01-08-2018, 05:26 PM
BluntForceTrauma Wrote:So am I hearing that there's too many handguard variables out there that it's pointless to try and target one size with a barrel?
Don't place too much weight on my observations, as I doubt I'll be jumping in on another short barrel group buy, but perhaps we're looking at this the wrong way. It seems to me that the variability in handguards, not barrels, is the problem. For example, I wanted to use my enhanced aero upper and handguard for my 12" faxon build. However, it is a 15" handguard, which I would have readily cut down the couple extra inches, but the way it's milled (i.e. the way the mlok slots line up with and overlap the decorative/cooling slots) it would have been impossible to get a clean, square, and structurally sound muzzle end without cutting something like 6 inches off.
Therefore, if none exist already, there may be justifiable interest in a group buy of handguards that are designed in such a way as to allow members to cut them with relative ease in regular increments, like the length of an mlok slot. My 12" handguard pictured above already comes very close to allowing that since the holes under the top rail frequently line up with the mlok slots. Don't know if thats feasible from a manufacturer or member interest perspective, but there are my 2 cents as to how to best solve the handguard dilemma
