I tinkered today

[skosh69]

First of all, I want to thank for his support and helping me feed my vanity and ego. Seriously, he talked me through things, answered all my questions and made sure that I understood everything before I started.

So, remember that AR-10 I got awhile back? Well, it came with a 6" quad rail, which I really didn't like and it also had an A2 Bird cage flash hider. I'm all about things needing to be aesthetically pleasing as well and functional. Call it part of my OCD's or being anal retentive.

Anyways, I really wanted a 15" battle rail or similar for it - I don't like a lot of barrel showing, but didn't have the couple of hundred for one. I got lucky and scored a like new DPMS 12" FF quad rail for $55 and hooked me up with a Troy Medieval flash hider. Not sure how the flash hider is going to work out as far as recoil goes, but if it's too much, I'll get one of those tanker style muzzle break and just piss off those to the left and right of me.

Oh, also I skipped buying a new low profile gas block and just ground down the DPMS railed gas block that was already on it. A little touch up flat black and it was GTG.

Learned valuable lesson about FF handguards. There's an opening on the bottom so that you can screw in the two sets screws of the gas block. Guess what? There's carbine, mid and rifle length cut outs on the hand guards. The FF I bought was for a rifle and mine is a mid length. Sooooo, I got out the old drill and made holes so that I could tighten my gas block. More touch up paint needed.

I think it looks a hell of a lot better now.

So here's a before:



And here's after:



Oh yeah, a shout out to the Wheeler AR15/AR10 upper receiver vise block, made life real easy taking things apart and putting back together.