Luckily we have the battlecomp, or Bravo's new BC competition.Originally Posted by BOM
Still though. 99.99% of any shooting for a gun owner (here) will likely be at the range, but I would imagine that a lot of the point for most people is that possible one time it might not be. That .01% is suddenly really important.
Concur 100%
Nobody is impressed by what you can't do. -THJ
Yes. I know. I believe y'all. The 5.56 is a loud & flashy round. I'm just saying, we won't have those if they ban them. In which case, I'm glad my muzzle will still have some protection.
Think for yourself. Question authority.
...because between the centrally-controlled lights in my house and the squillion-lumen light on my carbine, that muzzle flash is going to TOTALLY $%%^& up my night vision. Gotcha.
Of course, maybe the batteries in the light on my carbine are dead and maybe the zombies have chewed through the power drop to my house and maybe I should worry about whether the lightning rod in my beret is properly grounded in case I have to shoot the home invader during a thunderstorm...
Yes.
Ditto, I've got a pinned BCE 1.5 personally, as a flash hider or threaded barrel which is capable of accepting one is on the limited "pick two of the following" evil features list here.
Just to smooth things over for customers in ban states with their FSC556, PWS even sends a letter from ATF stating that it is not a flash hider. So, to ban flash hiders is stupid, but it's certainly not the end of the world. Take an A2 birdcage and put a closed front on it....BAM! Now it's a compensator and legal...
"Are you ready? Okay. Let's roll."- Last words of Todd Beamer
Back in the early 'Aughties, we actually kept a couple of shot-out barrels we'd use to slice chunks off of to silver solder into flash hiders for just this purpose.
Now that's smart. American ingenuity!
"Are you ready? Okay. Let's roll."- Last words of Todd Beamer
I will add that if the main reason you have a carbine in the house is to lay night ambushes for blue-helmeted invaders in the dark from the topiaries along the bicycle paths down the block, then you definitely don't want your muzzle flash to mess up your night vision. Heck, I have flash hiders on both my carbines just in case I have to do this very thing.
On the other hand, if you're going to use it to shoot some dude in your upstairs hallway with the Cookie Monster night light in the wall socket, a 40-watt bulb left running in the computer room down the hall and a 200+ lumen SureStreamFireLight clamped to your carbine's quad-rail, then maybe this should be about thirty-seventh on your list of Important Things To Worry About On Your Carbine.
Disclaimer: I have never jumped out of a helicopter with a knife in my teeth.
EDITED TO ADD: Odd how few shorty HD shotguns have flash hiders... Well, except for all those ghey new Mossenbergers with the "standoff devices" in case you need to breach the fridge door to get another pint of Cherry Garcia...
Last edited by Tamara; 01-18-2013 at 09:34 PM.
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