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Re: AR help, please
« Reply #10 on: June 05, 2009, 08:20:56 PM »
Haz, PM sent
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Re: AR help, please
« Reply #11 on: June 05, 2009, 08:22:53 PM »
Sharp toungs both ways tonight with this thread?  Wow?!?!
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Re: AR help, please
« Reply #12 on: June 05, 2009, 08:29:59 PM »
Oh well.

Thanks, guys.
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Re: AR help, please
« Reply #13 on: June 05, 2009, 08:31:16 PM »
I'm with Haz on this. I was looking at an Olympc M4. I was planning on losing the carry handle and front sigt and putting on fold ups and a scope (when funds permit). Can I still lose the sight and put in something else for the gas block or am I stuck with the A2 configuration unless I just mill it down flush?
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Re: AR help, please
« Reply #14 on: June 05, 2009, 08:32:29 PM »
Quote from: Hazcat on June 05, 2009, 08:29:59 PM
Oh well.

Thanks, guys.

Sorry. I hate it when some one points out why a neat idea won't work  :(
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Re: AR help, please
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Re: AR help, please
« Reply #15 on: June 05, 2009, 08:36:23 PM »
I think that the front sight tower also holds the front handguard cap in place.  Rock River Arms has 16" barreled ARs that use a midlength handguard/gas system that works with a bayonet.  I suppose you might be able to trim down the existing front sight tower/gasblock and install the midlength handguards over it leaving the original gas system in place.    I'm not sure it would fit.  It would probably be troublesome to intall a new front sight tower further forward on the barrel.  It's difficult to home drill the the barrel slots that the front sight pins go through.  Bushmaster won't sell the front sight towers because of this, but other places sell them.  To get the triangular hanguard retro look you want you would most certainly need to get a differant barrel or upper.  You could get a differant gas block and hanguards/free float tubes, for a differant look, but tht's not what you stated you wanted.  There are clamp on/set screw typs gas blocks and sights available.  I think Yankee Hill Machine makes some.

You could always sell or trade this upper for a differant one. 
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Re: AR help, please
« Reply #16 on: June 05, 2009, 08:37:07 PM »
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Re: AR help, please
« Reply #17 on: June 05, 2009, 08:46:28 PM »
Just to help muck things up some more...
The sights are A3 I believe, maybe A2, but they would definitely have to go to get back to the A1.
I would suggest looking at a new upper as well Haz, the conversion would probably not be worth the effort.
But on the happy side, if you get another upper, you can basically get a new AR for a couple hundred $$!
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Re: AR help, please
« Reply #18 on: June 05, 2009, 08:50:03 PM »
After reviewing my previous post, I would like to add:
Congrats on getting a great rifle, I hope you have as much fun with yours as I do mine, regardless of what it looks like!
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Re: AR help, please
« Reply #19 on: June 05, 2009, 09:01:37 PM »
Haz,
Now that I think about it, if you want to just make a bayonet lug more useable, DMPS use to offer a clamp on lug just for the purpose of being able to mount a bayonet on the short gas system carbines.  I don't know if they still offer them or not.  I have seen some of them available on the net.  Also have seen them at gun shows and I think some were other brands besides DPMS.
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