AR quad rail?

[Comeandtakeit27]

Hi, I just put a Yankee Hill 13" rail on my AR and it was around $130. I had a 6.5" rail I bought at Academy Soprts. I paid like $45 with the tax. I shot the gun one time only with it. It worked great , I just needed more rail space. I would sell it for $30 and ship it to you free. Just let me know Rich.

 

[user 71]

Why do you need a quad rail? If you want to attach, say, a vert grip and a light or something, the Magpul MOE handguards will do the job with less weight and less money than a cheap quad rail. I'm all for free-float rails and my go-to AR's wear them, but that isn't a place to cheap out. The cheap quad rails are most often very heavy, ill-fitting, and held to poor tolerance such that you'll have issues getting certain things to fit.

This is great advice.

Take it from someone who has spent many dollars and much time shopping, installing, changing a variety of hand guards and free float rails - all across the money/quality spectrum: go with magpul until you can afford MI, YHM, or Troy (at the $130+ price point).

If you cheap out now, you won't be happy down the road and will end having to eat the cost of the cheap rail (or the difference when you try to sell it here).

Also, I'm to the point now where I only keep several uppers with free float rails for specific purposes. The rest all have magpul because those are cheap, light, can add most accessories, light, accuracy gain is unnoticeable unless you're bench shooting at distance, and they're light. I mainly like them because they're light.