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Posted: 8/17/2009 3:56:44 PM EDT
Would the S&W VTAC be considered a recce carbine? It seems to fit the bill. 16", free floated, extended rail. Does a recce need a quad rail? I built a clone of the VTAC on a RRA NM lower, and would like to know how to classify it, other than It's different than the 50000 other carbines I see around here. Not that their is anything wrong with those. I have two myself.
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I've been trying to find real Recon rifle pictures, but they're pretty rare.
Supposedly, like the SPR, it's just an "idea" of a rifle, encompassing a 16" barrel, an optic, and usually a collapsing stock. They can have any sort of free float handguard, LaRue being one of them. The reason those are preferred, I think, is because they give space to mount things like lasers and lights. So if you don't need/have those things, the VTAC would be good. The optics I've heard about are Nightforce or ACOG. So, yeah, you've got a nice looking rifle there. |
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some info here... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recon_Rifle ar-jedi ps: here is my interpretation, one of MANY a ZILLION that you can find in the RECCE pics threads... 
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Here's the one I did using
Colt M4 upper receiver and Colt bcg, Douglas stainless 16" 1/7 SPR contoured barrel with OPS-INC brake collar, Larue 11" rails on LMT lower w/LMT 2 stage trigger. Optic is a Leupold MR/T 1.5-5x M2 (illum spr ret). Sort of a mini-SPR-Recce 
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my try at one, larue stealth upper 13.3 inch handguard on a 16 inch barrel. lower is rra waiting on larue lower with a caa stock. http://i558.photobucket.com/albums/ss28/chadwick76/DSC_1722.jpg Do you have a pic of that with the full length of barrel? |
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