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How do you know which buffer over the stock one? 16" barrel
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Barrel does not mean shit, as well as any other thing on the upper receiver when you are talking Buffers!!!
We need to know the length of the receiver extension on the lower receiver, hence is it a telestocking stock, or a fix full length stock instead (depth of the tube inner void). This will tell use if your rig used a carbine buffer or standard length buffer because of the tube inner void depth, then from there, need to know the weight of the buffer that you have in play as well.
If you have a fixed stock (A1 or A2), then you do not use a carbine buffer in the rifle since the B/C will not be limited correctly at the back of stroke, ending with you cracking the lower receiver (back of the key is going to strike the lower receiver at the tube threaded section to crack it there).
In the case that you have a telescoping stock on the lower receiver, then you have a carbine length buffer in play.
The carbine buffer is 2.9oz, and would suggest that you buy a Colt H-3 buffer.
The reason for just buying the heaviest H buffer, is the way that buffers are built.
In side both buffers, there are three internal metal discs.
In the case of the standard buffer, the discs are just standard steel.
In the case of the H3, all the discs are tungsten steel discs, which are much heaver than standard steel.
So between the two buffers, and some disc's swapping, you can cover all the different weights of the carbine buffers. The H3 may work well, or if needed, you can swap out a disc between the two, turning the standard into a H1, and the H-3 into a H-2.