Kelt Tec SU 16

[ApacheCoTodd]

I've got a SU-16A, bought used several years ago.
It's light, handy, and accurate enough for what I use it for.
Also have one of the Sub 2000, not the new version, but the one before that.
I'd have to be pretty hard up to part with either one.

Same here. The SU-16 that I never looked to buy has in fact created its own niche in my guns and their uses.

Todd.

 

[MAKster]

The SU-16 is your typical Kel-tec. An innovative design marred by cheapo build quality. Flimsy plastic stock and receiver held together with a dozen screws. Everyone else has figured out how to make an inexpensive injection molded polymer stock but Kel-tec keeps using clam shell designs.

 

[zaitcev]

Everyone else has figured out how to make an inexpensive injection molded polymer stock but Kel-tec keeps using clam shell designs.

In fact, at least the Gen 3 GWAC by KE Arms, the foundation of WWSD 2020, is also a clamshell! But there are no screws. After molding halves, KE puts them together and rubs them in a special vibration machine. This essentially welds the halves together without a glue.

The obvious advantage of KelTec's way of screwing halves together is that no pin holes are necessary and pins cannot walk. The only pin that has grooves is the disassembly pin. And, well, they don't have to buy the machine that welds halves of the clamshell.

 

[marsofold]

I have a SU-16C. The only complaint I have about it is that the scope rail is made of rather soft plastic. You have to attach to the rail with a wide clamp setup that distributes the force over a wide area of the rail, and not just screws that dig deep into the soft plastic.