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AR15 in 9mm

spike449
I know, some of you are gonna want to know what I'm smoking, but we have a very active IDPA club that puts on "Tactical" Shoots, some involve carbines. Wondering if some of you have had experience with the 9mm round in this weapon. What are your impressions? Reliable? Accurate? What kind, Colt, Oly, Others?

Am thinking that a flat top w/Red Dot Scope should shoot like a 22 and for punching paper, might just be the ticket.

Thanks, Jon

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Experience comes from bad judgement. Gen. Omar Bradley
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  • gap1916
    The only fault that I know of is that the last round some times fails to chamber in the original LEO models. Most publications I have read gave the AR 9mm thumbs up. I have owned two. The orginal Colt with the blocked mag well and an Olympic arms with the well adaptor. They both worked very well for me and I did not experience the issue spoke of in some gun magazines with the last round not chambering. I still own a 9mm carbine it is just not an AR type.

    Greg
    Former
    USMC
    ANGLICO
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  • vicg1
    Tommy15. There is no other. 100% guaranteed to function for life. None of this "tweaking" required by other setups.


    www.tommy15.com

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  • bobski
    used them all the time. work great. i prefer the 45acp version myself. the 9mm's can sometimes be akward to load since the mag well is a little smaller than the 223, but other than that...they seem to be ok. one must remember that this set up is a pistol round in a rifle. youll never get the performance of a 223 rifle design out of a 9mm set up. they were always liked for the ability to have one type round in all arms per squad. i had many leos try to impress me at police ranges when theyd pull em out, but they all were humbled when i'd pull out the 45acp shorty. (better accuracy)

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  • wm69
    run to www.ar15.com and there is a whole section there on pistol caliber uppers. I'd like to build an oly using a socom mag block so I can use cheap sten mags, but new baby's put all of my projects on hold....
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