Re: What do you think of the SR-25?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Unknown</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Factors I would consider in approximate order:
<span style="font-weight: bold">1. reliability</span>
<span style="font-weight: bold">2. accuracy
3. longevity and durability (sort of interchangeable, but not exactly)</span>
<span style="font-weight: bold">4. parts availability and interchangeability (including magazines)</span>
<span style="font-weight: bold">5. weight</span>
<span style="font-weight: bold">6. cost</span>
<span style="font-weight: bold">7. type of system (piston VS direct impingement)</span>
My reasons for choosing these factors, and their relative order:
Note that cost is a factor, but it is toward the bottom of my list. Other factors are more important.
Accuracy is useless to me if the system doesn't work.
I don't hump rifles in the bush much any more, hence weight isn't too big of a factor.
If something does go wrong, I would like the option of repairing it myself if I can get the parts locally.
All rifles wear out eventually, even if it is only the barrel. But if things wear out unusually fast, I would like to know ahead of time. However, if there was a system that did everything else perfectly, was half the weight of other systems, and gave considerably greater accuracy, I would consider that rifle even if it only lasted half as long as other models.
If all other things were equal, the type of system wouldn't matter to me. If one system could be shown to either last longer, be more accurate, more reliable, less troublesome, more durable, then I would consider it. But from what I have learned, both systems have their advantages and disadvantages. As a result, I would consider other factors long before I got to the method of operation.
I ended up with a DPMS LR308 rifle. I am more likely to bring out one of my bolt guns when I want accuracy. When I want real accuracy in a semi-auto, I bring one of my Grendels. If I need the long distance hitting power on a plate, then I'll bring out the DPMS rifle. It isn't as accurate as either the bolt guns, or the Grendels, but it does hit harder...at least until it goes transonic...
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Allow me to give me feedback as a former EMC owner -
1. My EMC only cycled with black hills red box 308, it would not cycle with FGMM or SWA 308, I never even tried surplus, whereas my GAP-10 and my Scar-17 would eat FGMM and SWA all day, my SWA chronos better and more consistently than my black hills so...I'm not really sure why this was an issue with mine, but it definitely turned me off to the point I decided to part with the gun.
2. My EMC was very accurate, in all honesty I never understood the guys saying the larue platform was so much better, I was able to get .6 and .7 groups out of it.
3. To be fair I never really had the opportunity to test this, I wasn't going to test the durability of a gun I paid $5000 for that I wasn't sure about keeping. I don't see how it would be any less durable than its competition, or any more. They are all basically the same platform with very similar build quality, all just with minor tweaks in the system. SCAR would be an obvious difference here though, but my scar is a 1 MOA gun, not a .6 MOA gun. YMMV
4. Hard to find parts that are super expensive, very much like the scar. Magazines are an interesting topic to me, I hated the 762 pmags and thought they felt like shit, I bought 20, only 6 of which would feed reliably. The KAC mag was very reliable, however it costs even more than a SCAR-17 mag at the inflated prices they are going for. A lot of people seem to be happy with their PMAG-LR's though so perhaps you would be as well.
5. Weight was better than my LMT, however I couldn't really feel a difference compared to my GAP-10. Scar blows all of these away in this category, by a HUGE margin, which I did not expect. I thought the EMC would be more akin to the scar in weight from what I had read online.
6. Super expensive, imho not worth the coin unless you are a collector. If you are looking for value there are better options out there, but as a collector piece it is pretty cool, I just can't afford to do it.
7. This is a wash, I definitely prefer the piston system in the SCAR, however in an AR-10/SR-25 pattern gun I don't think I would be interested. I have shot piston ar-15's which I hated, don't know how similar these would be.