Del ton lightweight upper

[mdsco]

Looking at buying a lightweight del ton upper assembly. My question is how much does the lightweight barrel affect accuracy. Also does anyone know how much it saves or a hbar 16" Was not originally planning on going lightweight but i ended up with a plum crazy lower thought i would go full on lightweight.( I seen the pics on here of the lower failure but I already own it)

[CT82]

I don't know about the accuracy but I do know that DTI had the 16" light weights on back order. I placed an order about a week ago and they said that they are 2 weeks behind on processing and that the barrel was also on backorder. So your looking at min. 30 day wait.

[DeusExMachina]

Looking at buying a lightweight del ton upper assembly. My question is how much does the lightweight barrel affect accuracy. Also does anyone know how much it saves or a hbar 16" Was not originally planning on going lightweight but i ended up with a plum crazy lower thought i would go full on lightweight.( I seen the pics on here of the lower failure but I already own it)

That failure, if anything, is a fluke. Plenty of people are using the lowers. I have two. They're fine.

A lightweight barrel is going to get hot under rapid fire. If it overheats you're going to have accuracy issues, or worse. It will also have more felt recoil, so follow up shots will be less accurate. But otherwise it is no different than a standard barrel.

I wouldn't worry about it...I built my lightweight (even though it has a gov't profile barrel...wish I had a pencil barrel) for practicality against a man-sized target, not accuracy.

[mdsco]

Ya not to worried about the lower I have looked and have only found 2 failures online. As for the upper if I am rapid firing I don't plan on to much accuracy anyway. And I don't plan on pushing it to hard anyway. I always kinda had a thing for making things light. Don't even want to know how much I have spent lightening my snowmobiles and motocross bikes. Lol

[DeusExMachina]

On my first AR I did the whole rifle length railed aluminum handguard on a 16" barrel thing. It was a cheap one too. The thing weighed a TON. I found that out after holding it up for an entire carbine class...my arms hurt really bad. Lightweight is the way to go!

[espos1111]

I like Del-Ton. Great parts and prices. Watch out for back orders though. Last time I had anything on back order with them they couldn't even guess at a ship time. Ended up canceling after 4 weeks. From what I read online and my own experience is.... Call first. See what they got in stock and what you could do without. Make changes as needed or wait the 30 to 90 days. I can't wait that long, it drives me nuts.