What are some good flag safeties for the AR platform? Something that doesn’t go into the chamber and would be good for PRS style matches.
Flag safety suggestions for AR platform
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Stick your regular old chamber flag into the mag well through the ejection port and gently let the bolt forward on it.
That's what I've always done, too much of a pain to try and snake something into the chamber on ARs. Yes I'm that lazy.
^^^This right here, except for no pistol flag.^^^
Since your question (OP) is specific to PRS competitions, the rules of the PRS apply. Here’s the direct excerpt from the 2020 PRS rules:
Note section 1.2.3 specifically says that you must fully insert the flag into the chamber.
I think the flag I showed will meet the requirements. Often sold as a pistol flag.
Is it legal for PRS?
In most AR chamberings it will also find stuck projectiles.
Which might catch your next failure.
Is it legal for PRS?
In most AR chamberings it will also find stuck projectiles.
Which might catch your next failure.
Or we could just agree that other people have good ideas...which possibly lead to greater safety.
Common sense should always apply first.
Or
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It may indeed. I know that I have a few of those and use them often in non-PRS applications in my ARs. The point of my post was more to educate the OP on PRS requirements than to dispute your post (not my intention at all).
As a couple posts above suggested he use a flag down into the mag well instead of into the chamber, I wanted to clear that up for all readers of this thread.
The flag needs to be into the chamber.
Get the yellow CMP ones, and it takes about 0.682 seconds to slip one in the chamber. Maybe 1 more second if you want to lower the bolt on it gently.
If it’s money that’s the issue, PM me your address and I’ll mail you one.
The potential danger was known, but the impetus for the NRA and CMP outlawing the use of “Open Bolt Indicators”—or flags like many of you are advocating or using—is that a dudebro shot a hole in the parking lot asphalt at Camp Perry, after taking his flag out, dropping the bolt on what he THOUGHT was an empty chamber, and dropping the hammer for transport home.
What would have happened if that 77 Matchking hit something more important?
How about mother and child sitting on the benches watching the end of the match so the little family can go to dinner together?
If that sounds melodramatic, well, my family has been THAT family.
Flag the goddamn chamber, and don’t be such a fucking lazy asshole.
That, or don’t shoot with anybody else whose life you can risk.
Get the yellow CMP ones, and it takes about 0.682 seconds to slip one in the chamber. Maybe 1 more second if you want to lower the bolt on it gently.
If it’s money that’s the issue, PM me your address and I’ll mail you one.
The potential danger was known, but the impetus for the NRA and CMP outlawing the use of “Open Bolt Indicators”—or flags like many of you are advocating or using—is that a dudebro shot a hole in the parking lot asphalt at Camp Perry, after taking his flag out, dropping the bolt on what he THOUGHT was an empty chamber, and dropping the hammer for transport home.
What would have happened if that 77 Matchking hit something more important?
How about mother and child sitting on the benches watching the end of the match so the little family can go to dinner together?
If that sounds melodramatic, well, my family has been THAT family.
Flag the goddamn chamber, and don’t be such a fucking lazy asshole.
That, or don’t shoot with anybody else whose life you can risk.
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