All the barrels I have purchased were bare. You had to purchase a "muzzle device" separately, be it a basic or fancy flash hider to a muzzle brake (lot more noise for the shooter with those)
No worries, here's the blurb from their website:
It didn't come with a muzzle device, or extension.
A bunch of stuff was just restocked at Classic Firearms, I may be making a purchase of several of the small items soon.
... When I mentioned extension, I wasn't talking about the muzzle end...
Looking good!
Before building this rifle, I hadn't taken one apart in years. We don't shoot very often in the Air Force if you're not security forces or a battlefield airman, and I haven't owned a personal rifle until now. I've rented them to shoot, but you don't have to clean rented range rifles. Anyway, is the gas tube supposed to extend this far into the upper receiver? I'm worried I may have gotten a rifle length tube instead of a mid length one I ordered. I hope not!
Before building this rifle, I hadn't taken one apart in years. We don't shoot very often in the Air Force if you're not security forces or a battlefield airman, and I haven't owned a personal rifle until now. I've rented them to shoot, but you don't have to clean rented range rifles. Anyway, is the gas tube supposed to extend this far into the upper receiver? I'm worried I may have gotten a rifle length tube instead of a mid length one I ordered. I hope not!
Looks about right to me. Does your gas key mate up with it properly? Put your BCG in the upper and try it.
I would suggest getting some folding BUIS (back up iron sights) and get used to those first. You can go cheap with Magpull, or top of the line Troy Battle Sights. Then later you might want to get a red dot that co-witness with your BUIS of choice.
@jkingrph - I spent one day and qualified the M16 at basic training in 2007, then requalified before I deployed in 2010. Those are the only two times I set foot on a range in my eight years of active duty. Tack on two years in the Reserve, that's ten years with only two range trips! I have an entire rant about airmen not getting any real military training, but this isn't the thread for that.
Our unit's officers and SNCOs carried M9s while the rest of the enlisted troops carried M16s when we were deployed.
I would suggest getting some folding BUIS (back up iron sights) and get used to those first...
Sage advice here.
My service precedes yours quite a bit. Basic training Dec 68, then OCS April-June 69. I had an accompanied tour from 72-74 in Turkey, we lived downtown in Izmir and no one carried arms, and were not allowed rifled arms for sporting purposes, shotguns were fine. Got called up in 91 for Desert Storm and we set up a contingency hospital in England, so no carrying of arms there. The AP's had arms for guarding gates to the locations we used, as well as RAF Fairford, which was lauching B-52 missions on Kuwait, as well as Brize Norton and Upper Heyford which were the other two active bases nearby. We were at an old RAF training base which had the sole function of a hospital. Wards and operating suites were set up in a couple of old hangers. Our pharmacy was the old armory which was the only suitable location because all the windows were barred and it had in internal walk in vault. We were billeted in another small village adjacent to Brize Norton, in old unused RAF housing, bare bones, we only had cots to start with but got some twin sized beds after about a month, and a refrigerator. A friend and I had scrounged a couple of electric hotpots so we could heat MRE's, hot dogs, Vienna sausages and similar items. Living conditions were rather sparse and cold( coldest winter with snow and ice that they had had for years in that part of England). Duty was rather boring, thank God as very few casualties in that war. We were there for ones not in shape to make it all the way back to the states. We had a similar hospital set up I think at Ramstine, Germany
Small world. Activated from the US Army National Guard for Desert Storm. MASH unit in support of 3rd Armor Division. Most forward surgical capable unit in Iraq. Medical units are very officer top heavy with RNs, MDs, Pharmacists, etc. All the enlisted had M-16s, most officers were totally unarmed. I believe there were six old 1911 .45s to go around between the officers. I was able to "borrow" a 1911 to take with me as we drove around in the HMMV running around in the desert sight seeing after the shooting was over. I was in the combat zone, not a REMF! I had no weapon issued to me. We early on scavenged up dropped AK-47s, but going to battle like sheep lead to the slaughter, which luckily did not happen. It was after Desert Storm that Jeff Cooper offered a reduced price for vets to attend Gunsite and I jumped at the opportunity, attending the Basic Pistol class in the fall of '91.