Gas-Piston ARs

[parsons_12b]

I know this is probably a dead fish but. Is the cost of buying a gas piston realy worth the benifet. If so would it be better to build a midlength upper usong a conversion kit or just buy one already built and were from?

J.P.

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[Madison]

I'd start with 1 or 2 DI guns before bothering with a piston, especially since the piston market doesn't have any clear long-term winners yet, IMHO.

I'd get a factory midlength upper, preferrably a BCM like this. Get on the email notification and be quick: they sell out in minutes.

My LWRC piston runs nice and clean, but the price over a BCM makes that hard to justify, and it's heavy.

 

[Abe Froman]

About a month or so ago I started a thread on this same topic, lots of good stuff in there.

 

[Madison]

This thread?

 

[Abe Froman]

This thread?

Thats the one

 

[parsons_12b]

Madison I have owned several Di ARs my in addition to 14years and two combat deployments with the Military. A DI gun for the most part works just fine I was just wanting to try something different. I might even scrap the idea and buy a Daewoo rifle I have been looking at it's basicly the same thing.

 

[Zhivago]

Get a FAL

 

[wichaka]

I have a friend that has a great saying about such parts......

They aid in extraction and feeding.

They extract bucks from your wallet and feed it into the manufacturer's.

 

[parsons_12b]

I would like a FAl but can"t afford to feed it I realy want a FNC but they seem to be hard to get

 

[JEL]

If you're just looking for something different, then a piston gun would be great. LWRC makes what's considered to be the best piston gun, LMT also has some good reviews as well. The biggest benefit in a piston gun comes with either a short-barrel and/or supressed rifle.