AR-15 Upgrades Overview

welcome back everybody this is Eric and Chad here from Moss pond and gun and today we're going to be talking a little bit about air 15 accessories alright there's a lot of stuff out there that you can add to your AR and really that the AR is like the king of customization I mean it is the adult leggo of the gun world I mean you can just literally tack any type of device onto these things you can you can think of so what we're going to try to do is showcase some items these are our personal rigs right here we have built out and we want to show you the kind of stuff we're putting on our rifles this is in no way supposed to be a complete amount of accessories you can expect to find out there but this is just the stuff we're running and hopefully this video allow you to glean a little bit of information about the type of upgrades you can make and what's entailed in doing so and everything like that we actually just got done doing a pretty involved magazine torture test if you guys haven't seen that make sure you check it out we've spent a lot of time working with that so what we're gonna do is gonna work down the rifle from muzzle backwards okay we're going to start out with brakes now muzzle devices are kind of one of those things that can fall into a lot of different categories okay you have everything from like a standard bird cage down here and tell us about some of these other muzzle devices that are on your rigs here well we've got a standard a2 bird cage on this just a flash suppressor flash hider this is a Smith vortex right here this is a four prong flash hider this here has a Griffin armament I don't remember exactly the model but we'll pipe it in but this is a combination break and flash hider which really I've never seen one that still doesn't flash but it does help reduce recoil a little bit alright right here we've got a Faxon single chamber claw Keable break a very effective little break now muzzle brakes what they do is they help prevent muzzle climb when you're in rapid fire the better the better the design of a muzzle break the less climb you're going to get so if you're firing rapid like you get a guy like Jerry Miculek or someone like that that's really fast behind the trigger does muzzle brakes will help prevent muzzle climb muzzle breaks also lend themselves for having a quick attachment point for your suppressors and other types of devices like that so if you have a surefire muzzle break or some type of serve fire you know muzzle device you can attach your surefire suppressor and you're good to go and usually each amount of companies have their own proprietary break that goes along with their suppressor so just so you know from a standpoint of muzzle devices that's about what you're looking at this is a little pistol that we have set up on a spikes tactical warthog this is basically like a blast attenuating type muzzle device and what that's designed to do is to keep all that extra muzzle blast focused outward and keep it from getting all over your buddies so if we're clearing rooms we're doing something you know other type of military or police duties it allows me to shoot close to my buddy that's near me if I need to but without that obnoxious blast getting near him and and you know getting hot gas in his eyes or anything like that so and to not piss some people off of the range yeah you're in one stall the two guys rounds you they're getting hit by blasts coming out at the end of your muzzle and like out of here and the short barrel on this little guy that's certainly an issue it is that thing is very concussive now we also you know before we move on to barrels we are going to talk just briefly here about configurations now each of these rifles kind of fills a certain role and it's set up in a very specific configuration the gun that I'm holding here is a pistol build now there's certain legalities to building and pistol versus an AR or a versus a rifle AR this particular rig has the dolos attachment which we're kind of going ahead of ourself but this one's kind of a takedown which is kind of neat all right we'll talk about that in a moment but then you have like say effect is BR so this is Chad's SBR then you have a rifle length and of course the gas systems but we'll discuss those in a moment now when it comes to barrels barrels come in a lot of different profiles lengths and chamber rings okay and all of them have their own specific use so with barrels it can be all the way from like just a standard you know this is a seven and a half inch barrel that's very short and stiff doesn't have any lightning cuts in it and the same thing on his SBR here the barrel on this gun is kind of short and stiff no lightning cuts and that provides a nice rigid platform for everything to be nice and accurate so with barrels you also have a lot of different on tours specifically look at like military m4 barrels they're cut for like the grenade launcher attachment okay you might have a lighter contour like say that as on the mag tactical air 15 where that barrel is cut very very thin to reduce weight or in pencil barrel or you might have a medium contour barrel like the BCM that's down here on his DMR and that barrel lends itself well long-range shooting it's still nice and rigid but without having the full weight of a full bore exactly the full bulls are usually about nine I think 0.93 Oh inches and a single barrel can be three to four pounds and when you think about ARS I mean that's over half of the weight of a complete rifle on a typical build so that is a heavy heavy profile barrel I mean we'd like to stick with sort of like mid weight to lightweight barrels on our builds these two or medium profiles this is a 14.5 this is an 18 inch this is kind of an H bars profile under the handguard but it's 10 and a half inches like Eric mentioned and then this one here is a standard like 556 style barrel it's like it basically tastes like an m4 profile barrel but it does not have the 203 cut on the front and so that lends itself well to a lighter weight setup on the front end right and this is a Faxon barrel this is a 14 and a half inch Faxon barrel that we've pinned them welded this break on so with barrel length you have to be conscious of the goal build that you're going for if you're going for a rifle of course the barrel has to be 16 inches or longer which most are most factory barrels are 16 and a half inches when you're talking about a rifle length barrel then their pistol barrels can be pretty much any length you want you've got a seven and a half a ten and a half I think no make of 14 no 11 and a half's 12 and a half typically 10.3 Daniel offenses there's a myriad of different links and you like threading a blackout you've got 8.3 eight-inch barrels 9-inch barrels and so on and so forth so moving down the line so you have your break your barrel alright then you have a gas block now there's a lot of upgrades out there when it comes to gas blocks there's everything from low profile gas blocks that have Picatinny rail systems on the top you've got the type of gas blocks that are bulletproof kind of like the guys leaves that we're running now all of these rigs say for his s are here we're running guys the gas blocks on everything all right it has a bulletproofing function where you cross pin it you drill it out and cross pin it and that gas block is not going anywhere some of them just have a set screws that you dimple the barrel and you drive those set screws in nice and tight with some red loctite and that keeps the gas block from moving around on this particular SBR that Chad's running here he's just got a standard a2 style gas block / front sight post now you know that's the way the military runs them the cross pinned on the bottom and they have built in a two front sight you know on the front of it so you can either go with a low profile front sight post pretty much anything you want in that bridge yeah like Eric mentioned the gas bolts come in a myriad of different sizes you have like he said low profile that fit up under a handguard and then like you mentioned the Picatinny style I used to have one of the JP competition style adjustable gas blocks and it was aluminum now most companies aren't making aluminum gas blocks anymore because they erode very quickly you know especially for competition use where you're shooting thousands of rounds a month with practice and competing so they've gone to mainly all steel blocks and like Eric mentioned you know the attachment method is slightly different for each one the set screw method and the guys Lee which is actually called the bomb-proof bomb-proof installation but it uses a 3/16 spring pin you basically set your barrel and gas block up and the next y axis drill through your barrel cross pin in place that way the thing is never going to walk out of there unless you want it to that's one thing I've used some of the set screw style before and I've never had any issues with them but I like that extra security of that bomb-proof installation especially if you're setting up the gun for life and liberty you know if it needs to go bang every shot no matter what and this is not you know we can war your gun that that's your you're just going to go play with it something that's serious you want a gas block that's going to stay nice and solid and we tend to prefer the guys lease I like guys Lee now we talked about muzzle devices barrels gas blocks all right now we're gonna talk about gas system length okay there are some distinct differences in the gas systems of different ARS and how they operate so with gas blocks and gas systems as one kind of you know co-op topic there you do have direct gas impingement and you have piston okay and those are two completely different animals in terms of how the parts interchange you know you can't take a direct gas impingement carrier out and put it in your piston gun and at work they're different carriers different gas blocks completely different assembly but speaking of just the average ar-15 is usually going to be direct gas impingement and what happens is gas forces are exerted through a tube and they work their way directly back into the action to operate the firearm whereby a piston system actuates those gases against a centrally located piston now sometimes it's a short stroke it might be spring-loaded and just like on an SKS where it operates and then it pushes back operates the carrier and it's just a spring-loaded piston that's a short stroke or sometimes their long stroke piston they don't get the fax in air act 21 the carrier on that gun is literally just like an ak-47 carrier that's what you call long stroke gas piston operation also unlike the the POF I think that we're POF ordnance rifles those are long stroke and the ad course or long stroke as well because it's attached to the carrier but we're discussing direct gas impingement today and like Eric said there's multiple gas system links yeah and like on this pistol here where the pistol link set up you're picking up a lot of port pressure you know like five inches basically in front of the in front of the barrel and over in front of the chamber and that lends itself to very very high pressure and it's a violent violent violent operation of the system and that's why these typically have a lot more wear and tear associated with them if the port size is over just a little bit it just lets too much gas in the system and people have to run heavier buffers to slow the bolt down so it doesn't wear your receiver extension it doesn't wear your bolt out doesn't wear your upper receiver out we're out running the mag or outrun the mag but you've got a five-inch system which is typically designated to the pistols like a seven inch barrel or shorter then you have a carbine system which is found on like barrels from 10.3 on up you know the carbine system can work on ten ten and a half 14 and a half twelve and a half the whole nine yards it picks up gas about seven inches the chamber and the port pressure is a little bit less there's less wear and tear on the system but in a lot of circles that's kind of the minimum length gas system that you want to run for not only reliability but keeping your gun actually from beating itself apart but then these two rifles here the 14 5 facts and then the 16 inch facts and operate on what's called a mid-length system and the middling system was kind of created to bridge the gap between the full-length rifle system which is what the AR platform was designed to use was a full 12-inch gas system and the seven-inch carbine system that was associated with some issues when in military and law enforcement use so they bridge the gap put the port at 9 inches and the pressure is just low enough to give it very soft soft recoiling characteristics it doesn't beat the system up and it just makes for an all-around better shooting run it's still reliable it is very reliable and then you have a rifle length system which this DMR on the end here of chad's you know the barrel that he's running is a BCM very high quality barrel with that you're also running a full length gas system which is basically your traditional length you know a full rifle length gas system like you see on m16a2 a3 what-have-you with barrels and everything I hate to jump back around you know while we're on the gas system barrels are kind of one of those things there are a lot of different chamberings there's also different rifling profile profiles different weights and everything like that different materials as we really love these things can affect accuracy sometimes a barrel being more or less rigid than the other can affect the harmonics of the barrel how it vibrates how it works with certain weights of projectiles you know on the topic of barrels like I mentioned you know different materials you got like 41 40 you know chromoly steel you've got chrome line you've got stainless steel you've got different coatings and you know phosphate like manganese or zinc phosphate like that's pork rising and then you've got black oxide coatings you've got nitride encodings as well like np3 or nitrile carburizing processes there's a lot of questions out there about barrels and quality and such as that a good quality like chromoly bear like a 40 140 will last probably longer than you will have that rifle probably more it'll last more rounds and you'll ever shoot through that rifle chrome-lined will last longer it's easier cleanup you know it doesn't it lends itself well to easy extraction and feeding and such but does it last much longer mmm I would say chrome-lined barrels generally they clean easy they're good in the field when you've worried about corrosion or you know copper fouling and all other kind of build up that clean easier like you said but I've always found that chrome wine barrels tend not to shoot as well they do not because it is a coating on the internal so that's gonna wear everywhere as they really you know gun gets older a good quality button rifled or even like a cold hammer-forged barrel will probably out shoot a chrome-lined barrel any day of the week and for most recreational shooters or just guys like us or guys like you who want to just build a rifle a standard chromoly barrel or even a stainless steel barrel will fit the bill just nicely and you're not paying an arm and a leg for it soon yep absolutely so we're going to move on to talk about rail system rail systems are one of those things that a lot of people get confused about because you know they buy this I don't know Midwest industries rail system or they buy you know whatever the case may be whoever makes the rail system and they don't know that you know you have to have a low profile gas blocked in order for the rail system to cover the gas block some people want that rail system that sheet out over the gas block can cover it up for cosmetic reasons you know maybe it looks better to them or maybe they're wanting a rail system that's longer so they then but they might have longer arms and they might need a rail system that gives them that extra length like this one you know is a it's a mark 3 super modular mr. 13 inch rail so it's kind of long if you got you know long arms some people you know shoot them overboard so they want to be able to hold the gun down nice and tight and they want that extra length you know some folks might have you know they might want a forward grip or maybe a AFG or something there where they can just really pull the gun in the way they want what's comfortable to them you got some guys that'll hold their a are kind of like in this area and shoot like this and keep it tucked in nice and tight like maybe a SWAT team operator or something like that it really just depends there's a there's a myriad of different rail systems out there the ones that we have on these guys are from guys Lee automatics so with the guys Lee rails you have a couple of different varieties that they're offered in they do offer them in a key mod configuration in lock and then their proprietary system the rail section slide into these slots and then they twerk down and that way you just put the rails exactly where you want them if you don't need a rail in one area why bulk it up with a full quad when you can just put the rails where you need it be done with sure one thing that you know earlier you saw me take the dolos off here this is a device called the dolos and this is actually a takedown attachment for an ar-15 and this particular one set up on a pistol obviously but the dolos is an example of something that this is meant for takedown purposes these are actually made by 110 arms so that's just to give you an idea you got everything from takedown very you know practical and simple all the way up to add all the rails you want or you have a full quad or no rails at all depending on how you want to set the system up so you know really it literally comes down to your you know preference and what you want to accomplish there but there's a lot of great rails out there you know makes you know ATI offers some excellent offerings you know if you're wanting something that's you know not really expensive you can go with Magpul or ATI or there's any number of companies out there that make for ends and rail systems and different attaching points they all have their proprietary system in terms of how they install if you notice on the guys lis you know it's got its system with its own proprietary barrel nut but then you've also got this rail from that's the daniel defense as a daniel defense you tell them about that really well like eric said some rails have proprietary barrel nuts that's how they attach to the gun other rails they'll either slip right over your standard barrel nut or they clamp on top of it or clamp around it like I think Midwest industries used to have one from Troy defense and I think there's another rail manufacturer that's a top and bottom clamshell style and you don't have to remove your barrel nut which makes it an easy installation but the guys leaves and several other brands Yankee Hill machine they use proprietary barrel nuts clean Daniel defense like we mentioned so you just have to pull that off of there and the rail clocks down like I'm a standing offense it's six bolts on this setup here the guys Lee's use to cross bolts that go through notches that are cut in the end the barrel nut and makes for a very solid installation and like Eric said rail length is all about user preference I like having a long rail cuz I like getting my hand out there and unlike my 14.5 or my carbine style builds I like running like a forward light or maybe a forward grip or something along those lines Plus like Eric mention the guys Lee is devoid of rails on the three six and nine o'clock positions and that's to give you options to put the rails where you want it but if you don't want to run the rails it gives you a nice thin profile to the rail system a lot of people don't like that big bulky feel up front like some of the older style rails you know they just feel really big din the hand and the weight and the weight too they are very heavy but when you remove the rails from the system you're alleviating some of the weight from the rail system itself and make a lighter yeah and the bulk so from rail systems moving on basically with receivers where we're talking about receivers being your upper and your lower they're kind of the kind of one of those things where they're generally just kind of kind of fall into a certain tolerance I mean you got these guys that throw out mil spec and then mil spec magwell and mil spec upper house this marked house that marked generally a truly mil spec lower and upper will be marked Omega generally so if you look at the upper you'll see like a it looks kind of like a key slot that's omega now all these other ones have their own meanings to be honest with you I'm not really up to speed on that kind of stuff I just look at an upper as an upper and lowers of lower I try to keep the brand the same so like I've built a few of these out on Anderson's I've built a couple of Smith & Wesson M&P uppers and lowers I built out some CMM G's some DPMS I mean generally as long as they're not some junky manufacturer you never heard of or some johnny-come-lately that's never made ARS that just decided to get into the AR business because of all this gun scare stuff you know a 1 year old company you know just pick an upper and lower that's from a reputable manufacturer that you like now some uppers and lowers are custom like you've got some that have certain machine cuts put into them to give them a cooler cosmetic look some of them have custom engraving and you know different logos and things like that you can get for them which is kind of cool and then there are there is some difference between like say you know a billet lower and like just a regular Forge Forge lower and those two different types of lowers do have their strength and strength some weaknesses depending on what you want I mean sometimes the cost can kind of you know send some people away from someone like the higher end ad Kors or mag tacticals or whatever looks you know some of the billet machine sets or upwards of three to four hundred dollars and you know they are high quality pieces and billet just means that the receivers are a machine from a solid block of aluminum forging means that the liquid the molten aluminum is poured into a cast forging and you get a rough receiver that's then finished mr. Machine now for the ar-15 platform all of the pressure is contained in the chamber and on the bolt face and in the receiver extension of the barrel extension you don't really get any any undue stress to the receivers themselves that's why they can be made out of lighter weight material like aluminum and in my opinion I've never had a single problem with the standard mil spec forged receiver and I mean I bought several of the Anderson's I mean you can get the things for fifty to sixty dollars it's kind of hard to beat a $60 AR receiver I want to and one that works and then we put several them together and they work just fine but I've got DPMS and spikes right here and spikes that's kind of cool like Eric mentioned yep you know they have the custom engravings they've got like a honey badger The Punisher they've got all sorts of cool stuff so you can make your gun your own but if you just want something simple I mean it just it pays to go with something that's a little bit more affordable and put the money in something that's higher quality like a good quality rail or something along those lines and we'll talk about that as we go you know my particularly lower minors al our flower custom weaponry you guys may know them from dira coat but this particular one is a billet so it's very very high quality machine lower that I picked up excellent people to work with and of course this is a CMM G so all of these are different lowers lowers also uppers and lowers can be made out of polymer or a composite a composition of steel and polymer inserts depending like ATI has their arm high bruh Don Omni hybrid okay and basically the back of the receiver where the buffer tube screws in has a steel insert and they have you know steel placed in strategic locations where the guns are known to fail from having polymer lower versus aluminum so that might be an option for some of you if you're trying to cut weight I would suggest most people just go with just a regular forged milspec lower and be done with it same thing only upper so that pretty much covers uppers and lowers for the most part well one thing I want to mention too talking about like the polymer uppers and lowers remember like the old Bushmaster carbon 15 s or the new Windham weaponry carbons you know those are like a polymer style upper and lower and I can't tell you how many of those that I've seen where the the aluminum rail on the top of the receiver has been ripped off and see there's no repair in that once it's gone it's gone you know so that's one thing you might want to consider the receivers are fairly cheap and very lightweight but there's another option out there my tactical produces their magnesium alloy uppers and lowers which are about a thirty to forty percent weight savings over aluminum and just as strong oh yes absolutely and I've seen some of those polymer receivers actually stripped oh yeah strip out you know the barrel where it screws in I've seen that whole entire rig basically usually it happens when people are trying to get a little overzealous and making adjustments on either a muzzle break or they're trying to get over gel overzealous on changing out a rail system take down pins I've seen them ripped off on the takedown pin several times yup something so that covers uppers and lowers so moving along we're going to talk about bolt carrier groups bolt carrier groups are kind of one of those things that it really just depends on personal preference the amount of money that you want to spend the one that Chad's pulling out right here is the sharps reliable this particular bolt has an mp3 coating which is basically kind of like nickel boron think of it like the way a nice nonstick pan is coated it's a slippery hardened nonstick type coating that allows carbon and dirt and other things so just wipe right off the bolt release this particular bolt the reliable actually has a lot of profiling that's done on the locking lug recesses to allow it to go into battery smoother and more efficiently a lot quicker usually any milspec carrier is also going to have the gas tube under the gas key staked in place okay always look for a staked gas key that's always going to be the tell-tale sign of a good quality you know mil spec bolt carrier group also this particular arrangement right here you have a ar-15 and m16 bolt carrier groups one of them will have a shaved portion on the rear that will not set off any type of an auto sear even if it was in a real machine gun it won't trip an auto sear because of this cut that's put along the back that's an ar-15 bolt this is an m16 bolt it has the extra surface area there so if you'd have an auto sear in the gun this will work in a machine gun or a standard ar-15 not really any difference in performance it's just some people want the m16 bolts in case they ever want to run a gun that has an auto seer of a buddies or something like that pretty straightforward for the most part there are a lot of upgrades that can be made on everything from just as simple as like your extractor some guys run some some really nice bulletproof style of extractor that's about the only thing I've ever really seen you like go out on them or go bad as you know I've seen them tear extractors I've seen them sheer gas keys if they're not you know staked in nice and tight well or if the screws to hold the gas key in place or not of the highest quality you know if they're not properly hardened they'll be real brittle and they'll just snap right off you know eventually but those here yeah Eric was mentioning the bolts like the live bolt the radius locking lugs here just make for smoother operation just in the standard operation of the bolt but the idea has been around for quite some time and when I first built this DPMS lower out back in o4 I actually purchased one of the LM T enhanced bolt itself and it had kind of a scalloped design and very radius design and Eric mentioned the extractors this extractor actually has two Springs and a dual extractor spring setup so if one does fail the gun will not fail it'll still keep on rolling along absolutely so that's one thing to consider now we're gonna talk briefly here about coatings I'm going to move on because guys bolt carrier groups are one of those things there's a lot of different ones out there I know this video might be getting a little long we're trying to kind of roll along here you have a few different basic types of coatings all right this is a titanium night writing it's pretty much the exact same type of coating they put on reloading dyes and things like that titanium Knights writing is just you know gives it a gold appearance and of course the luster of the appearance depends on the surface prep so if it's if it's polished it'll be shiny looking like a gold brick or whatever if it's dull like this this carrier is probably be blasted down and then thrown in there you got your titanium nights riding not really use quite as much anymore as some of the other options then you've got nib expecially mp3 manip explained earlier we already explained the nib exposing but this is what most of your high-end bolt carrier group and and bolt manufacturers are using now just because it's lubricity capabilities and also for ease of maintenance cleaning it off then you have black oxide which is the standard you know most of your ar-15 parts that are black are going to be black oxide 'add that's pretty straightforward there you are gonna have some military bolt carrier groups that are parkerized well yeah and like eric mention you know this bolt carrier group from sharps does not require lubrication because itself will replicating but I tend to put a little bit of lube inside my four receiver anyways the false faded or the black oxide bolt carrier groups you put a couple of drops of oil inside of your port and it spreads all around the bolt carrier group to lubricate it so it's pretty neat feature of those and that's just kind of old-school and that's the least expensive option yep alright so moving forward of course there are a ton of aftermarket dust covers you know they have a hinge dust cover on the ar-15 that's spring-loaded and it has a detent that just snaps into the upper guys I think we all understand what that entails I mean there's a lot of aftermarket magazine releases trigger guard covers and things like that forward assists dust covers all type of other minor accouterments backup sights there are a ton of other components you can get there's everything from sling point mounts like on the this SBR we've got a Magpul ASAP which is a sling point mount that's mounted behind the receiver in front of the buffer tube assembly all right and then you've got additional sling point mounts that just mount to any type of Picatinny rail and then you've got a QD sling mount okay it's just a button you push and then that QD will pop on and off pretty straightforward okay so really that's that's kind of the major component so you do have triggers we're going to talk about triggers a little bit here they are triggers are one of those things that when it comes to accuracy and when it comes to ringing the maximum amount of potential out of a given system upgrading the barrel and upgrading the trigger are gonna be your probably your two first things you end up doing sort of you know how good of an optic II well I tend to disagree with that because most of the guns that you're gonna get off the shelf nowadays if you buy a stock rifle say like a Smith & Wesson M&P 15 it's gonna have a pretty damn high quality barrel from the get-go but if you add a quality trigger and you freefloat your barrel which by adding one of these rail systems that does not have any contact point besides the barrel nut then you're going to accomplish that but you can cut group sizes typically in half with the quality like two-stage match style trigger even a very high quality single stage trigger well you know depending on on how you want to run that it really depends I mean if you um let's say you buy a decent AR like Chad said you buy a nice mmpu right out the gate or something like that alright well you're not sure the true accuracy potential that barrel you know you take it out you shoot it with the factory trigger you determine the accuracy is not what you really want to see yeah if you know you're going to upgrade the trigger then ya put the nicer trigger in the gun shoots the factory barrel and like you said your group size could shrink then if your group size doesn't improve by changing the trigger then you can make the decision okay now I want to swap to a nicer barrel we got barrels from Faxon we got a BC em right there Rock River Blue Rock River and I think this one's Rock River also I'm not mistaken so it really depends now with triggers what we run in most of our guns are the guys lease you've got the super semi-autos and yours super semi-auto enhanced which is the version of their fixed to sage trigger I've got that in all three of these guns plus a pistol lower at the house all right and this is a flat shoe this one is that is these that is the super dynamic SSA I believe it's a super semi-auto which is a two-stage style trigger but super dynamic trigger shoe which is a flat shoe instead of a curved shoe I tend to prefer a flat shoe on a trigger that's just my opinion this particular rig is mine the little trigger that's in this one is a Wilson combat it's a single-stage trigger it's very light so you have basically two-stage triggers and you have single stage triggers single stage triggers it really comes down to preference but with a two-stage trigger you have an initial take up that generally the entire trigger length might be say three and a half pounds and say you're your initial take up is like a pound and a half of that or two pounds of that and then your remaining trigger squeeze on the second stage like on these guys lee's brakes it a nice crisp one and a half pounds yeah these break it I think 1.2 pounds on the second stage first stage take-up is like 2 pounds give or take but it has very very minimal over-travel I mean it breaks like a carrot it is just such a good trigger and I mean I've used Rock River or actually I've used Bushmaster two-stage triggers that are adjustable and they have a special safety and they have set screw adjustments in the trigger so you can adjust take-up over travel you can adjust the actual weight of the trigger so there are fully adjustable triggers out there to set them up per your preference but these are set up more for like accurate shooting at longer ranges whatnot but they do work in a like a CQB style arrangement the single stage triggers are gonna be the fastest thing out there I mean you know minimal minimal travel initially really short break crisp or a crisp break low over travel it's going to be able to you know shoot really real quick you know so yeah that thing runs like a scalded dog but then again so does this guy's Lee here it does now what triggers you know kind of one of those things there's a lot of different stuff out there guys so you know make sure you research what you're buying make sure you're getting something that is worth your money okay and that's sole point of this video we want you to understand the different accessories that are available to you and what's out there you have grips and stocks okay we're gonna pull this into one category I mean grips are just like anything else there million grips out there some of them are great some of them suck but it all comes down to preference guys it really honestly is just preference I mean like on this little pistol rig I've got the Magpul PDW grip which is a very very slim and low-profile almost too tiny but I like it because it's just kind of small and for just an everyday carry gun that's less bulky I've got attached to this gun I'd like to keep everything small and compact that's why I'm running this vortex park on here because I like the low profile of this optic I like I want a low-profile rig something small all right but then you can get all the way up to some of the other offerings where you've got groups that have you know interchangeable straps that go on the back of them interchangeable front pieces you know to match the contour of your hand it really does just depend imeem they've got some of the match style that have the palms wells in them so if you're building a heavy barrel DMR or heavy barrel thousand-yard AR something I mean you get the adjustable palms wells that are cut just for you that allow your hand to like you know rest in the same place each time Sisseton see your consistency and grips are kind of one of those things like these little rubberized mo pluses that he's running on here these are great another excellent Mac Bowl product ATI makes a very effective you know recoil absorbing grip there's scorpion that's that's excellent you know for some of you guys that are into that sort of thing come bigger hands yeah so if some guys have bigger hands some of the ATI offerings are excellent you know same goes for a lot of other companies and then with stocks you know there's a ton of options out there for stocks I mean once your base hanger is in place your buffer tube you've got a commercial spec and a military spec and of course you have to choose the appropriate stock because the diameter is slightly different on each one so you have to make sure use the right one if you guys are wondering common rule of thumb between mil spec and commercial stocks mil spec is going to have a ninety degree rear commercial is going to have a slightly angular rear about 15 degrees or so that's one of the easiest ways to tell them apart but most of the guns that you see on the table have short carbine style buffer tubes this one has a rifle length buffer tube it uses a different buffer and a different spring but you get a longer length that's set and these are all collapsible here so these are adjustable for length of pool absolutely and running just a Magpul rifle stock here I've got to to yield tore clubfoot stocks I think this is called the eye mod nowadays and this is just a clubfoot original vule tore that I've had for 10 years and then what do you have on that one this is a Magpul HCS okay so Magpul makes great stuff ATI makes great stuff I mean there's there's a lot of companies out there they're producing some excellent AR accessories and they're not very expensive you can really deck out your AR just how you want when it comes to stocks and everything like that even rail systems without spending a ton of money now this is a pistol build so this is not a stock this is an arm brace this is one of the sig tacks six-hour produces and it's basically just an arm brace it attaches to your arm allows you to stabilize the gun better when you're shooting it you know with one hand the difference between the pistol buffers and the rifle buffers pistol buffers are tubular they do not have the cut on the bottom to accept a classical stock you can slip it over there but all it's going to do is spin around so these actually have the adjustment on the bottom for the collapsible stock that's the main difference yes there's the cuts and the notches put in there to allow for your stock to snap it in place with each justment level I think that that pretty much covers things well I mean there's always gonna be things that you leave out and videos like this because there's so many different accessories you can add on ARS I mean obviously we have a variety of different optics on these guns I mean I've got this vortex part too it's basically kind of like a name point team one micro you know very small lightweight optic infinite battery life seemingly infinite on this particular SBR we're running just just regularly otech 550 this is actually a 553 it's the night vision compatible model takes us cr123 's and it has the older-style arms quick detach system built into the sight which is really really cool I like a QD sight because I can switch it between different guns I've got a name point I think this is a comp in - that's an M 68 this is an M 68 M - yeah they have a couple of different models the military ones takes like these little weird watch batteries but a lot of the civilian ones are shipping out now they'll take you know standard double a battery and got it last forever and then on this one here I'm running a LaRue SP ar-15 mount and I've got a vortex razor HD 1 to 6 by 24 and it's a 30 millimeter tube illuminated reticle very very nice high quality optic well yeah I mean that particular rig is set up you know like maybe a three gun rig DMR this is just a good everyday kind of just walking around gun this is kind of your defensive home defense truck guns something small and handy easy to get in and out of your vehicle and everything like that this just every everyday plinking gun fun gun is what I built that for this is an excellent option if you just want a fun toy and it's also classified as a pistol so in certain states depending on we know what the laws are how all that you know comes to play this is a type of thing that you can carry in your car loaded and it's considered a handgun so you can also carry that across state lines if you go into a friend's house or family you want to take that and shoot my SBR I have to file special paperwork in order to take this and transport it across state lines right so that is one hiccup with these but you have an SBR low or have a pistol lower have a rifle lowers you pretty much do whatever you want to do for the most part so anyway guys we appreciate you sitting through this video we know it was kind of long but hopefully you guys glean some information about the different things that you can come to terms with on ARS I mean it's really not that complicated guys you just kind of have to take a step back figure out what the type of build you want to go with or don't you may just want a blasting rig and you want to deck it out like them all ninja we built and make it all crazy that's fine it doesn't have to fill a specific niche but if you go into building an AR with a specific you know goal in mind then this should give you some ideas of the different configurations you can come up with and kind of what those configurations lend themselves to well like Eric said you know it is one of those things it can be a little bit overwhelming you know sometimes I mean a guy getting into a ARS whatever it's like whom do I buy or do I build and and you see so many products out there it can really just boggle your mind and you know you just can't make a decision on it but if you if you're let kind of guide just start with the base rifle and then just work your way up you're gonna spend a little bit more money that way eventually to get what you want but that's the beauty of these rifles they can be built any way you want I mean any type of configuration so the sky is pretty much the limit with a oars absolutely well guys we appreciate you watching today's video check back for more we've got a ton of videos in the pipeline a lot of cool things happening in 2015 this has been a great year for us we're here right at the tail end of December it's been an awesome year here in 2014 but you know moving forward I think we're gonna have a great year we've got some exciting things planned stay tuned we'll catch you guys next time you

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