Today I installed my handguard. I chose the Midwest Industries M-Series M-Lok Two Piece Drop-In Carbine Length. It came with a short polymer Magpul M-Lok rail. Not sure if I’ll use that. I really like my handguard a lot! It locked up extremely tight. I chose the drop in simply because I’m new to ARs and didn’t want to fool with changing out the gas block for this rifle.

Here’s what it looked like before.



My stock clam shell handguard does have heat shields.



And here’s after the install.