The Magpul catalog gun has been identified as an Adams Arms factory rifle, released in 2014. The barrels were from Voodoo Innovations (a subsidiary or sister company of AA?) and were 16.5" making them slightly longer than the typical 16.1" barrels you see. So it would have had a tiny bit more dwell time, but since it was a factory build the gas port could have been enlarged as well. MSRP, adjusted for inflation, was slightly over two grand. :) Thanks for the tips, gang!
I have had an Adam’s Arms carbine-length gas piston system on a 16” barrel AR now since 2015. It has never failed me, ever. I guess I got a good one, or maybe mine is built correctly and very well. Who knows …. but one thing is for sure, and that is it’s been 100% reliable since day one. - Jason/Freedom Fighter Until Death/Vermont, FRA (‘FRA’, meaning “The Failed Republic Of America”)
Before the Midwest chain Fleet Farm sold out, they had military surplus, Mosins, WASRs, spam can ammo, etc. The Century stuff would typically be competitive with dealer pricing because, FF got distributor pricing from Century and passed on the savings. Anyway, FF also had private label Adams Arms rifles under the brands Huldra and Korstog. When FF went Fudd, they cut prices on the AA stuff until it all sold. I have a 16" piston 5.45 that I don't shoot much anymore but was great when ammo was cheap. My Korstog pinned-and-welded 14.5" DI with Samson rail is one of my favorite ARs.
Ah, fellow autist, I salute your build. I too have built this exact gun. . . kinda. For the Adams arms piston systems, you got to HOG the gas port out; in the rifle length and my 20 inch iirc it was just over max recommended size for DI. Not recommended for future DI use of that barrel post porting. If you want to commit, make a sacrifice of metal to the numbered bit set. Had no idea Adams went under?! bummer. Guess that's what you get when your line of work is solving problems no one has. . . .
Other potential issues with the build could be, Magazine used is faulty or upper and/or lower may be out of correct dimensional specifications. Try running upper on another lower, use mil-spec mags, etc.
@Magpul did you upload those photos after 12/10/2012, when weed was legalized in Colorado, AND before 1/2/2014 when y'all announced you'd be moving your HQ to Texas? Because, if so... yeah, that tracks and fair play to ya.
Canadian IMP Meat with demi glaze sauce is a winner! There's a couple decent US ones like chicken bites with hot sauce, and pepper jack patty, and the breakfast maple sausage, I think the foreign ones are most interesting though.
His left hand is obviously limp wristing the handguard. I got over 69420 rounds on my Magpul/Adam arms piston dissy with no issues. I shoot NRA backed IDPA matches so I know what I'm talking about.
@@AK47Uprisingwhenever I’m super bored and have some free time I go through PSA reviews and save the best(worst) ones I find. My folder is up to 20 or so at this point. One of my favorites is Some guy showing off his two almost completely identical garbage red anodized pistol builds with some Amazon optics. Amazing to me someone would do it twice
Building guns based off manufacturers parts website is a level of tism for the die hard seppuku enjoyers. You are seen and heard but it is still mind blowing
I'm still waiting for you and James to do a competition where you both start with a basic PSA AR (typical mid-length or carbine set up) and then build each other the worst gun possible from actual real firearms components (no airsoft stuff). Then run a shooting competition using the awful guns produced by the other presenter. I'm talking the worst stock, worst pistol grip (think: skeletonized red aluminum, etc.) , worst trigger (heaviest, grittiest you can find), worst charging handle, worst and heaviest optic mounts, terrible irons, obnoxious muzzle brakes, insulting furniture, painful vertical foregrips, childish slings and the cheapest questionable AR magazines you can find... Then, of course, auction them off for charity or something afterwards. But show up, sight-unseen and then swap guns. Let's do it.
Seeing how light that barrel is, probably a Voodoo 17" given Adams was a sister company? I recall they had the only lightweight dissy barrel for a while before I found Spinta. The magpul/not really Magpul clone I'd want to do is the airsoft G&P WOC V.P.R., that thing looks so neat and... "period correct".
This kind if highly specific content is unlocking a repressed part of my brain and I hate that. I was hoping I was the only person tortured by this level of trainspotting.
I think this is way more common than people are letting on in this comment section. I think a ton of people build catalogue-clone guns or simply clone other reddit/instagram pictures, etc. Sometimes you just "see" something and you want to try it.
Somehow, I was super-intrigued about the functionality of a model catalog gun. Like, fast-food menu preview pics, I did not expect anything to look like what they promised, let alone work. But, I'll be damned, it cycled more than once.
As someone that has an adams arms piston kit on a rifle, I can say that those first gen style gas blocks are under gassed. The newer style that doesnt come out the front that easily (and by that I mean I accidentally jettisoned the gas key out of the front due to it being in-between two settings, had to get a new one). The newer style will more reliably cycle higher pressured rounds.
I have that Adams Arms piston conversion on a midlength 16 inch Centurian Arms barrel. It has been flawlessly reliable over the many years I have had it. I didn't realize Adams Arms had gone out of business. I haven't used the upper in a while because I found I preferred the PWS long-stroke piston setup.
I've got an Adam's Arms carbine piston system for my IAR replica. I call it the L-IAR or just Liar. But mine has been working pretty well. I've not yet put 1000 rounds through it, but so far, so good.
Side quest rant: Dudes will spend a lot of time prepping for the end of society, learning bushcraft skills, stocking up on MREs, bug out bags, bunkers, ect. Take the time and learn to cook! It's not that hard and you won't be eating cold ravioli out of the can for the end of days.
Sure, but that's not really the point of MRE's etc. MRE's are specifically for when you don't have time or access to cook (you often don't want to produce a heat signature or a smoke signal while cooking, nor do you want to leave visible evidence you were somewhere (firepit, etc.). While I'm not particularly accomplished...I enjoy cooking, but that doesn't translate to sitting in a muddy hole, ripping open a bag of pre-processed chow that I can scarf down in the dark, etc. Now, I do agree that if you have time/convenience to cook...some dudes are really good at making an MRE into something better with a bit of seasoning and work...but that'd a bit of a luxury in most cases.
3:32 Oh my god, he called the MRE spoon trash! D: You know that's not actually an eating utensil, right? Its an improvised weapon in every package, fit for an Army Ranger to take out Taliban in CQC.... I keep my MRE spoons in my repacked meals.
Hey Hop, speaking of Red Right Hand's "Recce LMG", have you see Klein Machining's RPK style 24" bull barrel uppers? He mills the barrel for a bipod, and while it may not be the most strictly useful thing I own, it stacks cyclic 5.56 like nothing else, I love it.
The original P-series was the pinnacle of Adams Arms. Reliable, cerro forged receivers, decent handguard, and low profile adjustable gas block. The piston AR craze was just over by then.
@@Hoplopfheil true, as we all know 1.5 inches makes all the difference. at least it having the permanent a2 flash hider has prevented me from putting a can on it without paying someone to fix that for me.
The rifle length MOE handguard has a certain aesthetic to it that's very appealing to me, didn't prevent me from going back to a free-float mwi handguard after a year or so
That adams arms dissy goes HARD. My first ar was an adams arms carbine. I sold it to a co worker years ago, since i had moved on to bigger and better things. It always ran well, was very accurate, and had over 2000 rounds on it at the time. Been contemplating getting the superlative arms piston kit for a while now. Piston ARs are still cool, just not to everybody i guess.
I come here just for the cat videos at the end. The hilarious deconstruction of how we all were in the tacticool culture 15-20 years ago is just a bonus.
I have an adams arms piston AR for pass 7, 10 years been shooting it for a while many thousand of rounds never had a one problem. Alway shot well. It is a little different from one shown in the video. Good luck to everyone. God bless us all.
If you really want it to work, you can bore out the gas port on the barrel just slightly.. or, if you put enough rounds through it, the port will erode and open up for you. Might take awhile
@@Hoplopfheil I have an 11.5 I “piston,” used an Osprey Defense, they died like Adams only way faster. Then it rose from the grave for a minute and became ARK Defense, but they died too. Anyway, yeah … it’s also a single shot without a can. 😂 🤣 So… you’re hitting about par according to my scorecard.
Intern: Should we put a folding stock on that MP5? _No, put an AR tube on it_ Intern: Makes sense, we sell AR stocks. _Then make it fold...using an adapter specifically for the AR15_ Intern: Why....why do you torture me like this?
Hop is the only person that would clone correct a rifle magpul uses as a demo gun on a page in the 7th layer of hell (magpuls website) and make a full video about it
Back in 2014ish, I bought an Adams Arms CORE upper. It was a pencil weight 16.5in barrel with a rifle length gas system. It took a lot of work and a few years to get it to run reliably without a suppressor. With a suppressor the barrel was so weak that it would noticeably bounce after every shot. Eventually I swapped to an 18in barrel and now it runs great, but is also too heavy and still it great with accuracy. It also came with a Samson handguard that used their own proprietary mounting system. The handguard was cut to go around the obnoxiously large gas block so the gas block had to be removed to get the handguard off. They were also ambitious putting a pic rail on the top of the gas block, I definitely melted an mbus front sight just to see if it would. I still have the rifle because I can’t in good faith give that burden to someone else.
Having to build demo guns for work, the one thing I do have to do is make sure they work before I worry about whether or not they look good. That does look good, but if it don't work... You did answer the most important question about whether it shoots well or not.
So what happens is a company will contract their website and seo out to a third party or hire in house web devs and the devs will constantly rebuild the site so they can justify their pay check. Many company's have had what I call the golden site. A perfect website but then their devs make another crappier one just so they can collect their check.
Probably the best of the Canadian AR-180 variants has a full length, multi-piece rifle length piston, the Sterling R18. The carbine length pistons on the other variants have been known to snap at a few hundred rounds.
I've been waiting for this video for so long. Ever since I saw your comment on FocusTripp's video about dissipators. I too have a similar disease as you
Pretty interesting build. Sucks that it doesn’t work, but even if it did I don’t think it would really be very cool for any other reason than the aesthetic.
@@TheCamaro5 Same. Only maintenance I ever had to do was ensure the gas plug didn't carbon lock, and soak the piston cup with hoppe's every once in a long while. Let the AA hate flow - they have been dead reliable for me, have spent way less time maintaining them, and they weighed nearly the same (perhaps an ounce or two more) as most standard AR15 factory guns.
finally someone builds one. ive been wanting to see a review of one for about a decade now. my understanding is that criterions 16" rifles barrels would run the piston but that series has been out of stock since 2019.
I am going to add a super "don't know if ever been done" vertical grip to my Ruger 10/22 backer magpul stock. Can't find anything/one on the web who have done it.
I'm pretty sure the receiver for this ( 1:29 ) is an American Spirit Arms ASA-15 Side charger receiver. The charging handle & forward assist areas look the same between the one on the magpul website & what images I can find online.
I hope this Magpul journey leads to you eventually getting to shoot an original Masada/ACR prototype. There's supposedly 7 of them floating around somewhere.
I would probably do this with an 18" rifle gas setup personally, and that might fix the issue? The Superlative Arms setup also has way more adjustability, though that doesn't matter as much if wide open still isn't enough gas. It looks great with OD magpul furniture though 😅😅.
Well, it sure as hell *looks* cool at least. All-OD-green linear straight line, just looks cool in my head. Also I appreciate you featuring the cat at the end, gave me the warm-fuzzies
The Magpul catalog gun has been identified as an Adams Arms factory rifle, released in 2014. The barrels were from Voodoo Innovations (a subsidiary or sister company of AA?) and were 16.5" making them slightly longer than the typical 16.1" barrels you see. So it would have had a tiny bit more dwell time, but since it was a factory build the gas port could have been enlarged as well. MSRP, adjusted for inflation, was slightly over two grand. :)
Thanks for the tips, gang!
I have had an Adam’s Arms carbine-length gas piston system on a 16” barrel AR now since 2015. It has never failed me, ever. I guess I got a good one, or maybe mine is built correctly and very well. Who knows …. but one thing is for sure, and that is it’s been 100% reliable since day one.
- Jason/Freedom Fighter Until Death/Vermont, FRA (‘FRA’, meaning “The Failed Republic Of America”)
Gas port has to be opened up can confirm with both KAK and Spinta Dissipator barrels. I built one similar to these a year ago.
Before the Midwest chain Fleet Farm sold out, they had military surplus, Mosins, WASRs, spam can ammo, etc. The Century stuff would typically be competitive with dealer pricing because, FF got distributor pricing from Century and passed on the savings. Anyway, FF also had private label Adams Arms rifles under the brands Huldra and Korstog. When FF went Fudd, they cut prices on the AA stuff until it all sold. I have a 16" piston 5.45 that I don't shoot much anymore but was great when ammo was cheap. My Korstog pinned-and-welded 14.5" DI with Samson rail is one of my favorite ARs.
Ah, fellow autist, I salute your build. I too have built this exact gun. . . kinda. For the Adams arms piston systems, you got to HOG the gas port out; in the rifle length and my 20 inch iirc it was just over max recommended size for DI. Not recommended for future DI use of that barrel post porting. If you want to commit, make a sacrifice of metal to the numbered bit set. Had no idea Adams went under?! bummer. Guess that's what you get when your line of work is solving problems no one has. . . .
Other potential issues with the build could be, Magazine used is faulty or upper and/or lower may be out of correct dimensional specifications. Try running upper on another lower, use mil-spec mags, etc.
We don't know what the hell is on that M&P either...
Uh oh
Major plot twist when magpul responds
Epic
@Magpul did you upload those photos after 12/10/2012, when weed was legalized in Colorado, AND before 1/2/2014 when y'all announced you'd be moving your HQ to Texas?
Because, if so... yeah, that tracks and fair play to ya.
@@snwbrdbum14 This working theory is the most plausible.
You and Brass are probably our best customers when it come to ordering MREs. I'm slightly concerned about how that may affect your toilet.
I watched the whole ad segment, you got your money's worth on this one.
@@VentureSurplus actually I might need to order some if that's the case 😂🙊
Do skittles expire? Plus I like trying to wipe with mre toilet paper while chipping my teeth on rock hard chicklets dipped in Tabasco
Canadian IMP Meat with demi glaze sauce is a winner! There's a couple decent US ones like chicken bites with hot sauce, and pepper jack patty, and the breakfast maple sausage, I think the foreign ones are most interesting though.
For the first time in three years, I watched an ad.
Most clone military weapons. Hop clones failed magpul concept guns from the worst time periods
Hop is just doing the side quests now…
If we're remaking failed Magpul concepts, IMO the PDR is the Holy Grail of bullpups
Better not be starting an ACR bad thread!
It will be hot shit in 20 years. Lol
You know what that means. We need a feature from Gun Jesus.
Fine, I'll do it.
Its necessary
Someone had to.
About to be the first one black listed by Magpul
His left hand is obviously limp wristing the handguard. I got over 69420 rounds on my Magpul/Adam arms piston dissy with no issues. I shoot NRA backed IDPA matches so I know what I'm talking about.
@@roancowart2591 😭
A tribute to a catalog gun. Hop is pretty deep in the muck here.
Magpul's catalog guns still somehow better than H&K's (no, I'll never forget the ad spread they ran with bullets loaded into magazines backwards)
You could recreate some builds from customer reviews of Amazon gun accessory listings. You will get STD's, but that'd be great content.
Or the PSA review gallery.
They deserve their own gallery
"I bought 5 to put around the house!"
I second this 👍🏻
@@AK47Uprisingwhenever I’m super bored and have some free time I go through PSA reviews and save the best(worst) ones I find. My folder is up to 20 or so at this point. One of my favorites is Some guy showing off his two almost completely identical garbage red anodized pistol builds with some Amazon optics. Amazing to me someone would do it twice
Building guns based off manufacturers parts website is a level of tism for the die hard seppuku enjoyers. You are seen and heard but it is still mind blowing
Certified Magpul Dynamics moment
Magpul has some tism in their builds for sure. But it takes a little tism to have personality.
If someone doesn’t have tism in their builds I don’t want to talk to them 🙅♂️
The tism is called "R&D"
@@TerranPlanetaryDefenseForce
Ol Rob and Duke back at it with their mathamagics.
"no one has launched a rifle grenade since the Korean War"
I think the French might maybe possibly disagree with you
They don't count. They aren't even people.
@@HoplopfheilGood point, they're just B.O clouds with the skin of humans
@@Hoplopfheil my grandfather is French.... It's true..
If the French are doing it...then you know it's wrong and outdated.
What are the French? Aren't they all being replaced by North Africans?
I'm fully supportive of "Pissipator" being in the Lexicon.
it's M4-FAL larp and i'm here for it
When you put 'trash' on those stale, but morale boosting peanut M&Ms I almost rage quit. Then you labeled the mini tabasco as 'priceless'.
My man.
I ate the whole bag after filming and then I felt slightly unwell.
@@Hoplopfheil They were fighting back.
@@Hoplopfheilwhat doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
@@Hoplopfheil I know right now, you can't tell
None of the mil MREs I got recently had the tabasco anymore wtf
I'm still waiting for you and James to do a competition where you both start with a basic PSA AR (typical mid-length or carbine set up) and then build each other the worst gun possible from actual real firearms components (no airsoft stuff). Then run a shooting competition using the awful guns produced by the other presenter.
I'm talking the worst stock, worst pistol grip (think: skeletonized red aluminum, etc.) , worst trigger (heaviest, grittiest you can find), worst charging handle, worst and heaviest optic mounts, terrible irons, obnoxious muzzle brakes, insulting furniture, painful vertical foregrips, childish slings and the cheapest questionable AR magazines you can find...
Then, of course, auction them off for charity or something afterwards. But show up, sight-unseen and then swap guns. Let's do it.
This sounds brilliant
Sounds like a good tfbtv challenge
PEN-15 Redux
@james-reeves make this happen please
Someone needs to make a trumpet style muzzle device for this challenge
If “gimme all you got!” Was a HEAT reference, you truly are the goat!!!!
Repeating the line even louder the second time, definitely a Heat ref
Don’t waste my MOTHERFUCKING TIME!
exceptional socko segment on this one
Seeing how light that barrel is, probably a Voodoo 17" given Adams was a sister company? I recall they had the only lightweight dissy barrel for a while before I found Spinta. The magpul/not really Magpul clone I'd want to do is the airsoft G&P WOC V.P.R., that thing looks so neat and... "period correct".
“Shitty gun. I’m hungry.”
-cat
This kind if highly specific content is unlocking a repressed part of my brain and I hate that. I was hoping I was the only person tortured by this level of trainspotting.
I think this is way more common than people are letting on in this comment section. I think a ton of people build catalogue-clone guns or simply clone other reddit/instagram pictures, etc. Sometimes you just "see" something and you want to try it.
This is weirdly timed for when I just started updating my old Adams Arms ar as much as I can manage
Somehow, I was super-intrigued about the functionality of a model catalog gun. Like, fast-food menu preview pics, I did not expect anything to look like what they promised, let alone work. But, I'll be damned, it cycled more than once.
As someone that has an adams arms piston kit on a rifle, I can say that those first gen style gas blocks are under gassed. The newer style that doesnt come out the front that easily (and by that I mean I accidentally jettisoned the gas key out of the front due to it being in-between two settings, had to get a new one). The newer style will more reliably cycle higher pressured rounds.
3:16 Skittles.... Shows us Peanut M&Ms 😂
And then calls them trash...
@@briantindle7115 calling the spoon trash was painful for me
@@yoyopo2 right to the heart man....
I rushed to the comments to see if anyone else noticed the obvious mistake
My Adams piston had the same issue. After the 4th range trip, I finally decided to lube up the bcg and it ended up cycling just fine.
"B tier guntuber runs AR dry, blames operating mechanism"
@@CallMeSquale B TIER?!? I though TFBTV itself was at that level...🤣
This is the kind of gun autism I'm here for.
GAU-tism?
@@oskar6661 More like AUGtism.
This is the rabbit hole I never expected
I have that Adams Arms piston conversion on a midlength 16 inch Centurian Arms barrel. It has been flawlessly reliable over the many years I have had it. I didn't realize Adams Arms had gone out of business. I haven't used the upper in a while because I found I preferred the PWS long-stroke piston setup.
I love your obsession with dissys and will be borrowing from your parts list. Keep em coming!
@@seanschaffer9484 north Hollywood shootout had one work in full auto with a beta mag. Absolute Chad build.
Dissys are the best setup as soon as one accepts that carrying a bayonet isnt as smart as just carrying another magazine for the same weight.
I've got an Adam's Arms carbine piston system for my IAR replica. I call it the L-IAR or just Liar. But mine has been working pretty well. I've not yet put 1000 rounds through it, but so far, so good.
Side quest rant: Dudes will spend a lot of time prepping for the end of society, learning bushcraft skills, stocking up on MREs, bug out bags, bunkers, ect. Take the time and learn to cook! It's not that hard and you won't be eating cold ravioli out of the can for the end of days.
Sure, but that's not really the point of MRE's etc. MRE's are specifically for when you don't have time or access to cook (you often don't want to produce a heat signature or a smoke signal while cooking, nor do you want to leave visible evidence you were somewhere (firepit, etc.). While I'm not particularly accomplished...I enjoy cooking, but that doesn't translate to sitting in a muddy hole, ripping open a bag of pre-processed chow that I can scarf down in the dark, etc.
Now, I do agree that if you have time/convenience to cook...some dudes are really good at making an MRE into something better with a bit of seasoning and work...but that'd a bit of a luxury in most cases.
Cold ravioli out of the can is my comfort food though.
@@novembermike512 It's awesome. I will not let us be bullied on this
chef boyardee
Cooking is easy, even 80 iq people with starvation levels of food figure it out. Everyone already knows how to cook.
Came for the weird gun, stayed for the cat.
I learn more from your misadventures than just about anything else. A+ “Heat” reference!
3:32 Oh my god, he called the MRE spoon trash! D:
You know that's not actually an eating utensil, right? Its an improvised weapon in every package, fit for an Army Ranger to take out Taliban in CQC....
I keep my MRE spoons in my repacked meals.
Usually, I learn something from watching Hop videos. I'm left scratching my head on this one
Something about the first round popping an AR dust cover open is just satisfying to look at
1:33 Think that might be one of those old long stroke PWS uppers.
First time ever coming across your channel, feels like home. Obscure references, even more obscure weapon builds and i am ALL for it 🤝
Welcome homie. Glad you’re here.
Hey Hop, speaking of Red Right Hand's "Recce LMG", have you see Klein Machining's RPK style 24" bull barrel uppers? He mills the barrel for a bipod, and while it may not be the most strictly useful thing I own, it stacks cyclic 5.56 like nothing else, I love it.
The deadliest part of that gun was Socko’s murder mittens.
I got stun locked by that LAW folder MP5 for close to a solid minute. What the hell, Magpul.
How long did Hop have to not shave to get this Blood Diamond Chic going on...
7:00 How dare you 😂
Caught
@@Hoplopfheil 🙈
C'mon...we all know it was just leftover chocolate from the MRE on his chin.
hey, there were some pretty flowers in the background of some of the shots, I think that's something we can all appreciate
The beauty of AR platforms. Modular. Fixible..
Cat ending is priceless.
The original P-series was the pinnacle of Adams Arms. Reliable, cerro forged receivers, decent handguard, and low profile adjustable gas block. The piston AR craze was just over by then.
Pretty surprising to see Adams Arms go out - since they were pretty early to the piston game.
@@oskar6661luck to have gotten one in May, unfortunate enough to get it befpre the closeout sale
Damn this is a weird way to give us Marathon lore drops but ok, I'm game.
Sometimes you gotta come at 'em sideways
It's always nice to see oneself represented in media. I'm looking forward to the hop .380 episode about the glock 42 and the new bodyguard
Magpul does what Magpul wants. And I’m here for it.
hey hey hey
i love my SR556C, it's unironically my favorite AR other than the fact that it's heavy as hell
And you have the lightweight version...
@@Hoplopfheil true, as we all know 1.5 inches makes all the difference. at least it having the permanent a2 flash hider has prevented me from putting a can on it without paying someone to fix that for me.
The rifle length MOE handguard has a certain aesthetic to it that's very appealing to me, didn't prevent me from going back to a free-float mwi handguard after a year or so
RIP Adam's arms
That adams arms dissy goes HARD. My first ar was an adams arms carbine. I sold it to a co worker years ago, since i had moved on to bigger and better things. It always ran well, was very accurate, and had over 2000 rounds on it at the time. Been contemplating getting the superlative arms piston kit for a while now. Piston ARs are still cool, just not to everybody i guess.
that buffer tube mp5 is nightmare fuel
I come here just for the cat videos at the end. The hilarious deconstruction of how we all were in the tacticool culture 15-20 years ago is just a bonus.
I have an adams arms piston AR for pass 7, 10 years been shooting it for a while many thousand of rounds never had a one problem. Alway shot well. It is a little different from one shown in the video. Good luck to everyone. God bless us all.
Well yeah, it's probably not a dissipator lol
If you really want it to work, you can bore out the gas port on the barrel just slightly.. or, if you put enough rounds through it, the port will erode and open up for you. Might take awhile
More like pisston amirite
Why are all these manly gun guys tryna get pissed on
@@Hoplopfheil Cuz it's hot???
@@Hoplopfheil I have an 11.5 I “piston,” used an Osprey Defense, they died like Adams only way faster. Then it rose from the grave for a minute and became ARK Defense, but they died too.
Anyway, yeah … it’s also a single shot without a can. 😂 🤣
So… you’re hitting about par according to my scorecard.
"He did what in his cup?" - Mater
I HATE piston guns fr fr
I live vicariously through your tism, its a deep dive no one asked for, but i am glad you did it
Law folder on an mp5 is quite tragic
Intern: Should we put a folding stock on that MP5?
_No, put an AR tube on it_
Intern: Makes sense, we sell AR stocks.
_Then make it fold...using an adapter specifically for the AR15_
Intern: Why....why do you torture me like this?
This is literally the exact high tism guntent I come to youtube for thanks very much Hop
Hop is the only person that would clone correct a rifle magpul uses as a demo gun on a page in the 7th layer of hell (magpuls website) and make a full video about it
Back in 2014ish, I bought an Adams Arms CORE upper. It was a pencil weight 16.5in barrel with a rifle length gas system. It took a lot of work and a few years to get it to run reliably without a suppressor. With a suppressor the barrel was so weak that it would noticeably bounce after every shot. Eventually I swapped to an 18in barrel and now it runs great, but is also too heavy and still it great with accuracy.
It also came with a Samson handguard that used their own proprietary mounting system. The handguard was cut to go around the obnoxiously large gas block so the gas block had to be removed to get the handguard off. They were also ambitious putting a pic rail on the top of the gas block, I definitely melted an mbus front sight just to see if it would.
I still have the rifle because I can’t in good faith give that burden to someone else.
This makes cloning guns from video games look good.
What is next for this build? Get it to run, or just scrap it and move on?
Going to do it proper style with an 18" barrel probably (or build the carbine length version of the AA piston I planned originally)
Having to build demo guns for work, the one thing I do have to do is make sure they work before I worry about whether or not they look good. That does look good, but if it don't work... You did answer the most important question about whether it shoots well or not.
So what happens is a company will contract their website and seo out to a third party or hire in house web devs and the devs will constantly rebuild the site so they can justify their pay check. Many company's have had what I call the golden site. A perfect website but then their devs make another crappier one just so they can collect their check.
FWIW I've had some luck getting those Adams Arms piston conversions to run better by removing the bolt return spring.
That is a cool looking rifle! Thats my choice for a prop for a 90s scifi tv series
Combine that with some old stash of Starship Troopers kit and you're golden.
Probably the best of the Canadian AR-180 variants has a full length, multi-piece rifle length piston, the Sterling R18. The carbine length pistons on the other variants have been known to snap at a few hundred rounds.
When I see a video of Hop in the morning I see people that look like him in the afternoon.
I've been waiting for this video for so long. Ever since I saw your comment on FocusTripp's video about dissipators. I too have a similar disease as you
Pretty interesting build. Sucks that it doesn’t work, but even if it did I don’t think it would really be very cool for any other reason than the aesthetic.
Tabasco sauce being the priceless part of a MRE is straight facts. The only thing that makes some of those entrees bearable.
Did you know you can 3D print a bunch of Magpul-like attachments like panels and QD mounts?
I do know that, as well as all other facts.
@@Hoplopfheil Ahhh, that's the good stuff. 😝
Kinda like the "kitchen sink" ARs in the Brownells catalogue. Always wondered if they were in working order. Oh and kitty needs a claw trimming soon.
RIP Adams Arms.
Not gone soon enough
Oof
I have two with over 1k rds never had a problem. weigh the same as my di guns.
@@TheCamaro5 Same. Only maintenance I ever had to do was ensure the gas plug didn't carbon lock, and soak the piston cup with hoppe's every once in a long while. Let the AA hate flow - they have been dead reliable for me, have spent way less time maintaining them, and they weighed nearly the same (perhaps an ounce or two more) as most standard AR15 factory guns.
Blew out the guid rod spring on mine, round count under 1k, took them months to send me another one, sold it off after repair.
@@TheCamaro5 Yeah man and my buddy has a 200k mile Kia Soul that's never given him problems.
Good for him, but I'm still not buying a Kia Soul
Long haired hop makes me feel things I don’t normally feel
2:30 Brass Backs Mountain moment 💕
Subscribed cause of the ending. Thanks for featuring the murder mittens on your kitty cat
Therapist: Scruffy Hop isn’t real he can’t hurt you.
Scruffy Hop:
finally someone builds one. ive been wanting to see a review of one for about a decade now. my understanding is that criterions 16" rifles barrels would run the piston but that series has been out of stock since 2019.
Bro shot the mre ad at the Steve1989 set
The Magpul MOE Mlock rifle length handguard really is the best handguard, especially on a 16" (or slightly shorter) barrel.
You have made Al Pachino proud.
I've got a Ruger SR556 that my dad bought back in the day. It works alright enough. Didn't know a gun could be that nose heavy.
That weird upper on the second gun shown is a very old PWS upper
Always enjoy videos like these!
Hop really aging like a fine White Monster Ultra Zero
These are the best kind of hop videos
I am going to add a super "don't know if ever been done" vertical grip to my Ruger 10/22 backer magpul stock. Can't find anything/one on the web who have done it.
I'm pretty sure the receiver for this ( 1:29 ) is an American Spirit Arms ASA-15 Side charger receiver.
The charging handle & forward assist areas look the same between the one on the magpul website & what images I can find online.
Hey nice sleuthing! The handguard is from an old PWS Mk1 but I never saw that receiver on any PWS gun.
@Hoplopfheil would make sense. That rifle was basically someone personal build at that point.
5:40 Korean war is the safe answer. Wouldn't be surprised if rifle grenades were used by the French over in French Indochina or during Rhodesia
They used them in Mali a few years ago. Still popping off rifle grenades from the FAMAS, which is pretty nuts.
I respect your commitment to making guns that suck that you hate
I like how the rifle looks. Not sure about the bolt action feature.
I hope this Magpul journey leads to you eventually getting to shoot an original Masada/ACR prototype. There's supposedly 7 of them floating around somewhere.
Yea, Magpul pretty much is THE accessory company.
Magpul really thought Hop wouldn't notice.
On that magpul wayback machine
I would probably do this with an 18" rifle gas setup personally, and that might fix the issue? The Superlative Arms setup also has way more adjustability, though that doesn't matter as much if wide open still isn't enough gas. It looks great with OD magpul furniture though 😅😅.
Good kitty.
Well, it sure as hell *looks* cool at least. All-OD-green linear straight line, just looks cool in my head. Also I appreciate you featuring the cat at the end, gave me the warm-fuzzies