John, get on a TIMER with canned CAR, and

I mainly do use the .22 unit now; probably 40- or 50-to-1 in favor of the .22LR, as far as number of rounds fired thru the gun.

Even with the .22 unit, I still almost always shoot it with the suppressor on, to keep the "feel" and handling of the gun constant.

The .22 without the suppressor would more closely simulate the blast of the .223 with suppressor, but at the cost of changing the gun's handling characteristics. IMO, keeping the "feel" of the gun constant is higher priority than keeping the "sound" constant. YMMV.


Since I put the small Leupold 1-4X scope on it, I rarely use the iron sights anymore. They're still use-able, since the scope's on a see-thru ARMS mount, but for longer shooting, the scope's more precise (cranked to 4X), and close-up, the scope's actually quicker to pick up than the irons (at 1X, where it's regularly set). The see-thru mount is really a "just in case" thing; to allow use of the irons if the scope should become damaged.

Really like that little scope; and no battery issues to worry about anymore.

Confess to never timing the scope-vs-irons, but have used both a bunch, and done side-by-side tries with one vs the other. The scope (on low power) is definitely the quicker of the two, at least with my gun's standard peep-type AR sights.

I also like the duplex cross hairs - coarse outer lines for quick acquisition, and finer inner lines for more precision when time permits. Mine has Leupold's "Shotgun" reticle, which is just a slightly heavier duplex. Tried both shotgun and regular duplexes side-by-side in the store; the regular, with its finer lines, would allow for more precise long-range work, but the "shotgun" duplex version is much quicker to acquire (again, a side-by-side comparison thing), and being a duplex, still plenty precise for any distance I'm going to be shooting the CAR. Certainly more precise than my iron sights.

I'm at kind of a weird place with the CAR right now. With it set up as it is...:

- AAC quick-mount suppressor
- Otis grip cleaning kit
- .22 Ciener unit
- compact Leupold scope in see-thru mount
- Snap-on & -off rigid brass catcher
- plenty of mags,

I really don't have anything I'm just 'lusting' to have for it right now. Likely I'll eventually add a 3-point (or some such) sling, a replacement trigger and tritium iron sights, but right now, I'm very happy with it "as is".

That said, assuming the AWB does sunset, the first thing I'll want is some 30-round mags for the Ciener; I have full-cap and hi-cap mags for every auto I own except that.

(Never know when I may have to fight off a wave of rabid zombie squirrels... :uzi: )

andy said:

...As big as you are, you'll like a butt extention...

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So many lines come to mind....

I'm somewhat larger than average; wear either a 48 or 50 long jacket and 38" shirt sleeves, but I actually prefer the shorter A1 length stock to the newer, longer A2 version, for this gun. On my "bolt clunkers" I like a somewhat longer stock, but compactness is one of the main reasons I like the CAR in the first place, and if I'm going to sacrifice that compactness, I'd rather sacrifice it to a longer barrel than a longer stock. Obviously, that's a subjective, personal thing. Year or two ago, I took off the collapsing stock & put on a fixed A1 length DSA metal stock, and really like it. It's more solid and more quiet than the telescoping stock, and strong as a truck.

The DSA stock meant I had to use the "fixed stock" version of the sling, instead of the "collapsible stock" version, but that worked out better anyway, as the fixed version is necessarily longer, which means it fits us "full-size" people better.

I've only messed with the sling for an hour or two, but I'm very impressed with it. It's one of those things like buying your first microwave oven or vcr; once you try it, you wonder why you put off getting one for so long.

(Yes, Rika, some of us are old enough to remember when microwaves & vcr's first came out. I was so 'cool', I even had an 8-track player in my Dodge Dart, and a white leisure suit. God help me, what was I thinking... :headbang: )