooter521]

IMO, skip the gimmicky stuff and just go with an H, H2, H3 or 9mm buffer as needed.

 

[mrfjones]

I have been using the spikes buffer and while it is a little different it isn't that different if you know what I mean

 

[elpenguin0717]

I have a hydraulic enidine buffer which I originally bought and used in my dpms ar10 worked good and felt let recoil but I sold the rifle and kept the buffer it is now in my spr ar15. And it works awsome aswell less recoil and helps when shooting fast idk if their a differnce between the ar10 and ar15 model but the ar10 helps out in my rifle I wish I could feel it in a gun that has 3round burst and see if it'd make that more pleasant

 

[Hogwylde]

If you have a carbine buffer, go out and get an H3 buffer. Then you can pop the backs off and make any weight you want. The carbine has no tungstun and the H3 has 3 tungstun. Pop the backs off both and take 1 tungstun out of the H3 (makes it an H2) and swap it into the carbine (makes it an H1). For the cost of 1 H3 buffer, you can make 4 different weights and experiment with what works best for you.

 

[BumpShadow]

good suggestions, thanks. I'll look into it.

 

[Audie Murphy]

I run the Spikes ST-T2 buffer in my AR and when comparing the standard carbine buffer with the ST, the ST seems to give me less felt recoil and that annoying weight moving noise is gone.

 

[DialTone301]

As mentioned above...just get the proper standard buffer and call it good. There are better places to spend you money than on a "special" buffer.

 

[windellmc]

The loose weights are intended to help prevent bolt bounce. A Spikes T or T2 uses Tungsten powder and does not give the same effect. It is probably more important in a full auto weapon.

I switched my carbine length 16" barrel from a CAR to an H2 buffer, and it smoothed it out quite a bit using 5.56 ammo. It really slows it down with Tula ammo but it still runs. My midlength shoots fine with a CAR buffer.

 

[figley]

In what way is your rifle malfunctioning now?

 

[BumpShadow]

In what way is your rifle malfunctioning now?

Never said it was malfunctioning. I just want to blow some money on my rifle to make it better.

 

[Amattern]

+1 for the spikes st-t2 buffer. I loved it in my 16" rock river and now I have one in the lower for my 10.5" SBR.

 

[BumpShadow]

+1 for the spikes st-t2 buffer. I loved it in my 16" rock river and now I have one in the lower for my 10.5" SBR.

Is that the tactical entry RRA? Because thats what I have.

 

[03A3]

That RRA is no doubt overgassed, and has a semi-auto bolt carrier unless you replaced it. That being the case I would use a plain old H2 buffer. It should still function fine with cheap, low powered plinking ammo, and wouldn't work the gun so hard with with real, high pressure ammo.
A buffer is not a very good place to spend money on something that is touted as new and improved, the Vltor A5 system being the exception.