dcarch
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I'm gonna go with a good two stage trigger, and a grip pod. Those things are great!
AR advice, pick two to pass on.
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What do you get out of a grip pod that you don't get out of using the magazine as a mono-pod?
Welding Rod
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I don't care for grip pods, but the farther you get the pod from the back of the buttstock, the easier the gun is to shoot accurately.
When the pivot point (pod) is closer to the buttstock a given movement of the buttstock will result in a greater change in the angle of the barrel.
When the pivot point (pod) is closer to the buttstock a given movement of the buttstock will result in a greater change in the angle of the barrel.
Infidel4life11
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If I could only pick 2, 1: BCM bolt and carrier 2: Magpul stock probably a UBR. If I buy an AR that already has magpul all over it then 1:BCM BCG 2: Quality Buffer.
Yes. That alone is, IMO, reason enough not to even consider a grip pod when you can put the magazine on the deck.
waterhouse
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As I said, they are not ideal, but I would not say they are terrible. I can get quick hits on target using either method, but it takes practice. You asked how it could be done, and I gave you two examples.
It depends on the use of the gun. For 3-gun in daylight, I actually take my flashlight off of my gun to compete, so I'd take an optic every time. For defensive use in daylight I'd take an optic every time. Given the choice between iron sights and a weapon mounted light and a red dot with a hand held light, I honestly don't know as I've never shot splits like that to see which I'm faster with. In the real world it doesn't matter as my rifles have both an optic and a weapon mounted light, but you asked about it so I provided methods.
As I wrote, a wrist lanyard on a handheld light allows you to drop the light to do those things. It may be tenths of a second slower but you'd have to be on a timer to tell. I've practiced doing both mag changes and malfunction drills with a handheld light with a lanyard on my wrist. I would not describe it as difficult or time consuming.
Where are you getting that? My post says exactly the opposite of what you are saying. They issue us handheld lights. They encourage us to purchase weapon mounted lights, but they do not provide weapon mounted lights. As such, in addition to training us how to use weapon mounted lights, they train for the worst case scenario and train us how to use a handheld light in combination with the rifle. As such, I gave Warp a couple of options that, while not ideal, work. If my weapon mounted light for some reason doesn't work when I need it to, I have a backup plan. If a person can't afford a weapon mounted light, the flashlight they already own may be used in a defensive situation if they practice.
As for dropping the handheld light, mine has a lanyard, allowing me to free my hand if I need to without losing my light.
I will admit, I've never tried weak side shooting while swapping a hand held light. The rest of the items on your list can all be accomplished with a handheld light and a lanyard. Just to be clear, my gun has both a weapon mounted light and an optic, so I don't spend the majority of my night training with a handheld light. I am merely pointing out possible ways to use one, since that was the question asked.
Since the OP specifically asked for items not attached to the rifle, and specifically ruled out slings, lights, optics, etc, I apologize as the above was all off topic.
To answer the original question, I my choice would be a trigger (I prefer Geisselle) and a skinny forearm (I like the one on my Larue Pred, but the Troy TRX one is nice too.)
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I would put a nice little * next to the initial response and explain that your decision to go with a red dot over a light, because you can hold a light in your hand, is predicated on an intended use that involves daylight shooting only, for the purposes of a game, where you don't use a light at all.
In the real world, where your carbine sits in the bedroom corner as your HD gun, if you couldn't have the dot site and the attached light, which would it be?
Tex4426
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Match trigger...magpul acs stock
waterhouse
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In the real world my carbine sits next to me in the car for 10 hours a day and it has a weapon mounted light and a red dot, as well as a sling and BUIS. In the real world I am limited only by my budget and department policy.
In the hypothetical world, if it was in my bedroom corner For home defense and I hypothetically had to choose, I would go to the range and figure out which method worked better and faster for me at in home defense ranges. Since I can do pretty well at 10-15 yards with no sights at all I would suspect I would
Take the weapon mounted light.
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