Opinons on a Bushmaster Superlight

[Lonestar.45]

I'm thinking about getting a Bushmaster Superlight flat-top upper to put on my lower.

Anyone have a BM Superlight, and what are your opinions? I'm really just going to use it for plinking, light range time, maybe some coyote/varmint hunting now and then.

I'm mostly curious as to what kind of accuracy you guys are seeing out of them.

 

[Vitamin G]

I was getting about 3moa from iron sights at 100yards, but i was using a (very) makeshift rest, which might as well have been propping the gun up on the magazine. It'll do far better.

I didn't go out of my way to get the superlight, per se. I just found a guy selling a mid-ban superlight with stubby stock for $550 the weekend after the AWB sunset, at the gunshow. Couldn't pass up. I'd buy it again, but there's also appeal for the regular full length version that I want now...

 

[Fred Fuller]

I just bought a Superlight barrel for use in building my next carbine. The barrel's going on an A1 upper. No bling on this one except an A2 rear aperture, tritium front sight, side sling kit and a light rail attached to the 2 o'clock position on the top handguard.

It's pretty much the same barrel configuration as the old SP1 CAR-15 barrel, the one I had way back when shot just fine...

lpl/nc

 

[TexasRifleman]

I have the Superlight upper on the Rock River lower below.

I've been very happy with it and I'd buy another if I needed too.

Accuracy seems to be the same as the standard barrel I had before, and other uppers I've tried.

If you don't need the notch, and you can live with the twist rates available, why not save some weight.

It's more accurate than the 2 MOA dot in the Leupold anyway, so that's good enough for me.

 

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

What would you need the notch for? I've always wondered what it's supposed to be used for....

 

[Dienekes]

Had a Colt CAR-15 with its light barrel back in the late 80s, which was equivalent to the current "Superlight". I liked the balance of it, but rather foolishly sold it off.

I recently replaced it with a Bushmaster M4gery that duplicates it as far as general layout and A1 upper goes. However it has the M4 style barrel. The truth is that while I would still like the lighter barrel (and would probably install one if the occasion ever arose) it really isn't an issue. If anything it may just steady the rifle a bit more. So I would view it as one of those toss-up things and decline to lose sleep over it.

Probably the smartest thing I did was pull out the stock creepy, heavy trigger and install a good aftermarket trigger. Next to that the specific barrel is just not that important.

 

[Old Dog]

I happen to have an A-2 Bushy Superlight carbine w/collapsible stock, bought on a whim from the first owner who apparently hadn't put many rounds through it ... Excellent accuracy even when compared to my Bushy M4 and Colt HBAR, quite reliable. Haven't really shot it all that much, but I love the balance and lightness. With a gooseneck and an EOTTech 512, outstanding little plinker.

 

[Lonestar.45]

Thanks for all the opinions guys. This will be my first AR. I picked up a new Bushmaster complete lower w/A2 stock a few months back and have been contemplating what to put on top of it. The Superlight looks to be what I want.

I have been thinking about going w/ the A1 receiver for KISS and looks, but with my eyes I have a feeling I will want to be using optics most if not all the time so it'll be a flat-top and removable carry handle. Still deciding on optics. Don't want to spend an arm and a leg, but I don't want to go the cheapest route either.