huh let's try another
one nice what about a 2
L oh I missed a chance to shoot a moving
Target hcock 45 here uh I might be a
sinner but I've got a saint in my hands
I just had to use that corny joke that's
pretty lame wasn't it but that's what
the gun is called the rifle it's the uh
Springfield Armory Saint if you can read
you already knew that right and it's
fairly new fairly new have had a lots of
requests to uh try it out so uh we're
very fortunate have lots of people
helping us put this in our hands with
ammo not bad huh I just furnished the uh
genius well not all about that but I uh
Place To Shoot the thing how's that
pretty cool it's pretty cool rifle I
have been shooting it and uh it's it's
done okay I will tell you when I first
got it now it's hot I can tell by the
temperature it's very hot right now so
Point her down range but the first it
was towards the end of the first
magazine as I recall uh the trigger
reset uh got funky and and wasn't
resetting and uh I thought it was a
major problem messed around with it and
it got to work working again and having
any trouble so I I'm assuming it was
just brand new out of the box well it
was brand new out of the box it was uh
maybe a burr or something on something
in the trigger and it's been working
since and because of that I have had it
for a couple of weeks I made sure I
brought out a magazine about every day
and I just shot the thing and I couldn't
get it to do that again so it was some
uh something to do with the Breakin I
guess or whatever the bur on it or
whatever so anyway she's doing fine and
uh I think I've got the SES on I I've
got it I'm not going to adjust them
anymore it was shooting let's see what
was it it was shooting low and I moved
the front sight uh and I got it in
pretty good shape I think if it was mine
I was going to hang on to it I might
want it to uh not have to hold the sight
post up quite as high on the target as
I'm as I've noticing I'm having to do
but it's okay you might prefer it that
way you know whoever buys this thing in
the EEG Gunner auction might might think
that's exactly the way it ought to be
but uh anyway the saint uh let me H this
magazine we're shooting uh like I say
Federal here just typical 55 grain ammo
here and uh uh that's a Daniel Defense
magazine in so since we'll just shoot
two or three mags I thought I'd try
different magazines again the Lancer and
then the magpull as we uh just shoot
this thing all right comes with a flip
up sights from Springfield Armory and
uh the uh well we'll talk about the
other stuff here in a second I want to
do a little bowling first
yeah and let's make a
splash well is that thing Frozen or
something I don't know most not have
caught him very very well and let's just
start out with smoking a little pot
right
here
yeahoo that was a tricky shot believe it
or not because there's metal right there
and I didn't want to hit it and uh I see
some more pot back there behind that
Target stand
yeah let's go a and put a couple on
there see if we'll go through the
paper
yeah hey that's not bad for Kentucky
windage I was uh just holding up
somewhere around the top of the the dot
there yeah I knew that was going to
happen all right explosion I don't we
love
them
do oh this is too much fun uh let's go
back over there oh I see a two L sitting
over
there and there was a little Cinder
there when's it going to run out of
ammo okay begin to wonder
those Daniel defensive mags hold 32 I
think I had it all the way loaded uh so
anyway yeah the the saint kind of a
screwy name I mean know uh not a name I
would have used to name a rifle but so
be it Springfield Armory uh they're the
ones making the rifle I can't make one
they're manufacturing them so they can
call them whatever they like I think I
you I suspect I'll have to ask him at
Shot Show I have a feeling that name was
come up by Rob lean probably after a few
beers at the local bar yes call it the
saint and he wrote it on a napkin you
think just kidding Rob actually it might
have been it but uh anyway it is called
the saint and it's their first
AR-15 so uh everybody's curious about it
I was curious about it and uh cuz they
just have not made these and I think
they have plans to make more of them so
uh they've done some things differently
this one is at I think the MSRP is $899
I don't know what they're selling for
exactly uh well I know actually the MSRP
might be more than that might be over
9ine but uh they're running somewhere
around $900 okay depending on where you
find them and that takes it up above
that
$650 you know area you know like the M&P
Sports and some of the others or six
whatever they're selling for now so that
adds you know maybe a couple hundred
bucks or so uh over the lowest end ARS
that you buy on a commercial market and
I know as everybody always points out
when you do AR uh videos that I could
have made that for $200 in my garage and
everything and and you probably could uh
but then a lot of people are attracted
to AR-15 well AR-15s in general the most
popular rifle in the
country um but a lot of people are
especially I think attracted to to these
things when they're made by a major
manufacturer it's just it's just simple
that you might think that's silly and
there's no real justification for it but
it's just a matter it's a fact of life
rer comes out with one as they have of
course or or Smith and Wesson or the
Springfield Armory it's just it carries
the weight of that name with it okay so
you might actually build a better one in
your garage but if your name is Harry
Johnson or Harry Smith or something you
know it's just it's just not going to
carry the weight you know so it's just
that's just life uh so this one they've
added a few things to to justify you
know it not being 650 I guess you'd say
for one thing it's got the Bravo Company
furniture on it and then I see I think
this is exclusive to this firearm you
know the handguard which is kind of I
mean I kind of like I generally don't
like this design on a handguard Colts
got some but everybody's got some that
look a little bit like that this one's a
little Slimmer so you know that's not
bad it's not as offensive to me I in
fact I don't have a problem with this
one and it's got the keymod and
everything and it's insulated well I
shot it a fair amount I've not really
had any heat problems there at all and
then the uh the stock six position stock
the uh the pistol grip the trigger guard
all that is Bravo Company okay and they
have an excellent reputation so that's
that's pretty cool you know uh that
comes with it and they've got a Tungsten
buffer a heavy buffer with a mid-length
gas system on it and makes it a soft
shooting rifle and it really does so
some of those things you might not get
you know with just any AR-15 so they
have tried to do a few things to uh to
addess it up a little bit it's got a one
and8 Twist on the barrel chromal vadium
barrel it's not Chrome lined uh but it's
uh they use the melanite on it which is
supposed to be really really good stuff
okay on the
barrel uh you've got your of course your
bird cage you know front sight here uh
some people probably won't like that uh
I don't know I it still seems odd when
people put those on on these days unless
you're trying to make a fully
traditional AR-15 but you see several of
them like that you know kind of a hybrid
and uh that's what you got and but
you've got your flip up site here
removable so you can put anything back
here you want uh Red Dot or other other
backup Iron Sites whatever you might
like there it's nice that those come
with it so you don't have to buy those
right one thing that been nice if Bravo
Company had provided well they couldn't
provide it for nothing but it's a
charging handle I've got where I I
really like the charging handles that
they make what is it the number four I
guess I have it on all of my ARS I think
now and uh so I really noticed it when I
don't have just that little bit of extra
grip on those charging handles so
ironically here I am shooting a gun got
all these Bravo Company Parts on it I
got this funky old charging handle that
I'm not used to anymore but you know it
does fine a lot of people prefer that
minimalist uh charging handle anyway let
me quickly show you inside
here uh it's uh let me put that thing
back
together I double check it yeah cuz it I
shot it dry just uh that's right I
remembered that I just uh always best to
air on the side of safety right come on
now I've been able to punch that thing
out without using a hammer it's
tight it is tight let me get a bullet
push on it it uh this gives me an
opportunity to talk about the other
feature it has ACU what's it called ACU
tight I think it's called and it uh it
it helps keep the the firearm tight and
uh I think you go in up under the pistol
grip I didn't take that off but there's
a little kind of a polymer piece that
puts pressure up against the upper and
now why would that be so tight all of a
sudden I've been pushing that thing
out for a week or two with my
thumb and now I've got her
there we go and it's always better if it
is a little tight I have had ARS where
you could never push them out with your
thumb you had to you know get a
something to pound on a little bit CU a
lot of them start out tighter than they
are there it is right there that little
if you can see that little green tip I
believe that's the you can just kind of
raise it a little bit if it begins to
get loose at all so it keeps your AR
your lower and your upper from being uh
sloppy okay it's definitely not sloppy
right now
and uh and you know the bolt they use
all the right the carpenter 158 steel
it's uh everything is you Stak you got
the you know magnetic particle testing
and inspection on it and everything shot
pined you know so it's you know it's
supposedly done right you know and uh
and I'm not going to take the bolt apart
but uh they wanted to you know do the
the right things the key things uh to it
so it's not a bargain too big a bargain
AR cuz uh you you don't want one of
these if it's not done if not at least
put together right the basics of it and
you got your what 75 76 T6 aircraft
aluminum lower and upper you know all
the stuff that you would like to have
and that the better ARS you know have so
uh if I think of something else here
I'll tell you let's see let's try the
Lancer mag while we're out of here all
right
we got the yeah bolts forward okay there
I am loading the magazine too
tight all right oh am my ears on because
it's an
AR-15 if youall have never fired one of
these Firearms I mean seriously I joke
about that but if you have never fired
one of these and you take one of these
you buy one and take it out to the range
for the first time make sure your ears
are in
tight they are very very
loud
Cascade sorry buddy couldn't
resist oh another two
lader oh man let's go bowling some more
let's go back over there try that middle
red
plate
[Music]
yeah oh power I'll try the little
one nice go back to the big
one it'll work I tell you it will work
there's another 11 oz or 12
oer a some
Cinder on the last round yeah man uh
what else did I not lie about uh well
you know I try to be well I am don't try
I'm objective on these things we've
looked at several ARS I'm not the AR
expert uh again I've owned one since '
84 owned several but one since 84 83
and have shot them that long and but I
don't study them I'm not a an AR nerd I
guess you might use that term I uh just
enough to know and when I'm not sure I
take the easy route just like I did with
AKs I uh I got the Arsenal and for my
own personal Firearms uh you know I just
try to save up and and and get one I
know is good and but everybody doesn't
do that some people cannot do that they
they cannot have an AR if they have to
pay more than $ 673
or something you know so they're really
studying looking for getting the best
for their their money you know or 800 or
900 whatever it is and uh so you really
want to know as much as you can about
them and again there is not a great deal
of difference you can almost buy these
things like going to a hardware store
and on orders I like an AR I like a you
know whatever Chrome o Barrel I don't
want it uh Chrome lined I want it
melaner I want it Chrome lined and I
want such and such uh flash hider such
and such sight system uh gas system
mid-length carbine rifle length system
and I want uh you know just the various
features stocks and all that a trigger
and you know it's probably going to be
exactly what you ordered you know unless
you order from again somebody that's
just putting the first one together
they've ever put together speaking of
triggers uh it is just a mspec trigger
okay and I'm reminded as I shoot it it's
not a it's not like night and day as
compared with most most of my I've got
custom triggers and most of my ARS now
it's taken me a while but I think every
AR I own it either came with a better
trigger uh a CMC or a guley or some kind
of better trigger and so you get spoiled
by that quickly and this one is nickel
boron coated and as I shoot it I I don't
it doesn't stand out as a bad trigger at
all but I'm reminded it is a milspec
trigger as I shoot it it's uh the recet
seems a little long on it to me uh but
uh it it does fine it's of the best
mspec triggers probably I've I've owned
I've had some horrible mspec triggers
that first AR I bought the 88 in 84 83
is a horrible trigger on that thing oh
man uh I guess maybe I've not changed
that one out because I wanted to keep it
stock yeah that one is the one I've not
changed out it's it's got got not got a
good trigger on it but this has a
milspec trigger and uh you would
probably if you're uh you know
accustomed to a really nice trigger you
would probably want to change it out
nickel Bon at
all okay whatever nickel boron is I
don't have that around the house I'll
check the pantry later but uh I don't
know if I need I'll shoot a couple more
shots on know I'll just shoot a couple
more we didn't actually test the magpull
magazine did we and you might not be
convinced a magpole magazine will work
right is there anybody on the planet
left that doesn't know that they make
great
magazines okay
uh yeah I said like I said the
these run somewhere around $900 milspec
tube you got the Bravo Company Furniture
almost all the way across and
uh you know one and eight Twist on the
barrel yeah so and it's made by
Springfield Armory oh I just messed up
might have to use the forward
assist yeah what did I do I just
Just Jack that one out if I
can I messed around and I I wimp loaded
it if you notied that that was all me on
that
one brand new gun and I just kind of
eased the bolt
down like a wimp
all right put a couple on
this all
right she works so the saint uh you know
I don't know what to to tell you kind of
looks like you're you're kind of getting
what you're PID for I think I if I were
buying one in this price range this
would be on my list because I like the
furniture on it cuz most of us most of
us trade well it's a stiff stock I have
to say you got
really if you take that thing all the
way forward be ready for a a battle
getting it back but it's brand new uh
but it feels good and uh the grip feels
really good and I guess some of you
probably already have the the Bravo
Company pistol grips on your your
Firearms maybe but I don't think I've
had one of those it's a little bit more
of a 90° angle it feels good and I have
to say the the handguard feels good so
it's got some pluses on it and uh it's
probably as far as I guess you'd say
lower-end ARS mid-range ARS go uh with
what it has on it and the way it's made
and then of course the springfoot Armory
name doesn't hurt I I wouldn't say it's
overpriced I think some of the early
reports I read people why why is it $900
or $950 or whatever thing sells for uh
where you buy it when you can get an AR
a basic AR for 650 or 700 you know why
is it a couple hundred more or more and
it looks like it has uh the features
that justify that just from my limited
standpoint and my limited knowledge
really so anyway it works pretty cool
we'll send it back to Buds and let them
auction the thing off I'll put the
Target in the box like I always do and
uh we appreciate you coming by it's been
very saintly hasn't it so it's pretty
ironic a sinner shooting a saint right
life is good since I'm still here let me
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