I would not use SST ammo even it was free. Horrible results in this rifle. Copper Creek Berger VLD 130 works very well.
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just got the email from LaRue last night.... they're offering the option to buy a matching lower to those who purchased an upper. Of course, I have one on order now!
I would not use SST ammo even it was free. Horrible results in this rifle. Copper Creek Berger VLD 130 works very well.
Got my Larue lower in to match the upper kit, put it all together, and hit the range this morning. I remain mostly impressed, especially at the low investment. Wish things were a little tighter, but there is always the chance I am just not as good with a gas gun as I am with a bolt action. Will continue to shoot it, maybe it(or me) will improve with round count.
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Shows promise bet it'll tighten up.
How's the Grendel work with the new MODs??
have you tried the load I posted above?
LRRPF52 is a member here. Should be easy enough to ask him if he wrote it and end the speculation.
Yeah, that's my honest review. Not sure what gave it away...(sarcasm). When I submitted it, there were paragraphs though. A lot of review boxes seem to smash everything together rather than leave paragraphs intact.
To put it in perspective, I have literally not purchased an AR15 off the shelf since 1998 at the latest. The last one I bought was a pre-ban Bushmaster 11.5" Commando with A2 upper, with the older yellow color fill engravings. I bought it when I was stationed at Fort Lewis in F Company, 52nd Infantry, Long Range Surveillance, hence my handle.
I lost track of how many AR15s I've owned since then and would need to do an arms room inventory to get a current count. In other words, I quickly learned to select the exact parts I wanted before assembling them into the builds I wanted almost 20 years ago and have not stopped panic-buying since the Clinton AWB days. The more I saw what goes into them, the less and less I trusted many of the manufacturers to get it right, and the more I learned about the common shortcuts that many companies take when making or sourcing parts. Arctic conditions really brought this out the most, along with high volume courses of fire over the years.
My expectations of this LaRue Stealth 2.0 were for it to be well-machined, but probably with some bugs under the pretty hood. My expectations proved to be wrong, and the rifle runs better than my top-end personal builds. Before I shot it, I went over it with a fine-toothed comb, looking at things most would never notice. You can read some of those points in the review.
When I took it to the range, I was immediately surprised at how smoothly the action cycled, behaving very well in that sweet spot of AR15 cyclic rate. What you normally see with a MLGS AR15 factory gun is excessive cyclic rate, violent extraction, and harsh treatment of the brass as a result. This one runs better than my Lilja 318 build with nitrided carrier and JP Silent Captured Spring recoil system.
It cycled Federal 120gr OTM American Eagle ammo and my hand load of 31.5gr of CFE223 under a 123gr AMAX effortlessly. That 31.5gr load cycles my Lilja MLGS build much faster even with the SCS, to the point that it's on the ragged edge and I can literally feel the carrier bounce off the extension like a hammer. The LaRue came running perfectly out of the box, whereas I constantly need to tweak and test out the components in my personal builds.
The funny thing is that the LaRue uses a standard carbine 2.9 ounce buffer. My walk-away impression of my first range trip with it was that this AR15 naturally feels purpose-built chambered in 6.5 Grendel, as if .223 Rem was some alternate reality chambering to be forgotten about and only a distant memory.
Another thing that impressed me was that the first group I shot was literally centered on the identical POI grid of the test-fired group that Mark shot and signed off on himself. Why is that impressive? Because the rifle and optics package were shipped in 2 entirely different boxes, one to my FFL, and the other to my address.
The idea that I would own a factory-built AR15, even from one of the higher end manufacturers, simply has only entered my mind if I could have them send me the parts and let me do the assembly work. This rifle defied that mindset with me and has made me wonder if I've been missing out on some perfectly-suitable rifles all these years that would just come ready-to-go.
If it was garbage, I would have never written a positive review. I like the rifle so much that I color-filled in all the engravings.
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Conclusion... You're a LaRue Fanboy!! Hey tell us how LT Dick taste.?
Conclusion... You're a LaRue Fanboy!! Hey tell us how LT Dick taste.?
I am by no stretch an expert on ARÂ’s but I have a Larue and hereÂ’s my take: itÂ’s a very solid medium weight rifle, and you get a lot of rifle for the money right out of the box, with a stellar reputation behind it. Mine didnÂ’t start shooting sub-moa 5-shot groups with factory ammo until after 300 rounds. Even before that, I would have been happy with a $1100 Larue that shot 1.5 moa with a variety of ammo. At that time, I also swapped out for a JP LMOS and H2 SCS, and a SLR AGB. I shoot suppressed. So I donÂ’t know if the barrel finally got broke in good or the JP parts made the difference. But I can tell you the rifle was fun to shoot before, but itÂ’s an absolute privilege to shoot after adding those parts.
If youÂ’re looking for a target rifle to shoot tiny groups right out of the box, might as well just pony up and get a JP from the start if you can afford it. If youÂ’re looking for an affordable general purpose type rifle that will do a lot of things well, itÂ’s hard to beat the deal theyÂ’re offering on a Larue.
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Was this really necessary?
I am still enjoying mine. I needed a good hunting round to take some pigs with, so I worked up these the other day. I know it's not 5 shots and only 100 yards, but I am too cheap with the more expensive ballistic tips.
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