Brownells BRN-10 and the Evolution of the AR10

[Music] [Music] welcome to smaller inflation's those of you who followed my stretch show videos from trash or 2018 saw that there was one particular product that I was just over the moon about and I felt was the probably the most significant one to shop show and now you're seeing it this is manufactured by Brownells called the BR and ten is basically a Sudanese AR 10 now nobody has ever done anything like this we're gonna go over some different things for as far as the history of the ar-10 rifle coming up no one's ever done anything remotely like this far as far as this rifle line is a scrap heap in the late 50s early really early 60s and it was never looked at again we're gonna go through a little bit of the history of this and talk about what Brownells do with it so I think we're gonna do is we're gonna start off with story time here and go a little bit about the ar-10 minutes passed in 1954 Thermolite was opened it was a subsidiary of a company called Fairchild engine aircraft it was opened up by mr. booty a as well as a gentleman named George Sullivan both of them with their idea was to you take the aircraft industry with the use of modern materials polymers aluminum's and to apply that to the firearms industry now this was a company that was never set up to build rifles or to manufacture rifles it was sign up as a think tank or people that would come up with designs and they would sell those designs fade happened one day where George Sullivan went out to a rifle range in California and there he saw this gentleman who was looking like he had built his own prototype rifle name was he was shooting it testing it and mr. Slovin was quite impressive what this gentleman had and he got to talk to him as Chavez name was Eugene stoner at the time he was manufacturing dental plates for a pharmaceutical company and in his spare time what did he do he developed advanced firearms so as the two of them spoke he end up being hired on is the director of engineering for Armalite now the first replica was called the AR 3 which it was that was patented but the first rifle that really came out was the ar-10 now AR does not stand for assault rifle it stands for Carmelites not armed rifle butt Carmelites AR and the 10 was the first of the designs that we're really really really accepted as the next-generation rifle now this rifle was first taunted as tomorrow's rifle today and I have to say they they knew it it was tomorrow Frank will say because at the time that it came out it was - knew it was too new for anybody to take seriously you also had some issues going on with our ordnance Corps at that time we had the trials going on for our new NATO rifle the US Army had shoved the 7.62 NATO down NATO was through out in force time into using that when we should have bound the 280 British which is more of a true assault rifle cartridge the 76051 is not in the small travel car just a full-power rifle there was two main things that came out of the NATO trials they want to have a common ammunition and a common rifle well the air 10 came in really at the the ass end of the NATO trials trials really consisted up for the US government it was the m14 what we know today is I believe the t44 it had an FN FAL and the ar-10 was submitted so when they Trump when the trials begin they were the US government says ok we're gonna give you the substitute by NATO cartridge in Rand will adopt the the FN FAL the FAL wanted to be the right arm of the free world it was used by most of the NATO countries but there was a gentleman who I don't know I if I had to say there was a villain in all this it would have been this particular gentleman his name was strudel er this gentleman here was from Ardoin score and his loyalties led to only an american-made rifle and what he wanted was something that was completely obsolete he had no intention of ever infl he wanted to have a permit had a significant amount of person compatibility with the m1 in her and he wanted the rifles to be manufactured in Springfield Moroccan Armory and he didn't care something else was out there that was better his only interest was keeping the 716 NATO cartridge and having an american-made rifle so now we're starting to get into one of the reasons why I despise the m14 and part of that has the way this was all conducted the m14 was supposed to replace an entire family of weapons it's supposed to have the accuracy of the garand it was opposed to have the firepower of the VAR suppose they had the light weight of a carbine they're supposed to have because he capacity of a submachine gun so supposed to replace all of these guns in the end of what the army came out with was a rifle that wasn't even as good as the M under and it was totally impractical rifle especially considering what the Soviets were going and when it came to testing the air 10 there was some things that had happened it heard it really really from the beginning we look at the construction of the ar-10 basically we had the rifle was manufactured from 7075 t6 aircraft aluminum upper and lower receivers very very revolutionary for the time everything prior to that has been manufactured out of steel and wood the stocks are manufactured out of high-impact polymers fiber right and some of the more synthetic materials you know top charging handle which we can still see on this model right here without charging handle was for being able to be a Meade ex was going back and forth the carrying handle was originally to protect the charging handle but ended up also being at the platform for the for the sights as well the rifle weighed in incredible 6.8 5 pounds now you're looking at well over a pound to two pounds lighter than any of the competitors and utilize the revolutionary new gas system and that gas system was what was referred to as direct gas impingement or what I referred to as an internal piston basically what that means is you have a gas port and you have a tube that runs all the way back to the rear and it goes into the bolt carrier and where does is it creates a piston and between the back of the bolt and back of the carrier so you're eliminating all the heavy parts in the front of the rifle and also in colder conditions you're eliminating parts that can freeze and what that does is it makes a rifle lighter it gives it a lot of a higher higher rate of fire and it is incredibly effective and incredibly reliable and I think the deal was it was called inline construction if you look at my shoulder you have the barrel bolt carrier and stock al goes directly into my shoulder it directly reciprocates back which puts the energy into your shoulder rather than making a rifle rifle climb it was manufactured so it will be a safe semi-auto you'd be able to give you our couple of tune level with this rifle a significant amount of firepower and person magazine was concerned it had a aluminum disposable magazine and held 20 rounds it was as it was designed to have the rifle issued with disposable pre loaded magazines when they would be fired they will be discarded they weren't meant to be reused the rifle was very easy to manipulate by having the magazine release right in front of your finger a Twinner trigger guard and when you flick it over your safety was great near your finger and having a bolt catch a rifleman lock open on the last shot and the original one came with a rudimentary muzzle break an overall length of about 41 inches so when the rifle was submitted a couple things happened first off mister stood ler where there was no way he was gonna have this rifle he already has my pre-made up what was gonna win before any testing even began when this rifle was tested it was tested with ammunition that was rejected from the military it was an armor-piercing load that was to higher pressure so this tested this went through were tested his beloved m14 did not go through was not a fair test whatsoever but during the testing of one of the rifles the barrel is the ar-10 came out it was manufactured with a steel insert with a aluminum outer cover of a sheath of the barrel now when this was submitted Jean stoner was adamantly against it but mr. Dorchester was one of the ARMA executives he insisted that it had that material and Jean stoner knew it was could happen and it did happen the rifle blew they had like an 8 inch gouge in the left side of it that certainly fit right into which to marijuana adverse par say this rifle was gonna take 5 years to develop after the barrel had blown stoner had gone back and he had manufactured standard fluted steel barrels to put the thing back into its testing and again the army said we're looking at five years here before anything is going to happen extrude ler as I said I said several times in this video already I said that he said that the only rifle that he was going to accept was going to be the m14 and we're looking at prior to the Vietnam War right now you know the the rifles that we were we were add back then were designed to fight the Cold War which gonna be a long old feels of Europe not knowing that we were to be going into a jungle environment very very quickly after that the air 10 was sort of selling into scrap heaps of history by u.s. ordnance Armalite was not ready to give up on the rifle they you know they had hail the information they had seen to the testing they went out the US cover did they'd also have seen one of the Ordnance guys who had said that this was the most accurate sometime a trifle he'd ever fired but of course that never showed up in any of the reports so they were able to get with a marketing firm who got licensed with a artillery intogen in holland to manufacture and they would distribute and they would sell the rifles so the rifle had had some interest once they got up and going with production in there there was some interest in both the suits of both Sudan and in Portugal so the rifle was modified and it was improved and what you see here is a direct copy of the Sudanese rifle which basically meant that you had the Wanda longhand garden now the Portuguese rifle had a shorter handguard and heat shield up here now not getting into the ball distribution and problems but the rifle never had a shot they never really got any real consideration there was competent countries who looked at it cuba looked at it Germany looked at it there were several countries that did look at it but they ended up going in favor of some of some of their homegrown rifles and a short story being said the rifle disappeared arm light decided that they did not have the ability or the oomph to get the rifles you know into US government and so forth they had worked on the ar-15 for the air force which was a scaled-down version that we know today is the air 15 m16 type rifle and they couldn't get the rifle sold either to to the Air Force so they'd sold for a hundred thousand dollars in royalties the patents and the drawings for the air 10 they are 15 - Colt obviously called the hell out of experience being you know with government sales for throughout their history and they felt that they would have a better shot which they did during some of the testing was going on in some of the demonstrations throughout the world interest was not in the air 10 it was in the ar-15 they liked the lighter weight so his cult was gearing up to build both rifles the sales are called from overseas and said stop everything to stop everything with the air tent and start pulling up for the air 15 so that was the final nail in the air the air returns coffin was wood cold basically stopped making it they had the rights for it nothing else gonna be done now stoner he had nothing it sold off their their design and their rights to the ar-15 an ar-10 which utilized the direct gas system now he could no longer use his direct your internal piston system so now we start looking into stoner 63 the AR 18s and so forth so they're using a external piston the ar-10 as I said it was in a scrap heap of history now as we referred to Armour light always had said their rifle was tomorrow's rifle today and they couldn't have been more corrective and what they had said so now we're going to skip over from the say 1960 or 61 to 1990s 91 92 in that area right there Jean stoner had gone through many different companies what he ended up doing in the early 90s is he went to work for knight's armament with Reed Knight and his sole mandate there was he wanted to bring back his ar10 because he never got think he really ever got over the fact that his rifle never got what never went anywhere he knew it was the best rifle on the industry he knew would never got a fair shot but when he went to work with Reed he did not go off of the original prints of his original era tense you knew that he had to make it modernized so what he decided he wanted to do is he wanted to make a rifle based off his ar10 you using as many of the m16a2 parts as could be for logistical reasons and when he came up with was called the sr-25 or stoner rifle the 25 comes from adding the 10 and they are 10 and the 15 and the ar-15 SOS are 25 so right below we see here was one of the original rifles this particular rifle little story time I bought this rifle from Jean stoner at shot show 1995 that was what I got to meet Jean stoner which was a highlight of my life because I was that was my hero and I even Reno with the sr-25 was all I knew was he designed and I had to have it this rifles did somewhat modified since I bought it I got rid of the carbon fiber handguard they went with a urx and I got rid of standard a2 stock and put a PRS because it was a precision rifle and actually thinking back now I should have never changed it but when I bought the rifle I actually used it I wasn't there wasn't a safe clean I want to make it as more as user-friendly as possible so looking at this we're gonna go over some of the first generation of the sr-25 first off is the barrel now the barrel is very unique on this rifle because this manufactures from the same barrel blanks as the m24 bolt-action rifle that particular rifle used a five-hour rifling it was designed for the heavy match bullets now nice was the only company that Remington had ever sold those to now we had originally we had a gas block that was held on by basically a large nut this one here was the second generation that was fairly quickly done it was drilled and penned the rifle length gas system now the upper receiver is manufactured from an extrusion and the lower receiver is manufactured from a forging now this is the early rifle here your fired cartridge case deflector was attached to the 1913 rail it wasn't part of it wasn't a forging and it was extrusion so you couldn't have that on there now when they manufactured the lower receiver they want to make sure that they had recess so the front of the magazine release would be safe if it was to be trapped it wouldn't come out no I hated the magnet they gave me doctor safety on here now the magazine very interestingly the first magazine that was used was the original AR ten magazines there were some left over from those from the 1950s 60s reading I had quite a few of them as his own Museum there and then obviously those were very very scarce there was a lot of a Mesa he went ahead and he built his own steel magazine which looks like a m16 20 round magazine on steroids this was not disposable like the original one this was very very well but unfortunately at that same time was the 1994 assault weapon ban so he only had time to make so many of these and then everything after that was was Ivan 10 shot magazine and of course once this is all of the man that was that was all more the trigger that was in here was a two-stage trigger that was manufactured by him as a match-grade trigger the buffer was very very interesting in fact it wasn't even a buffer it was a plastic spring guide that was designed on this to the side here some other changes that I have made to this rifle was the this has a current m110 style or mark 11 style bolt lease originally it had basically m16a2 type problem whistles that sucker was not strong enough to halt that heavy mass bolt carrier standard e2 pistol grip we take a look at the hole carrier now the original AR terms utilized a chrome-plated bolt carrier so when gene stoner designed this one he did the same thing with the the chrome plating you will also notice there is no forward assist on here you'll notice there's no forward assist on any of the sr-25 type rifles nor the LNT rifles that was because it wasn't supposed to be there gene stoner was adamantly opposed to it he says I should never have been there and these companies listened to the designer and they've kept it like that now this is very different from the original ar10 bolt carrier it's been streamlined it's easier to manufacture but nevertheless is very very similar the parts are not compatible if you were to take parts out of the original ar10 they would not interchange with this for instance the fire controller bleed out of the m16a2 the stock receivers wouldn't take those it's they're not compatible you know he also made one major enhancement I liked he had a captain firing pin retaining pin which I don't know why more companies have not done but the bolts were very very similar but obviously manufacturing capabilities and 1992 or a lot better than they were back in 1959 58 so Jeanne stoner unfortunately passed before the rifle truly got its day after Jeanne stoner passed was when lights got their first contract from SOCOM this rifle in 2011 was adopted as the Navy SEALs or so comes mark 11 with the onset of the war on terror you received more you so full of longer range rifles and we start to see a shift with our snipers who are looking to go more towards somebody Bank rifles and they were going with bolt-action rifles now the issue is first far as accuracy was concerned most of the 716 NATO type rebels they had prior to that we're nowhere near as accurate as a bolt-action rifle rifle the Jean stoner here did with us our 25 really changed the direction of that they were starting to see very very similar accuracy from a semi it's not the same as they were from bolt-action rifles and what it did was enabled you to have probably four to five times to hit probability and hitting multiple targets then with a bolt-action rifle for instance you would be able to get off 20 rounds the time it would take you probably to get off you know five rounds with a bolt-action rifle which meant you could engage multiple targets very very quickly that you cannot do with a bolt-action rifle not to mention if you were a sharpshooter you got a new position where you had multiple targets coming edges rent one could turn into a you know a rapid-fire rifle and a real hurry so kind really found the benefits of this and they decided to adopt it in 2011 is the mark 11 which is very similar rifle to this there were several enhancements that that came up where I could get into too much detail along with that is students affected this is moral training you just more towards the Brownells rifle on July 12th 2008 there was a new rifle that would be replacing many of the bolt-action rifles that were in an inventory which is the m110 SAS rifle or 7.x typer system which was also a next generation version of the mark 11 and yes our 25 because Rep until recently in some was replaced by the m110 C which is a manufactured by heckler & koch however that rifle is still not in inventory it is still the process of being manufactured and all the bugs worked out as far as what they want on it but the m1 tens are still within service they have served very well over in Afghanistan giving it longer range shots to overwatch snipers to anybody who's dealing with a shot went on to a thousand yards this particular rifle here is original one I have had to a thousand yards this rifle is 1/2 MOA 200 yards very very accurate rifle the unfortunate thing was a gene stoner never got to see what is rifle truly did he do you did get to see what his ar-15 would do he never had to see it become America's rifle this is what before the ar-15 really really got its its province that it has right now but hopefully I'm not there you looking down and seeing that his work is that they deemed is being too new and not good enough in the 50s now was equipping the most elite military snipers and teams in the entire world and we're only here what 60 years later now the name Armalite did not just disappear it sort of lay dormant for many many years around 1995 time period prior to that there was a company called Eagle arms on Geneseo Illinois it was a ran by a gentleman named Mark westrom I was a former US Army ordnance officer and Eagle arms believe it or not at that time he was working on bringing back the ar-10 he was looking at the it was happening with the sr-25 he saw the really big price tag on the sr-25 so he decided he was going to manufacture a rifle similar where he could have compatibility on the larger components of our receivers lower receivers barrels and bolt carriers so you want to have that parts compatibility and our question was also a CMP shooter so what he decided to do was first came out with what he called the ar-10 t so in 1995 the Armalite trademark came up for sale and what happened was was it was the name it was some intellectual property there wasn't much left at that time but he wanted the name so 1995 mark Westar he bought the name Armalite so in that time period it was Armalite and Eagle arms became a division of Armalite later on Eli's would go away and would just be her Mele now for far as the guns are concerned there's no there's no similarities or no technical data whatsoever from the original ar-10 to what Mark Westar made the first rifle he made was what he called the ar-10 t which was very similar to the sr-25 with the 22 inch barrel and it had the free-floating handguard and so forth he had he did one thing differently because his rifles came out after the sullivan men came into play now as we spoke to the magazines that were the original sr-25 or AR ten magazines originally are ten magazine we're very very rare so they were not available Reed Knight only got so many of the his magazines out before the banking requester wanted to have the business customers have a 20-round magazine so he looked at the m14 magazine and the foul magazine they decided how and when to see how he could adapt that to the rifle so you would be able to have a high-capacity magazine which is exactly what he did when he chose was the m14 magazine he made some modifications to the new insert of the catch hole and modified the feed lips and the follower and he was able to adapt it to his ar-10 like what Brownells did the rifle that they had was a Sudanese infantry rifle Westra wanted an infantry rifle as well so he came up with what we see here the ar-10 a - what this is is an exact 7.62 millimeter version of the m16a2 if you were to look at it all the features iron sights fully adjustable a two style sights poor assist for a cartridge case deflector may have a detection port dust cover and you have the same kind of a sculpture preserves the upper and lower receiver hand guards and stock I do want to make it mention that the forward assist with with arm late America Western mark questions original rifles did not have a forward assist because again Western like the other guys Stoller didn't want it he said it wasn't a good idea so he left it up his initial rifles mark got so many phone calls from customers demanding a forward assist to eat it up Evan basically to give in to it you didn't want to but customers want it and you know so many many rifles by not listening to your customers so he went ahead me out of the forest this to it now my question probably manufactured more air ten type rambles in any manufacturer in the industry if you look at nights nights was very very limited just due to the fact that they had primarily government contracts and numbers they are making more as much I don't believe nearly is what the commercial market had and also in American Western was manufacturing he didn't have as much government contract so he was primarily working for the goods in here for the consumer market where a read night when he had his government contracts there was almost nothing available to the commercial market even though his sr-25 was funded through commercial sales unfortunately once he got the government contracts those commercial sales just disappeared going on to have several different variations the same time rifle in a carbine he had what he referred to as a are 10 a 4 now mark westrom also had was the only other person to ever make an attempt at somewhat of a rebirth of original ar-10 look the cost it would be involved in redoing the original er 10 was not something he wanted to take out so what he had was when he refers to as the ar-10 B which was basically the rifle that you see here with tan hand guards that had Sudanese look to it it had a tan pistol grip a tan stock and they had the top charging handle and on the left hand side of it it had the original Pegasus now the lioness you see American West German rifles that was after the company was sold from booty a to mr. Sullivan mr. Sullivan got rid of the Pegasus and put on the lion in my request room with the lion and all of his guns with the exception of that rifle he brought back the Pegasus so the rifle the most part I say maybe had 10% of the original a or 10 look to it it's sort of the feeling of it but it really wasn't a true rendition of the ar-10 so now we're gonna go to December of 2017 I received a phone call from Roy hill over brownells he says I want to show you something but you gotta sign an NDA first I had no idea what it was so we go sure and the picture of the prototype ar10 came through and my heart freakin stopped I I was shocked I was happy beyond belief because nobody has ever done this before there was only 9000 or some of the really are tens made there were some pumpkins that came back into the country but they are very very very rare well when I first saw the rifle there was some it was different from this one this one here it has some changes the original rifle that he showed me the palm type had a standard a2 front sight base they had different bolt carrier group in fact the bolt carrier group only had one vent hole versus the two it was the major differences well when I looked at it you know I just couldn't believe how close he was able to get to it you know and I would agree I just saw the other Mack did Tim on Military Channel he said they got it 90 percent historically correct and I'm definitely gonna agree with him on that we're gonna get rid of the negatives first so people are gonna look at it and say well why doesn't have this or this why doesn't have the right the right pistol grip why isn't it have you know a certain type of the but you know the military a certain way you need to think about what what the investment was to bring this rifle back you are having upper lower receivers that are virtually identical in every way to the original alien that costs money to do new forgings to recreate something is totally obsolete the barrel this barrel is is fluted underneath which when we take this thing apart we'll take a look at you have a front sight base which is nearly identical to that of the Sudanese rifle you have a three plot fresh suppressor this is almost identical to the to the original the original ones did use the fiber right type stocks now your mekinese fiber right that kind of a material because it doesn't exist any longer now the stock assembly pistol grip and handguard are compatible with any ar-15 so what he basically had to do is he had a rotating to look at the original rifle and see how they can apply that to use modern components such as trigger group such as the receiver senses the stocks so what you're seeing on the the barrel this forward this is all compatible with the ar-10 series replica we see today same kind of barrel extension similar kind of slip ring compatible about with the hangers the es system is on the top as as the Sudanese rifles were then looking at the lower receiver it's compatible with standard ar-15 trigger groups as well now the magazine wells where it gets a little bit different you do have a serrated magazine release button the magazine well on here is exactly as the original a our 10 was is longer in the front than they are today which you can't use pmags magazines to have any kind of a stop in the front that you can't use those magazine rifles come with our the Brownells 20 round aluminum magazines another thing that was asked to try and I did was this rifle accept the original waffle pattern they are ten magazines no it will have original air ten magazines so it will not seat so it will not we also notice on the left hand side here to keep true with the original bolt catch the flat bulk actually have it and the safety they had the same kind of safety that was used so I mean when you consider what it costs to go and design a manufacturer these kind of components from scratch especially when you're building itself you know rifles it's not like you're going to just any company who makes em for parts to build a time for this was all customized so we're take a look at this single bit more in-depth also on the rear takedown pin you have the serrations on there as well as well as the front which is accurate in the inside of lower receiver you can see the of a standard mil spec type trigger but that was one of the things that was done with this rifle was it want to keep it compatible with current technology so you'd be able to insert our trigger that she would so choose now looking in here will see the bolt catch it's not the standard bolt catch that the sr-25 came with nor the original ar-10 this is an updated one it's strong enough to halt this the heavens heavy bolt carrier we have here is the original 1960s early 50s Armalite waffle magazine now we know some we inserted the lip catches on this extended area in the bolt catch so this makes it so this is not compatible okay well if you know originally our 25 s had a standard m16 type bolt catch in it work just fine on this but even the liter sr25 in the m1 tens and the mark 11 they will not take the standard Armalite magazines they have to have the newer style so that when you put in the stand the current magazine you will see that works just fine now another change that was made analysts from the original was the buffer instead of using the original spring guide that was used on the original ar-10 they went with a current 5 weight buffer assembly which is much better it comes in rifle down much more is a little bit more resistance makes it a little bit more reliable now taking a look at the upper receiver first thing we're gonna do is we're going to take the hangers off take a look so as we can see we have a fluted barrel now this is this is consistent with the original they're looking at the front sight now we have the front sight blade here now the front sight and the original ar10 like this one is not adjustable at all all your adjustments are made there rear you have the drum here now this is also this is the m16a2 type drum here not not the original you have the front sight this is not an l-shaped aperture this is one front sight so your elevation is controlled from the knob here in windage you insert an allen key in here and loosen and that would adjust for left and right now looking at the charging handle pull back the bolt carrier very very very well done as you see very different from what we have today this is very correct with the original you have the flats on the right and left hand side chrome-plated the only real difference is is the location of these holes here you will come out more on an angle industry this is a more straight length they manufacture them today you're gonna want to have more of a flute going out like this it would attract the gas forward instead of directly to the three o'clock it'll be more one in a locked position with a knee as you see here is compatible with modern parts or as far as a firing pin the bolt and what not so if you were to need a new bolt you play the modern ar10 bolt in there but again if you look at this boat Voltas 90% there easy the only issue that's really different interesting location where these are cut looking at the charging handle pullback stator charging handle up in the front this area back here is how this is used to lock in place you have locking tabs inside of the receiver do you see right here where these engage now is this right okay this is probably one this is what I complain tonight they do have it's getting a little bit better though with use is this is very very difficult to pull back when I first came in it was very very difficult this needs to wear in so it's easier to manipulate so for putting the turkey handle back in go in at an angle forward like so make sure our bolt is in the unlocked position the hand guards back on now this is something else it was very very different from the original and this one utilizes a standard slip ring like you have on a modern rifle the other ones were much much more difficult now there's no heat shields in here either and that would also be consistent with the type of timers that were used on the original and now the Sudanese was like this however the Portuguese did have heat shields inside of your front sight basis you can see you have a slip ring and you see this is drilled independent place like it's supposed to be now the proper way to graphs is to hook your finger in pull back and you can engage the bolt catch and you can push that forward and load from the open bolt get your ball punch or you can insert your magazine back and then release again this is a very lightweight rifle like the original and one of the things you have when you have a lightweight rifle like this is you will get recoil even though you won't get the recoil coming up look you weight if it was say like an 8k type rifle it does come back at you but because it is so light you do get kicked you're gonna see a video of me firing an original soudanese they are 10 on full auto you'll see the first couple shots around semi and the next ones around the Pilato and you can be able to see on it bucks back in especially again pull out oh it's very difficult this rifle is very similar for as far as the recoil is coming back at you being very heavy again you have a very lightweight rifle with a very very heavy cartridge however and hug goes into your shoulder I do believe this rifle is probably more comfortable than shooting a foul or more comfortable than shooting a g3 perspires recoil is concerned and full auto it's easier to shoot for sparse it's not climbing as much but you still get that heavy recoil into your shoulder now looking at this what would I change on it I really only have maybe two things that I'll probably do differently at it first up is the finish the original a our tents were in a charcoal gray it was not in a black and speaking with Brownells for now they're gonna be staying with this finish here for some reason doing the charcoal gray and icing or the XM gray type anodizing is very difficult finding somebody who knows how to do it black is easy but buying somebody who knows how to do it is very very difficult right now Brownells is working on just getting their 600 ones with the charcoal gray so hopefully eventually it will come out in the in their BR in ten and second would be I would like to see this a lot easier this it's very difficult to to move those things only to real issues that I really have with it you know I'd love to see about a proper pistol grip but you have to be realistic here you my money that it would cost these guys to go out and redo the pistol grip or just the strong guns is very very expensive now you're looking at a you know retail price at around $1,600 for this rifle and some people will say that's very very expensive actually no it's not if you consider the cost to take original receivers these were taken off of laser in relation dimensions or taking off of an original soudanese receiver above the uppers and lowers that's not precise they were to the original receivers to take that it's dimensions reverse engineering then it happens a forgings that are made in then having to go redo the hand guards reading molds for this create a new barrel create a whole new front sight base rear sight this did this is very very expensive to do it's not it's these these parts are not going to be cheap because they're you're re-engineering you know older components but overall this is freaking awesome you know nobody has ever done this you know I drilled three years over you know the parts get guns they are tons never get my hands on one and what Brownells has done is truly historic bringing back the original design from where this stuff all began and to do it so so accurately you know definitely hats off to them so we're taking sanso range we're gonna see how it shoots I have been so anxious to shoot this gun I've had it for about three weeks but unfortunately we've had these monsoons here in Texas where every night we go out to the range I have been so ecstatic about this gun I am really looking forward to shooting it I have had the opportunity to fire the original a ni AR tens I expect it's going to be a lot like the original AR tense but what I expect you to look like the original was because the rifle is so light you get a lot of recoil first-first mechanics mechanically work beautiful no complaints whatsoever the fit and feel is the same as the original Sudanese AR tendon I shot a few years back in Las Vegas there's two miles of this this is the ar-10 a which is more of the tan furniture then they had which referred to is the AR 10 B which is very very similar except you have black material which is more accurate for the later rifles of black handguard stocks whatnot and you have a little bit of a different type of flash hider on it and that also utilizes a lightweight barrel I chose this one because this one here is is the most historically correct from the more of the beginning so I hope you guys really enjoyed this video there's a lot of information that you might get in superstars like my stuff from the armored life stuff I just want to give you an idea of where the history went first far as going from the original rifle military trials to that failure to being manufactured in Holland to have that felt and then to have Colt get the rifle and then cold stops doesn't even make the air time it just sits the drugs just sitting there therefore therefore their files forever which to eventually beat to be destroyed in a flood and then with the name armored light coming back with westrom and Eagle arms to him developing ar-10 rifles alongside or simultaneously is a design read nights with Jean stoner and then from there you have the you know the sr-25 going to the the mark 11 to the m110 to being accepted finally after all these years by the most elite soldiers in the world and again I think it was already said jeez donor never got to live to see that his his vision that he had in the late 50s of tomorrow rifle today was just that if it wasn't for the government bureaucracy and the back handedness and the deliberate sitting rifle out to fail that was done by Ordnance Corps this should have been our rifle they should not have been the m14 this should have been our rifle they were to replace the m1 garand modern durable reliable easy to manufacture but it had not made here syndrome and student learn wears no way in hell that he was gonna have a the other than his homegrown m14 which was his traditional m1 to keep his arsenals running that along with the failure of the m16 program is what sealed the doom of wardens core because they failed the American soldier over the last 100 plus years or 200 years I can help you guys enjoy this video if you do please click like please subscribe and even better share you

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[u/MarcusWulfe941]

Good to see him back on YouTube, I love how informative Chris is.

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Chris Bartocci gives an overview of the early development history, the failures of the US Army testing and the resurrection of the AR10 at Knight's Armament Company, and the alternative version at Mark Westrom's Armalite. This video includes some photos of the original AR10 promotional literature, as well as some old video of Chris shooting the original Sudanese AR10.

He then takes a detailed look at the Brownells BRN-10A which is a close copy of the Sudanese AR10, albeit with some concessions to to modern materials and processes that could not perfectly replicate the 1950s-1960s technology. Also explained are necessary design changes, such as the bolt catch.

 

The video runtime is 43:51.

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