Ep. 256 | DI vs. Piston-Driven AR’s – What’s Better?

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🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

You might operate with your AR, but how does your AR operate? In this more than interesting podcast, we sit down with Tom Stewart from American Defense Manufacturing as he breaks down direct impingement and piston-driven systems, their differences and the pros and cons of each.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vortex Exonation Podcast brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting,
0:08.7	public lands, the Second Amendment, and good food.
0:18.0	All right, what is up everybody?
0:19.3	I have Jim to my right, and across from us we have Mr. Tom Stewart from ADM, American
0:25.7	Defense Manufacturing.
0:28.3	Today we're going to talk about AR-15s, but specifically they're operating systems.
0:34.1	So we have two different main types.
0:38.2	We've got direct impingement, right, or often referred to as DI and piston.
0:45.3	And Tom is going to help us kind of talk about the two systems and their intricacies,
0:51.6	how they operate, differences, things like that.
0:54.2	Before we dive into the meat of this podcast, Tom, if you can, introduce yourself a little
0:59.8	bit more, talk about a little bit of your history in the industry as it relates to the products
1:05.6	that are some of the things that we have here before us, as well as, yeah, just about
1:10.0	you and ADM.
1:11.0	Yeah, thanks for having me on.
1:13.4	My name is Tom Stewart.
1:14.4	I currently work with American Defense Manufacturing.
1:17.3	So I have kind of a convoluted trail getting into the firearms industry that was not my intent
1:21.4	or ever a goal of mine, kind of ended up there.
1:24.9	As far as my involvement with guns, I kind of started as a young age, just like in Rebeil's
1:30.3	hunting, shooting for fun, kind of transitioned into work involvement with the firearms,
1:36.3	first with military and then law enforcement.
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