I currently live in a rail-free house. Not by choice, just so happens that all my guns just don’t have rails. That being said my next rifle will have a railed forend, and these magpul grips are the bee’s knees to me!
I call them “Pie Wedges”, just because I think its a better name, and who doesn’t like pie?
I don’t much care for vertical foregrips, as they feel unnatural to me, and they add a good deal to the overall profile of the rifle. These grips give you a firmer hold than just grabbing the forearm of the rifle, but don’t add much to the profile of the gun. They’re neat!
I put a Magpul AFG2 on the Ruger SR-556 and have been very happy with it compared to various vertical fore-grips I’ve tried…
Dann in Ohio
I have those NSR rails on two Noveske 300 BLK uppers I bought. I haven’t put anything on them so far except for the sights. They’re pricey, but they are relatively light compared to some other rails out there. But if you know you’re going to put the Magpul AFG on, you might want to go for the Magpul handguards, which are a lot cheaper, very comfortable (IMHO. I have them on a Colt 6920), as light as the NSR, and easier to put the Magpul rail pieces onto. You can make the NSR work like Falia did, but I hate fiddling around with little screws.
This inspired me to put the AFG1 back on my 6.8.
I go through phases with the thing. Sometimes it’s the best, sometimes I want to burn it.
Magpul’s AFG (especially the AFG2) is great. However, I do think it is probably best used on a free float rail system, unless you have a heavy profile (including a fat fluted barrel) barrel behind the gas block. (BTW, this applies even harder to VFGs.)
It’s way too easy to crank on an off-bore-axis grip (including a sling) hard enough to throw your POA/POI off, although you may not notice at home defence ranges, especially fired at 3-gun speeds.
What I really like about the AFG2 is that it’s not only a positive, perfectly repeatable, hold position way up front, but the my thumb naturally ends up in the perfect spot to work my Streamlight TLR2S.
One experiment I’d like to run would be on a gun with a TDC primary sight and offset angled backup/CQB sights — mount the AFG exactly 180 degrees opposite the offset sights. ESPECIALLY if your offset sights are at 1 o’clock (but should be do-able even if they are a full 45 degree offset), the AFG would still be nicely lined up for use of the primary sight, and would be exactly below the bore when canted to use the offsets.
Think about it — since the offset sights are usually the close range sights on a gun with a magnified primary, the position you’ll be using the offset sights is the one where the AFG is supposed to REALLY shine (driving the gun from target to target). As it is, if you roll a gun with a 6 o’clock AFG so you can use the offset sights, the grip is now canted awkwardly on the far side of the gun from the forward hand. . . in effect, the gun is laying on the inside of your weak hand wrist (where the detectable pulse is close to the surface) and you have less than a full grip on the AFG in exactly the regime the AFG was designed to excel! (However, to keep the AFG as close to the boreline as possible, you’d need to do this with a FF system that allows positions other than the four cardinal orientations without requiring an angled riser to be added.)