What is a vertical foregrip on an AR15 good for?

[vietboy1st]

I see a lot of vert foregrips on AR15s. What were they originally designed for?
Full-auto fire controllability?
Ergonomics when behind cover?
Room clearing?

Randy

[BigMat]

All has been said, but I want to talk too-

I've found that as AR owners "mature" with their rifle, they seem to all go through a certain order of crap stapled to their gun

-starts with a basic rifle-
-gets covered with everything with a rail and a battery
-this is played around with for a few thousand rounds
-returns to nearly stock format, like the A2 above this, stage right
some stop here,
some continue and put a nice optic back on it, and not a whole lot else.


I have played with VFGs, and they are good or pulling the rifle back into your shoulder pocket, but I always end up taking mine off, as they add weight, and a great little rod for getting hung up on everything, and I don't think they make the shooter much faster at all.

[TrapperJohn]

I have tried many things to see what I like but one thing I cannot stand is the iron sights. The optics these days are so much better. I will not even put back-up sights in my rifle. I am not going to take my rifle into combat so it is just extra weight. If my batteries run out I will just go to the store.

[Elhuero]

I'm going to get one for my m4gery

[Colorado Pete]

In a word, "ick".
Oh wait, I don't even own an AR (well I have just a lower....yes I do, Hoser!).
Well, you'll never catch me hanging one of those things off the fore-end of my Garand then! It'd get in the way of my loop sling!

Hoser, I'll have to remember "C D I". Too funny.

[spyder]

This is one of those "buy it and try it for yourself" things. People that say that there is "no other way" to do something are ignorant. Everyone is different, you might like it and find that you can control your rifle better, or, you might not. You never know how you will like it till you try it.

[mrghost]

For my AK which has a quad rail I tried a shorty vertical grip, but even though a shorty, it still got in the way of 30 round mag changes without putting it all the way forward, which would make for an unbalanced grip, so I now have an AFG2. With the AFG2, there is no hindrance with hi-cap mag changes and I can get two comfortable hand positions with it.

[NukeRJ]

I have been looking at getting an AFG because the vertical grip just does not do it for me. Are the AFG's as good as magpul say's they are?

The AFG design actually follows an old shooting principal that gunslingers used. If you were to take your fingers and point them both at a target along a common axis (i.e. A gun) then it has been shown that the eye tends to correct for any misalignment between the two pointing fingers. And both will point at the target. Practice this and try it out. Take ur favorite long gun, hold it at the high ready, also known as position 3. Grip your rifle with your firing hand as normal, but with your non firing hand, or support hand, place it on the side if the forearm. Index finger outstretched and pointing along the barrel line. The remaining fingers and thumb wrapping around the forearm. Now mount and sight the weapon at something quickly and see how close you are to accurately aligning to the target. Now try it with a VFG or by holding the magwell instead. The AFG was designed to be used in this manner. But offer more rearward surface to stabilize the shooting platform.

[Gunner]

Incase you run out of room for your hand