Question to all you gurus from someone who is still learning.

what do you think I should upgrade on here?

So if you dont have enough gas going from your gas block it wont eject and cause a malfunction.

What happens if you have too much?

increased wear, case head separation possibly

which is an absolute bitch

more recoil

but also more reliable, if you dont overgas it too much

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Your extractor probably won’t like it

Cam pin definitely won’t

So essentially you want just enough gas for ejection and everything else to work properly and no more.

Gas rings will wear quicker

That’s basically exactly what you want

a little more than necessary for when its dirty

Just enough to cycle reliably

But not removing finish on the brass deflector

Gotcha.

Also what's a BCG and FCG.

bolt carrier groupo and fire control group

Over gassing doesn’t increase reliability, you just get increased parts wear and *different* malfunctions

Also @squidsoup0 id get a sling

And a WML

Ive got a steiner battlelight mk4 its just on a different ar right now. Youre definitely right on the sling though lol

I made this one from paracord because I only had one sling and like 7 rifles

Slightly overgassing allows your rifle to power through some grime, and cycle shitty underpowered ammunition. It's generally better to be slightly overgassed than undergassed, but the best way to do it is get an adjustable gas block and set it correctly.

There are little bandaids for over and under gassing, such as buffers and spring changes

See, but that’s based on the idea that a rifle can’t just...be correctly gassed.

Between an H buffer and an H3 buffer (if you buy both) you can make any weight combination available.

> See, but that’s based on the idea that a rifle can’t just...be correctly gassed.
@Crye_Salesman

I’m aware. I simply said it’s a bandaid for a rifle that is not properly gassed.

Yeah that was directed at confused

I gotcha.

I agree with your statements above. Any overgassing is just extra wear and tear on the parts. Over-gassing leads to increased wear on the gas-rings, causing them to have leakage faster, and to be inefficient.

Well the point of overgassing a rifle, at least supposedly, is that sometimes it might not get cleaned as often as it should and it's better to let it cycle through grime a bit and let the armourer deal with the parts wear than to have it stop working in the field.
I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but it makes a bit of sense.

The extractor, bolt lugs, cam pin, And gas key all suffer when overgassing.

> Well the point of overgassing a rifle, at least supposedly, is that sometimes it might not get cleaned as often as it should and it's better to let it cycle through grime a bit and let the armourer deal with the parts wear than to have it stop working in the field.
> I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but it makes a bit of sense.
@Artemis

With a *properly tuned rifle*, none of this is an issue.

Even a properly tuned rifle can run through dirt, grime, and the likes.

I have a properly tuned rifle. I don't exactly know about military ones but i haven't heard good things

It doesn’t have to be over gassed. I see your point and where you’re coming from, however.

Yeah, pretty much the entire AR15 industry outside of like 3 companies could decrease their gas ports by 10-30% and not see a change in reliability

Even more than that if they thought out the operating system and actually considered how to make the gas drive have a wider range of pressure and still be functional, which isnt that hard