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Gas Piston AR, is it worth the extra money and weight?
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<blockquote data-quote="ez bake" data-source="post: 802078" data-attributes="member: 229"><p>I'm going to start saving all of your avatars man - that one's awesome.</p><p></p><p>I couldn't justify the cost of a gas-piston system to myself (nor the weight). I haven't have any reliability issues with my setup and it was done right (save the CMT BCG that I hope to upgrade soon enough). </p><p></p><p>I'll say this - I did have 1 malfunction and 1 weak ejection (both consecutively right after like 500rds of .22lr through my CMMG kit - specifically as a torture test). That is an example of the dirtiest my gas tube/chamber/BCG will <u>ever</u> get and with one bolt-cycle and a single weak ejection, it was back to fully operational.</p><p></p><p>I cleaned it afterward and it was nasty - but it never even skipped a beat after that single malfunction (btw, the directions on the .22 kit say to run a .223 round through it every 200 rds to keep from dirtying up the gas tube, etc...).</p><p></p><p>If that's the reliability difference in a piston setup and gas impingement, then I'll save the money/weight.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ez bake, post: 802078, member: 229"] I'm going to start saving all of your avatars man - that one's awesome. I couldn't justify the cost of a gas-piston system to myself (nor the weight). I haven't have any reliability issues with my setup and it was done right (save the CMT BCG that I hope to upgrade soon enough). I'll say this - I did have 1 malfunction and 1 weak ejection (both consecutively right after like 500rds of .22lr through my CMMG kit - specifically as a torture test). That is an example of the dirtiest my gas tube/chamber/BCG will [U]ever[/U] get and with one bolt-cycle and a single weak ejection, it was back to fully operational. I cleaned it afterward and it was nasty - but it never even skipped a beat after that single malfunction (btw, the directions on the .22 kit say to run a .223 round through it every 200 rds to keep from dirtying up the gas tube, etc...). If that's the reliability difference in a piston setup and gas impingement, then I'll save the money/weight. [/QUOTE]
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