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Posted: 11/15/2007 10:25:23 AM EDT
 Found this while looking at a side charging upper and was wondering if we are taking a good idea to far. I like the idea of a flat top upper and rails on hand guards but do we need them everywhere? I have seen them on butt stocks, scopes, mounts for accessories to mount stuff on top of the accessories and now I find rails on the sides of the receivers! Is it just me or is this gone to far? Is there a need to have so many rails on your gun?  Maybe the web site is right when they say: “The Lo-Pro-style 3-Rail Upper Receiver from DPMS will make the age-old problem of not having enough rails for accessories obsolete.” Now if we could just solve another “age-old problem” like gun control we would be set! www.gunaccessories.com/AR15-M16Parts/UpperAssemblies.asp |
3-gunners typically have a scope with magnification on the upper rail. Rules usually dictate only ONE optic. So for CQB courses, there is a short little iron sight setup on the side (usually on the handguard at about 1:30) so you rotate the rifle, and shoot close. |
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I would like to see it with a full length FF rail on the front. When I first saw them I wished they made both right and left hand as you could use them to hook two AR-15s together at the receiver and again out towards the end of a FF tube. Sure, impractical but imagine how much stuff could be mounted on that thing! It would make a whild photo op! |
You'd be surprised at some of the stuff I've seen.  I compete in carbine matches but I only use an eotech (soon to be an Aimpoint) You have guys that forget to hold high at a few feet and shoot low, I've seen guys nail 200 yard targets with the first shot and miss half their shots inside of 5 yards.
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Bingo! A quick tilt of the gun to engage short range a d a quick tilt back. That way you don't have to lift you head to get over the scope. It only helps you if you're really fast to begin with. If they're set up right, you don't even have to break your cheek weld. |
I don't know what that is but I am strangely attracted to it. Colonel Hurtz |
Check out the gas tubes. When the lower rifle fires it cycles the action on the upper rifle, which in turn, cycles the action on the lower rifle. So what you ask? Not much fun unless both rifles have the fun switch activated and the top rifle has its trigger locked back. Then you have 200 rounds of twin firing 5.56 goodness to play with! |
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