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The little puff of gas that's hitting you in the face.

So I love that term now.

So everyone knows what I'm talking about.

When you shoot your rifle, plume happens, right?

Plume is going to happen regardless of what you're doing because it's dependent on wind direction.

It's coming out of your ejection port if the gas is running correctly.

So it's going to happen.

But what we're trying to eliminate is that little jet stream of gas that's popping you in the face.

And where that comes from is actually from the bottom of your charging handle.

And what we looked at and what we noticed is that any charging handle on the market, if you were to take an AR receiver and you were able to make it invisible,

and you were to take a look up through the bottom of this upper receiver, what you would notice is that the gas key channel, so the channel that your gas key rides in, that's the little channel on the bottom of your charging handle, actually extends past your lower receiver extension before your castle nut.

So the gas key channel was actually extending out of the receiver underneath the charging handle.

And what this does is when your gas key, when your bolt rotates out of battery,

and it begins to cam and it starts to come out of battery, the gas that's coming from your gas tube has to go somewhere, right?

So while the bolt is still camming and the bolt is moving rearward, it disconnects from the gas key.

There's a space between the gas key and the gas tube, but the bolt's still in battery.

So where the gas chooses to go is the path of least resistance, and that's straight down the gas key channel and up and out of the bottom of the charging handle.

So that's what you're feeling when that little puff of gas is hitting you in the face.

So we knew that some way we had to fix this without wear parts.

So what we came up with is actually our third patented piece of this handle, and it is a shortened gas key channel.