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Posted: 12/29/2012 6:43:26 AM EDT
| This is a call to all my bearded brethren, whether you be operators, rednecks, or basement dwellers. My beard is all the hair I've got left on my head and I don't enjoy losing pieces of it every time i shoulder my AR (w/ CTR stock). I know I'm not the only one with this problem, so I'd like to know what you guys have come up with. Which stocks are beard friendly? Either fixed or collapsible. |
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I feel your pain.
The three best ones for not pulling beard hairs in fixed are the standard A2, Mag-Pul PRS, and MOE fixed. None of them have ever pulled a hair out. In the adjustable, the ACE M4 SOCOM stock has never pulled a hair either. I have them on 5 rifles. Two are fixed into position (more recoil than the stock was designed to handle, ergo, auto-collapse unless fixed into position) and two that are adjustable on lighter recoiling rounds. One is on a TBD build. They do not pull hair out, fixed or adjustable.*** Of the other styles, the Mag-Pul ACS and CTR pull hair minimally. The VLTOR clubfoots pull a bit more hair out. Any stock that has a position window seems to always pull hair. Hair always finds it way into the witness hole and gets yanked out. Yes, you can cover the witness holes with electrical tape but then, it sort of defeats the purpose of the witness holes. The standard CAR and M4 stocks are the WORST. It seems they yank out hair by the finger full because they fit more loosely at the stock/tube interface. Hair always finds its way into that gap and presto, you are going to lose some. *** Now, when I say the stock must be fixed into position, I damned well mean it. A story I have often told is my first experience with the ACE M4 SOCOM on my .458 SOCOM. I did not have it fixed into position. I was shooting 500 gr. solids. I was alone at the range and the range is a half-mile walk to the nearest house. I did not have any cutting tools on hand. On the fifth or sixth shot the stock auto-collapsed on my beard. The locking cone had sheared and the stock slammed shut, trapping a good amount of beard hair. The cone, since it sheared enough to auto-collapse, did not shear enough that the stock moved freely. It was stuck tight in the collapsed position with 9 pound rifle hanging off my face. As I said, no one else at the range, no cutting tools, no way to go get help. And the stock was not budging. God KNOWS I tried. Nothing to do but...yank. I cried a bit that day, and the sounds of my cursing echoed through the hills around the range for several minutes. Anyone hearing it likely thought it came from a foul-mouthed big foot. So, if you go with the ACE M4 SOCOM, and it is on a round that kicks more than the 6.8, you had damned well better have the stock fixed into position or you too will have a story to tell. A story better told than unexperienced. |
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