Ryan Campbell from United States, OK Public Profile

Heard a lot of negative reviews on this peoduct but it was inexpensive enough that I thought I'd give it a shot. Mine functions perfectly and I haven't had one issue other than the ammo I want to use wont fit. On an ar10 platform you could run whatever you want, but this thing is a blast and a true multi-tool. Birds to squirrels and deer with slugs. Great for home defense as well. And my 70 yr old mother loves it.

For a $200 gas block the fit and finish isn't there for me. Functions as well as a $60 adjustable gas block. I found it more gimmick than an actual upgrade for a weapon you'd trust your life to. The "piston" that was installed at the factory froze up after the first day of real use. I had it on a suppressed 14.5" 5.56 and put about 200 rounds through it that day. After the first few mags I noticed it gassing a bit more so I tried to turn it down another click and couldn't get it to move. Took it apart that night ( pain in the butt on a gun with a rockset muzzle brake, thankfully I hadn't pinned and welded it yet.) and the piston was completely stuck. Took a blowtorch and wd40 to get it out.

It's a metal straw. It works as one might believe a metal straw should work.

Got this hoping for a primo addition to a very expensive build. Looks cool and has alot of gas mitigating features. When i tried to install it it wouldn't go inside the receiver. Upon closer inspection I found the guide lugs on the side of the stem were to tall. I tried it in a couple other receivers with the same results. I literally threw it in the trash then dug it out a couple hours layer to try to file the top of the lugs down and wasnable to make it work. After finishing the machining work for breek, it now fits and works as advertised.

As far as a drop in ambi catch goes, this is the best one I've used. Way pricey but it rifle I put it on wasn't cheap and deserved the top end jewelry.

This handguard is one of the nicest i own. I have geissele, jp enterprises, precision reflex... The quality and attachment method is super tight without the wedgelocks. The machining throughout is some of the finest I've seen. Only cons in my opinion are that it's a bit pricey but comparable to geissele, and geissele doesn't have .308 handguards, and the melonite finish look a little dull next to the receivers.

Haven't had a chance to shoot this one yet but I have the 18" 6.5xcm stealth barrel. The 6.5cm has such a ridiculous gas system on it that it simply wouldn't function without modification. On both the 7.62 and 6.5 barrels the chamber machining is the worst I've ever seen. These barrel cost around twice as much as the mid grade barrels I have on cheaper builds, and their chambers are pretty smooth and don't gouge into my brass like the 6.5 does. To get the 6.5 to even work I had to get a low mass bcg (jp enterprises, so nice!), mk2 receiver extension from bcm (3/4" longer than standard carb.), running a 2oz buffer, polished the chamber to fix brass sticking(sticking fired or not), and drilling the gas port out (highly unrecommend doing this, last resort measure). It's finally running and luckily, I didn't trash its accuracy drilling it out. Would never have gone through all that if it hadn't been sub moa while I broke it in, Single feeding a semi auto rifle.

Its a gas block, that functions as a gas block. If you need a gas block, this is a gas block.

Super nice handguard, pain in the butt to install/ remove. Tube threads match my dpms g2 bull barrel nut and seats perfectly square. All the extra hogwash is unnecessary and just makes it more expensive. Also take too long considering they want you to red thread lock the barrel nut to the receiver. I use rockset and heat cure for 1 hr. Its also easier to release rockset.

I don't know how good this barrel is because I've been sitting on it trying to figure out the gas tube length. I emailed larue for info and got the vague response "the xl one". So i when to their site and saw the tubes bit only from pistol to rifle length, at least according to the listed items in the picture. So I got a rifle +1 and was still too short. After a week larue sent me an sku number and there i was able to find a rifle+2. But I've already order another from odin works through op. In all the pictures I looked at on op and larue they all show this barrel with larue gas block and tube installed leading me to believe it came with them,as it should. I' probably built 100 ar15s and 10s and had never even heard of rifle +2 gas tubes. This barrel should come with everything in the pictures since it such a niche setup. And I dont care for the so called assistance I've had from larue. I hope when I get to actually shoot the gun it accurate enough to be worth the pain its been getting there. I DON'T LIKE LARUE!!!