Does anyone have an opinion on these yet? Seems like some interesting stuff is going into them but 1700 seems pretty fucking steep for an AR.
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The problem with these "full featured" rifles, aside from cost, is that we have mil-spec rifles which aren't as good, but which are a known quantity.
If there is one thing I've learned about engineering over the years, it's that ANY change to a system, even an "improvement", has the potential to break it in ways you never thought of.
This is basically the downside of every single "innovation" in AR land. You have all these improvements, most of which are pretty clearly a good idea, but none of which have been tested by producing them in million unit quantities and then pounding the hell out of them for six decades.
I get that this is a recipe for stagnation, and I totally support innovation for fun, or for competition, but for any sort of serious use I want to know exactly what I am dealing with.
So yeah, that's the problem with the AR -- it works well enough that there are no problems with it that NEED to be solved, and it's hard to justify improvements when it means adopting a prototype, comparatively speaking.