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Thread: Why do people frown at using military rifles for hunting?

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    Quote Originally Posted by gimp View Post
    Piston might be objectively superior for reliability, but if you want one get a piston design built from the ground up, not one shoe-horned on top of a DI rifle. I've seen heaps of reports of problems of things like carrier tilt etc on the band-aid piston kits for the AR platform. It's not designed for it.
    Goes without saying really. I would start by re-designing the carrier and upper reciever slightly, its been done. The work from the block back to the reciever is simple and I wouldnt have a fixed piston and it would be a short stroke.

 

 

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