thinking of upgrading

[theGinsue]

If you actually look at ares' site it says $199. Make sure you ask for mil discount if it applies to you they give 15% off. I plan on ordering mine in the next week or two.
Dave

The price that was quoted in the post just before this post of yours was 4 years old. When you resurrect a thread, keep in mind the age of the comments you're addressing.

[car-15]

The price that was quoted in the post just before this post of yours was 4 years old. When you resurrect a thread, keep in mind the age of the comments you're addressing.

+1, and I got a sig 556 instead of converting btw

[David121582]

lol sorry I just looked at the month/day and assumed it was recent.

[Byte Stryke]

[sniper7]

I will only chime in that the ar/m16 has done quite well for about 50 years now. no point in changing something that ain't broke.

[Hoosier]

I will only chime in that the ar/m16 has done quite well for about 50 years now. no point in changing something that ain't broke.

Yet another entirely philosophical difference between us, I see.

IMHO the piston guns keep a lot of the heat out of your bolt carrier group, and makes cleaning an order of magnitude easier.

Also those failure states related to gas operated rotating block are eliminated, for example if the three washer gaps somehow align.

AK-47 has been a piston driven design and predates the Armalite AR-15, so perhaps it's more a matter of "If you had a bad design choice in the 50's, why keep it through to this century?"

H.

[Byte Stryke]

AK-47 has been a piston driven design and predates the Armalite AR-15, so perhaps it's more a matter of "If you had a bad design choice in the 50's, why keep it through to this century?"

H.

You are assuming of course that the AR Design is bad.
While I Agree that the AR system has its faults, I believe they all do.
(Seriously, ring alignment?)

Without getting all long and drawn out here I think we can agree on that and group hug.

[Not_A_Llama]

Also those failure states related to gas operated rotating block are eliminated, for example if the three washer gaps somehow align.

For what it's worth, I've purposely aligned gasrings before - guns run fine.

Actually... ARs can run kinda crappily with no rings... :-X