Upgrading a friend's AR and he's on a budget - one thing I'm considering is going with a budget Quad-rail. I don't want to skimp too much on this, so my two choices are pretty much down to these two (unless someone knows of another FF quad-rail that's around $100 and is worth paying for).
So far, he's got a DD bargain barrel from Bravo Company, a Spikes BCG, CH, upper, my old Spikes lower (which I think was Matt's over at MAS at one time). I've given him the A2 flash-hider that I got for free from ColtDogg (finally found a use for it besides using it on my P22 man!), and a carbine length gas-tube and he's picking up a YHM low-profile gas block.
So we're looking at one of these two quad-rails, and I know that the YHM doesn't use a standard barrel nut and the jam-nut is a pain in the ass, but is this an issue if I don't need to remove the handguards?
The MI worries me because of some of the MI stuff I've seen friends own that is out of spec (and I won't lie, stories on the net about various issues with QC), but for the most part, what I've heard bad involves moving parts. Not to mention that I have to get a barrel nut in addition to paying $30 or so more dollars for this particular quad-rail.
My question is if you had a budget of under $200 and didn't plan on using this rifle hard enough to hurt an MI or YHM, which would you get (or what other brand of Free Floating if any)?
So far, he's got a DD bargain barrel from Bravo Company, a Spikes BCG, CH, upper, my old Spikes lower (which I think was Matt's over at MAS at one time). I've given him the A2 flash-hider that I got for free from ColtDogg (finally found a use for it besides using it on my P22 man!), and a carbine length gas-tube and he's picking up a YHM low-profile gas block.
So we're looking at one of these two quad-rails, and I know that the YHM doesn't use a standard barrel nut and the jam-nut is a pain in the ass, but is this an issue if I don't need to remove the handguards?
The MI worries me because of some of the MI stuff I've seen friends own that is out of spec (and I won't lie, stories on the net about various issues with QC), but for the most part, what I've heard bad involves moving parts. Not to mention that I have to get a barrel nut in addition to paying $30 or so more dollars for this particular quad-rail.
My question is if you had a budget of under $200 and didn't plan on using this rifle hard enough to hurt an MI or YHM, which would you get (or what other brand of Free Floating if any)?