Novekse uppers in full form
Recently we attended the Contagion 2012 here in Pennsylvania at the new New Holland Rifle and Pistol club. This was I believe the 5th year of the Contagion event and the 5th one we were sponsors at. The beauty of events like this is its basically a please touch gun show. You can ask shooters about the guns and gear they are towing around and and watch it in action. So many times we watch people show up for the first time and have gear fail on them. 98% of the times we saw operator induced malfunctions but some times we saw optics fail. There are guys with NCStar optics going up against Trijicon and Aimpoint optics and there has been a difference in performance. There is a difference between plinking and hard use optics.
There has to be something said about mounting optics properly and using loctite on your optics so they don’t come loose. The other thing we noticed is the guys that shot the most accurately at medium and longer ranges were using higher end AR15s or fitted with Noveske uppers who were also sponsors for the event. The way that bolt carrier improvements have occurred so many firearms have become more reliable and have less use for high amounts of lubrication. We’ve seen direct impingement AR15s perform as well as the LWRC M6A2 guns that were fielded that day basically because the guns, all guns have gotten better.