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Posted: 10/3/2012 8:57:18 AM EDT
| Getting ready to pick up a new carbine upper, even though I don't need one. I'm going either pencil or light profile. Any practical differences between the two which would make you lean one way or the other? |
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"Pencil" and "lightweight" both used to be names for the same thing... the original "A1" profile or shortened derivatives thereof.
"Lightweight" has now been used by various manufacturers to mean all sorts of things that have no resemblance to an A1 profile, so really could mean anything less than an HBAR. So it depends on which manufacturer's products you are looking at. |
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"Pencil" and "lightweight" both used to be names for the same thing... the original "A1" profile or shortened derivatives thereof. "Lightweight" has now been used by various manufacturers to mean all sorts of things that have no resemblance to an A1 profile, so really could mean anything less than an HBAR. So it depends on which manufacturer's products you are looking at. Well put. |
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This is the PSA "Lightweight" profile http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b328/jcrowl/Miscellaneous/IMG_0723.jpg http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b328/jcrowl/Miscellaneous/IMG_0718.jpg What's the profile under the handguard? Is it just a "government" type profile with the front a little thinner, or is the back end a little heavier to put it into the "midweight" camp? |
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I have a bcm pencil and then when I bought my PSA 'light weight' I was in shock at the weight difference and was pretty fucking upset - so were some others on arfcom
They then changed their descriptions to 'lighter weight' and eventually they started selling the standard light weight barrels as 'pencil' and the lighter profile side by side Is there a practical difference? I was bit upset opening that PSA box, but no I haven't won a 3g championship with either Also a neg 5 on how PSA handled this |
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