so what's the deal with m4geries?
Heat shields were pretty popular, for good reason, with the old A2 style hand guards, but they've completely disappeared with the new free-float and quad rail forearms everybody's using.
I have a YHM quad rail on an RRA upper, with low-profile rail covers, and I can't run two magazines through it before i gets too hot to hold. touching the fold-down iron sight on the front gas block gives a 1st degree burn, in less than 2 seconds. Basically, everything forward of the mag well gets almost as hot as the actual barrel on an older style A2.
So, I called RRA and they said... no one had ever asked about that! They suggested I call YHM, so I did. They said they didn't have a solution, but would consider my suggestion to make a heat shield for their forearm. They said nobody was complaining about it.
Am I the only one shooting the AR? are all the mall ninjas just collecting them? surely someone else has this problem.
I asked this question on AR15.com and got no response.
(btw, i don't want to put a vertical grip on)
Heat shields were pretty popular, for good reason, with the old A2 style hand guards, but they've completely disappeared with the new free-float and quad rail forearms everybody's using.
I have a YHM quad rail on an RRA upper, with low-profile rail covers, and I can't run two magazines through it before i gets too hot to hold. touching the fold-down iron sight on the front gas block gives a 1st degree burn, in less than 2 seconds. Basically, everything forward of the mag well gets almost as hot as the actual barrel on an older style A2.
So, I called RRA and they said... no one had ever asked about that! They suggested I call YHM, so I did. They said they didn't have a solution, but would consider my suggestion to make a heat shield for their forearm. They said nobody was complaining about it.
Am I the only one shooting the AR? are all the mall ninjas just collecting them? surely someone else has this problem.
I asked this question on AR15.com and got no response.
(btw, i don't want to put a vertical grip on)