308Scout wrote:Marlene wrote:if you can't hang on to a rifle without having the thumb of your trigger hand wrapped around something, you have no business touching guns. If you think an AR15 type rifle is difficult to control, you need to get someone to tech you to shoot a gun.
my post's first draft read similar in thought ...
Ok a couple quick points on this;
1. They make AR platform rifles in big bores too, I have them in .308 and 12 gauge. I don't have any trouble controlling them with a normal pistol grip, however I have watched a novice shooter try to mag dump the 12gauge and it definitely got away from him. Not to the point of dropping the rifle or discharging in an unsafe direction, but it looked like that would have been the logical conclusion if the mag had a few more rounds in it. From that, the idea of anything compromising the grip seems to me to be a potential safety concern.
2. I have the utmost confidence in anyone reading this threads ability to control their weapon. I started this post because I had never seen this fin/batwing before, it looks absurd, and it looks like in the hands of somebody who doesn't know what their doing, that it could be a safety concern. That's it.
Oh and I don't know about trying to run a pistol grip without wrapping my thumb around it because I've never had to try.
I appreciate the responses, now I can sleep well at night knowing it's not a problem. At least in terms of safety. It is still aesthetically disturbing. When I first saw it I thought the fin came out of the center of the back of the grip, not the side, which is why I thought it was just there waiting for someone to dremel it off. The Thordsen mentioned earlier or the thumbhole style workarounds look a lot better to my eyes.
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