Quote Originally Posted by BadShot View Post
Weight isn't the issue.. there are several considerations, but the most predominant these days is sight radius. You have a longer one with a Middy. There's a bunch of discussion about this all over the errornet, but the reality is that we, as civilians will rarely be in a position to encounter the pro's and or con's of either configuration.

I personally don't have any more middies because the 2 I had were both Heavy Barreled and I wanted the weight reduction an M4 cut barrel offered. Though there were other solutions - swaping out the barrels, going with a fluted or light weight barrel, I just switched back to carbine.. and then unfortunately, they were both lost in a tragic boating accident... sad day indeed.
Sorry for your loss. I had a similar one recently. The divers said the fish were seen taking the lost firearms to an underwater cavern where they could not be recovered...all is lost