A2 carry handle

[Guest 153blue]

i purchased a complete 6.8 upper for my AR today. unfortunately i bought an A2 with the fixed carry handle. i wasn't thinking about it when i bought it (there was too much going on around me). but on the way home i thought about the eotech sight i had been waiting to put on something for the longest and realized that i should have bought the flat top. i purchased the upper at the nashville FG today. i am going to go back up there tomorrow and talk to the seller and ask if they could do a swap with me for a flat top. has anyone "chopped off" their carry handle and added a weaver rail? i've seen some pics of some A2 carry handles chopped on the internet, leaving the BUIS, but they also have a weaver/ picatinny rail?

[Guest bkelm18]

There are mounts that allow you to attach optics to the top of the carry handle. Never tried one, but they seem like they would put the optic a little too high. But it might be worth looking into.

[Guest GUTTERbOY]

I've seen a guy shooting an AR with an optic on top of the carry handle. Looked awkward to me.

I'm pretty sure you can have a fixed-handle upper modified into a flattop, but I have no clue how much it might cost you. Hopefully you'll be able to pull off the swap with the seller...

[Guest 153blue]

seen a couple optic mounts for the carry handle and they do look high, not to mention untacti-cool.

[Guest 153blue]

search "How-to Chop your Carry Handle into a BUIS" in google. are those A2's with with fixed handle and sights or A3 with the removable carry handle/rearsight?

[Reservoir Dog]

search "How-to Chop your Carry Handle into a BUIS" in google. are those A2's with with fixed handle and sights or A3 with the removable carry handle/rearsight?

Those are A3's with the removable carry handle chopped down to make a LMT-style rear BUIS.

[BimmerFreak]

We would be happy to convert your A2 upper to an A3 upper.

[Guest abailey362]

joe to the rescue once again

I have a xm-15 with A2 with an optic on it. It does kinda look untacticool and is a bitch to zero, but it can be done as long as your optic has A LOT of adjustment to it. The biggest problem is finding a case that it sits in right

[Guest 153blue]

how much for the conversion?

[BimmerFreak]

PM sent

[Guest Glknknox]

Your eotech can be mounted down farther on the forend grip.

Might look kind of odd down there, but some tactical courses often recomend it down there.

I thought it was stange at first, but tried out a buddies AR that was rigged that way in it made since.

[Guest 70below]

I used to have an A1 carry handle with a short 4x scope mounted on it, it was a bit top heavy, but it zero'd right in for me and shot great. Yeah, I wouldn't even consider chopping down a A2.....just spend the $80 or $90 bucks to buy an A3 upper and swap it out.......then you can sell the A2 and recoup some of the cost or save it for a rainy day when you bust that EOTech

[Guest 153blue]

i'll probably just buy the a3 upper and swap it out.