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Strike Industries Charging Handle with Extended Latch for .223/5.56
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Unmatched Ergonomics & Durability: Strike Industries Charging Handle with Extended Latch
- Experience superior control and a smooth charging operation even in the most demanding conditions with the Strike Industries Charging Handle with Extended Latch.
- Designed with an enlarged, extended grasping surface, this charging handle ensures effortless manipulation and enhanced user interface.
- Crafted from high-quality aluminum, this charging handle offers minimized weight without compromising on durability, and it's designed to prevent wear on your receiver.
- This charging handle fits all standard AR15 charging handles, requiring no specialized gunsmithing for installation.
Strike Charging Handle with Extended Latch Review
What are some common accessories to add to the SI-ARCH-EL Charging Handle?
- Optics and Sights: Enhance your aiming capabilities with red dot sights, holographic sights, or rifle scopes. Many extended charging handles are designed to clear larger optics.
- Handguards: Protect your barrel and gas system while providing additional mounting points for accessories like lights, grips, and rails.
- Vertical or Angled Foregrips: Improve control, stability, and recoil management, offering a more comfortable and natural shooting position.
- Rifle Sling: A crucial accessory for maneuverability and hands-free carrying, available in single-point or two-point configurations.
- Muzzle Devices (Flash Hider or Muzzle Brake): Manage muzzle rise and reduce recoil for faster follow-up shots and better control, or minimize visible flash in low-light conditions.
- Magazine Bands: Silicone bands for easy identification of magazines by caliber and capacity, also offering protection from scratches and dirt.
- Cleaning Kits/Bore Snakes: Essential for maintaining the cleanliness and optimal performance of your rifle, including the charging handle and bolt carrier group.

SI Charging Handle with Extended Latch Features and Specs
The Strike Industries Charging Handle with Extended Latch elevates your AR15 platform with its thoughtful ergonomic design and robust construction. Engineered for effortless manipulation, its enlarged extended grasping surface ensures smooth operation in any environment, providing a significant advantage in speed and reliability. The integration of a traditional concealed latch means you get the best of both worlds: enhanced functionality and a familiar, dependable mechanism. Constructed from aerospace-grade aluminum, this charging handle is built to endure rigorous use while being lightweight and designed to protect your receiver from wear, offering a long-lasting and efficient upgrade to your firearm.
Key Features and Benefits
- Enlarged Extended Grasping Surface: Provides a larger area for improved grip and smooth operation, even when wearing gloves or in adverse conditions.
- Traditional Concealed Latch: Offers reliable and familiar operation, co-existing perfectly with the extended design.
- Aluminum Construction: Minimizes overall weight for a lighter rifle, and significantly reduces wear on your receiver compared to steel latches.
- Ergonomic Design: Ensures a smooth, clean charge every time, enhancing user comfort and efficiency.
- No Gunsmithing Required: Easily installs on all standard AR15 charging handles, making it a simple and quick upgrade.
- Built for Durability: Constructed to withstand the demands of frequent and intense use, ensuring long-term performance.
Technical Specifications
- Material: T-6 7075 forged hard-anodized aluminum
- Compatibility: Fits all standard AR15s for .223/5.56. (Note: Not guaranteed to be compatible with Anderson MFG Upper Receivers.)
What's in the box of the AR Charging Handle with Extended Latch for .223/5.56?
- (1) Charging Handle with Extended Latch
SI Charging Handle with Extended Latch for .223/5.56 FAQs
What makes the Strike Industries Charging Handle with Extended Latch stand out from other charging handles?
This charging handle features an enlarged extended grasping surface for effortless manipulation under any condition, coupled with a traditional concealed latch. Its aluminum construction minimizes weight and prevents receiver wear, offering a perfect blend of ergonomics, durability, and smooth operation.
Is this charging handle easy to install for someone without gunsmithing experience?
Yes, absolutely! The Strike Industries Charging Handle with Extended Latch is designed for easy installation and fits all standard AR15 charging handles with no gunsmithing required. You can quickly upgrade your rifle at home.
What calibers is this charging handle compatible with?
This charging handle is specifically designed for .223/5.56 caliber AR15 platforms.
Will this charging handle wear out my rifle's receiver quickly?
No, quite the opposite. This charging handle is constructed from durable aluminum, which is designed to minimize wear on your receiver compared to charging handles with steel latches.
Can I use this charging handle with an optic mounted on my rifle?
Yes, the enlarged extended grasping surface is designed to provide ample clearance and easy manipulation, even when larger optics are mounted on your rifle.
Is the Strike Industries Charging Handle with Extended Latch ambidextrous?
While it features an extended latch for easier grasping, the primary design focuses on enhanced single-side operation. For dedicated ambidextrous options, Strike Industries offers other models, or you can explore ambidextrous charging handles from other brands that complement this product.
Where can I purchase this Strike Industries Charging Handle to ensure authenticity and quality?
For genuine Strike Industries products and exceptional customer service, we highly recommend purchasing from Atomic Defense, an authorized dealer. Shop with confidence knowing you're getting authentic gear backed by reliable support and competitive pricing.
- We are a Small Business: We do the most we can to help with return costs, but we are not Amazon and cannot take hits or losses like Amazon.
- Lifetime Warranty: Atomic Defense will always stand behind our products. Our lifetime warranty covers any defects and ensures that you never need to worry about parts or the quality of your orders for the entire life of the product.
- Wrong Items: Atomic Defense takes pictures of orders before they are packaged and shipped. We pay for return, recertification and exchange shipping costs if we ever make a mistake on your orders.
- Rules for Returns: We may deduct refurbishing costs, plus materials and labor, of used products or modified products. This includes, but is not limited to; products with residue, smells, scratches, missing parts, debris, dents and damage. **We reserve the right to refuse returns.
- Packaging: Ensure returns are packaged safely with thick padding on all six sides. Failure to correctly package returns may damage products and will be deducted from Buyer's account.
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General Products:
- Must be within 30 days of package delivery.
- No need to purchase a shipping label! Atomic Defense will give you a pre-paid one.
Ballistic and Bulletproof Products:
- Most companies will not accept any returns on ballistic or bulletproof items. We offer recertification as a courtesy.
- Must be within 30 days of package delivery.
- No need to purchase a shipping label! Atomic Defense will give you a pre-paid one.
- A re-certification cost of 20% applies to returns of ballistic and bulletproof products.
- The 20% recertification covers the cost of ensuring the armor is safe. Usually starting with X-Raying the armor for cracks underneath the coating, inspection for damage, and water damage testing. Without this 20%, we would not be able to offer returns on armor.
- There is no way for us to know how or if it was used once shipped, and we have to consider them unsafe until retested, inspected and certified.
- Exchanges and non-ballistic products do not have a re-certification cost.