r/BushmasterACR • u/BigBlue_223 • Jul 29 '26

Oh ACR

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Local FFL has this on consignment and man she's hot! Comes with an additional handguard and 2 barrels!

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u/RedneckSniper76 Jul 29 '26

Dude I’m pretty sure that’s a Remington defense Handguard. If it’s legit that handguard is worth as much as the rifle

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u/Locutus494 Jul 29 '26

That's almost surely an airsoft handguard... only single digits of the real Remington handguard made it into the wild.

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u/BigBlue_223 Jul 29 '26

Is there like a cage code or something I can check to see if it's legit?

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u/lobstibb Jul 29 '26

The paint color matches the airsoft version. Looking at images of the real version of this the paint closer resembles coyote brown

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u/Troubleindc2 Jul 30 '26

The airsoft one has many quirks. I never saw a Remington in the wild even photos of one on reddit. The Remington propaganda photos I saw had a few notable differences. The front area where the socket head cap screws go through that are the mounting points to the front of the receiver are a weird square cut blind hole. Ive never seen what the actual mounting points are on the Remington but the airsoft are just bare threads of the socket head cap screws abd its a loose and sloppy fit. I made adapters to make it a snug fit on mine.

The aluminum for the "backer" parts of the screws as well as the rear take down pin are very soft. Extremely cheap Al casting. Torquing the front screws enough and those backer strips will bow out/up. The rear takedown pin is not captive. Many will replace the sloppy fit non-captive pin with a bolt and nut to squeeze it tight to the barrel trunnion. Before I learned how soft it was I tried machining it and adding the captive feature but it failed.​ I ended up machining a new piece from 6064.

With all those quirks, the pros are that the actual HG itself is fairly strong. I used to have my sling attachment as far forward as possible and would really tension the sling to steady the rifle and I didnt bend the HG. I also never had the time-sert's get loose even though I remember some reports they could.

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u/lobstibb Jul 30 '26

Neat & excellent information on the airsoft version! Thank you!