{"id":414,"date":"2011-10-15T19:18:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T00:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=414"},"modified":"2011-10-15T19:18:50","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T00:18:50","slug":"twinkies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=414","title":{"rendered":"Twinkies!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: auto;margin-left: auto\" src=\"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/wpid-IMG_20111015_183719.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Top: Rock River AR-15<\/p>\n<p>Bottom: M&amp;P15-22<\/p>\n<p>The thing about an AR trainer is that it needs to be as close as possible to your &#8220;real&#8221; rifle as possible. I <em>just<\/em>\u00a0got the M&amp;P15-22, but I&#8217;m already starting to duplicate the functionality. When I was taking care of my Form 4 stuff, I picked up two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0044J84OC\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=gucaante-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=B0044J84OC\">Magpul AFG2s<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=gucaante-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0044J84OC&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. You&#8217;ll notice that the Rock River has carbine length gas system, while the M&amp;P15-22 has mid-length handguards. I put the AFG as far forward on the RRA as I could and then matched up the M&amp;P.<\/p>\n<p>The BUIS on the Rock River is a Troy flip up front sight and a Magpul MBUS rear sight. The M&amp;P just has iron sights for now, so that will work until I figure out what I want to do about a red dot. I doubt I&#8217;ll add an EOTech to a .22, but who knows. I might decide to upgrade the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000KKFVRC\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=gucaante-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=B000KKFVRC\">EOTech 512<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=gucaante-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000KKFVRC&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0015836GQ\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=gucaante-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=B0015836GQ\">EOTech 557.AR223<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=gucaante-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0015836GQ&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>Need moar gunskool first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top: Rock River AR-15 Bottom: M&amp;P15-22 The thing about an AR trainer is that it needs to be as close as possible to your &#8220;real&#8221; rifle as possible. I just\u00a0got the M&amp;P15-22, but I&#8217;m already starting to duplicate the functionality. When I was taking care of my Form 4 stuff, I picked up two Magpul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}