US Special Operation’s Smallest Assault Rifle

oh sorry about that I was looking for the map Festival is this the map Festival wonderful I brought some Lululemon oh you love Lululemon great well let me show you what I got all right foreign Grantham the Sig Rattler a lot of interesting little tidbits about where this came from but this is a personal defense weapon it is a rifle and it is chambered in 300 Blackout which is a very interesting caliber this is a very small boy there's a lot to talk about so stay tuned as we do what we always do and we delve into different weapons but before we do we have to thank the biggest sponsor of the channel the Sonoran Desert in studio big thank you to them if you're looking to get your start in Gunsmithing they are the people to go to we cannot thank them enough they've supported the channel for a long time despite how many times we've butchered their name which will not be today but a big thank you to the SDI go and check them out and uh we also have to uh give a shout out to Micah the camera 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big thing to them go and check them out uh we love them and dry fire should be a big part of your training isn't that right Justin you could say yes okay there you go and unlike the camera that this is filmed on on like the TV you're watching this on right now AAC ammunition is made in the U.S we actually use all AAC ammo today so if you give them a big shout out for uh you know being cool for the channel allowing you to uh have a good time well that's a big thank you to them so right here we have the Sig Rattler now before we get into the review it's important that we do our full disclosure if you're not getting a full disclosure from your reviewer problematic we've obviously done a lot of Sig reviews in the past there's a lot of military procurement going on and beyond that there's a lot of products being released so we have received products from Sig we have reviewed those products we have never been paid any money for reviews but we have uh obviously we have the Sig LT we have certain firearms that we have received from them for those reviews and we still have those for comparison's sake in our inventory so you need to understand that going into this now in the case of the Rattler it was purchased by me but that being said we do have a relationship with Sig so please understand that despite all that we are always as unbiased as possible while ammunition was provided for by AAC and not by Sig so that is how that goes the optic is from Wilcox um on loan as a quick note otherwise everything else is just purchased by me so the Sig Rattler actually has a pretty interesting history I've been lucky to be able to talk with a lot of the employees over at Sig to discover exactly how it came about so essentially what we had was a international soft partner who's close to the United States asked for a MCX and they wanted to see how short they could get it surely not anything that crazy um Sig continually shortened the barrel until they got to a point where it became unreliable they made some changes to the gas system and they were able to get what we have here today which is Rattler which is probably the shortest that you can go on the Sig system without running into some pretty significant issues so the Sig Rattler as a whole is still used by Socom I can't speak to how much it is used I'm out of the military at this point and my buddies are still in can't exactly speak to that publicly but it is definitely within the inventory it's been seen in many photos and all all the different variations of the Rattler as you see them out in the wild but the variant that we have right here is going to be the commercial variant which is a 5.5 inch barrel this is a short stroke gas operated weapon much like the ar-18 if you're familiar with ar-18 at all it's always been an error 18. it always has been or Mike is going to pop up that meme right now please do it I'm dying right now okay memes up they are 18's operating system is very popular which is why you see it in this again CX you see it in the G36 as well as many many other Firearms it's just a successful well-proven system in the case of the Rattler or the MCX vertis or just the MCX in general the system has been pretty well perfected so let's go ahead and let's talk about the system and uh how it kind of works and why it was designed now the Rattler does come in other calibers Beyond 300 black uh 556 is another one that comes in also a 5.5 inch barrel this was originally designed for the military so that they could have ease of cost of training they didn't have to continually you know use 300 Blackout this is generally not something that we recommend I would not recommend the 5.5 that's extremely short for 556 and not terribly effective so if you're gonna get a Rattler in 556 with a 5.5 inch barrel just don't it's not a good thing to do within the military there is a 7.62 by 39 version for uh you know all that kind of spooky [ __ ] so those are out there but you typically don't see them so the Rattler is obviously a very small weapon easily foldable very compact it was designed primarily as a personal defense weapon and as a CQB weapon or as we like to say on Grantham just your Good Old murder weapon so obviously if we were to lengthen the barrel a few inches to about seven or six inches or eight or nine you can get a lot more performance out of the 300 black compared to you know the 5.5 inch barrel we have here but you have to understand that the Rattler is pushing very heavily towards one side of the Spectrum which is autism um just kidding it's going to be CQB right so obviously this could be a much more effective weapon if we if we added more barrel length but you have to understand that this is purpose built it is made to be as compact as possible and because of that there are sacrifices that are going to be made to the overall operation of the weapon system as well as the overall terminal ballistics that you're gonna be getting out of the rounds being fired from it so if your whole argument against Rattler is that it's not terribly effective with 300 black yes noted that's not what it's for thank you for your input no one cares now the Rattler falling into that PDW category definitely has a couple different competitors out there most notably I would say the honey badger is a big competitor you also have the MP7 and the P90 which kind of fall into that PDW category but due to their uh due to the round they're they're not good at some of the stuff that the 300 black is good out so we'll primarily compare this against the honey badger today when we're doing a couple comparisons in certain ways the cigarattler is a better weapon than the honey badger in certain ways it isn't I find it to be a more robust system overall but both the honey badger and the cigarattler are able to both cycle subs and supers without much of a change which is really what you want to see in a weapon that can fire 300 blackout in general I tend to air towards the Rattler a little bit more than the honey badger just due to the fact that the lower can accept different uppers right they can accept both the Rattler upper as well as any MCX vertice upper so we have a vertice lower right here with the Rattler upper I find that to be a little bit more friendly for civilian use where you might have different uppers that you need to slap on to fit different Mission sets whether whatever whatever type of LARPing that you're doing so I like that a little bit more I will also say within the same breath kinda that the honey badger is a lighter system it is more purpose built so it really depends what you're going on I like the MCX for the utility and the fact that it can be swapped to fill different Mission sets so I do like that about it same upper and you can of course different Barrel so right here we have a 300 black this is a subsonic round this is from AAC the 300 blacks are really interesting caliber right here we have a 556 right next to it so what was so nice about the 300 Blackout is you can essentially have the same magazine and you can run the 300 Blackout with not a whole lot of hassle now what's really cool about 300 Blackout is the capabilities that it has because 300 Blackout can be both a supersonic round as well as a subsonic round so what we mean by that is 556 is a supersonic round now it can be made subsonic you can put less powder in it and that projectile won't break the sound barrier but the problem is that the AR-15 will not reliably cycle that or Cyclone at all so there are some issues there if you're wanting to be super duper quiet now with 300 Blackout many of the weapons that are made can both reliably cycle supersonic rounds as well as subsonic rounds now it is an all like La La Land because the supersonic rounds don't quite have the carry distance that the 556 does where the 556 is going to have more range it's a lighter round there's not a whole lot of powder in these cartridges so understand that it's not completely a bigger heavier round being fired out of an AR-15 type system is going to be better but understand that the 300 Blackout fills a use case scenario so where it's really good is with the 300 Blackout you can have a magazine of super so you go and Ambush a car and you fire supersonic grounds they easily punch you the car they do a lot of damage and then as you need to exfil from the situation you can easily switch over to a subsonic magazine and you can be super duper quiet on your way out to not make as much noise or vice versa where you have a bunch of subs for the actual mission where you're trying to be as quiet as possible and then if you get compromised in your LARPing then you can switch over to supers and do a lot more damage so again you're not getting that range that you get with 556 at the same time you have a really cool kind of overall system when it comes to 300 Blackout so to show you a little bit of that we'll show you some supers for Subs oh hey sorry I didn't 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gun as hard so on that suppress subsonic setting you can run supers but as you can see it is going to give you a little bit more recoil if you're primarily running SuperSonics you can easily check take that little gas setting push it down the left side and then you're going to be running those SuperSonics a little bit more lightly you're not going to have as much recoil it's not going to run the gun as hard however it's not going to be running those subsonics so I typically tend to keep it on the down position on the right side for the more gas or subsonics because I primarily am firing subsonic rounds when it comes to 300 Blackout okay next up we have subsonics again they're traveling slower than the speed of sound which is under 1100 feet per second when you're firing at a Target that is 156 yards you're going to hear how long it takes for that slow slow 220 grain slug to reach there it's pretty cool [Music] that delay is kind of crazy when it comes to the 300 Blackout so it is a slow round but as you can see the 220 grain slugs do hit hard um and these are Sierra match Kings they are open tip match so you definitely don't want to get hit by those those are despite going slow they're still going to do quite a bit of damage so don't underestimate it it's like 45 but much better travel through the body okay next up we have 220 grain slugs I'm going to show you the recoil on these guys right here despite being a lot more weight um there's not really any recoil difference compared to a 556 so I'll show you that right now um yeah really no difference from 556 feels pretty comparable uh despite firing a much heavier slug so pretty cool way to go 300 Blackout but I would say overall 556 uh probably have to do a video I might eat crow with this statement but I think 556 is a deadly around whoo that's gonna piss people off we'll see have you ever wondered why I'm not a character in Call of Duty because I think about it a lot but I kind of don't want to be associated with what they got going on in any case we're going to talk about the Rattler we're going to do with the Navy loves we're gonna go tip to butt and talk about everything that makes this rifle this PDW what it is and uh talk about what we think about it so we're going to start at the tip here which is going to piss off Sig I don't like the Sig suppressors so we have on here a CGS group Hyperion K one of my favorite suppressors I love this thing I use it on a ton of different guns and it's been performing extremely well the back pressure is great and the gas to the face is very minimal which is what you want on a gun that's almost suppressed 100 of the time so Hyperion K big fan we love them uh we'll go ahead and we'll move back to the barrel at this point at 5.5 inches it does a fairly good job of flash suppression at night and uh you're not getting a massive amount of accuracy out of the Rattler it is a 300 black firing Subs primarily so in my experience I'm between three again I'm firing with a red dot about three to four MOA I'm sure maybe sometimes five depending on how hot it is outside it is very hot right now so it's not what I consider a Precision weapon I'm sure somebody could probably push it to two or something like that if they were really good but just fine with the Red Dot that's perfectly acceptable for the short range nature of the 300 Blackout especially the subs the supers do do better um however with a longer Barrel they're of course going to do way better which is why you see the other variants out there but when it comes to the civilian version for a purpose-built PDW weapon having to fight in and out of a car in a house or something like that the 5.5 300 Blackout is absolutely awesome so one of the nice things we've already talked about the adjustable gas system but compared to the honey badger I do like that it is not a gas impingement system that we do have a short serve gas operating system because you do have a lot less fouling getting back into the weapon so it does tend to run cleaner overall over a longer period of time compared to the honey badger isn't really um me saying that the honey badger is a bad system it's just my maintenance Cycles between um you know round counts is much different between the two systems which is why I tend to uh kind of air towards the Sig Rattler so obviously um the Rattler has a tiny tiny hand guard so there is a rail space problem when it comes to the Rattler and this has led to the development of a lot of different products to solve this problem you can see here we have two M lock slots on the three o'clock the six o'clock and at the nine o'clock with some clever products and you know a little bit of thought going into it you're gonna be able to have a weapon that works if you're just trying to set this up like you would a AR-15 the longer rail space it's probably not going to work very well for you but when it comes to the handguard the handguard itself actually doesn't have any Picatinny you can see the handguard ends right here so what that comes down to is when you're going to have some type of peck on there for IR laser light for night vision work all that kind of stuff generally you're going to want to run either a mall so you have that rotated off to the right so you can kind of fit stuff in there or some other solution so right here we do have a boss XC on a experimental Mount from Wilcox but gbrs group obviously has a Hydra which everybody made fun of but actually is purpose built for these really short weapon systems where it puts that optic super high and there's a diving board for that Peck to set up front and Michael will pop up a picture right here of those so that's why those products were made because when you don't have a whole lot of grip space you really can't have the PEC there it kind of really screws at the grip if we take a look at what we have right here we do have a Surefire Scout light this is the turbo model and then we have the tail switch coming down to a modified BCM angled grip that's been chopped this work was done by a gangster grip guy on Instagram as you can see right here the button allows me to activate that I'm a big fan of saving rail space right there especially on this particular platform so that is a pretty cool little product he's come out with on the opposite side this pressure pad that is offset is from Wilcox and that connects to the boss XC because the boss XE is not just a optic it also has a laser has IR laser has IR Illuminator so it's kind of a Peck and an optic combined a couple other things as well but we're not going to get into that but that's why we have the pressure pad right there we have that cord running back right there I probably do a little bit better of cable management there we have that zip tied in place and then we have that connected into the boss XC the boss XE sits way too low without a riser so we actually talked with Wilcox we had them develop this Riser right here the back is for a flipped side magnifier such as an EOTech or maybe their own but it's not really necessary on the 300 Blackout but I do like the boss XE we'll talk about it for just a moment the boss actually is specifically designed to work with 300 Blackout because obviously your zeros between a supersonic round and a subsonic round are going to be somewhere different because of that what they have right here is a mechanical built-in zero change so what you do is you zero the optic and then what you can do is you can set the mechanical Zero by switching it and you can adjust that elevation change to the subsonic round so when you switch between sub supers to Subs you can make sure that your rounds are hitting true now in addition to that what's really cool about it is it also has iron sights built in so there are insights built into the system and those also have a mechanical shift with the zero so the lasers the iron sights within the optic and the optic itself when there's when you're zeroing all move together which is pretty cool so it is a very expensive optic for 300 Blackout I consider it pretty cool I know some people have some issues with it as far as its Illuminator is concerned I personally like it for this application so I know we spent a lot of time talking about setup but when it comes to kind of a odd weapon system such as what we have right here everyone's going to get mad at me saying weapon system um it's important to talk about setup because there's a lot that goes into it there's a lot of thought so you kind of want to modify what you've typically known with uh you know some new factors that come into play when your handguard's so short you definitely want some type of vertical grip because having your your wrist at like the typical angle is going to be extremely uncomfortable so definitely adding the vertical grip to make sure that you're gripping um your wrist is in a more natural position is going to be important here so some type of vertical vertical grip works so we've talked enough about setup we're going to move back to the controls so the controls are very much so like a vertice um we have our bolt release we have a bolt hold open I've always liked like the Sig one where it's a little bit wider so you can get to it to hold that bolt back when you're doing malfunctions we have a Ambi mag release and then on the opposite side we have our very fat very big magazine release we have no no way to release the bolt on this side otherwise in actuating the charging you handle other than actuating the charging handle right here moving over to the safety safety is well designed it's very air 15 like we have safe semi and then of course we'd have a full freaking Auto on the other side and like it should be we have a small selector right there the same side a little accuracy fire and all that kind of stuff grip I've always been a fan of the grip when it comes to the Sig products it's very nice um very flat angle which I like now with all that being said let's talk a little bit about the trigger so on this guy we have a surprise surprise geisley SSA it is specifically designed for the MCX because uh regular air triggers don't work on the LT versions the regular AR triggers work but on these older ones they don't so go ahead we'll do what we always do we're going to go ahead we're gonna ghost that trigger together let's go let's feel it so we have a little bit of play right there about pound and a half we ever let off feeling that again reset quick and from that reset maybe uh pound and a half it is a short reset it is a beautiful feeling trigger and if you're going to have a MCX I would highly recommend that you have a Galaxy trigger all right come on over to here the side of the handguard we do have a cutie slot and thankfully it is locking thank God thank you Sig you know what you're doing we have that on both sides over here we also have those at the rear of the receiver and then on our stock that we have right here this one's from Sheffield tactical it is a Elva prototype reproduction which is super [ __ ] cool because I'm a nerd also locking to to a a little bit more rotation but perfect for what I want from a stock so those are the QD positions moving back and moving from the cuties we do have our stock like I said before Sheffield tactical and it is folding just like every other 1913 MCX sock so again you just push up on that that folds to the side and the weapon will still fire when it is folded say hello my little friend and especially if you have like a vertice lower already and you're switching between you know a 14 5 16 or an 11 5 down to a rattler as you need as needed that's cool just understand it is very purpose built and because of that there are a lot of drawbacks the 300 sub does not have a lot of range does not have a lot of accuracy there's a lot of problems now that being said it is super duper murder quiet so if you're gonna get a rattler understand it is a very purpose-built gun it is not our first choice it is a choice a tool for the tool bag and it is well designed with the honey badger I consider them both to be excellent excellent 300 Blackout host and I would choose either of them and be happy with my choice so find the one that's going to work for you and go from there the other factor is it looks cool as [ __ ] so um if you like cool looking guns it certainly fits that mold guys thank you so much for watching um I love doing these types of videos where I go kind of in depth on these different types of rifles so get out there find what's going to work for you but the most important thing is going to be training if you're not training with this guy then you're gonna suck with it if you're not training CQB with your boys uh just because don't do CQB alone then you're gonna die so get out there find the rifle that's going to work with you train with the boys get good with it and that's going to be terrifying some guy with a Rattler at 150 yards which is kind of starting to push it on 300 black with Subs still going to be hella scared of them especially if he's a trained guy so with all that being said guys get outside have a good time we really appreciate you guys tons of great videos coming and we've got a we've got nothing else for you guys okay final thing dad advice all right I've got four kids I should be able to do this right Justin um don't be a friend with your kids what I mean by that is that little person that kid that teenager is going to be an adult and the adult world doesn't give a [ __ ] about them so if you're not teaching your kid hard life lessons if they're not growing up to be a a tough a resilient a logical a emotionally mature human being then you're doing them into service because life doesn't care so when you're sitting there with your kids think about that make sure that you're teaching them consequences that you're doing all those things that matter and that you're raising a well-adjusted adult that will not trust the government as always guys thank you for watching we got nothing else for you all right video is about done we want to give a big shout out again to War Thunder for sponsoring this video go follow that link below go play it it is free you get cool stuff if you register on PC use my link thank you guys so much

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Length: 26min 36sec (1596 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 30 2023