Savage AR's were never a great seller. It has nothing to do with quality, but buyer perception of the brand.
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Savage came late to the AR party and no one invited them inside.
I certainly think they will sell a lot of them. Heck I've rolled my own ARs for years and I might even get one, but I'll have to check into how proprietary the internals are.The market was ripe for a small frame AR-10, but they didn't make it. So they didn't sell. I wonder if Ruger is about to bury the rest of the AR-10 market with the sfar
Hard to get 51-55mm cartridges into short magwell dimensions, and that has always been the limitation. That, and having two sort-of standard patterns for the longer frames has been an issue.a small frame AR-10,
I’m waiting for stripped Ruger SFAR lowers and bolts to hit the market. I will be buying one and can see a Proof Research carbon barrel in my future.
Are they compatible with standard barrels? Don't their proprietary bolt faces preclude that?
Or does Proof have a history of being able to "make it work"?
Do they have handguards that work with any known "pattern"?
Well until they get the above sorted out, I’m out. I prefer assembling my own AR’s.
Since it's a brand new product, if you want to tinker you may have to buy a complete rifle and tear it down to see which parts mesh well with industry standard pieces.
I bought one and love it because of the weight. I am using a Trijicon 1-8 on it and it weighs less than my AR-10 w/o scope. I started on M1's so it has been a little more than 13 days, my brain is fine and my @#$% is fine too. Thanks for the concern though.No thanks! The Small-Di…, I mean “Frame”, was yet another answer to a question nobody asked! But whatever. Yeah, they’ll sell because people like “chiny” new things after all. And before long some guys who just started in this hobby 13 days ago, are gonna tell us how much more incredibly accurate-lier the Small-Brai… (FRAME! I meant Frame!) is over any other AR.
Old News
Seems like a month or two back it was confirmed that Savage had dropped their long-frame .308 magwell depth rifles. Which makes sense as that market is beyond saturated. The short magwell market is even worse.