It looks like everything is still all smiles and rainbows at Armalite after being rolled in with McMillan and Surgeon to form one massive rifle manufacturing company. This year’s new offering is the AR-31, a scaled down version of their AR-50 rifle that uses the same detachable magazines that work in their semi-auto AR-10 rifles. It feels great and works great, except for the trigger. It still feels square and slightly sharp, just like on the AR-30 rifle introduced last year, and the AR-50 before that. I’ve made my displeasure known, because but for that issue it looks like a good rifle . . .
Side note: there are only two firearms that I dreaded the day they needed to go back to the manufacturer after the testing was complete. The first was an Armalite AR-50, and the second was a McMillan CS-5 rifle. Since both companies are now working together, I expect great things.
What features does it have to mitigate recoil?
If the answer is “none,” maybe that’s the reason they didn’t bring any ammo to the show…
I don’t know that I have any use for it, but it was neat watching it go from one to the other like that.
Seems everyone and their brother is making a bolt action .308 with detachable mags, and tacticool styling…
I have cramps now.
That is beautiful.
There’s always radio, Robert. Speaking of which, the podcast has been pretty quiet recently. Maybe you guys could spool that up again?
Sexy little thang, ain’t it? Way too rich for my blood, though.