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The forward assist is one of those parts nobody thinks about until they need it, and the stock button is small, slick, and easy to fumble. Strike Industries fixed that with the AR-15 Extended Forward Assist. The L-shaped button gives you a bigger surface to drive with the heel of your hand, and the textured face means your palm stays put even with gloves on or in the rain. It's a small change that makes seating a stubborn bolt feel a lot more confident.
The button is machined from 6061-T6 aluminum with a hard anodized black finish, so you get a real weight savings over a stock steel unit without giving up durability. The pawl, which is the part that grabs the serrations on your bolt carrier, is made from tool steel for solid engagement and a long service life. That combo of a light aluminum button and a hard-working steel pawl is the whole point here: you keep full forward assist function while trimming a little weight off the upper.
This one drops into Mil-Spec AR-15 uppers as well as DPMS-pattern AR-10 receivers, which makes it an easy pick whether you're running a 5.56 carbine or a larger frame build. The profile stays low and narrow, so it won't hang up on a chest rig, sling, or the edge of a bag when you're moving. It also comes in black, FDE, blue, and red if you want to match or contrast the rest of your parts.
Whether you're finishing a fresh build or freshening up a tired factory upper, this is a low-cost upgrade that punches above its size. It looks sharp, it works, and it gives you a button you can find and hit without looking. One quick note worth mentioning: anodizing can vary slightly batch to batch, so shades of a color may not be a perfect match across separate orders.
Yes. It's designed to work with both Mil-Spec AR-15 uppers and DPMS-pattern AR-10 receivers. As long as your upper follows one of those standards, this assembly drops right in.
The big difference is the L-shaped, textured button, which gives you a wider and grippier surface to drive the bolt home. It's easier to hit with the heel of your hand or with gloves on, and the aluminum construction shaves a bit of weight compared to a stock steel unit. The tool steel pawl still handles the actual work of engaging the bolt carrier serrations.
It comes as a complete assembly, so you're not building it from scratch. Installation means driving out the old retaining roll pin, dropping in the new unit with the pawl facing the interior, and driving the pin back in. A roll pin punch and a small mallet make it a quick job, though a bench block helps keep things steady.
It's a your-mileage-may-vary part. Its job is to push the bolt fully into battery when the buffer spring doesn't finish the job, which can happen with a dirty rifle or a slightly out-of-spec round. Plenty of people rarely touch it, but when you need it, having a button you can actually find and hit is worth the small upgrade.
| UPC | 793811764130 |
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| Manufacturer Part Number | SI-AR-E-FA-BK |
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