Springfield Saint Victor 9mm

[ECVMatt]

I am kind of all over the place with my gun wants right now.

I am really enjoying aluminum framed 9mms as well as my Ruger PC Carbine.

In the 90's, right before the Clinton ban, I was going to buy a Colt 9mm AR. I had it stashed away, but the store where I was working was making a killing on all things AR, so I let the owner sell it, thinking I would get one from the next batch. Well that did not happen. I did stash away some Colt magazines in hopes that I would one day pick up a 9mm Colt AR.

Lately I have been seeing lots of ads for the Springfield Armory Saint. After spending a few hours on youtube and the internet, they appear to be good rifles. I realize that this would not do anything my Ruger couldn't do, it would be more of scratching an itch from long ago.

I haven't seen any posts in a while on THR about these, but I know a few folks picked them up.

Does anybody have any insights to share? I know that Colt still makes them, but they are harder to get in CA. I would love to have one with an A1 upper, but I am not seeing any of those in production and don't feel like building one.

I am trying to keep nostalgia in check, but it is getting hard.

 

[PO2Hammer]

My concerns with Colt pattern rifles is the lack of a proper feed ramp that needs FMJ to feed reliably, at least IME.
Hard to beat the reliability and accuracy of the Ruger.
If I were buying a AR 9 it would be a Glock mag type with an advanced feed ramp for reliability with HPs.

 

[Walkalong]

My Colt Pattern 9MM AR runs on almost any JHP, but can be picky with TrFPs, go figure.

If I were in the market for a 9MM carbine these days I'd be looking hard at the S&W M&P FPC.