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Posted: 2/4/2013 2:20:29 PM EDT
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What are the differences between a mill-spec buffer tube and a commercial one.Are they easy to tell apart???
thamks |
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Main difference that the average shooter needs to be concerned with is outside diameter. The milspec has an OD of 1.150, the commercial has an OD Of 1.170. Ergo, a milspec stock will not fit a commercial buffer tube and a commercial stock is a sloppy fit on the milspec tube. There are other differences such as cut threads on the commercial and forged threads on the milspec, but both use the same thread size and the same ID.
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Main difference that the average shooter needs to be concerned with is outside diameter. The milspec has an OD of 1.150, the commercial has an OD Of 1.170. Ergo, a milspec stock will not fit a commercial buffer tube and a commercial stock is a sloppy fit on the milspec tube. There are other differences such as cut threads on the commercial and forged threads on the milspec, but both use the same thread size and the same ID. So forged 7075 vs extruded mystery alloy isn't a deal breaker? |
| For 95% of the people out there it will not matter a whit if they are using a commercial "mystery metal" or a mil-spec tube and you know it, despite your snarky comments. How many people do you know who have ARs have ever broken a buffer tube, and I do not mean combat personnel or people who actually use their rifles in combat roles? The vast majority of ARs out there get shot as hunting rifles or range toys and never see any really hard use so to those people it really does not matter what that buffer tube is made of or sized so long as it fits their stock and does the job they want it to do, and those so called mystery metal tubes have been doing their job and holding up just fine for 99.9% of the people using them and have been doing so for many decades. Personally I like to use VLTOR tubes because I like the look and fit with the stocks I use but I am not stupid enough to say that for most shooters (myself included because I am never going to use my rifles for anything more serious than hunting) a commercial tube is going to bring about ARmageddon. |
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