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Originally Posted by Colin_S
Thanks guys for your replies, it defintiely sheds a lot of light onto the situation! 
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Originally Posted by Goldman
the G&G Handgaurd is made to fit TM style locking rings. On the TM, its simply a slip rign, hence the lip on the M500. G&P and G&G have chosen to take a similar route the the real steel mounting of grips in an attempt to cure "grip roll", whihc really is just the twisting side to side of TM handgaruds. As such only handgaurds that are made for G&G or G&P will work.
As far as I know G&P has not released a G&P Friendly M500 set.
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That makes a lot of sense and it looks like if I want to get the G&P M500A working on my G&P M4A1, I'll need to do a bit of modification... Goldman perhaps you'd might know, if I were to abandon this and go for a RIS or RAS, woudl a conventional RIS kit for a TM gun work with mine or should I have to go with an authentic RIS for my gun since G&P mimics the real thing? Sounds to me like the latter but I'd love to get expert opinions.  |
The G&P M500 was built and marketed before G&P started to build complete AEGs, and give that the majority of AEG builders still use TM's design, well you can't blame them for not looking forward.
You should be able to still use your M500 if you got a TM slip ring, though I'm not sure if the TM slip ring is 100% compatable with the G&P (ie: you coulnd't use your gas tube anymore). That should allow you to use your M500, or get the TM slip ring, then mount a standard RAS on it.
You might also want to consider the G&P CQBR kit that SD-Unit sells. Its a pretty good price, and is a complete front end. It gives you a freefloat RAS, CQBR outer barrel, flash hider, front sight, new slip ring that is more secure than the TM style, and is all compatible.