As long as it doesnt have 6ft of pic rail and weigh 6lbs I am good with it.

Agreed.

Personal peeve: people adding EXTENDED rails to their rifles (especially guns designed with sufficient rails to start).

I'm at a point where I like an AR to have handguards. For the young lads reading this: a handguard use to be a common fixture in the firearms world...it resided where your 4# 67 slot 14" long quad rail now hangs.

Fighting rifle needs five things:

Flip up iron sights;
Optic (selected for mission);
White light;
2pt Sling;
Ammo.

If you're hanging more off your rifle or think you need a 12" quad rail on a 16" barreled 556 carbine...you need to sort out your priorities. Mind you, XBOX isn't real life.

ETA: take an intense two or three day class, and you'll be scuttling the extraneous mall ninja rubbish.

Lol exactly Arch.

My personal AR, still trying to sort out the light situation.

I have a different suppressor adaptor now with a flash hider. That one was a flame thrower.

For about $8 you can get a MapPul angled rail section that is designed to fit your MOE handguard. I use them with VTAC mounted SureFires.

I've put long rails on my ARs I built. They keymod is on my 3 gun rifle. It's nice to have area to extend my arm a little and I shoot better that way. The other is on my dmr and its to help protect and free float the barrel.

Ok ill check them out Arch thanks for the heads up.

Yeah but you got the lighter weight ones GD.

Grease, check out the HL series Streamlights if you want room clearing light pattern. The HPL will give you not quite as wide a beam but it will shine a LOT farther. I had a TLR1 HPL and got rid of it because it didn't give me as wide a beam as I wanted for building use. The TLR1 HP makes me happy.

Here is a link to their beam patterns.
http://www.streamlight.com/en-us/education/apps-and-beams.html

Oh and I didn't derail this thread, I DID talk about a weapons light I sold.

OK I'll check that one out as well, hell this is the yard Skunk we are all derailed. Lol

I have a TLR-1S and really like it. I want to upgrade to the h soon

Streamlight has remarkable CS...even when the customer causes the problem.

I have several TLR-1, and think they're fantastic (esp considering the price point). I've had them in high intensity classes - never failed.