What size hand guards do I need?

zTimbo · June 4, 2013, 08:55 AM

Hi all,
I'm looking for some reassurance before I place an order for some new hand guards for my SBR. It's a LMT with a 10.5" barrel. I'm wanting to go with a magpul hand guards and a magpul stock. Would the carbine length hand guards be the ones I need?

Ridge_Runner_5 · June 6, 2013, 12:21 PM

Yep, carbine length

You can verify by measuring the handguards, too.

7" = Carbine
9" = Midlength
11" = Rifle

Venom1956 · June 6, 2013, 01:31 PM

Thats a nice lookin RIS from here, why change it?

Magpul seems like a step back IMO.

zTimbo · June 7, 2013, 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Venom1956

Thats a nice lookin RIS from here, why change it?

Magpul seems like a step back IMO.

It is a nice piece, I just don't want it on there any more as I don't have anything mounted to it nor do I plan on mounting anything to it.

Theohazard · June 7, 2013, 01:38 PM

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I don't have anything mounted to it nor do I plan on mounting anything to it.

I may be wrong, but it looks like you have a folding vertical foregrip mounted on it in the picture...

zTimbo · June 7, 2013, 04:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Theohazard

I may be wrong, but it looks like you have a folding vertical foregrip mounted on it in the picture...

Lol, let me restate, I don't have anything of any use to me mounted on it

Theohazard · June 7, 2013, 06:28 PM

Haha, yeah, I was confused for a second!

Ridge_Runner_5 · June 7, 2013, 10:36 PM

I did the same thing with my AR. Went from a long quad rail to Magpul handguards, because all I was hanging off all that rail space was a VFG.

June 4, 2013, 08:55 AM	#1
zTimbo Member Join Date: March 10, 2013 Posts: 52	What size hand guards do I need? Hi all, I'm looking for some reassurance before I place an order for some new hand guards for my SBR. It's a LMT with a 10.5" barrel. I'm wanting to go with a magpul hand guards and a magpul stock. Would the carbine length hand guards be the ones I need? Last edited by Brian Pfleuger; June 4, 2013 at 09:46 AM.

June 6, 2013, 01:31 PM	#3
Venom1956 Senior Member Join Date: October 4, 2008 Location: WI Posts: 3,656	Thats a nice lookin RIS from here, why change it? Magpul seems like a step back IMO. __________________ E-Shock rounds are engineered to expend maximum energy into soft targets, turning the density mass into an expanding rotational cone of NyTrilium matrix particles, causing neurological collapse to the central nervous system.- Yeah I can do that. I guarantee you will know it if a bicyclist hits your house going 1000 mph. -Smaug

June 7, 2013, 06:28 PM	#7
Theohazard Senior Member Join Date: April 19, 2012 Location: Western PA Posts: 3,829	Haha, yeah, I was confused for a second! __________________ 0331: "Accuracy by volume."

June 6, 2013, 12:21 PM	#2
Ridge_Runner_5 Senior Member Join Date: February 8, 2008 Location: Denver, CO Posts: 1,925	Yep, carbine length You can verify by measuring the handguards, too. 7" = Carbine 9" = Midlength 11" = Rifle

June 7, 2013, 10:36 PM	#8
Ridge_Runner_5 Senior Member Join Date: February 8, 2008 Location: Denver, CO Posts: 1,925	I did the same thing with my AR. Went from a long quad rail to Magpul handguards, because all I was hanging off all that rail space was a VFG.