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Posted: 6/27/2010 7:50:16 PM EDT
I need a little feedback!!! just finished an ar build,I'm thinking about buying an ar-restor from brownells has anyone used one and do they reduce recoil and how much
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| Save ur money. I'd get a Spikes STT2 if anything. I bought one based on the Brownells reviews and having had the olympic arms buffer for a full stock rifle that functioned perfectly and did reduce recoil. I was really excited someone finally made one for a collapasible stock. I never had the bolt lock back once on the last round with the ar-resistor. The excuse i got was the ammo was not hot enough. I never had an issue witht the olympic I had regardless of type of ammo. I dont remember the ammo I had in the mags I tested the ar-resistor with but it was either hornandy tap training ammor or rem 223 boattail I had acquired. I wish I would have realized that was going to be the excuse or I would have made sure it was 5.56 q1313a that I had loaded up for another gun. I also gave it to a buddy to test out in a training class. He fired a bunch of different ammo and said it was spotty at best on locking back with last round. I have the spikes and an H2 and no issues with those. I honestly did not like the way the gun recoiled with the ar-resistor either. I much prefer the STT2 |
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Quoted: I need a little feedback!!! just finished an ar build,I'm thinking about buying an ar-restor from brownells has anyone used one and do they reduce recoil and how much I have both the carbine version and the rifle version from Brownells. I have compared them side by side with the stock carbine buffers (3.0 oz) up to the heavy Rock River 9mm (5.6 oz) buffers. From my personal testing, the Endine buffers "do work better" than even the 9mm buffer. The only problem I find, is the Endine carbine buffer (at 4.3 oz) will not consistently lock back on the last round using the lighter charged ammo. The Endine rifle buffer (at 5.9 oz) will lock back after the last round. I run the Endine rifle buffer in my gun with the Ace ARFX skeleton stock and the gun shoots like a dream. From my experiences, it's a toss up between the Rock River 9mm buffer and the Endine carbine buffer. I run the Endine carbine buffer in one of my carbines, but the others all get the Rock River 9mm buffers. The .223/.556 is not a heavy recoiling round, but you will notice a positive improvement in recoil and less movement of the sight picture while shooting using a heavy buffer, be it the Endine buffer, or the cheaper 9mm heavy buffer. The heavy buffers also delays the unlocking of the bolt/etc/etc, allowing easier extraction, which in my opinion, is a good thing on a carbine. I don't own a gun testing lab,etc/etc, but I have used the buffers you asked about in various guns for some time now. Everyone from the "factory rep" to the "weekend sports shooter" has their opinion on buffers, but this is mine. Good luck. (One day, I will buy the spike's buffer just to see how it runs. It looks good too!) |
| I agree. Save you money. I also had a carbine and a rifle length version, which I have since parted with. I believe in the K.I.S.S saying. I heard some say it lasted a very long time and some had the luck of having it break much earlier then expected. Correct me if i'm wrong but the crowd that may see an actual benifit would be those needing to reduce that actual fire-rate on their full auto rifles. Hence, if you got a semi-auto you will never see the true advantage to this add-on. I really did not notice any dramatic recoil reduction vs. other buffers. I swapped mine out for a Spikes buffer as well and I have never looked back. |
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