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Posted: 6/25/2007 3:00:40 PM EDT
| Is there any benefit from having the oversized HGs instead of the regular skinny ones? |
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As someone stated above the M4 guards have dual aluminum heat shields under the plastic where the CAR guards only have one layer. I find the delta ring and the gas block are what I burn myself on after sustanined fire anyway, so I have not found the practical difference between them. I have small hands and when I first switched from a CAR15 to an M4 I did not like the greater diameter of the M4 guards. With the front rail systems available now I do not use the standard handguards anyway. If I was to go back to them I would want to try the thinner CAR ones though. Rube |
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Just thinking practically, being that the M4 can fire at full-auto, I can see adding extra heat shields. The overall size had to be increased to add the extra shied, plus put the shooters hand farther away from the barrel. I don’t know if that’s why, but it seems to make since to me... I use a railed HG system, but I do have "Gorilla Hands" so the M4 style HGs do work better for me when shooting a non-railed set up. |
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