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  3. Armalite Picture Thread

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    mods should just change the title of this thread to "M4/16 variants," or "the coolest and most deadly, effective, and lasting small arms weapon system issued to a soldier" thread

     

    Exactly. USRanger, another Ranger friend of mine talk about this all the time how people automatically call these rifles Armalites.

     

    Armalite is a company, not a type of gun. Yeah, they patented the Stoner design, but it's changed hands so many times and so many companies make 'M' series rifles now that it's a mis-nomer.

     

    I Love the 416 and 417, my cousin is a FED DEA and he just ordered 30 of them for his department. I can't wait to get my hands on one.

     

    I think the 416s and 417s look right in this thread. I don't look at any other gun type threads and I like to see the 416/17s.

  6. Armalite Picture Thread

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    LOL, Victory, you take it to personally bro, you do what you want man. I just think they look funcky and to be honest, it also make the gun look like the user has problems loading mags into thier gun or something, I just don't 'get' them.

     

    I'm always happy 5-1. See --> :)

  10. Armalite Picture Thread

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    Sorry, I have to say this...

     

    Victory, you have an awesome looking gun but you screwed it up with that abomination hooked onto your magwell. Do you have trouble finding the magwell without it?

     

    I tried a friend's AR with one on his and I found it to be a hinderance more than anything, not to mention it fouls the beautiful lines of the AR.

  11. Armalite Picture Thread

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    Wow, Wiki got it right! Nice.

     

    That FN metal body is the only one I've seen that accurately replicates the Marine M16A4 receiver. It even has M16A4 etched on it.

     

    I've had my eye on it, but the 'flow' is slow, ya know?

     

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    Nice M4 ya got there. Lookin FR to me.

     

    I have the G&P M5 RAS on my G&P M16A4, for the money you spend, you'll not find a better one in my opinion.

     

    The G&P M5 RAS is $179 after shipping at EHobby. The CA is about the same (usually more) but comes with much less. The G&P comes with the entire front end assembly complete. The CA only has the RAS and the delta-ring.

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  12. Armalite Picture Thread

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    Having served in the Corps, I have this built in need to know as much about the M16 and her variants as I possibly can. Call it a weakness.

     

    I've been preaching for a long time now about the fact that G&P and many other airsoft gun makers mis-label the AR variants.

     

    M16A3s in the real world have fixed carry-handles and full auto capabilities. M16A4s have detachable carry-handles and burst fire.

     

    Lots of these 'know it all' people who disagreed with me in the past tried to use the guns of the world.ru site (or whatever it is) for referrence but that site is faulty on many items of thier information. The idea that A3s have detachable carry-handles is false to military standards. Civilian retailers confused it by prematurely labeling flat-tops as AR15A4s and such nonsense, before the M16A4 was labeled by the military. I've even had some liars say they've shot a flat-toped A3 in the military. BS, A3s (full auto A2s) were only made in small quantities for special reasons and used only by SEALs for a short time.

     

    I had trouble proving that fact, but I found the resource I was looking for at the Armalite site.

     

    http://www.armalite.com/library/faq/faq_list.htm#11

     

    Just some factual information for those who may still disagree, or just want to know the actual differences. :)

  15. Armalite Picture Thread

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    Oh, i never thought of the idea of high fps on the main, Thats true

     

    Our local is 450+ fps = 100' engagement rule so that would come in handy if you had 450+fps, Well actually that wouldnt work since thats for bolt actions only :(

     

    But i guess if your field was differnt, It sure looks cool though is that a good shotgun or a cheapo?

    Yeah, as is that case for most fields. Luckily, our team is all former and active military and law enforcement, and on our field there are no velocity limitations. We just know when we can and can''t fire on someone due to distance. We think of pain as a learning experience. So for us, the matchkey would actually be a nice option.

  16. Armalite Picture Thread

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    Posted · Edited by MERCILESSPIT

    Then also, if your primary is running hot, like a DMR, the shotty would come in mighty handy for closer engagements, so not necessarily form over function. Actually you could say it has twice the function and a lot of form.

  18. Armalite Picture Thread

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    Posted · Edited by MERCILESSPIT

    It's rugged as hell. Very solid. I don't get to shoot it enough. It is the same gas system but it seems to fire quite a bet smoother than other ARs I've shot. the thing is I bought it when they only had 16" barrels, now they have the 15T out with a 20" barrel. I'm partial to long barrels too. Kinda ticked me off. heh. Now I'm saving for that.

     

     

    Edit: I have the G&P AP also and it's almost exactly the same optic as CompM4 other than the metal and the white markings. I've used it on the M&P and it holds it's sighting very well.

  21. Armalite Picture Thread

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    Posted · Edited by MERCILESSPIT

    For some reason your post makes no sense to me.

     

    The lower the AP is the less the HOB is, which in turn makes it MORE accurate. He would need to turn the hop-up way up if the AP was sitting on a high mount...not a low mount...

     

    I've had several AEGs with low mounted APs on them. and with the sight set in perfectly the dot is right over the front sight post. So I assume you are not talking from experience.

     

    And you don't need a rear sight to zero a scope, you just need a target to shoot at....

    I understand what your saying about not needing the rear sight to zero the dot, but it's easiest to sight the iron sights in and then move the dot to the top of the post while the rear sight is on the gun. Then you can remove the rear sight and the dot will obviously be right, no matter where it is in the optic's sight picture.

     

    True, you only need a target to set a red dot.

     

    I have the cantilever mount, and the 'L' mount (the type on Sarge's gun) and the 'L' mount sits too low for the dot to sit directly on top of the post unless it's high in the optic sight picture. Especially if it's placed as far forward on the rail as it is in Sarge's pic. If the dot is anywhere near the center of the sight picture, the gun will be shooting low because you'd have to angle the barrel towards the ground to bring the dot up on top of the post.

  22. Armalite Picture Thread

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    Im not kidding, all I did was mount it and turned it on, the dot sits exactly ontop of my raised front sight. About 2-3mm above the PEQ.

    That may be true, but until you get a rear site on the gun, and co-witness the iron-sights to the dot, you don't know that it's zeroed in.

     

    The reason Souske thinks you're kidding is because of the low mount you have, it'd be imposible for the dot to be correctly sighted in on top of the post. You'll be shooting way low unless your hop-up is turned up to the moon to compensate.

  24. Armalite Picture Thread

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    MercilessPit, I had a 550FPS Redwolf upgraded G&P SPR/A.  i asked for 450FPS and i got 520 and then I added a new inner barrel and it went up to 550.  I never opened up the gearbox ever after getting it.

    I don';t doubt it, not all are bad like those I mentioned, but of the G&Ps that DID have problems, they were retailer custom guns. Buying a retailer custom doesn't mean your automatically going to get a bad gun, but of the G&Ps that had issues or problems, they were mostly those that retailers had used for the base of thier customs.

  25. Armalite Picture Thread

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    One person cannot make the call what's best, everyone has different experiences.

     

    I've found through multiple conversations that WGC custom guns based on G&Ps are likely to fail because WGC has a tendency to to a less than proper job of re-assembling the mechboxes post upgrading them. It's best, in our judgement, to get the G&P and customize it personally than to take the chance on ANY retailer custom guns regardless of the retailer, be it WGC, RedWolf, or whomever.

     

    I have a G&P M16 that has more than 80,000 'rounds' through it and has had absolutely no failures at all (other than the crappy o-ring G&P uses on thier piston heads, which I replaced promptly) and it's nearing it's one year 'birthday'.

     

    But, as the occurrence of more and more people reporting that thier G&Ps are performing way above expected results, and the fact that there are more of every (other than, but not discluding G&P) brand of gun prevalent in airsoft classifieds or for sale in one way or another, it speaks to the fact that G&P owners simply don't want to sell thier guns. I believe that to be a sign that G&P is popularly the most 'sought after' of the high-end AEG market. That backs up the high quality of internals, externals, and longevity.

     

    It looks, however, that STAR is planning on or trying to take over that position with some really nice little features like firearm parts compatibility on such parts as buffer tubes for instance.

     

    So my eye is open to the STAR for future updates because they are so new in the 'M' series market.

     

    But until those rumors are proven true, G&P stands to be the top choice.

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