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Got home from work and started working on getting the free float tube that had just come. Finished it up and wanted to post some pics. It's a DPMS tube.

 

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looks slick man!

 

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Thanks. I guess I should have posted a pic of it before.

 

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Nice. How did you do it? Is it a two piece or a full barrel?

 

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Good job! That look great!

 

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Had to take the front sight and flash hider. It's two piece the barrel nut and the tube. It's a once piece tube though. Should have taken pics but I was itching to install it.

 

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That's funny and oh so wrong at the same time..

Nice job on the install!

 

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Had to take the front sight and flash hider. It's two piece the barrel nut and the tube. It's a once piece tube though. Should have taken pics but I was itching to install it.

How long did it take? Any special tools?

 

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Took about 30 - 45 min. Vice, 2 punchs, armors tool and receiver action block. Borrowed the last two from a friend.

 

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Cool, thanks for the info.

 

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Plenty of good info on this thread.

http://ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=3&f=4&t=226782

 

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i like it.

 

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That's funny and oh so wrong at the same time.

Probably shouldn't use it, considering I haven't even seen the movie

 

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That looks really good, nice job! Might be a dumb question, but does a tube work as well on a M4 type AR like yours as they do on the long range shooters? I've always liked the tube setups, after seeing yours I guess I could convert my M4 fakery to a tube. :mrgreen:

 

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Haven't shot it yet but It should help a bit with accuracy since the barrel is floated now. How much? Don't know.

 

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Where/how ya gonna mount all the kewl toys that a M4 wants ?

 

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The tube is slotted so I can attach rails if I need to. I'm not a big fan of rails though.

 

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Sadly you're not likely to get a ton of real improvement by just Free Floating it. Still any advantage is still an advantage. I'm not exactly a fan of tubes, just don't feel right to me, but I do like the way they look.

 

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Sadly you're not likely to get a ton of real improvement by just Free Floating it. Still any advantage is still an advantage. I'm not exactly a fan of tubes, just don't feel right to me, but I do like the way they look.

My understanding is that the main advantage of the free float tube is to competition shooters that use a sling in prone or kneeling.

With the free float tube there is no sideways pressure on the barrel from the sling so the POI doesn't change with sling pressure.

That being said, my 16" AR has a free float tube on it. Mostly because that's the way it came when I traded for it.