Doc Solammen from United States, IN Public Profile

I've tried a number of vertical foregrips on my SCAR 16S NRCH, none of which overly-impressed me--that was until I got my hands on a Bravo Company Manufacturing Short Vertical Grip. In addition to be being robustly built, aggressively textured, and ergonomic, the BCM VFG is an ideal size for those who use favor a hybrid grip in which the VFG functions like a hand-stop behind a weak-hand C-clamp. The 1913 rail interface is rock solid, and inspires confidence. If you're running a quad-rail, you'll be hard pressed to find a better VFG than this thing. Top marks!

There are plenty of good vertical foregrips on the market, but FAB Defense's GRADUS-M Rubberized M-LOK Compatible Short Ergonomic etc. etc. is the best. That's one man's opinion, but it's an opinion based on direct comparison with comparable products from BCM, Strike Industries, A3 Tactical, Magpul, and even other FAB Defense foregrips. What's good about the GRADUS-M? First off, its size and shape are ideal for shooters who favor the "C"-clamp or hybrid-grips--in which the weak hand abuts the vertical grip and encircles the rifle's hand-guard. Moreover, the rubber with which the GRADUS-M is overmolded is soft enough to occasion sure and steady handling, but durable enough to sustain the abuses apt to be heaped upon fighting rifles. Finally, the M-LOK mounting hardware provided by FAB Defense is better than average. In addition to being precisely machined and sporting crisp threads and correctly-sized sockets, the anchor screws and T-slot nuts I received with my GRADUS-M had been been given a protective anodizing finish. I was also happy to see they'd not been pretreated with thread-locker--which is usually slopped on by manufacturers and has to be steel-brushed off.

I love my IWI X95, but don't much care for the OEM rail-covers. I love my SCAR 16S, but don't much care for the absence of OEM rail-covers. I'm fond of my hands, but don't much like spending money on and fussing around with shooting gloves. Thankfully, LaRue's Tactical Low-Profile IndexClips occasion a remedy for my dislikes. The product is simple, solid, stylish, and shockingly affordable. The clips are easy to install, easy on the eyes, and greatly improve weak-hand ergonomics and overall shooting comfort. Moreover, the cable management scheme engineered into the clips is intuitive and effective. If you're looking for an well thought out and inexpensive way to tame flesh-eating 1913-rails, take a serious look at LaRue's Tactical IndexClips.

Buying the Super Sabra trigger pack but forgoing the Lightning Bow trigger is like putting a new, high-performance engine in your car, then removing the gas-pedal. Ironically, it's probably easier to install a new motor in most cars than it is to swap the OEM trigger bow out of an X95. Just ask all the poor slobs who've badly damaged their Tavors trying to do so without proper instructions and the right tools. If you don't have an X95 barrel wrench AND an X95 Armorer Manual, don't even try it. I'm a better-than-average home gunsmith with a better-than-average set of tools (which includes an X95 barrel wrench). Nevertheless, after learning how many guys (many of them better gunsmiths than I) have destroyed X95 charging-handle and gas-system components trying punt their way through what, in point of fact, is a fiddly trigger-shoe removal and installation procedure, I swallowed my pride and had the work done by an IWI-certified armorer. To the subject of function, the Super Sabra Lightning Bow Trigger and Trigger Pack are collectively outstanding. While the X95's OEM trigger is good by bullpup standards, there's room for improvement. The Geissele aftermarket components significantly reduce creep, sharpen break, diminish over-travel, and hasten reset. Thanks to Geissele, my X95's trigger is now the best I've ever felt on a bullpup--and better than I've felt on many up-market fighting rifles.

The contemporary firearms accessory market comprises many good rifle buttstocks and a few great ones. Magpul's CTR model is one of the latter. Intelligently designed and robustly built, the CTR stock shrugs off abuse, adjusts easily, locks securely, provides a comfortable cheek-weld, and offers plenty of sling-attachment options. While it may be true that Mission First's stocks are lighter, F.A.B. Defense's are fancier, and Daniel Defense's are better-looking, the CTR occasions an eminently favorable synthesis of ruggedness, comfort, light-weight, user-friendliness, and pleasing aesthetics.

I've got a great many expensive AR-pattern rifles: LMT's, LWRCIs, POFs, VKTRs, etc. That's not a boast, it's context. Notwithstanding the superb design, manufacture, and fit-and-finish of the aforementioned weapons, I retrofit ALL of them with three components: FAB Defense's Rubberized Pistol Grip (7290105941817), POF's Tomahawk charging-handle (847313008497), and Magpul's CTR Rifle Stock (all available at OpticsPlanet). A rifle's buttstock is one of three points-of-contact with which shooter and weapon interface. Ergo, it's got to be solid, comfortable, easy to adjust, recoil-mitigating, and resistant to inadvertent extension and/or collapse. Magpul's CTR stock is all of those things. Moreover, it looks sharp and is reasonably priced. It's 2024; the world is teetering on the brink of a third global conflict; tyrants are trying like crazy to strip us of our Second Amendment rights. Now is not the time to have a substandard buttstock on one's rifle.

The world abounds in AR pistol-grips: Magpul, Hogue, BCM, Geissele, etc. They're all good, but FAB Defense's fx-agr43 Rubberized Pistol-Grip is so much better than "good." The business of ergonomics is tricky and riddled with subjectivity. What fits one hand may not fit another. For my own part, no grip makes a rifle feel more like an extension of my arm than FAB Defense's fx-agr43 model. The product's geometries are uniquely-conducive to shooter comfort, confidence, and certainty-of-control. The best endorsement I can give FAB Defense's fx-agr43 pistol grip is the fact I've retrofitted LMT, LWRCI, POF, Sig, Robinson Armament, and CMMG rifles with them. I wish FAB Defense produced an iteration of the grip for the SCAR platform. DO YOU HEAR ME, FAB DEFENSE? GET OFF YOUR DUFFS AND MAKE AN RUBBERIZED PISTOL GRIP FOR THE SCAR PLATFORM!

Tyrant CNC lives up to its moniker. The quality of the company's products speaks to ferocious degrees of design and manufacturing expertise. To date, I've purchased two of Tyrant's pre-assembled Glock 17 magazine/extension combos and two of its Glock 17 five-round magazine extensions--the latter of which I installed on a pair of Gen 4 Glock 17 magazines. I'm happy to report all four magazines--the two I purchased pre-assembled and the two I retrofitted with Tyrant CNC extensions--all run flawlessly and look great in my Stealth Arms Platypus. While I would (and will) order additional magazine extensions from Tyrant CNC, I must report that installing the devices was significantly more difficult than advertised. I ended up having to buy a specialized tool to remove the OEM base-plates from the Glock magazines. Thankfully, subject tool was inexpensive. Alas, once I had the OEM base-plates off, the going didn't get much easier. Manually compressing the longer, stiffer magazine springs provided by Tyrant CNC while contemporaneously sliding the extensions onto the retention rails is a job worthy of an octopus. Once they're on, however, the end result is very-much worth the effort.

Notwithstanding the princely sums FN exacts for its SCAR-series rifles, the things ship with stingy, stubby OEM charging-handles. My SCAR 16s NRCH has blasted a great deal of paper and steel, but the only blood it's drawn has been from the knuckles of my left-hand. Thankfully, Kinetic Development's NRCH SCARging-handle has put an end to the carnage. Because I favor symmetry, I retrofitted my rifle with both right- and left--side SCARging-handles. Installation was straight-forward and took barely three-minutes. Once installed, the SCARging-handles facilitate easier racking (more gripping surface and better leverage) of the SCAR platform while while keeping shooters' tender mitts well-clear of blood-thirsty optic-mounts. It's a win/win. Moreover, at the very-reasonable OpticsPlanet price, two SCARging-handles worked out to be less-expensive than the tubes of Neosporin and boxes of Band-Aids I've been stuck buying.

I should have bought these when I purchased my Real Avid Master Gun Vise. I figured I could get by without them, however, and muddled along for a while using bench-blocks to do most of my bolt and BCG work. In June, my wife gifted me the Multi-Fit Smart-Jaws. I've since not had to pull out a single bench-block. While the sleeves that ship with the Master Gun Vise are wholly adequate, the Multi-Fit Smart-Jaws afford much better (and safer) purchase on components like bolts, suppressors, barrels, and BCGs. The (red) material with which the Multi-Fit Smart-Jaws are surfaced is remarkably durable while remaining sufficiently pliant to not mar small parts or delicate finishes. Moreover, the pins by which the jaws are affixed to the vise allow for quick installation and removal and rock-solid hold. Now that I've got the Multi-Fit jaws, I'm eyeballing the Tube-Fit jaws ...