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What is the advantage of having a keymod. Are these the new hand guard that all the company's are going to produce?

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It's just the most neat-o-est way of creating a user specific rail system today. I have 2 NSRs and while awesome, I don't see the need to replace the ones on my older rifles with the regular rail systems.

They are modular, thinner, and lighter, but not that much so. Kinda like a tube/rail hybrid really. Also, if you need too you can always put four rifles together with some Home Depot shelfing and build a shelf in a pinch

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I have an NSR equipped rig, so I've somewhat jumped on the bandwagon, but I too am failing to see the advantages of keymod outside of some weight savings.

You take a quad rail, and you take a keymod handguard. The keymod handguard will weigh less, and to me, that's where the benefits end.

With a quad rail, you can add any and every accessory wherever the heck you want it with ease. With keymod, you need to add picatinny rail sections, etc. And then you have to worry about the added picatinny rail sections possibly coming loose during hard use.

You're also dropping more coin to add stuff like picatinny rail sections and QD sockets, etc.

This is why IMO, KAC came out with the best of both worlds with the URX 3.1. It's light and modular, but with machined in picatinny sections and QD sockets pretty much everywhere you would need them.

At the very least, it's gonna take several direct attach keymod accessories hitting the market for me to find any more merit than weight savings in the system. And even then, that's still not an advantage over a quad rail. Any and every accessory that will eventually come out with a built in keymod attachment will have already long had a built in attachment for a picatinny quad rail available.

I guess if you like how you can grip a more tubular handguard, that would be the other advantage for keymod. This advantage in particular would solely come down to each end user's preference though.

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I have an NSR equipped rig, so I've somewhat jumped on the bandwagon, but I too am failing to see the advantages of keymod outside of some weight savings.

You take a quad rail, and you take a keymod handguard. The keymod handguard will weigh less, and to me, that's where the benefits end.

With a quad rail, you can add any and every accessory wherever the heck you want it with ease. With keymod, you need to add picatinny rail sections, etc. And then you have to worry about the added picatinny rail sections possibly coming loose during hard use.

You're also dropping more coin to add stuff like picatinny rail sections and QD sockets, etc.

This is why IMO, KAC came out with the best of both worlds with the URX 3.1. It's light and modular, but with machined in picatinny sections and QD sockets pretty much everywhere you would need them.

At the very least, it's gonna take several direct attach keymod accessories hitting the market for me to find any more merit than weight savings in the system. And even then, that's still not an advantage over a quad rail. Any and every accessory that will eventually come out with a built in keymod attachment will have already long had a built in attachment for a picatinny quad rail available.

I guess if you like how you can grip a more tubular handguard, that would be the other advantage for keymod. This advantage in particular would solely come down to each end user's preference though.

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Help me out guys... What does Noveske's "NSR" acronym stand for?

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