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However, you are getting very close to KAC money with what they are asking for it. An SR15 upper offers more substantive improvements- gas system length, E3 bolt, etc.
I have one and it is awesome. Slapped a SF Socom RCII can on there and a 1-6 Razor HD II and I can hold MOA or so to 600 meters with Mk262 ammo.
Where can you find KAC upper for $1200?
I have one and it is awesome. Slapped a SF Socom RCII can on there and a 1-6 Razor HD II and I can hold MOA or so to 600 meters with Mk262 ammo.
You have one of the Brownells Geissele URGs already?
No I have a complete rifle from Geissele that they sent me for a training class I was running.
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I have actually shot this upper quite extensively during testing in Quantico. One with the Geiselle Rails and another with FN rails. The uppers performed flawlessly through thousands of rounds and the Geiselle 2 stage SSF triggers were quite a nice upgrade from the standard M4 trigger. Also tested the ATACR 1-8 and it was an incredible upgrade over the TA31. I'd absolutely stand behind one of the URGI uppers and be satisfied knowing I had a very capable combat rifle.
For sure. Big Marine Corps snagged a wide group of 03xx MOS’s and we got either an M27 or the URGI rifles and some other equipment. We all wrote in depth AAR’s about how we felt which was a better rifle and optic. The IAR did not come out on top.
The ironic part is that by the end of the first week, guys with IAR’s we’re trying to get rid of them for a URGI as fast as they could. Also the IAR doesn’t feed AA51, the replacement for A059, at all. Not one time could you fire a mag of it without some feed problem.
I have actually shot this upper quite extensively during testing in Quantico. One with the Geiselle Rails and another with FN rails. The uppers performed flawlessly through thousands of rounds and the Geiselle 2 stage SSF triggers were quite a nice upgrade from the standard M4 trigger. Also tested the ATACR 1-8 and it was an incredible upgrade over the TA31. I'd absolutely stand behind one of the URGI uppers and be satisfied knowing I had a very capable combat rifle.
I have no idea what the JSAC (joint small arms committee) will decide as far as fielding. In my personal opinion the NX8 or 1-8 ATACR was the nest solution for current issues with optics and marksmanship. The TA31 forces you to use “Kentucky windage” to aim and it’s “ballistic” reticle doesn’t match the different types of ammunition in the current inventory and doesn’t match AA51 either. You can’t peoperly make an adjustment as there aren’t any holdover marks and 500 on the range is somewhere between 400-500 on the reticle. Using BASIC mil adjustments was incredibly effective out to 600m with all shooters being able to achieve 1st or 2nd round impacts on a upper torso steel plate. The time limit for this was 12 seconds for a hit and 2 rounds maximum, all shooters achieved the standard. On 1x it allowed us to use it as a red dot and it was faster to acquire that the RCO reticle in all situations lethality (headshots and heart shots are all we considered lethal). I can’t give numbers but is was a much more dramatic increase in sheer lethality that you’d imagine, multiple hundreds of percents. Ergonomics also played a large part in the increase of the lethality, if you’ve ever shot with a RCO, you basically have to put your eye on the optic to get a clear sight picture. Personally on the rifle range, when the lens of my eye protection barely touches the glass, I’m in the correct position and eat every round to the face. There isn’t enough eye relief for use of the RCO to be practical and both the ATACR and NX8 allowed us to engage faster and easier in distance and CQB situations, it was great having eye relief that allowed me to have cheek weld (also had BCM buttstocks.) One other thing, the rail. During testing at night the IAR rail was found to have too much flexibility and would cause POI shift as much as 12 inches (at 100m) when placed on any sort of barrier. Both the Geissele and FN rails that we tested had no flex and could be leaned on with no POI shift. The PEQ16 was found to induce thermal shift that was slightly less than 12 inches but the rail didn’t matter (when firing approximately 60 rounds in a minute) due to slight changes in the polymer housing when exposed to heat. The NGAL (next generation aiming laser) from Eotech was lighter, had a brighter IR laser and with its aluminum was impossible to induce thermal shift in during our study. The last question you asked about the gas block; I honestly didn’t check but it was a DI rifle and not piston.
Did test uppers have mk12 or G gas block? Any knowledge if either of these are going to be fielded?
Have any pics of those groups?I have one and it is awesome. Slapped a SF Socom RCII can on there and a 1-6 Razor HD II and I can hold MOA or so to 600 meters with Mk262 ammo.
Have any pics of those groups?
I'd love it to be true but groups close to 1moa at 600 meters with a 14.5" 556 sounds like bullshit and gives people unrealistic expectations. You asked.Why do you need to see his grouping, out of curiosity? Do you have one or are you just trying to prove this guy wrong or something?
I'd love it to be true but groups close to 1moa at 600 meters with a 14.5" 556 sounds like bullshit and gives people unrealistic expectations. You asked.
I'd love it to be true but groups close to 1moa at 600 meters with a 14.5" 556 sounds like bullshit and gives people unrealistic expectations. You asked.
No there isn't. That was some wild internet rumor. Geissele is aware of the rumor and will refute the validity of it.Did you guys do any drop testing?
There are official reports concerning the fragility of the rails and massive POI shift from moderate drops. Geissle is aware of this