Magpul Hand guard + Stag Piston Upper???

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Evan-0-Matic

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Curious if anyone knows if this hand guard will fit with a Stag (or any other available) Piston driven upper?

Or do i have to get a gas operated upper?

Thanks all!
 
Save some money and just get a regular DI upper. The piston systems are more headaches and don't achieve anything better.
 
According to Magpul's product site (that goes to the mid-length MOE handguard, click on the "specs" tab next to the picture), they say that they are:

Compatible with both 'direct impingement' and most external-piston gas systems
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My guess is that it would fit. Worst case, it's plastic, so it isn't going to be THAT rough to modify (and they're not so expensive that botching it will ruin you).

I'll leave the DI vs. piston to others... I've made my choice and am happy with my DI guns, but I can see why others might be interested in a piston.
 
Stag makes one hell of an entry level AR, with a life time warranty to boot so you won't be disappointed. I beat the crap out of mine and it kept on ticking. Running it about 1000 rounds before a cleaning... and I ran her very dry. I would shoot it, let others shoot it, its been banged off barricades, dropped, rattled around in the trunk. Shot it until the barrel was smoking out of the hand-guards. Seeing as I have a ton of spare AR parts laying around that the gun smiths from work "donate" to me being me;) I tried my hardest to trash my Stag. She kept going.

I have since sold off and built other AR's but if your looking for a solid AR and a good price, by a nice company, they are tough to beat specially for the money.

Personally right now my "GO TO" AR-15 is a BCM 14.5 middy upper matted to a stock Stag Arms lower. The way I figure it... if STAG (read CMT) is good enough for Noveske to contract for their receivers... it is good enough for what I do.

CMT ( Continental Machine) is Stag's parent company, and they have been making AR-15 (and M16) parts for quite some time.. for many AR makers. They also make some Aerospace and automotive parts as well.

As far as DI vs gas piston... the major advantage I would guess is to people running a suppressor. Other than that... even if they might be a tiny bit better in some way (personally I don't see it) it does not justify the cost difference in the price tags. Reading a interview with Noveske, he stated that they have no interest (at the time, i forget how long ago it was) in gas pistons because he felt they didn't perform any better.
 
Thanks for the great info, HKfan9.

I really liked hearing about the tour you gave your very own Stag AR. And if any part of me wasn't sure before, it's definitely decided now, haha.

I also decided to stick with my original choice, the 2H Stag upper. Wish i could get a shorter barrel, but i can't get the proper licensing due to where i live. Oh, well... there's always my next AR!
 
I have a video of me shooting my Stag until the barrel got scolding hot, and I melted through an ice block with it. :cool: I will have to find it and upload it for you.

People debate AR's till they are blue in the face, but really you won't be disappointed with a Stag. The only real issues I ever heard with them were issues with the chambering in their 6.8SPC uppers.
 
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