Pistolwhiptricks
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Looks great! Was hoping it would be priced a little cheaper though.
S&J Hardware Inc. SJ-15 Canadian made AR15.
- Thread starter badboybeeson
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- British Canuckistan
that's a nice AR. I'd like one in 7.62 x 39 as well. 
If I remember correctly, the AR15 was developed without a forward assist. The US brass that were evaluating them for military use didn't like the fact that you couldn't manually hit something to ensure the bolt was fully seated (ie hitting the charging handle on the M14). In order to make the gov't orders happen armalite added a forward assist. It's more or less considered useless, unless you are doing press checks.
I could be completely out to lunch though.
wikipedia - the Army insisted on the inclusion of a forward assist to help push the bolt into battery in the event that a cartridge failed to seat in the chamber through fouling or corrosion. Colt had argued the rifle was a self-cleaning design, requiring little or no maintenance. Colt, Eugene Stoner, and the U.S. Air Force believed that a forward assist needlessly complicated the rifle, adding about $4.50 to its procurement cost with no real benefit. As a result, the design was split into two variants: the Air Force's M16 without the forward assist, and, for the other service branches, the XM16E1 with the forward assist.
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Do you plan on offering a 20'' barrel option later on, or at least a 18.6'', just in case the AR's ever gets non restricted (I know, I'm dreaming!).
Also, precision matched striped receivers sets would be awesome too!
- Location
- East ontario
sorry about that, the FFw assist, really should not be used, im most cases, all it does is make your stoppage into a complete jam, once an ar15 has something jammed into the chamber area,it is very hard to clear. even with grabign the charging handle and thunder struck the buttstock on the ground.
That IA drill will either fix the issue or rip the bolt face right off the shell and then you have a gun down.
Over the last 15 or so years, there have been programs, when training had been implemented to not use the FFW assist, and to "rack it out" where there is an issue, just like a hand gun.
This works very well, but under stress the test subjects end up using the ffw assist, the results were.
The more times an ar15/m16 jams were "racked out" v using the ffw assist the less times the gun was make unusable .
The issue is, this is only for one of the 4 main stopages/jams you get with most AR15,s.
The best think to do is, not have an ffw assist, that way you cant use it.
People have been beating this data to death for many years, but slowly, and I mean very slowly people are moving away from the ffw assist.
But big Mil arms makes still do it because they build the guns as per the colt TDP.
Same reason, they still do chrome lined bbls, then nitrate done today can do 10x better job.
short answer, sorry for the spelling ect.
bbb
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- East ontario
if that ever gets close in our lifetime, then yes we would have no problem, at the moment which we have a bunch of production guns ready for dealer to test, unless we get good orders from our dealers or an over seas client, the project will have to wait until the CDN dollar Hits 40% and the flood of below cost US made ar15s slows.
we are not trying to make another cheap made in Canada AR15, not are we trying to make something that is to costly for most people.
$1200-$1300CDN is where we need to be in order not to run into " costs saveing" issues.
bbb
- Location
- East ontario
Thanks Will ,look forward to working with you.
simon
