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Originally Posted by Archangel
That Aimpoint T1 in that LR mount is really growing on me. I would love that on my SBR, but I just can't justify the $640 price when I can pick up a M3L in a LR for $400.
Either case, great looking carbine.
Just curious, did you decide on a ML for the asthetics of it because with a piston system, the advatages of a ML gas system is moot.
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the T-1 is my new fave optic - i really like it. i wanted a ML piston system because i thought (without thinking much about it) it'd be softer shooting than a carbine piston system, just like a ML DI and carbine DI system. turned out that it is. that was the main factor i considered, not any other piston vs. DI advantage/disadvantage.
i shot my ML piston side by side with a carbine PWS piston carbine system and mine was noticeably softer shooting. the carbine PWS gun had a similar feeling impulse to the LWRC rifle (which i've found a little harsher than a DI), while my ML PWS was the same or softer than a carbine DI rifle. go figure.
maybe it's the added weight of the longer ML piston rod, because it'd seem to me that the amount of gas bled off is the same in a carbine vs. ML piston, since the front components are all the same. mine was the first/only midlength PWS had made at that time, and when todd at PWS test fired it, he himself was also surprised to find noticeably softer shooting.