Guardian

The POF is piston-operated. I don't believe accuracy is affected by the type of action, either piston and/or impingement. There are many opinions out there about piston vs. impingement...mostly regarding reliability and action cleanliness (or not), but for anything other than full-auto operation, I don't believe most will see any difference. I have noticed that the action stays cleaner w/piston. The adjustable pressure is also a benefit for use of suppressors. Thanks for the feedback!

Mine is a bit more convoluted story. I've been a bench-rest shooter most of my life; as such, I was damn sure that I would not be satisfied with anything that loaded from a magazine. Then one day a friend let me shoot his new .204 Les Baer, and I couldn't believe that an "AR" could deliver sub .5 groups. I ordered mine the next day. After a couple years shooting .2 to .4 groups, I decided to have another built - this time a 6mm wildcat (based on a necked down 6.5 Grendel) w/26" Krieger (yep - you heard that right - 26" barrel on an AR platform). Again I was surprised that a rifle that loaded from a magazine could group as well as the shooter - groups averaging .2. OK, I'm sold and no longer avoid the AR platform, even though I carried them during a 25 yr military career. The next natural progression was a .308; but I didn't want to shell the bucks for another custom upper, so I settled on a factory job after much research. I received the 20" POF last month, and so far I'm not impressed; accuracy is no better than the mass produced crap we were issued by Uncle Sam. I've not yet had a chance to develop my own loads; however, I doubt that I will get near the accuracy of my other rifles - which shot sub .5 MOA w/Fed GM's right out of the box. If I manage to achieve satisfactory performance (.5) after load development, I'll retract my disappointment.

New to this site; came aboard to increase my knowledge and familiarize with all things 308AR, or in my case, 7.62 NATO.