Posted: 9/2/2008 11:51:39 AM EDT
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Do you own duplicate rifles or all they all configured differently? All M4s or whatever vs M4, 20" old school A2, 9mm, etc etc ??? |
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I can only shoot one at a time, so why have more than one in the same configuration? To arm my friends? Well, my wife gets her own rifle in whatever configuration she wants, and all my friends already have their own rifles too. So why would I want doubles? I want one of every different configuration first (yeah like that's ever gonna happen) and then I'll start worrying about doubles. EDIT: I tend to go by time period in my selections. My wife's 11.5 inch SBR is a 1980s Colt Commando clone, my M4 is a modern configuration, and my 20 inch is a "Tet Offensive" style A1 clone. 
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A bunch of folks look at clones as good for training. I support diversity. |
The gas tube? The buffer? The stock? How can I possibly answer that when there are thousands of ways to configure an AR-15. |
Sure, except everyone I train with already has their own rifles and their own optics, sighted in for their eyes and their preference of handguards/stocks/mags etc. Who here is going to buy 10 carbines with matching EOtechs and go train people who don't want to pony up to buy their own guns? Now there is one instance in which I use a standardized gun, and that's when I train with One Shepherd. But that's only because those rifles are sighted in with the MILES 3000 system already, so I just use one of the organizations' weapons. EDIT: If you're worried about parts redundancy between your own rifles, than either; 1. You didn't buy very good examples of the rifles you chose and you are justifiably worried about having to cannibalize them to make one gun that actually works, or 2. You aren't justifiably worried about interchanging buffer tubes, you just worry way too much. Go explain it to my grandmother and give her something else to worry about, its her main hobby and she's better at it than you are anyway. She's at the Pro Am level of worrying, maybe your parts compatibility issue can bump her up a level to the Professional Worrying Champion we all know she has the potential to be one day. |
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Same or similar configurations. 2x Midlengths with rifle length MI rails, flip BUIS and a 4x IOR 2x Carbines with carbine length MI rails, fixed BUIS and Aimpoints Both configs run the same lights, light mounts, rail covers, grips, stocks, triggers and VFG's. I'd like to double my collection (thus 4 middys and 4 carbines) but I can't afford it. Might settle for just adding another pair of carbines and run the A2 sights only. |
I have a dupe of my dedicated HD AR, 3 dupes of the vehicular ARs, and my 2 newest 9mm ARs (Oly/Glocks) are still identical just because I haven't gotten around to doing anything much with them yet except breaking them in, but all of my other ARs (yes, I have a bunch) are unique from each other in one or more ways -- different configurations, different calibers, different colors, etc. Far from all of them, but you get the idea... |