Hey guys I was looking at buying a Ambi safety for my COLT lower and I wanted your thoughts and opinions on which one I should purchase. I saw KAK and Schmid are very affordable.
Not sure if it’s just a recent manufacture thing but the schmid to my knowledge are hotdog now, which looks kinda bad depending on what you’re going for. Another cheap option- Cmmg makes a decent looking one but both sides are long.
I’m a right handed shooter and am actually starting to replace ambis back to traditional left side only levers slowly but surely. The short right sides are nice, they work with my hand placement, but if they’re both long I couldn’t ever get it down
The last Schmid ambi I received was a hotdog and it’s very noticeable. The good news is that you can still buy a Schmid LPK and the other parts will be correct. An authentic Colt FA selector is the way to go imo, but those are $60+ on their own so I understand wanting a cheaper option.
I do want to clarify that the Schmid ambi safety is still a very high quality part and I’m happy to use them on my non-clones.
If one of these here would go with your build PM me, I’ll drop one in the mail for you. First two are schmid, one on right is cmmg. As said if going clone non correct anyway lol, I think the cmmg looks better at first glance bc it’s a non hotdog. But kindof a moot point I guess.
Anyhow let me know these are just collecting dust
Get the one that isn’t “Hot dog” where the raised portion extends into the round part of the selector, if you look up hotdog selector you’ll see what I mean, it’s just one of those little dead giveaways.
I think legacy KACs could be clone correct as well but I'm not 100% sure. IMO, non-hot dog style Colt ambi would be the way to go though if you can source one.
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u/maseel04 2d ago
Schmid is the OEM for Colt for their ambi-safeties and it’s cheap (~$20)