AR15 without handguard

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n00b here..
Going to be working on a new upper build, testing out different parts.
is there anything I should know about firing an AR15 without a handguard?
or should i just buy one to toss on while testing?

if so, what would be a good cheap quad rail?
 
I have to ask you: are you bad-ass enough to fire and AR without a handguard?

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I'm sorry, I expected reasonable answers to follow my smart-ass one.

Any time I picture an AR-15 without a hand-guard, I flashback to Escape From New York and their "future rifles"

I would say the most important thing to know is: the barrel will get hot. Don't touch it with your hands if you don't have a hand-guard.
 
Enough of the jokes!
Shotting it without a handguard will definatly burn your hand.
I would say get a magpul moe handguard. You can find them on ee for cheap and its really light.
Down you road you can get a more expensive one. when all the testing is done and sell the magpul one if you dont like it.
Thats my opinion.
 
Also, the gas tube is thin and made of Aluminum, so if you bang it against something, it's probably gonna bend = not good.
Just get a damn handguard. Even the cheapest one will do.
 
Benito said:
Also, the gas tube is thin and made of Aluminum, so if you bang it against something, it's probably gonna bend = not good.
Just get a damn handguard. Even the cheapest one will do.
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The gas tube is stainless steel, not aluminum. Aluminum will not withstand the temps the gas tube sees.


Mark
 
Unless you have a delta ring laying around from a previous build (I'm taking it based on the question you dont) you want a handguard as they have the barrel nut included. Most of these are proprietary in different manufacturers.
 
thanks for the responses!
and good eye for whoever noticed the ARs in the pic don't have a gas tube. I lol'd when I re-checked the pic.

I was not planning on holding it from the barrel, just the magwell.
and this was only for 1 - 3 shots per test.

I think I'm going to just try it, and possibly get a magpul moe if i find it difficult.
 
How can you miss a stainless gas tube in the picture? I don't see one on the right guy's rifle but the guy on the left definitely has one. C'mon.

This is now a topic about Escape from N.Y. and Snake Plissken.

Edit: Actually, after some reading on imfdb.org:

The U.S. Police Force Soldiers throughout the film and U.S.S.S. Agents in the Air Force 1 hijack scene use slab side M16/AR-15 SP1 rifles with their hand guards removed and replaced with a slender plastic sleeve that wraps around the barrel and gas tube, in order to make them look more "futuristic". Some of the rifles have three prong flash hiders, and others have the A1 birdcage flash hider. The President (Donald Pleasence) in a freak rage is seen using one taken from a dead U.S.P.F. guard to kill the Duke of New York
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I can't see those plastic sleeves, to be honest.
 
-[Crosshair]- said:
How can you miss a stainless gas tube in the picture? I don't see one on the right guy's rifle but the guy on the left definitely has one. C'mon.
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Reading this from another computer and the same pic looks different on this monitor. On my laptop the gas tube in the first picture just looks like a specular highlight on the barrel. On this monitor it definitely looks like a gas tube. Guess it's the colour settings.
 
hdave said:
thanks for the responses!
and good eye for whoever noticed the ARs in the pic don't have a gas tube. I lol'd when I re-checked the pic.

I was not planning on holding it from the barrel, just the magwell.
and this was only for 1 - 3 shots per test.

I think I'm going to just try it, and possibly get a magpul moe if i find it difficult.
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But why on earth would you do this in the first place?
 
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