Skeletonized upper?

[midget]

Just received this one in a Brownells email: AR-15 BILLET MATCHED RECEIVER SET 5.56 BLACK | Brownells

Am I wrong in thinking you would instantly regret this with an over gassed or suppressed rifle?

 

[MohawkSlim]

No Regerts.

Sorry, I was eating a Milky Way.

 

[midget]

I guess you could multi purpose it as a cheese grater?

 

[PGRChaplain]

Still better than plastic........

 

[Thegeek]

I get the curb appeal and I get the plus on weight. But this idea of exposing the action is completely stupid.

 

[Woobie]

Merits or demerits of the design aside, if I'm spending $500 on an upper, it needs to come with a nice barrel, a good bcg, a decent hand guard and a bcm charging handle.

 

[midget]

Merits or demerits of the design aside, if I'm spending $500 on an upper, it needs to come with a nice barrel, a good bcg, a decent hand guard and a bcm charging handle.

I'd spend it on a JP side charger w/o barrel and handguard

 

[Car Ramrod]

F-1 has been selling guns with these uppers and lowers for a while.

They are for mainly for competition and race guns, not duty or SHTF rifles. It is the same as shooters building Glock 34s with all kinds of machining, mag wells, bridge mounts, etc. Really only practical for the former applications.

 

[Car Ramrod]

And then there is also this.


[video=youtube;LQalucXr_tQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQalucXr_tQ[/video]

 

[midget]

My comment wasn't weather or not it would function as much as whether or not you would want hot gasses be vented directly into your face while shooting. It does not look like it was much of an issue in that video with that setup. I would be interested to see what would happen if you put a suppressor on the end of it.

 

[Leo]

I would not shoot that. A standard A2 configuration will leak gas/smoke into your eye on a still day. That goofy thing would not be a riflemans rifle on any day. In my economy, it does not matter how "snazzy" something looks if it does not work right.

 

[Car Ramrod]

I would not shoot that. A standard A2 configuration will leak gas/smoke into your eye on a still day. That goofy thing would not be a riflemans rifle on any day. In my economy, it does not matter how "snazzy" something looks if it does not work right.

Again, it is for 3 Gun competitions. 3G is even in the part number...

 

[Mgderf]

To me, this looks like a perfect example of,

"Just because you can, doesn't mean you should".