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way, replicating a military weapon.
It shoots the same as before, the
weight gain is less than 0.5 kg, and
in a few minutes you can restore it
to the factory configuration with
just a screwdriver. I'm not going
to do that, however, because, as
I wrote, the rifle configured this way
looks like a real M4, and after all,
that's what it was configured for.
I will probably do two more thin-
gs with it. I'll put a newer carrying
strap attachment on the barrel,
along with the USGI black M4 strap.
Such an attachment is placed on
the barrel between the "sail" of the
front sight, so you get an extra loop
to route the strap, but on the side
of the barrel, not underneath. The
other end of the strap is interwo-
ven from the top through a notch
in the butt stock, and this results in
a quite comfortable two-point belt,
although lacking the possibility of
quick adjustment. With the current
way of attaching the strap, the car-
bine can be carried comfortably
basically only in the one position,
because even hanging it over the
back is already uncomfortable.
I am also thinking about shorte-
ning the barrel. The problem is that
I want to keep its profile, so cutting
it down by 1.5" will cut off the ori-
ginal cut out. In order to preserve
it, the barrel would have to be re-
-profiled, which in turn would force
the barrel to be recoated with a pro-
tective coating (in this case phos-
phate). I'm a little afraid of all this,
