06-07-2018, 10:46 PM
How could I forget the Faxon 15" 8 oz carbon fiber handguard!
So far so good. Comes with and uses standard GI barrel nut and you can shave about 1/2 oz off if you want to splurge on a Ti nut. Easy to install and remove and put back on after you misalign your gas block. My non adjustable 0.936 block just clears it; my guess is at least the Odin 0.936" ABG would fit. It's a "normal" diameter, so if you don't have hands like a basketball player, it's easy to hold offhand, hold with your sling wrapped around your wrist and also steady with your left hand on barriers, etc. It also isn't round - a whole bunch of little flat areas which could help shooting off of flat barriers.
The only downside is probably endemic to most cf handguards. CF is an insulator, so the carbon fiber does insulate around the barrel nut. This sends heat back into the receivers and presumably down the barrel. Rapid fire might end up wearing out your barrels throat a little faster and I guess it might heat up ammo in the chamber a bit more. I certainly don't plan on doing a lot of gratuitous mag dumps with this build so it's not a huge deal, but worth noting since mag dumps might get it pretty toasty in the chamber/throat area.
So far so good. Comes with and uses standard GI barrel nut and you can shave about 1/2 oz off if you want to splurge on a Ti nut. Easy to install and remove and put back on after you misalign your gas block. My non adjustable 0.936 block just clears it; my guess is at least the Odin 0.936" ABG would fit. It's a "normal" diameter, so if you don't have hands like a basketball player, it's easy to hold offhand, hold with your sling wrapped around your wrist and also steady with your left hand on barriers, etc. It also isn't round - a whole bunch of little flat areas which could help shooting off of flat barriers.
The only downside is probably endemic to most cf handguards. CF is an insulator, so the carbon fiber does insulate around the barrel nut. This sends heat back into the receivers and presumably down the barrel. Rapid fire might end up wearing out your barrels throat a little faster and I guess it might heat up ammo in the chamber a bit more. I certainly don't plan on doing a lot of gratuitous mag dumps with this build so it's not a huge deal, but worth noting since mag dumps might get it pretty toasty in the chamber/throat area.
Let's go Brandon!