How well will the Ruger SFAR hold up?

[kwb377]

I have a friend who works very closely with big name gun companies. He got a prototype SFAR (before it was even called SFAR) sometime around 2010. He still uses it to this day. If I ever get the chance to shoot his I will likely buy one for myself. It is an interesting rifle that I am doing more research on.

I wonder why they sat on it for @ 12 years before releasing it?

 

[silicosys4]

I wonder how small you could get an AR15 by giving it the same treatment that Ruger gave the AR10.

 

[12Bravo20]

I wonder how small you could get an AR15 by giving it the same treatment that Ruger gave the AR10.

Not much smaller than it is already without a total redesign of all parts. And that would mean anything smaller would require proprietary parts.

I was really hoping that the PSA PX-10 would have caught on or that PSA would bring back the DPMS Gen 2. Either way there is no industry standard with large frame AR's or the smaller 308 based AR's like there is with the AR15.

 

[bassjam]

I wonder why they sat on it for @ 12 years before releasing it?

I suspect they were proving out Balrog's question through many different prototype iterations. Covid supply chain issues may have put an additional delay on it's release.