chuck071 said:
Built like a Brick $hithouse
I'll go up against
any door (and probably more than a few they won't) with my Sully stock.
They mean 'entry' to represent a LOP range and as 'entering' an already breached house/room/enclosure, not 'entry' as in beat the door down and still conduct all expected operations time after time.
Subtleties of word massage
Aaaanyway,
The short ACE has a LOP of roughly 12 1/2" with the standard stock plate w/no pad
If you are taller than around 5' 8"~10" AND like to steeply blade yourself to shoot you're likely not going to like it.
If you don't blade (an entry person should already know to 'present the plate') its decent for pretty much anyone unless a dwarf and wearing a heavy coat and real body armor, in which case i'll feel long.
IOW its most productive when pointed straight out forward from the body with shoulders mostly if not completely square rather than across the body.
Weight wise its kinda worthless for balancing out guns that have more than a pretty minimalist front end.
Decent with a conventional handguards and standard profile bbl, fugly with quad rail, VFG, flashlight and a bottle opener.
Though 'balance' can be very subjective so YMMV
'Mortaring' the rifle is not a test of/for proofing a stock. You can do it without a stock even being present...
Granted if a stock is well and truly an absolute hunk of **** that was probably half broken before it was installed it may fail with mortaring, but in normal circumstance its not even a factor.
All mortaring does is let you know the the receiver extension and the lower receiver are up to expected performance levels for an aluminum tube screwed into an aluminum forging and that the small area of contact in the butt plate where the mounting screw passes through is suitably strong enough. (on a standard stock is 1/16" thick bit of stamped sheet steel molded into the plastic buttpad, so we aren't talking massive requirements to begin with)
Everything else is just fluff along for the ride and mean no more to the process than what front sling mount you have would.
Buttstroking or forces using the side or toe of the stock is a test of stock strength, and I would not even consider trying it with an ACE of any length.
Nor would I want it to get caught in a closing door. (not even the closet door in a prefab let alone a truck door)
However it does make life easier if you plan on doing a lot of toting around.
If you end up with entry length, take into consideration tha that brand and type will likely be the
only stock that will work with the custom receiver extension. You're not going to be able to just swap to something else without alse obtaining/having on hand a rifle (with buffer and spring) or a carbine receiver extension too. This isn't a M4 to Magpul to VLTOR kind of thing where you just slip X stock of choice onto a common extension.
Strictly my take on it and in no way implies condecention nor favor for the ACE stock system.
All I offer is that its strengths and weaknesses should be very carefully considered dependant upon how/why/where the system potentially will/may be employed.
If its going to be a light duty, hunter, or plinker you'll likely enjoy it and have no issues, but if its for a duty, SHTF or your life depends on it for way more than 10 minutes a week, then you may want to look elsewhere. .
