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Great rifle for a great price.

In the box is a nice cleaning kit, a packet which contains the manual and warranty information, two metal 30 round magazines, and the rifle itself.

This rifle is rock solid. It has that quality a lot of newer black rifles lack where, if you were to run out of ammo during a gunfight, you could confidently bludgeon your enemies to death with the rifle. The folding stock holds tight whether it's folded or extended and the telescoping portion is held in a vice-like grip. The folding BUIS on top do come with the rifle, are made of aluminum and feel basically indestructible.

The controls are well placed and easy to operate, and are also ambidextrous. The safety moves positions with a definite snap and the mag release sends my Pmags flying from the rifle. The only issue here is the controls are placed fairly far apart, so a shooter with smaller hands may have trouble operating them. Even with my fairly minuscule hands (I am cursed to wear Women's medium gloves) I can disengage the safety with my thumb, but I have to use the side of the knuckle of my trigger finger to reengage the safety. Likewise, reaching the mag release is a stretch, but doable.

Disassembly is simple. Two pins, drop the lower, slide the stock off and slide off the plate at the rear and the recoil spring. Then pull the charging handle and slide the bolt and carrier out of the rear. Finally, move up front and rotate the gas regulator 180 degrees to remove it. The piston and spring can then slide out of the gas block.

The rifle shoots like a dream. The weight and excellent muzzle brake make recoil virtually non-existent. Combined with the amazing trigger, follow-up shots are child's play. Speaking of that, the trigger. I can't say enough about the trigger on this rifle. It has a predictable amount of take-up followed by a crisp break and it resets with a very satisfying, tactile "click". There is a little grit in the take-up but I'm sure that will work out. Trigger pull, as measured with my Wheeler trigger scale, averages 4.375-lbs. I feel the need to restate that. This rifle comes from the factory with a crisp sub-4.5-lb trigger. It's better than most AR triggers I've felt, even high-end ones.

I can't speak much to the accuracy of the rifle. I was only able to make it to the 25 yard indoor range and I did a shoddy job mounting the scope. I made one hole at 25 yards with 5 rounds of American Eagle 55-gr while bracing my elbow against the bench, but that was the extent of my accuracy testing. The rifle is equipped with a chrome-lined, hammer-forged, 1:7 twist barrel, so I suspect with good 62-gr or 77-gr ammo it will be a 1.5-MOA rifle, and I can't wait to take it to 100 yards and find out.

There are two main downsides to this rifle. First is the lack of a bolt release. Dropping the bolt requires you to yank the charging handle back all the way and let it go. It doesn't take long, but it a different manual of arms from basically every other similar rifle out there.

The second downside is the weight. This rifle weighs 3750-grams with no magazine. That's about 8.27-lbs in American. That's with no magazine, no sling, no optic. At minimum you will be adding 17.2-oz with a loaded 30 round Pmag. Outfitted as I have it, with a Vortex Strike Eagle scope, Aero Ultralight mount, Magpul AFG2, Viking Tactical sling, and 30 round Pmag loaded with American Eagle 55-gr, she weighs in at 11.24-lbs. If you wanted to shave ounces you could drop the AFG, get a sling with less metal buckles and padding, and change out the optic for a micro red dot or drop it entirely. Using a good sling to brace the rifle is also helpful when dealing with this kind of weight.

Overall I love this rifle. I'm not carrying it over hills and over dales, so the weight isn't that big of a deal. It's accurate and seems to be reliable. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it, especially as a piston-driven gun priced similarly to many piston-driven ARs, which I believe this gun has beat hands-down.

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