Anybody have experience with an Enidine buffer in an AR?

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If so, what's your impression? And what might the downside (besides cost) be?

The specific application I'm contemplating would be for a 7.62x39mm AR w/a rifle length stock and a 14.5" barrel.
 
yep

downside is it's one more thing to break

and it requires higher power loads to have the bolt hold open. i.e. as you scale back powder in your loads, at some point, a given load will still cause a normal bolt to hold open on the last round but an enidine will not catch. i get the impression i'm not explaining that well. let me know if it's unclear.

and it feels a little funny when you're pulling it back because there's a distinct difference in resistance and the force required to over come it between the spring and the piston.

edit: i've read reports of the other piston buffer (non-enidine) taking major dumps in freezing weather. here in TN "that don't concern me none". i imagine even less in TX. still, if you travel, i'd keep a spare handy
 
I think you got across what you meant to. Thanks.

Have you had it break?

And did you think it was advantageous?

What inspired me to consider this for a new 7.62 AR was that I noticed the face of the standard rifle buffer in my older 7.62 AR is beat to hell, unlike any other buffer I've got. The rifle's recoil doesn't bother me, but it's enough that a halfway worth it double tap is pretty difficult to manage.
 
I have been thinking of trying one in my .50 beowulf. I know Alexander Arms is doing some testing on them.
 
Coincidentally, I had thought that if I got one and didn't like it in the 7.62x39 AR, I could put it in my Beowulf - that one does kick a little bit.
 
nope, no malfunctions. seems pretty solid.

i'm running it in a crazy competition gun with rifle-length gas, an adjustable gas block, the JP light-weight hammer, aluminum bolt carrier, compensator, etc

i've got the gas tuned way down where it does not hold open on last round (I just don't let my mags run out in competition) in order to allow very fast follow-up shots.

honestly, i can't tell the difference, so no, i don't think it's advantageous. but it was an interesting experiment for me, so i don't regret the time/$ i spent screwing around with it.

as soon as noveske gets around to sending me my upper, i'm going to move the enidine buffer to my full-auto lower and test it in there to see if there is any advantage in keeping the gun on target (i'm skeptical) or reducing cycle rate (probably will reduce it a lot). the real question though, will be whether or not i start seeing problems with the gun gets real dirty, etc.


i'm no guru, but i don't know why your rifle buffer would get beat to hell just because of 7.62. my Knight's SR-25 308 came with a solid plastic (delrin maybe?) buffer. no metal surface on the front. it's not showing much wear.

perhaps there's a gap between the bolt carrier and the buffer?

why beat to hell a $20 buffer when you can beat to hell an $80 buffer? ;)

(btw, what's up with all the beowulf stuff? this is like the 3rd conversation about beowulfs i've heard this week, which is 3 more than i normally hear)
 
(btw, what's up with all the beowulf stuff? this is like the 3rd conversation about beowulfs i've heard this week, which is 3 more than i normally hear)
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Well I went ahead and ordered one - I'll probably try it in more than one AR, although it's being acquired for the new 7.62x39 AR (whose upper - according to UPS - was last seen leaving Hodgkins, Illinois at 6:51 this evening).

Thanks for the input.
 
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