Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:
I took the AR pistol to the range this morning for its
initial firing and break-in. Good news! It did not blow up, so I
guess I did put it together correctly. 
It was a bit of a non-event, as the pistol functioned perfectly. As
expected from the short barrel, the muzzle report was quite loud,
though recoil was extremely controllable. I had handloaded a batch
of reduced power cartridges specifically for this pistol to help
control the recoil, but found that they were unecessary as the
pistol handled my regular handloads comfortably. Accuracy at 50
yards was surprisingly good, given that I was using a plain old
unmagnified red-dot sight; I was averaging sub-3-inch groups with
my handloads.
The biggest problem was finding a way to comfortably hold the
pistol off-hand. It's waaay too front-heavy to be gripped
like a regular handgun, so the support hand has to hold the
handguards. This ends up being much like how you would hold a
rifle, except that now you don't have the benefit of a buttstock to
jam against your shoulder. The whole contraption basically just
'floats' in front of your right cheek as you aim and fire it.
I still do not see a practical purpose for a pistol derivative of
an AR rifle. You don't get rifle velocities from the short barrel,
and it's too large to be handled as a pistol. So, yes, it
[b]is a toy for now. 
[/b]
for once i wondered why was the barrel pointing backwards then i
realised that was the silly butt springs(i prefer to call it
this)
looks like i havent stripped a m16 for a while 
