FTN, thanks for posting that link. As a southpaw, I was wondering if there would be any problems running the BAD. Now I see there won’t be. Good stuff.
Have one on each of our AR’s
My B.A.D. I feel was a great investment. I know it was designed for “fixing double-feeds”, which it really does help out with, but as anyone who has used it knows, reloads are much quicker as well, and also clearing becomes much easier. The same way a leftie could lock the bolt back with the trigger finger, now we right handed shooters can do. Pretty nifty. The only thing I was kinda put off about, was how it wiggles a little bit. At first I thought it might be a problem, but the more I thought about it, the more it makes sense. Now I don’t know for sure if this is the reasoning behind the way it was engineered, but the “play” in the lever, combined with the natural play of the bolt catch itself, seems to serve to relieve possible stresses on the bolt catch pin. Any other theories? Makes sense to me anyway. That’s all I can think of, but it works, and it works well, it’ll be on my next AR as well.
I have a BAD lever on all ARs as well. They are well worth it.
Can you run a B.A.D. with a Redi-Mag installed? I’m thinking specifically about the ‘Boonie Packer’ Redi-Mag RM MKI that Brownell’s (and others) carries.
Thanks,
Pat
Yes the B.A.D. works wit ha Redi-Mag.
Thanks for the quick answer-
Pat
Depends on your chain-of-command and/or Unit Armorer. A buddy’s son is playing in the sandbox right now and he was allowed to install one of these devices on his duty Carbine. YMMV.
I suspect it is to maintain workability with a cast part (the bolt catch) that comes from multiple molds and vendors.
I am going to put a dab of RTV in with mine.
i’ve been running a BAD with bfg gen2 redimag for almost a year/ approx 20k rounds and haven’t had an issue. awesome piece of kit and is even better with the redimag. you may find that with gloves on the trigger well seems a bit small but hasn’t really been an issue with me. i would reccomend, as others have, to just bring the parts, feel it out and see what you can get away with but definately take all personal stuff off before turning weapon systems back in…if for no other reason than you paid good money for the kit. stay safe brotha.
As others have said, there are many reasons to become proficient with the plain jane M4/M16.
Once you attain that, then you will have a means to assess if something is truly a better way, or just clever advertising.