Seth Winn from United States, LA Public Profile

I installed this stock onto a friend's DPMS bull barrel 308 rifle. He's a tall guy (6'7 or so) and needed a longer LOP for comfortable shooting with this rifle. With the simple install of this stock he was good to go. There was even some LOP adjustment left if he ever needed it. It did add about 10oz to his rifles weight, but he only uses it in stationary hunting and target shooting. With that fat bull barrel it gave the rifle a little more balance with the added weight. This gun was too heavy to carry around before, and this stock didn't help or really hurt that. I probably wouldn't install this on something I was going to carry for more than an hour or so at a time. If you already have a bunch of titanium parts for weight reduction on your rifle, this probably isn't the stock for you.

This is all I put in my AR builds anymore. It's about $100 more expensive than the standard buffer and spring, but I can usually save that money somewhere else in the build or in my optics selection. Being able to easily and quickly tune the buffer spring rates and buffer weights with interchangeable parts in all of my AR rifles is a nice place to be. More importantly the rick-rack grinding noise is gone from my buffer tube when I shoot now. This noise is just a distraction and I do get used to it after I shoot a bit, but it's an annoying distraction that is out of my life now. That's worth more than $100 to me.

I purchased 2 of these uppers from another retailer at a better price than Optics Planet. They are very accurate, reliably shooting 1/2-3/4" 5-shot groups at 100 yards off of sandbags with every Hornady factory load I have tried. No hand loads have been worked up yet so those groups will probably get even smaller, which is amazing. When a dime will completely cover your 5-shot groups at 100-yards it doesn't get much better than that. These uppers can do that if you can.

This is a heavy setup. Even without a scope this upper, along with a BCG and CH, weighs as much as most of my complete AR-15 rifles with scopes on them. That's great for precision shooting off of a bench but you shouldn't plan on walking around very much with this. My complete 6.5 Creedmoor Aero rifle with a 4-20x50 Burris Veracity comes in at 13 pounds. I deer hunt out of tower stands so that isn't a big deal for me. But if you have to walk far to or from your stand, or have to walk around much with your rifle, you will notice how heavy it is. Just think of carrying 2 AR-15's with 3-9x40 scopes at the same time and you'll have an idea of how heavy it is. A gunsmith can flute this barrel for around $100 but that's not going to take more than 1 pound or so off even with spiral fluting.

The only thing I would change are the flash hider and gas block. For such an accurate rifle setup I want a compensator/brake, like the VG6 Gamma 6.5 that Aero Precision makes. They work great. Also a requirement f

Most carbine stocks rattle in every position. Even the beloved MOE stock suffers from this. I have used the ACS and ACS-L stocks for a while, and only recently tried my first CTR. I'm sold on it. It weighs about the same as the lightweight MOE stock, and has the friction lock of the ACS/ACS-L stocks that I have come to love. No more rattle or wiggle when I pull the gun up and sight. And you still have all of the quick adjustability for length of pull. All you have to do is press the adjustment selector paddle a little harder to pop out the friction lock. I don't know why more stocks have a feature like this.

This is so much faster to put in a lower receiver for trigger testing than other products I've used and seen during rifle builds. However, it is loud. Very loud. When the hammer hits this block there is a pop like a fire cracker. If you're only doing a quick function check on the FCG while assembling a lower it's not a big deal. If you're wanting to use this for extended dry fire practice you need to use hearing protection since this pop will be happening so closely to your ears. The hammers started leaving marks on this block from the first use. So far it's been struck probably 50 times and is still intact. I'm not sure that it will hold up to repetitive strikes numbering in the hundreds or thousands. I wanted something to practice dry fire on a complete lower for developing tactile muscle memory and improving trigger control. I don't think that was the intention of this product but it is excellent for lower builds.

This spring set will take your MIL spec trigger pull from six to ten pounds down to four-five. If you put it on a polished and nickel-plated FCG you end up with a greatly improved trigger and reset for around fifty bucks.
These lighter springs do increase lock time (the time between the trigger pull and the hammer contacting the firing pin) with a MIL spec hammer which does negatively affect accuracy. But overall accuracy has been improved on every gun with MIL spec springs I've replaced with these. To get more accuracy potential from the FCG it takes a redesigned, non-MIL spec trigger like the Geissele SSA-E, JP Enterprises, etc., and that will cost 200 bucks and up. If you are happy with shooting two inch groups at a hundred yds. with good (American Eagle) bulk ammo then there's no need to spend that much money on a FCG. That is the accuracy limit of bulk ammo in all of my guns.
If you're after the highest accuracy potential in you're gun with high quality ammo and good magnified optics then it will take the extra money on a new FCG design. This is the most economic FCG upgrade that I have experience with. It goes on every rifle I build now unless I go with a high-dollar FCG for a match or long distance hunting rifle build.