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Just qualified a few days ago on my M4 for predeployment. It was a change from what I'm used to. They did not let us use sandbags to zero or qual. Instead you dug your mag into the ground and used the magazine as a monopod. The guys with the bipod front grips couldn't use those either. Apparently the reasoning is since the barrel is not free floated, anything attached to the hand guard or pressing on the quad rails moves the point of impact from point of aim.
Felt weird as hell to shoot like that but worked pretty well. Shot 37 out of 40 on the 300 yd pop up range and perfect on night and NBC portions of the qual. We shot with ACOG'S which are awesome for distance shooting. All our rifles have PEQ15 lasers on em. I have a MAGPUL AFG and MAGPUL ACS stock with a VTAC 2 point sling. Pretty happy with my set up.
Can't you just free float it then? I'm obviously not familiar with what you are aloud to do with your gear. I have heard conflicting information about using your mags as a way to stabilize the rifle. On the magpul carbine DVD Travis mentions that it should not be an issue with current mag improvements. He said that if you are resting your mag on the ground and get a jam that you need to ditch the mag and upgrade. What mags were people using?