Re: Optimum barrel length?
Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2019 11:39 am
My first AR of any sort was a 8.5" pistol. I was interested because I reload and I'd already easily obtained a few hundred spent cases (and the potential to pick up hundreds more, easily). Plus I never owned an AR.
Quickly found out that if you are not in the suppressor game, then go with a rifle. The 8.5 gave me headaches after every shooting session. Ear pro was not the issue. It was so loud that I soon doubled up (plugs and muffs), but I figured out the headaches must have been from the concussion entering my nasal passages. Soon as I went to a rifle, the headaches no longer happened.
Quickly found out that if you are not in the suppressor game, then go with a rifle. The 8.5 gave me headaches after every shooting session. Ear pro was not the issue. It was so loud that I soon doubled up (plugs and muffs), but I figured out the headaches must have been from the concussion entering my nasal passages. Soon as I went to a rifle, the headaches no longer happened.