a .308 Kel Tec rifle...no thank you. Too may KB with the SU-16.
I think that's a big time internet rumor. The only documented kBs in an SU-16 were bad ammo. Very bad ammo. And there have been very few of them. Exactly the sort of stuff that causes a kB in a well made AR or any other rifle.
I really think the kB rumor is perpetuated by people who don't like the look of the SU-16 or paid twice as much for their AR and need to feel good about it. I don't own an SU-16C yet, but I plan on getting one soon. I do own a PLR-16, the pistol version of the SU-16, and it is an excellent product. It's reliable and a ton of fun to shoot.
I plan on getting an RFB when they ship in about a year. The idea of a .308 bullpup strongly appeals to me. I still can't decide which version to buy. The carbine has an 18" barrel and is only 26" long. The target model has a 32" barrel in a 40" rifle and is reported to shoot well under 1 MOA and has about the same performance as a .300 magnum fired from a 24" barrel, without the ammo cost, recoil, or barrel erosion. There is a sporter version that has a 24" barrel in a 32" overall length which could be seen as the best of both worlds.
All models are completely ambidextrous. Spent cases are ejected forward through an ejection tube and land slightly to the right, about a foot in front of the rifle. No ejection port does make it more difficult to verify the chamber is empty. The current method is to remove the mag and visually inspect the chamber via the mag well.
The stock trigger is getting great reviews. They approached the trigger bar linkage differently to avoid the heavy trigger usually found on bullpups. Instead of a long trigger bar linkage, there is now a long hammer linkage with most of the trigger group located near the trigger. They also offer a version of this trigger assembly with five separate adjustable parameters that makes it even better for precision shooting. It's standard on the target version and an optional upgrade for the other two.
So far, it's mostly marketing information and the proof will be in the shooting, but I'm liking what I'm seeing. It's like they designed this just for me. The prices have surprised people who think of Kel-Tec as a manufacturer of cheap and clever little guns. I think of them as a manufacturer of innovative firearms that provide good value, so I wasn't quite as surprised to see the preliminary pricing of $2000, $2500 and $3000 for the carbine, sporter and target models. Those prices are subject to change in the next year, and street prices should be about 75% of those MSRPs.
More RFB info and discussion is here:
http://www.ktog.org/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=499
The 2 MB PDF brochure is here:
http://www.kel-tec.com/images/downloads/RFB_Flyer_SHOT_2007_web.pdf
Kel-Tec's website is here:
http://www.kel-tec.com
The RFB uses metric FAL magazines.
