What is the best ar-15 configuration?
14.5 carbine? 14.5 middy? 16 middy?
What's the most reliable config?
>>27560327
>Most reliable
Overgassed carbine length
>Longest lasting/Softest shooting
20" Rifle Length
>Best overall
16" Mid Length or 18" Rifle
>>27560327
16" mid length gas
>>27560327
18" SPR master race.
>>27561016
I'll second that...18" rifle master race.
>>27561110
Exposed gasblocks truly the best aesthetic.
>>27561132
I agree, some dingus on m4carbine tried to tell me I needed a longer rail to cover it up, he couldn't come up with a valid reason other than he didn't like the way it looked.
>>27561016
>>27561110
Rifle or mid length gas? I went rifle -- the ghost of Gene Stoner told me to. What do you guys run?
>>27561178
if it's good enough for the Mk12 it's good enough for me.
Another angle...
>>27561189
If you have an 18" barrel with anything but rifle or intermediate length gas it's an abomination.
>>27561189
Rifle, 18" rifle length gas is the best all around AR configuration in my opinion. Rifle in pic is an FN CHF A2 profile barrel, VG6 Epsilon muzzle device, VLTOR A5 buffer system with H2 buffer, standard M-16 BCG. It's the softest shooting AR I've ever shot.
>>27561340
Forgot pic..
Rifle length best length.
>>27561016
>First day out with my PA 1-6 ACSS
>'put' the rifle on the ground while setting steel back up (I suck with slings and they feel like they're constantly trying to strangle me)
>long shallow gouge on the side
Oh well. I guess it's just cosmetic.
>>27561364
The first scratch is always the hardest to live with. It's out of the way now though, you're free to just use it.
Rifle length is as God (aka the 420 master himself) intended.
18" is sort of like sucking dick, but insisting that you're straight because you're only attracted to the cock. Either way, it is still frowned upon in the Lord's eyes.
16" or lower is full on sodomy and is punishable by being branded a pleb forever.
>>27561434
When the guys at Crane NSW were developing the MK-12 the found that 18" barrels delivered the overall best accuracy, with only a very minor loss in velocity to the 20" barrels. I think St. Stoner himself would approve.
