JG from United States, MI Public Profile

First off, the negative reviews on this spring are nonsense. It absolutely does fully compress in a carbine tube. If it's not fully compressing, then the issue is the knuckle dragger who installed the spring tried to put a carbine buffer in the tube, not a 308 buffer. Also, if you can't exert the oomph needed to get this spring into the tube, you probably don't have the body mass to take 308 recoil and should stick to 556. Now, the spring is absolutely stuff, and it does require more effort to fit it all in the tube, but once you have it set, it's very smooth and consistent. It feels much better than a traditional piano wire spring. Cost is reasonable for being an upgraded spring, comparables cost even more. Cost to value ratio is stellar. Similar to a Tubb spring in feel and performance.

I love BCM. I prefer their products over all the competitors in their class. I have never been anything less than 100% satisfied with them until receiving this product. First, the good: they look and feel good, they're also easy to install. Now the bad, and it unfortunately it is related to their ease of install: they're too easy to uninstall. One fell out when I placed my upper back in my safe after working on it. Not even from firing, just setting it into my safe, it dislodged and fell out. I have a MI rail, so it's not like the rail is out of spec. I probably could find some way to get them to stick in, but I don't want to have to do that. I gave the product two stars because it's possible I just got a bad set of covers, other reviewers seem to agree with the same positive aspects that I noted earlier without mentioning them being too lose. Decide for yourself. I wish I had gone in another direction, which as a dedicated fan boy pains me to say about anything from BCM.

Machining quality is top notch. I can't speak to QC or fitment issues generally, but to anyone concerned about it, in manufacturing there are always going to be bad parts, and with small parts, you can't reasonably expect that someone is manually going to caliper every dimension before it leaves the factory. Just send it back and they'll send you a better part. Mine fits and works great. I Frankensteined together a BCG with this and a few other parts, it's an awesome upgrade over milspec.

The fit and finish is superb. Anodizing is uniform, all the edges and lines are clean. Very lightweight. It just plain looks s€xy. The only thing that I would change (but doesn't detract from the rating because it's a personal preference), I wish they eliminated the built in QD swivels at the 3, 6, and 9 positions and replaced them with another mlok slot. Also, no swag sticker Midwest?! Come on!! Lol

Looks really nice, very smooth high quality nitride coating.

Very functional. I wanted something short and light, this fits the bill. This also helps with concussion, it reduces recoil a little bit. If you're looking for a muzzle with a small footprint that looks nice, I highly recommend checking this one out!

Best combination of weight, cost, made in USA, and aesthetics there is! Lots of mlok slots make for easy/fast barrel cooling as well as mounting options offset between the 12,3,6,9 o'clock positions. I have both the AR-15 and AR-10 versions. Word to the wise, when they say apply minimal torque to the clamp screws/bolts, they absolutely mean it, they strip extremely easy. I could subtract a star for that, but they do warn the installer not to over tighten, it's my fault for not following the instructions.

I have had two of these. First was returned for being out of spec, didn't work at all. The second one I received was also out of spec, but technically still worked albeit poorly. The issue is simple, poor QC/machining. It's a cheap, good looking ambi charging handle, if that is enough for you to try this out against better judgment, on your head be it. Just remember when you find yourself mortaring your AR to get this unstuck or when you charge your AR and it sounds like nails down a chalk board, you were warned!

I hate when people have unrealistic expectations for something they purchased, or when they don't spend much time with a product before reviewing it. I have had this stock on an AR-10 20" 308 build for about 6 months now, and I'm sorry to say it is a disappointment.

First off, at north of $60, you're in the magpul/B5/BCM area of the market, and you expect performance that competes at that price point. The wobble in this stock is extreme, it is as bad as a $20 stock that I purchased exclusively for aesthetics for my AR-15. At both ends of the tube too, not just when it's fully telescopesd and making less contact with the tube. You can tighten the clamping bolt for a snug fit, but then you lose the ability to adjust the stock position without then reloosening the clamp. There are ways to jury rig the tube/stock to reduce wobble, but again, for a $60+ stock I shouldn't have to.

Second, the butt pad has no grip/tackyness to it, it feels more like the polymer body that the stock is made out of than rubber. Less of an issue for me personally but still relevant, the pad is rock hard.

Nitpicky gripes: no included QD attachment, finicky adjustment/telescope latch

I would return it but I'm way past the return window.

Pros
Anesthetics: uniform black color and very smooth polymer construction, attractive at a glance, modularity (can be modified with Luth's proprietary parts)

Cons
Excess wobble, no grip on the buttpad, poor price/performance ratio

Best used for
A display rifl