adding m4 feed ramps to barrel
AR15 Feed Ramp Cut & Polish Kit - School of the American Rifle Shopping with us is absolutely safe - you never have to worry about credit card safety when shopping here Share your latest AR build or photos from the range with #RangeDayFriday for a chance to win a new firearm! Bear Creek Arsenal Barrels - 6.5 Grendel Type 2 Barrel This Gorilla Machining AR-15 16" heavy Black Nitride 6.5 Grendel barrel has a Carbine length gas system with a 1:8 twist. For new construction barrels only. Which Model Colt 1911 is For Me? Supposedly you'll only notice issues with rapid/auto fire with a configuration like this. FN AR-15 5.56X45mm Nato 14.70" M4 Profile Barrel Carbine Length Gas I should have taken my own advice for once. They are better! There are now thousands of upper receivers and ready-to-use barrels that have the cuts of M4 feed ramps. No need to alter the upper. Its highly recommended to put any AR-platform firearm together with a matching M4 barrel extension and upper receiver set. again, Thanks. A couple of times I ended up with the OK set up from the picture above. EDIT: Okay, I understand now! I built the upper using a Mega upper with a Compass Lake 18" barrel. Installing a Luth-AR Rifle Buffer Tube and an A2 Stock #1041. An older-version (or A2-style) feed ramp is cut only on the barrel extension itself (top). what I fear the most is having an m4 ramp upper and then getting a barrel with a rifle ramp. BUT, I DO NOT TRUST MY LIFE TO THAT WEAPON. Backing up a ton: Any and all AR-15 barrel extensions have feed ramps. As suggested, its best to match the upper and barrel extension no worries that way. Gun smith said , not head spaced properly. Dec 17, 2020. M4 feed ramps were created during the development of the xM4 carbine for the original Army requirement of a carbine rifle that used the then current M16A2 upper receiver, 14.5" Barrel and had featured a collapsible sliding stock. check out the. Notice how the ramp starts on the barrel extension and not in the receiver. What Are M4 Feed Ramps and What Is The Benefit Of It? - Adventure Footstep All this basically means is that the ramps continue from the barrel extension down through the upper receiver tonthe magazine. I'm a machinist in the aerospace industry and lucky enough to have unrestricted access to a really nice machine shop so the modification from rifle to M4 feed ramps is no sweat, I've done it once before a few years back with a .250" carbide cutter in the mill for a friend and it came out looking indistinguishable from a true M4 extension.