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Re: Straight pull AR and extraction

Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2016 11:27 am
by joe
dromia wrote:Yes they are real guns but in the UK the legislation means that only pretendy ARs are available to UK gun owners.

And some US states now ! Terrible

Re: Straight pull AR and extraction

Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2016 11:33 am
by dromia
Aye the insidious creeping loss.

Re: Straight pull AR and extraction

Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2016 11:41 am
by longrange223
safetyfirst wrote:Hmm. I kinda like having that spring to keep the bolt closed on the explosion in front of my face but perhaps I'm uneducated. I guess the charging handle helps here, I don't know how locked an AR breech would be without its buffer.

You'd have to hand feed rounds too like the guy in the video but I guess it works!
The bolt rotates and locks, and in theory can't be fired unless it's locked. So it shouldn't be a problem to run without a buffer and buffer spring, in theory at least. I will feed from magazines, hand feed is something benchrest guys do. :D

Re: Straight pull AR and extraction

Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2016 12:01 pm
by Individual
longrange223 wrote:
safetyfirst wrote:Hmm. I kinda like having that spring to keep the bolt closed on the explosion in front of my face but perhaps I'm uneducated. I guess the charging handle helps here, I don't know how locked an AR breech would be without its buffer.

You'd have to hand feed rounds too like the guy in the video but I guess it works!
The bolt rotates and locks, and in theory can't be fired unless it's locked. So it shouldn't be a problem to run without a buffer and buffer spring, in theory at least. I will feed from magazines, hand feed is something benchrest guys do. :D
You could try running without a buffer/buffer spring..but why? It would just make use much harder.
This is what is what it should be like to use....

Re: Straight pull AR and extraction

Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2016 2:45 pm
by snayperskaya
Individual wrote:
This is what is what it should be like to use....
And that's quite slow as well, surprising how quick you can become with a straight-pull with practice and still be fairly accurate.

Re: Straight pull AR and extraction

Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2016 3:50 pm
by safetyfirst
Sigh. I love you guys. ;)

Remember your acronyms here folks.

PARP gun
ARSP rifle.

Re: Straight pull AR and extraction

Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2016 4:27 pm
by Gundoc
To the OP.
With reference to your original question, extraction on my straight pull is slick.
It's a balancing act to get the chamber just right so that it passes proof while still rejecting a 'no go' gauge.
I'm running a pre-production Lantac upper (of the new model) at the moment. Depending where you are you're more than welcome to try it out