AR-15. Free floating handguard vs 'standard'

[kaosports]

AR-15. Free floating handguard vs 'standard'

Looking at the Ruger AR 556. They make 2 versions, one 'normal' version, and one with a long free floating handguard (the MPR).

Am I correct in thinking that the unit with the free floating fore stock is intended for use with optics? Would the forestock be sufficiently stiff to mount iron sites?

The only other gun I'm interested in is the Sig M400, and I failing to see a reason to spend the extra $300.

Sell me a rifle!

(no, I am not interesting in building one.)
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Old 03-04-2018, 07:07 AM

[red-beard]

Free floating is "more accurate", or really more consistent, shot to shot.. But with a non-wood stock, it shouldn't make any difference.

[legion]

Unless you are using the AR competitively, I wouldn't worry about whether the hand guard is free-floating.

[HardDrive]

Originally Posted by NotaBRG

SPAM post reported

Yeah, this is spam. Thats actually my post from a few weeks ago.

[red-beard]

Wow, it even copied the dates!

[SeanPizzle]

Is this the gun lobby trying to keep AR sales and interest up? Someone registered on this site just to pimp this????

off with his head....

[legion]

It's probably a bot designed to copy a few posts, get the post count up, then hit us with spam.