The new V Seven Weapon Systems’ 20″ 6.5 Creedmoor Match Barrels are now available for your AR308 (or maybe AR6.5… I guess). The barrel has many of the same features found on other V7 barrels like 416R stainless steel construction, polygonal rifling, V7 Match Chamber, Melonite treated barrel extension, optional fluting, an included pinned gas block, and gas tube.
The URF, or Upper Receiver Forward Controls Design, is now available. The new billet AR-15 upper is based on based on CMT’s URPR-1 7075 billet upper receiver and represents incremental improvements to the standard A3 upper.
FCD outlined the following design improvements:
1. Relief cuts on the section before rails start for better accessibility of a flip up BUIS’s sight stalk / flip up element.
2. Relief on the top of forward assist housing. The relief cut is specifically designed for ambi charging handle users. When the user uses his right fingers to pinch and grasp the CH’s right latch, the relief allows the index finger to reach down further, so the CH’s right latch is positioned in the middle of his finger pad, not the tip of it, for a more secure purchase, especially if the user has gloves on. When we use our left fingers to grab the charging handle’s left latch, there is nothing below the latch, but on an upper with forward assist, its housing stands in the way. The relief simply provides what room that can be spared on the FA housing so more of the user’s finger can have a positive purchase.
The FA housing relief is a simple broad stroke. In retrospect, we could have made its presence less shockingly obvious. The change we made is there to work, we didn’t give much thoughts to how it’d look, only that it’d create as much clearance as the FA housing can afford to give. Our design philosophy emphasizes utility, innovation and quality derived advantages, aesthetics is a super minority in this equation.
Specs:
Check out the URF at ForwardControlsDesign.com
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V Seven’s line of Magnesium Hyper-Light Handguards are now available for the AR308 with SR-25/DPMS pattern barrel nuts. The handguards are currently available in 13.5″ length with KeyMod and 15″ length with M-LOK. New lengths and combinations will be available soon.
Like their AR-15 counterparts, these handguards are manufactured from an aluminum and magnesium alloy that results in a roughly 30% weight reduction versus 6061 aluminum. They also feature the same ceramic like finish that is applied via a plasma deposition process and offers increased abrasion resistance versus hard anodization.
The 15″ M-LOK rail weighs in at under 7 ounces (+ 2 ounces for the barrel nut) and the 13.5″ KeyMod weighs in at just over 6 ounce (+ 2 ounces for the barrel nut).
Aridus Industries has already developed an adapter that allows Beretta 1301 owners to mount Magpul’s Mossberg SGA stock on their 1301. Now they are working with prototype adapters that will bring the Magpul Zhukov Handguards to the 1301. The Zhukov handguard could be a great match for the 1301 due to their length and variety of MLOK mounting options.
The image below also shows a prototype version of their CROM mount for the Trijicon RMR. The CROM mount is already available for Aimpoint Micros. It is a direct mount that provides both a mounting surface for the optic and a ghost ring back up sight.
