So, a question for those who may have tried this. My AR-10 currently has an AGB. I forget the brand. It is set down around minimum. No functional issues suppressed or unsuppressed. Suppressed it could certainly go a couple of clicks down, but I don't bother messing with it because it is a set screw time and pretty much impossible to get to the set screw with the handguard on. I have an Aero precision AGB sitting in a box for the last year. At some point I'd like to install it on my AR-10. I'd also like to install them on my other ARs for softer suppressed shooting and less port pop. I could do the same, just turn it all the way down till it doesn't lock back, open it up a couple more and I'd imagine it'll run fun suppressed or unsuppressed. But of course, it could still do better being closed up a little suppressed.
None of the AGBs, Aero or otherwise, to the best of my knowledge, have a way of setting fixed positions. So it isn't like you can have an upper and lower range set for suppressed or unsuppressed. You just have to count the clicks. Which, IMHO, I personally worry over. I get there is tactile as well as audible feedback.
All of my ARs the gas block is right about the end of the handguard (for instance, I run a 12" handguard on my 16" barrels, a 13.5" on my 20"). So it is easy to access and easy to see the gas block end. My thought was when adjusted properly to the unsuppressed setting, and once I've had a few range trips to make sure it really is a good setting, mark the gas block and the adjustment screw with a high temperature paint pen so I can also visually confirm when it is at the right setting. I don't think I'd mark anything for the suppressed setting. Just easy to confirm when it is set to unsuppressed and easy to confirm if I turned it the right direction for suppressed shooting, and that I set it back after shooting suppressed.
Thoughts? Anyone do anything like this? Am I probably over thinking this (well, yes of course)?
None of the AGBs, Aero or otherwise, to the best of my knowledge, have a way of setting fixed positions. So it isn't like you can have an upper and lower range set for suppressed or unsuppressed. You just have to count the clicks. Which, IMHO, I personally worry over. I get there is tactile as well as audible feedback.
All of my ARs the gas block is right about the end of the handguard (for instance, I run a 12" handguard on my 16" barrels, a 13.5" on my 20"). So it is easy to access and easy to see the gas block end. My thought was when adjusted properly to the unsuppressed setting, and once I've had a few range trips to make sure it really is a good setting, mark the gas block and the adjustment screw with a high temperature paint pen so I can also visually confirm when it is at the right setting. I don't think I'd mark anything for the suppressed setting. Just easy to confirm when it is set to unsuppressed and easy to confirm if I turned it the right direction for suppressed shooting, and that I set it back after shooting suppressed.
Thoughts? Anyone do anything like this? Am I probably over thinking this (well, yes of course)?