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Posted: 1/20/2016 11:03:56 PM EDT
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I am on the fence about building a dedicated Slide Fire AR. I have a colt socom upper that would be a good candidate and I would order a spikes lower with no stock and a slide fire system. I figure I wouldn't need any optics and irons will be fine. Then just get some Surefire 60 or 100 round magazines and wait for the Pmag to get in stock (if ever) and a bipod. Then I would have a non NFA SAW basically.
Is this a good idea or a bad idea? Wouldn't cost me much I don't think. $300 for slide fire (or $100 for bumpfire), $370 for the lower, $30 for a cheap bipod, I have the upper. Done. |
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I had one. Took it apart.
The novelty wears off. I'll shoot my subguns when I want to shoot full auto. If I had an M16, I would shoot it almost exclusively in 9mm. I can use that to shoot competitions. .223 would mostly just be to goof around and make noise. I tried my Fostech stock in 9mm a few times, and was getting OOB booms. Not good, and I'm sure it's not just that particular model. It works great in .223 though. I just don't go ripping through rifle ammo all that often. |
| I have 3 M16's which are fun to shoot, but we don't shoot them very often due to the fact they are worth quite a bit of money, so I did order a bump fire stock for my AR and I have fun playing with it and it is very similar to shooting the machine guns, makes a lot of noise, burns a lot of ammunition and is always a hit at the BBQ, but I don't fire it often, but for a $100 bucks the bump fire stock is just as good at the others, it may be ugly, but it works just fine, if you have the extra parts laying around, there is no reason not to. |
| i built a bump stock ar with a cheap mid length ptac upper. i was impressed how accurate the cheap upper was when i zeroed it but ive only shot it a few times. i have close to 20 ars in different lengths and calibers so wasting ammo isnt something i do often. it is fun tho |
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I did the exact same thing, built a dedicated rifle for slide fire use. Today, the slide fire has been sold and the rifle is back to "normal". I used a Spikes nickel boron coated lower and BCG, BCM CHF CL barrel etc. The rifle was built to take abuse and functioned perfect. I just didn't care for the slide fire on an AR. I also had one on an AK clone with an AK74 style muzzle brake. That rifle works awesome with a slide fire, like night and day compared to the AR when doing 30rd mag dumps. I just found the AR far more uncontrollable despite numerous different styles of muzzle brakes/compensators.
You may have some issues using 60 or 100 round mags due to the extra weight banging back and forth. I eventually ended up selling the AK as well. Kid at work wanted it bad, sold it to him with 6 mags and two cases of ammo. They are cool to play with but like the post above said, the novelty wears off. If I ever wanted to do another dedicated slide fire build I would not even consider an AR, I'd do another AK with a 74 style brake. It had very little side to side movement and muzzle rise was minimal for the first 5 rds or so, after that if you kept rockin it that muzzle brake would push the muzzle right back down. |
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You can find Slide-fire brand stock for much less than 300, buds has for $134 and the original style for less
I've seen a couple in the EE for $100 I'd take SF over the bumpfire one , The SF is of better quality I've got a dedicate SF lower half, makes it easy to switch calibers, love it so does all my friends I run 3 1/2 # CMC trigger this makes em rock |
| I don't know the bump fire stock that I purchased doesn't have any of the problems I have read about, all the edges are clean and finished, with no sharp stuff on it, slid right on the rifle, no problems at all, I just don't see paying so much more for something that does the same thing and is more of a novelty than a necessity. |
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