It suffered from not having a free floating forearm, shipping with a Bravo Company Keymod forearm, heavy trigger (in spite of being Nickel Boron coated), a GI gas block/front sight, Bravo Company adjustable stock and pistol grip. While the Saint has a medium contour 1 in 8 twist barrel with mid-length gas system and heavy “H” tungsten buffer, it was lacking for my purposes. This rifle was going to be able to do all I needed it to do and to turn this average rifle into a full race-ready Saint. Being well over 21, with my beat up old body I was shocked and happy. Out of the box, the M4 was shooting consistent sub ¾” groups. The initial testing was done with mil-spec 55-grain full metal jacket from Federal. I had a few offerings from Black Hills and Federal which would become the ammunition used for all the accuracy testing. Yes I know, that is not a long range, but I use a 50/200 yard zero on my ARs so this works. As much as I would like to get in that debate, we are here to discuss taking The Saint ($899) from a solid shooter to a serious competition rifle.įirst thing was to see how the rifle would shoot with iron sights at 50 yards. I know that the worldwide web has been going crazy about Springfield being a turn coat and needs boycotted. I had a chance to handle it at the SHOT Show and it was a good bang for the buck. The Saint turns out to be a value packed AR15/M4. Was it a new XD, enhanced 1911? Well, all the guesses were way off. The internet was all abuzz from Twitter to Facebook to various shooting forums-all had their theories as to what The Saint was going to be. Just before Christmas 2016 I started receiving emails from Springfield Armory regarding the super-secret new firearm. The Saint as she ships from Springfield Armory, a solid carbine that can be turned into a fine 3-Gun rifle.
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