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Posted: 5/19/2006 10:13:46 AM EDT
| i just read an article about the dpms sass rifle and it looks like a midlength gas system. is that just my hopeful imagination? i would love to have a dpms .308 middy. it just looks right and i have read that is a smoother operating gas system. i like the ap4 that is available, just want something different. anybody know? |
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Please tell me what the excitement is about a "mid length" gas system is. Is this just another way of saying you'd prefer a 20" barreled shorty over the 16" AP4? Silly me....I'd go in a gun shop asking the guy for a mid length barreled rifle.... not a mid length gas system rifle. 
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Ok....no wisecracks from me this time, as there evidently must be differtences I'm not familiar with. All I know is how to scope and shoot my AR's and take em down to clean them. Could you briefly explain to me what you mean by a "mid length gas system". And, if it wasn't mid-length, then would it be "full-length"? -and how would it operate differently? |
You can have a mid-length AP4, but it's a DIY project. A DPMS AP4 carbine in .308 was the host gun. Armalite AR-10A4 Carbine barrel Daniel Defense 9.0 AR-10 Rail, with DPMS barrel nut Magpul M-93B stock W/buffer by slash. AR-10 recoil spring Chip McCormick two stage trigger The Armalite barrel installed and headspaced fine. The bolt spins on a go, but not on no-go, so it might be a litle tight for 7.62. But the DPMS barrel did the same. I'm just waiting for the gas tube from Armalite. I'll post a range report when I get to shoot it. I had an AR-10 carbine that worked really well, but I switched to the DPMS so the magazines would be common with my SR-25. I really like how this looks and feels. Hope it shoots as well! |
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