Originally Posted by
pinzgauer
That could very well be, though I believe they've also occurred on military carbines. Private snuffy, etc.
I would never consider busting steel packing crate bands by using my pencil barrel as a pry bar.
But that apparently happened, enough that that was some of the justification for the A2 profile.Though it's well known that the marksmanship teams also had a big hand in that.
In any drop test, military AR carbines almost always fail at the buffer tube. It has been explained to me that mil spec are stronger than commercial, but that is still the fail point for most impact damage.
As for A2s, I never completely understood how that protected the barrel from getting bent when using as a pry bar, wouldn't it just bend behind the FSB? It's not like the handguards are providing some kind of structural integrity. I really do think it was just a matter of a "heavy profile" (even if just in front of the FSB) to stiffen the barrel and provide better accuracy, especially for M4s.
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