MatthewVanitas
Member
Greetings,
I was reflecting on my upcoming AR purchase, and lamenting that .223 HKs are in short supply, as well as being less familiar to me, and having far fewer modular options.
Then the thought occurred to me: how hard would it be for a qualified designer to make a roller-delayed blowback AR-15? Obviously, not a home-tinker job, and there's probably not really any market for it, but is there anything that makes it totally undoable?
I mainly ask for two reasons:
1) It seems to be a widely-held opinion that the AR series is one of the most erongomic rifles out there.
2) Roller-delayed blowback has a cult-following on this board that insists that RDB is far superior to Direct Gas Impingement and Short/Long Piston.
I don't expect that it's going to happen, but just curious as to whether it'd be, in abstract, a good idea. Has any designer ever even played with this idea in the past?
Thanks for any info, -MV
I was reflecting on my upcoming AR purchase, and lamenting that .223 HKs are in short supply, as well as being less familiar to me, and having far fewer modular options.
Then the thought occurred to me: how hard would it be for a qualified designer to make a roller-delayed blowback AR-15? Obviously, not a home-tinker job, and there's probably not really any market for it, but is there anything that makes it totally undoable?
I mainly ask for two reasons:
1) It seems to be a widely-held opinion that the AR series is one of the most erongomic rifles out there.
2) Roller-delayed blowback has a cult-following on this board that insists that RDB is far superior to Direct Gas Impingement and Short/Long Piston.
I don't expect that it's going to happen, but just curious as to whether it'd be, in abstract, a good idea. Has any designer ever even played with this idea in the past?
Thanks for any info, -MV