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That G36 sight looks like it would mount on a standard rail. One cheap and easy way to find out is buy an air soft one and see.
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The thought occurred to me, AS ones are like $30. However the more I look at photos of it, the more it seems it has proprietary attaching points, unless there's like a more modern picatinny-based version. Not the rail bit on top, but rather the way it mounts on to the rifle.
I've been thinking more about the Lanchester look, since it'd keep the whole package pretty compact, and I think this frame could pull off that look pretty closely. Again, it'd be with either a wooden buttstock, or hydrodipping the plastic one to look like wood or bakelite, and then a metal waffled foreend.
Two questions:
- On an AR, is there any reason you have to have the muzzle protruding beyond the handguards? It just seems in almost all builds I've seen, the muzzle sticks out at least a bit beyond free-floating handguards. Is that because of the gunk spewed out by the muzzle device? If so, would it matter less if the muzzle had no device, or a device that purely pushes gases forward like a linear comp? Just wondering if I can keep the barrel fully back under the handguard, partially just for the cool look.
- If it is okay to have the barrel no longer than the handguard, is it hard to find handguards that will cover up a 16" barrel? The free-floats for rifle-length look like they tend to be 15", and I'd need something that would cover up a 14.5+1.5" barrel.
Just kicking around my concept.
@Ares, any word on getting the SCR lower up onto the AR Builder app so we can dream these things up more effectively?