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Posted: 5/2/2012 1:05:56 PM EDT
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I've been wanting a reflex suppressor and it looks like I'll loose my chance if I don't buy one now since AAC and SureFire have discontinued their reflex lines. I shoot mostly 556 but I have a friend that is big into 6.8 and is trying to talk me into the caliber. It would be nice if I had a can that would shoot both. I'm eyeing the SureFire FA68AR. Would the FA68AR be a waste performance wise if used predominately on a 556 AR? Should I ditch the multi-caliber idea and go with something like a AAC SPR/M4?
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I've been wanting a reflex suppressor and it looks like I'll loose my chance if I don't buy one now since AAC and SureFire have discontinued their reflex lines. I shoot mostly 556 but I have a friend that is big into 6.8 and is trying to talk me into the caliber. It would be nice if I had a can that would shoot both. I'm eyeing the SureFire FA68AR. Would the FA68AR be a waste performance wise if used predominately on a 556 AR? Should I ditch the multi-caliber idea and go with something like a AAC SPR/M4? Thanks I will go with a .30cal can and give yourself even more versatility. As to AAC/Surefire getting out of the reflex business, look into Ops-Inc cans. |
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From what I gathered, AAC discontinued the SPR/M4 as it really didnt offer a huge advantage over the end mount options. Also, they started marketing the new SR-5/7 line of suppressors.
Having said that, I saw the added benefits over the M4-2000/SR-5 and purchased an SPR/M4 right before they sold their inventory. |
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Owning a reflex I can tell you that they do offer advantages that make owning them worth while. That said the issue of them from a sales standpoint is that they are more complicated for the user to get their barrels setup, their mounts typically cost more, and they can not be used on shorter barrels.
1. More complicated to set up: the barrel more often than not needs to be under a specific diameter so in addition to a charge for concentric threading their is also the possibably of needing the profile of the barrel to be reduced. 2. QD Mounts are typically more complicated that non-reflex QD mounts so additional material, more machining costs, higher costs over all. 3. HSLD guys what to run cans on SBRs the reflex designs need additional barrel lengths to accomadate the "reflex"ed portion of the silencer. |
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Owning a reflex I can tell you that they do offer advantages that make owning them worth while. That said the issue of them from a sales standpoint is that they are more complicated for the user to get their barrels setup, their mounts typically cost more, and they can not be used on shorter barrels. 1. More complicated to set up: the barrel more often than not needs to be under a specific diameter so in addition to a charge for concentric threading their is also the possibably of needing the profile of the barrel to be reduced. 2. QD Mounts are typically more complicated that non-reflex QD mounts so additional material, more machining costs, higher costs over all. 3. HSLD guys what to run cans on SBRs the reflex designs need additional barrel lengths to accomadate the "reflex"ed portion of the silencer. Agreed, #1 Higher cost to manufacture mounts and suppressors #2 More complicated to set up on guns. Getting them out of the product line also increases sales volume of remaining models, so cost of all products comes down (more mounts get made in a batch, more cans in a batch, less different components need to be retained in inventory.) |
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