Ruger AR Delta-ish ring?

[WestKentucky]

Why would Ruger do this? Seems like a silly thing to monkey with as the delta ring has worked fine for 50-60 years. I get that it’s Ruger and their engineers can never leave well enough alone (transfer bar revolvers, messing with the Colt lockwork etc...) but why mess around with a delta ring? Now honestly I like it better than a spring loaded setup, but it’s neither milspec or commercial, seems it adds machining complexity ($$) even if it does remove a couple really cheap parts and possibly an assembly line worker.

Maybe I’m just angry at mine because it was stuck on with angry gorilla strength and I literally broke my armorers wrench trying to get it loose before simply putting a pipe wrench on the stupid thing and twisting it off. It boogered up the threads on the outside pretty bad, but it’s still usable... I won’t but somebody else possibly could.

Does monkeying with this part make sense to anybody else? Am I crazy in thinking it was a silly modification, especially since a whole bunch of the ARs that they sell have free float handguards.

 

[Varminterror]

I find it to be a welcomed, significant, and elegantly simple upgrade over the Mil-spec standard.

It IS unfortunate that so many have been reported to have been significantly over torqued before leaving the mothership. But better design is better design, regardless of operator error.

 

[WestKentucky]

I find it to be a welcomed, significant, and elegantly simple upgrade over the Mil-spec standard.

It IS unfortunate that so many have been reported to have been significantly over torqued before leaving the mothership. But better design is better design, regardless of operator error.

I would agree if they were making them and mass marketing them as a premium but inexpensive upgrade over the traditional delta ring for guys building carbines. Just seems a waste for them to do this on such a small segment of the market. It likely wasn’t an expensive engineering endeavor, but there was expense in a limited market which generally does not make sense. Unless it avoids an hourly person or two and simplifies/streamlines logistics then there’s no way to recover that cost. Things would be different if they up and decided to offer a FF tube that threads onto it. That would be cool.

 

[Tommygunn]

I have two Ruger AR-556s. I like the Ruger screw down delta ring. Mil spec ones are OK (though I had a real time with my DPMS LR-308 delta ring when changing out a handguard) but the Ruger's is a intelligent change in the design. I think you must be, as you say, angry because yours was put on by King Kong.