Anyone have or have had any experience with the Bravo company charging handle with oversized locking lever..looks like a nice upgrade

They are very well made and a nice upgrade if you have a scoped AR. If you're using a red dot or irons, it offers no real advantage.

They are very well made and a nice upgrade if you have a scoped AR. If you're using a red dot or irons, it offers no real advantage.

 

Its supposed to be thicker, and better made to withstand repeated one hand pulling of the charging handle. Personally I have never bent a standard charging handle but after repeated uses I've heard a lot of people say theirs are fubar.

 

As for the extended release, freejersey is right, only really necessary if you have trouble getting to the handle because of a scope or such.

 

Btw I have a mod4 and I'm very happy with it

Have a couple, one is the "medium" latch, I forget what size the other is.

 

As mentioned by freejersey, they're great if you have optics obstructing the area around the charging handle, they're also great if you primarily operate the charging handle with the palm of your support hand.

 

Not so good if you prefer the traditional "half your fingers on either side of the handle" grip, as mine will frequently pinch the skin and give me a blood blister if I operate them that way.

 

 

Not so good if you prefer the traditional "half your fingers on either side of the handle" grip, as mine will frequently pinch the skin and give me a blood blister if I operate them that way.

 

Interesting, I've never encountered that. I'm assuming it happens on the latch side?

Interesting, I've never encountered that. I'm assuming it happens on the latch side?

 

Yes. It's probably anatomy specific, but my finger flesh just happens to flow into the gap between the latch and handle body.

Yes. It's probably anatomy specific, but my finger flesh just happens to flow into the gap between the latch and handle body.

 

I just tried mine and I don't think I could replicate that because my MBUS is kind of in the way. I'll have to look out for that though.

I have one and love it!

Just got the large latch one to accommodate my acog mount. I thought I could get by with the medium but had to go back for the large.

I have one with the large latch and love it. I have big hands and it's very comfortabe for me and it's very well made.

Alternately you could just get a different latch for your CH. I have a Badger Gen 2 Tac Latch on mine.

 

Not so good if you prefer the traditional "half your fingers on either side of the handle" grip, as mine will frequently pinch the skin and give me a blood blister if I operate them that way.

 

I forgot about that. I had the same problem with mine (medium). I sold my scoped AR a couple years ago and haven't used a BCM since. The Badger is another good option, as mentioned.

 

 

Interesting, I've never encountered that. I'm assuming it happens on the latch side?

 

Never had that happen with mine either...

I thought the badger was a standard CH with a big latch. But no difference to the handle itself.

I thought the badger was a standard CH with a big latch. But no difference to the handle itself.

 

Badger is just the latch itself. BCM is just a reinforced CH with a proprietary latch.

 

 

Badger is just the latch itself. BCM is just a reinforced CH with a proprietary latch.

 

Right. Mil spec handle. I wish BCM had a larch like that.

I generally use my supports side hand to charge my ar and the BCM makes this much easier.

Alternately you could just get a different latch for your CH. I have a Badger Gen 2 Tac Latch on mine.

 

The big square badger add on latches aren't really strong enough. You can bend them trying to clear jams.

Love my mod4 latch. Much easier for a support hand rip on CH. I'm not gentle and it really gives you much more area to grab when trying to rip it fast

 

 

The big square badger add on latches aren't really strong enough. You can bend them trying to clear jams.

 

That's the knock on them. If BCM made them is be more apt to get them

I have the large version on my AR's. Night and day difference between the BCM CH and the original type of CH. The pivot geometry on the BCM CH is more durable and less likely to fail - that's the big attraction, not just the size of the lever.

I also have the medium latch and love it. My alphabet agency brother in law uses it on his work gun as well.

I have the smaller one and it's almost identical to my factory one. Yes it's made a little better but I'd go with atleast a medium. The guy selling em at a gun show was nice enough to tell me the small one was bigger then factory.