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AT3 Tactical AR-15 Heavy Buffers – H1, H2, and H3 Buffers

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Tune Your Overgassed AR-15 with Recoil-Reducing Heavy Buffers

If your rifle is throwing brass forward and recoiling sharply, you’ve likely got too much gas in your recoil system. Most commercially available barrels have an enlarged gas port to ensure the rifle can cycle lower-pressure loads and steel cased ammunition. For an ideal shooting experience, with reduced recoil and wear on your system, a heavy buffer is a perfect upgrade.

A heavy AR-15 buffer adds mass behind your bolt carrier group, slowing the velocity of your entire recoil system. Each buffer contains three weights, separated by rubber spacers. The weights act similarly to a dead blow hammer, reducing the amount of rebound when the bumper meets the rear of the buffer tube.

Which Heavy Buffer Do I Need?

Which buffer weight your gun requires depends how overgassed your rifle is. Typically, we recommend an H2 buffer to solve most issues in terms of recoil reduction and wear. For finer tuning a rifle that doesn’t necessarily have issues, an H1 is probably the right fit. If your gun is actually showing signs of damage from cycling, go for an H3.

If you want to learn more about buffers why these weights matter, check out our article on the subject!

Specifications

  • Body Material: Aluminum
  • Housing Finish: Hard Coat Anodized
  • Weights: Steel and Tungsten
  • Bumper: Rubber
  • Weight
    • H1: 3.8 oz.
    • H2: 4.6 oz.
    • H3: 5.4 oz.
  • Fits: AR-15 Carbine Buffer Tubes

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If you encounter an issue or defect with a product after 90 days of your purchase, you can refer to the manufacturer for a warranty claim. Their policies are below.

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This includes AT3 Red Dot SightsHandguardsIron Sights, and any other product that carries the “AT3 Tactical” or “AT3™” name. For other brands (ex. Magpul or Troy), please refer to the manufacturer’s warranty policy.

In the event that your AT3™ product becomes unusable, we will repair or replace the product at no charge to you.

If we cannot repair your product, we will replace it with a product in perfect working order of equal or better physical condition. The warranty is fully transferable, but we may require information about the original purchase to validate the authenticity of the product.

If your product is in need of warranty service, please contact AT3 Tactical to start the process

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Please note: The AT3 Lifetime Warranty does not cover loss, theft, intentional damage or cosmetic damage that doesn’t affect the performance of the product.

Customer Reviews

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Martin
H1 Buffer

Really nice buffer at a good price & fast shipping.

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curt
Finnaly a buffer with spacers

These are amazing compared to stock with the rubber spacers between the weights. I have Never found a buffer like this. It Will make Your Rifle super smooth and accurate.

Thank you for taking the time to leave a review! We're thrilled to hear that our AT3 Tactical AR-15 Heavy Buffers have made a difference in the smoothness and accuracy of your rifle. We put a lot of thought and innovation into our products, and we're glad it has exceeded your expectations. Thank you for choosing AT3 Tactical!

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Sean Seipold

AT3 Tactical AR-15 Heavy Buffers - H1, H2, and H3 Buffers

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ZACH
Good buffers especially for the price

I bought an h1 & h2 in the same order. They have a nice finish and quality bumper, the wights appropriately move around internally to limit bolt bounce (i already owned an h2 buffer from another company but didnt trust it because the weight was like welded in or something and did not slide internally). The bumpers are different colors from each other but they are not the same color as pictured on the site. No big deal, except... these are not marked, so I had to hunt around for a scale in order to weigh them to find out which was which, if they were the same color as advertised I could've just looked them up on the site and it would've saved me some time & money. I've since marked them.

Thank you for your review and feedback! We are glad to hear that you are satisfied with the quality of our H1 and H2 buffers at a reasonable price. We apologize for the inconvenience with the different colored bumpers and lack of markings, but we are happy to hear that you were able to differentiate between them and mark them for your convenience. We appreciate your business and hope to continue providing you with quality products in the future. Thank you again for your review.

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Kurt Murray
AT3 Tactical AR-15 Heavy Buffer H1

Very Nice Buffer - Works Great - Awesome Price! Would have given it 5* if the weight was marked on the end so I didn’t have to scratch it on for future reference. Thanks for the great product!

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