Shobbles
Shooter
This may be just a theoretical question as I cannot find much about spring tension. Why not reduce the weight of the buffer to be a light as possible and use a heavy spring? That should result in softer recoil, but may shove the carrier too hard forward. The AK and the like don’t have a weight, but they do have alot more moving mass as part of the bolt and piston group.
It just seems like, especially for ultra lightweight builds, adding mass because the carrier is too light is an odd solution when you could just strengthen the spring a bit.
It just seems like, especially for ultra lightweight builds, adding mass because the carrier is too light is an odd solution when you could just strengthen the spring a bit.