A tactical rifle dream, my Rock River Arms Tactical Rifle AR15 Model BB2522 Rock River Arms Firearm Recently, Rock River Arms released a new series of rifles. The Operator 2 line involves three various designs of Rock River Arms revered direct-gas-operated LAR-15 style rifles. They all share some standard capabilities, and the weapons take their name from the new Operator stock Rock River Arms has recently released. Rock River Arms started out constructing very nice 1911s, years before it was cool, the Corona, IL, company got into the AR-15 field. Its firearms were so perfectly made that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency selected Rock River to produce its issue rifles available currently as the LAR-15 Pro-Series Government Model.
Rock River Arms was founded 11 years back by 2 brothers, Mark and Chuck Larson, who worked out of a garage. It has grown continuously ever since and now employs in excess of ninety people. Even though Rock River produces guns for numerous government agencies, the actual vast majority of their sales are to the civilian marketplace. Rock River Arms offers 50 or so versions of weapons, however shoppers can make up their very own configurations, making use of countless parts alternatives - sights, rails, stocks, barrel length and contour, and more. Rock River will additionally include accessories like flashlights and red dot sights. Rock River Arms is like an a la carte workshop for firearms. Rock River doesn’t make many components on site. Rock River designs and spec components, then receive them, perform inspections, complete them, assemble them into rifles and ship them out. The RRA facility is actually complete with a buffing and blasting area, where raw forgings become completed parts. Rock River Arms is genuinely a family small business with the brothers Chuck and Mark Larson as well as their father and one of their sons working at the plant. Looking about the factory there were many boxes of rifle carrier groups, essentially the bolts of the rifles. Rock River Arms offers an almost countless number of chambering options for the basic AR platform. Once you own a lower half which consists of the stock and receiver, you can purchase upper halves (barrel, carrier group, and gas system) in all kinds of chambering and interchange them freely. There's even a company that offers a .410 shotgun upper half for the AR15 rifle.
Components are measured as well as examined as they arrive in to the manufacturing facility and at various stages during production. Tested for hardness, testing is done all the way down to the flash hider. All of the little sub assemblies - sights, gas blocks, carrier groups, safeties, and so on -- come together at the stations where the upper halves and lower halves are put together. Once at a work station the gunsmith assembles the upper half of what will be a future complete rifle. The gunsmith takes special care to assemble the upper with the silver tube running along the top of the barrel which directs gas from the gas block to run the action. During the upper half assembly, the headspace gauges are used to examine the dimensions of the chamber. The bolt of a gun must close up over the green “go” gauge but not close over the red “no go,” which is slightly oversized. Cartridges can rupture, occasionally dangerously, in an oversized chamber. Rock River offers the choice of a standard trigger or a two-stage National Match trigger for serious target shooting. A two stage trigger is the favorite style for military rifle competitions such as the famous National Match at Camp Perry, Ohio. Pulling a two-stage trigger, you feel slack as the trigger moves a short distance, then a light, clean break. The Rock River Arms gunsmith will check the weight of the trigger pull by dangling a 4 1/ 2 lb weight from the trigger. If the weight doesn’t trip the trigger, he will file the trigger sear to lighten the pull. Lighter trigger pulls are also available from leading Rock River Arms dealers. Lowers also come with options such as an oversized winter trigger guard, originally designed for police officers who needed to keep their hands inside warm gloves but still be ready to shoot in cold weather. Winter trigger guards work perfectly for winter coyote hunters as well. As the final pieces are assembled into a lower half of what will be the final rifle, this lower half could also be matched to an endless combination of barrel lengths, barrel contour, hand-guards and calibers.
As uppers and lowers are joined by a master gunsmith assembler, the firearms are tagged and prepared for the test fire phase of the product.
In the shipping area, parts come in, guns go out. There seems to be no end to the demand. Rifles usually are sitting on dealers’ shelves for a few days before they’re gone. For dealers that take deposits, guns never even make it to the shelves before they are picked up by a local customer or shipped out again.
Every rifle is sighted in and test fired before it leaves the factory. The Rock River Arms finisher loads the magazines prior to every rifle test fire. Using a fast bench loading tool, the finisher snaps 20-30 rounds into a magazine in an instant.
Several times a day, assemblers and rifle testers load the Rock River van with weapons and take them out to the range. Shooting from the back of the vehicle, every firearm with sights is sighted in, and then test-fired for function. Testers shoot at least two magazines through the fully automatic guns. Who says semi automatics aren’t accurate? With barrels provided by Wilson Barrel, the primary appeal of Rock River Arms rifles is that they shoot considerably better than marketed.
The fit and finish of the Operator 2 rifles are fantastic and undoubtedly a step above the normal, rack-grade, Parkerized mil-spec AR on the market nowadays, although they are slightly more expensive than those inferior grade types. The Operators upper and lower receivers match together so securely I required a tool to work out the push pins. While the Rock River Arms Operators don't have pistons or monolithic fore-ends or flip-down rear sights, they have everything you need in an accurate, reliable semiautomatic rifle, at a price that way back when would have been unheard of. The Rock River Arms Tactical Rifle AR-15 Model BB2522 Rock River Arms is built with a 16 1/2" Chrome Moly barrel for accuracy, Rock River Arms Tactical Muzzle Break with exceptional signature reduction, Flip forward sight, Rock River Arm Quad-rail hand guard and much more... The Rock River Arms AR-15 AR15 Model BB2522 Rock River Arms Operator 2 also consists of such high-quality upgrades as rugged fixed rear sight and flip forward sight to make available more resilience and cosmetic appeal. With the forward flip sight feature, the Rock River Arms Tactical Rifle AR15 BB2522 Operator 2 is prepared for action to further add a scope or red dot.
The Operator butts tock is a six-position CAR-type assembly with water tight storage compartments and a number of sling attachment points. The stock has a ribbed rubber butt pad that slides down with a push-button release to uncover the two storage compartments, sealed with O-rings. Each will hold either two AA batteries or three CR123 lithium batteries. As part of the package I had my selection of four rear sights: a traditional bolt-on A2 carry handle; a stand-alone rear sight; a RRA Dominator2 with an raised rail designed specifically for use with the EOTech Holosight; or the RRA tactical carry handle that features an elevated rail just below the level of the sights. The mil-spec magazines supplied with all Operator 2 Models are manufactured by NHMTG (Colt). For range work I equipped the Operator with a stand-alone rear sight behind an Aimpoint Comp ML2, and then tried the Operator with a Dominator2 rear sight from a friend paired with an EOTech 512 (AA battery model). For precision testing I used a Trijicon 4x32 ACOG with no sights.
I also shot the Operator alongside another AR-15 with no brake, just a standard A2 birdcage flash hider, and the Operators brake did not seem to be noticeably louder. This is an essential point when using a rifle indoors.
Load Muzzle Velocity (fps) Standard Deviation (fps) Group Size (in.), Black Hills 55-gr. SP 2,910 12 0.99, Black Hills 60-gr. V-Max 2,880 16 0.87, American Eagle 55-gr. FMJ 2,810 24 1.05, Black Hills Match King 69-gr. HP 2,780 21 1.03, Hornady 55-gr. V-Max 2,935 13 1.11, Black Hills 52-gr. HP 3,042 18 1.12
Notes: Accuracy results are the averages of four five-shot groups at 100 yards from a sandbag rest. Velocities are averages of three shots measured with an F-1 Alpha chronograph 12 feet from the muzzle. Abbreviations: FMJ, full metal jacket; HP, hollowpoint; SP, softpoint.
It is easy to get great groups from a average rifle if it has a great trigger, but put a tack-driver with a gritty eight-pound trigger in anybody's hands, and they will be lucky to stay on paper. The Rock River Arms Operator rifles are not just inherently accurate (that's one plus to the AR design), they are equipped with quality triggers that enable the user to get the most out of them.
Most dealers in my location wanted retail plus which did not set well with my budget. I acquired my Operator from Class 3 Weapons in Houston Texas at a sizeable savings of only $969.00 which included shipping.
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