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Posted: 12/6/2009 10:13:29 PM EDT
| I finally broke down and bought a free float handguard (MI carbine two piece). For 170 smackers it was a good deal and the buyers on bravo company were very happy with it. Is it really worth it? I mean does a free float handguard really make a descernable difference in accuracy on a stock colt 6920? Please help me out with any info. |
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The main reason I freefloated my daily driver was to stretch out the "rail estate" to better fit my preferences.
It streamlined some of the mounts I was using (built in QD sockets) and uncluttered my field of view. Any accuracy gains were simply a bonus. That may seem backwards, but it was as accurate as I needed before, so anything better is just icing. 
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I finally broke down and bought a free float handguard (MI carbine two piece). For 170 smackers it was a good deal and the buyers on bravo company were very happy with it. Is it really worth it? I mean does a free float handguard really make a descernable difference in accuracy on a stock colt 6920? Please help me out with any info. Maybe? The accuracy gain is minimal, but it adds up at longer ranges. |
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It's worth it if you lock-up a sling attached to your barrel... or if you rest your barrel hard against barriers/braces for longer ranges... general "shooting" you wont notice the difference... It's only when you're pressing/pulling/wrenching on the barrel that you notice the 'free float' benefit... so wrench/push/lean on the tube/rail system... not the barrel ;) I'm a gorilla with sling-locking... and I lean my gun on barriers like an amputee for competitions... so I would notice a significant shift at pretty much any range if I didnt float... |
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It's worth it if you lock-up a sling attached to your barrel... or if you rest your barrel hard against barriers/braces for longer ranges... general "shooting" you wont notice the difference... It's only when you're pressing/pulling/wrenching on the barrel that you notice the 'free float' benefit... so wrench/push/lean on the tube/rail system... not the barrel ;) I'm a gorilla with sling-locking... and I lean my gun on barriers like an amputee for competitions... so I would notice a significant shift at pretty much any range if I didnt float... This. |
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