Modern Sporter Upper Poll

Slick ASide or F/A upper

  • Slick Side

    Votes: 101 45.7%

  • Forward assist

    Votes: 120 54.3%
  • Total voters
    221
  • Poll closed .
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We are trying to gauge how many of each we minimally have to make. The other threads on this gun have been saturated with replies as to whether a Slick Side upper or an upper with Forward Assist is needed, better yada yada yada.
This is poll that I would ask ONLY those who have placed an order for a lower to respond to in order to help us determine how much material we need to order and how many of each style of upper we need to make.

Upper with Forward assist

Slick Side upper

Due to the fact that we already have the material to do a run of slick side uppers, they will be first to be produced while larger material is ordered in to accommodate the F/A uppers.
We know several of you have ordered multiple uppers , some have requested both and we will be following up later for exact numbers, this is simply to try and get a rough idea on quantities.
 
JayCarver said:
Will the FA upper have a brass deflector milled into the upper? Like what were used to seeing on a standard milled upper? Thanks
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I think ATRS mentioned in another thread the FA upper would have a milled in brass deflector. As they are starting from larger bar stock this makes sense for the FA uppers but not the slick slide ones.
 
Ok, I have not yet put my money where my mouth is (need to trim the collection a bit first) but you have a guaranteed sale outta me if it is approved NR. I would go for the FA equipped upper though given the option of slick or FA.
 
Is there going to be a price difference?
I haven't ordered yet but will be as soon as the NR status comes through.
I honestly don't care one way or the other if it has a FA. I've owned AR's with it and without it and have no preference other than which one I could get fastest :p
 
cr5 said:
Is there going to be a price difference?
I haven't ordered yet but will be as soon as the NR status comes through.
I honestly don't care one way or the other if it has a FA. I've owned AR's with it and without it and have no preference other than which one I could get fastest :p
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I believe $100-$200 was the expressed difference on FA or slick side
 
Hi Rick.
I have 3 MS on order and will want to go with the slick sided version.
After 40 years of playing with ARs... I still fail to understand why someone would want to compound the problem of a round not wanting to properly feed into the chamber... by actually forcing it and jamming it even more... sort of like "I'm gonna show this ##### who's boss..." and rendering the gun totally useless now that it's totally jammed...
I prefer to save money and more importantly save myself the aggravation...
Thanks and keep up the good work.
 
I have 3 sets on order, I am totally fine with slick side. Especially if it means getting them in time to do a build for this hunting season.......!
 
Now I know why I don't believe in polls.
According to this poll F/A uppers are the way to go, yet so far only about 20% of the confirmed orders we have for receiver sets have ordered F/A.

Maybe I should have included an option for "whatever is ready first"?

Anyway, thanks for the input guys.
 
alberta tactical rifle said:
Now I know why I don't believe in polls.
According to this poll F/A uppers are the way to go, yet so far only about 20% of the confirmed orders we have for receiver sets have ordered F/A.

Maybe I should have included an option for "whatever is ready first"?

Anyway, thanks for the input guys.
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Definitely the case. I will be taking one of each for each lower, but I would favor the FA if it was ready first.
 
Pratique50 said:
Hi Rick.
I have 3 MS on order and will want to go with the slick sided version.
After 40 years of playing with ARs... I still fail to understand why someone would want to compound the problem of a round not wanting to properly feed into the chamber... by actually forcing it and jamming it even more... sort of like "I'm gonna show this ##### who's boss..." and rendering the gun totally useless now that it's totally jammed...
I prefer to save money and more importantly save myself the aggravation...
Thanks and keep up the good work.
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A more common use for the forward assist is to help re seat the bolt into battery after doing a quick chamber check to make sure there's a round in the pipe . really helpful for hunting or military setting .
 
I use the FA occasionally.... sometimes ill drop the bolt on a loaded mag, then pull the action back slightly to see if it did in fact pick up a round.... but after verifying that it did and dropping the t handle, the action doesnt often go back into full battery. So rather than trying to pull the action back far enough to slam fully closed (while doing so potentially cause a double feed). Ill simply bop the FA until the action goes closed.

edit * oop somebody beat me to it ;)
 
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