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As some of you may remember, I had a pretty spicy encounter a while ago. Three men jumped my fence and broke into my home by shooting a 9mm through my front door. I had never thought to keep a rifle as a primary self defense weapon but circumstances changed my mind. My son is attached to Naval Land Warfare on the West coast (int officer). He got me shooting his old Daniel Defense Mark 18 with a pretty basic setup. I put close to 12k rounds through it over the last year or so and all the while was ordering parts, waiting on the ATF to approve things, ect.
I ended up buying a HK 416 upper from a Florida police department. I got an adjustable HK gas block from Atlantic Firearms. The upper came with the HK quad pic rail and iron sites. I paired it with the Daniel lower which was already registered as a SBR. The trigger is a Geissele SSA-E. We pulled the buffer tube and installed the VLTOR kit with the H2 weight buffer. The stock is my favorite Magpul, the sling is the Vickers by Blue Force Gear. After messing with a bunch of optics, my favorite is the EOTECH. The longest wait item was the HUX flow thru can.
It is heavier than the MK18 with a T1 on it but it shoots significantly better (or maybe I shoot it better). This setup is the softest shooting SBR I have ever handled and between the flow thru can and the short stroke piston, there is no gas coming back in my face.