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Posted: 5/24/2009 10:44:59 PM EDT
| Does anyone have the weight for the non-railed tubular aluminum free-float handguards? You know, the ones that look like giant Maglites... |
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Clark custom is 6 ounces for the 12" and somewhere around 5 for the carbine if you cut it down.
That's carbon fiber though... I had an old carbine length aluminum tube from EGW that weighed around 6 1/2 ounces. IIRC my bushmaster weighs 10 ounces. <go with forest's numbers. They are WAY more reliable than me taking a WAG> |
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Mine does get warmer than it did with the stock plastic handguards with heatshields, but not unbearably so. It can also be bad if your rifle is sitting out in the sun for a while.
Think when I'm done with my move and get the shop setup again, I'm going to attack mine with a drillpress. I'll try to remember to weigh it before and after to see how much it looses in the process. Allowing some airflow should help with heat as well. |
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I thouht about getting my gunsmith to drill a bunch of holes in them. Then I thought that might just expose your hands to hot air coming off the barrel.... No more so than a railed floater with all its vent holes. If you have to pay someone to drill holes in it then I would just skip it or buy one already vented, I have a drillpress and metal working tools at my disposal, so all it would cost me is a bit of time in the garage which counts as a good thing anyway. |
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