Bushmaster O.R.C. question

[Deleted member 12999]

I have looked all over the web and found conflicting answers. Has anyone here installed a free floating handguard on a ORC, and did you have to replace the gas block with a low profile? It comes with some kind of chopped down block, but no idea if I can float over it. Thanks!

 

[terraformer]

Is it one of the ORC sights with a sling mount on it? There are different ORC gas blocks, so saying which one it is will be helpful. Ultimately I doubt a free float handguard that extends over the gas block (they normally do) will fit over the typical M4gery gas block.

 

[Deleted member 12999]

Is it one of the ORC sights with a sling mount on it? There are different ORC gas blocks, so saying which one it is will be helpful. Ultimately I doubt a free float handguard that extends over the gas block (they normally do) will fit over the typical M4gery gas block.

M4gery. LOL. I had to look that up, since I am kind of new to this. Anyways, I did a little more digging, and it looks like I may have to swap it out if I want to extend handguard. I am on a budget, but still trying to go middle of the road quality, so I am looking at a YHM ff handguard. I may just go with the carbine length instead of trying to extend it out, that will eliminate having to put a low profile block on.

It seems like BM put a rediculous gas block on it that you can't do shit with, and then contracted with YHM to make a flip up front sight that mounts over said block. To install front flip ups, I either had to:
1. Pony up $100 to buy that sight (but then I would still have to replace handguard anyhow for vfg)
2. Replace the gas block with a railed gas block
3. Replace the handguard, but articles I read say not to mount sights on anything other than ff barrel because the sights might not hold zero?

Am I on the right track here, or reading too much into this?

 

[terraformer]

If I understand what you are trying accomplish (which I may not), I think the issue here is why put a free float on a carbine with BUIS (iron sights). Most people who do free float have 20" target bull barrels, quality glass and no iron sights. If you have a carbine length barrel and don't like the stock handguards, I would get the YHM BUIS sights (which are good) and a new handguard (yhm makes an inexpensive, but high quality, set of carbine handguards), and optionally invest in a 4x red dot optic if you want some accuracy at moderate distances (<200 yards).

Trying to turn a bushmaster m4rgery into a target gun piecemeal is likely to cost about as much as getting a whole new upper specifically for target shooting. Uppers are so easy to replace you could go from one to another in seconds and have an all new gun (carbine and target with the same lower). You may want to think about doing something like that.

John @ remsport could probably put together a quality target upper for about $500-600 (although check with him on the costs).

 

[Deleted member 12999]

Clarified and answered by Terraformer via PM. Thanks!