[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Magpul MASADA (Page 1 of 5)
It was in the tech forum and the Shot Show picture thread. Not titled so would not come up in the search.  I think I may have to save up my pennies for this one 
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I'll bet money it will change your mind. As you can tell from my other posts on this I like it just a little bit. They may have to drag me away from the Magpul booth when the show is over. 
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Well that's an unfortunate choice of name. Everybody died / commited suicide there. Should have called it 'Spartan' or 'Alamo' or 'Corregidor' or 'Chosin'. At least those folks died fighting. Nice looking weapon, though. Blend of AR, AK, FN-FAL, even a touch of M-60 in the buttstock. |
They may as well have called it the Magpul Waco Here's a much more critical thread in the AR forum along with the picture of Mr. Bald Multicam Head: www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=3&f=118&t=310266 |
Just to keep it up top:  What is known so far. People at shot said the representatives are saying ~ 18 months. The amount of ~ $1400 keeps getting kicked around.
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I hope they really wring it out in that 18 month timeframe... I don't buy ver. 1.0 of anything, not even something designed by the Google of firearms design, MagPul... edit now I know the extraction is the same as the AR's which I view as a weakness. A non-reciprocating charging handle is a weak way to extract a stuck round... 
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O.k., I think it looks really cool, but I have some concerns. (1) Is this magpul's first attempt at a firearm? I know they produce good firearm parts, but have they ever produced an actual gun before? If not, how would I know that it would be as reliable as, say, my Colt LE 6920? I'd be suspicious of anyone's first entry into the gun manufacturer world, no matter how good a company. (2) That folding stock looks like it covers the ejection port. Can it fire with the stock folded? If not, that would be a black mark against it vis a vis the SCAR.
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it must be teh best ever because it looks cool, is made by people who make rubber rail covers and the bald guy in the poster has Multicam on his scalp. |
See, that is what I was thinking about. Granted I have never fired the new Sig or an SL8, but this really looks like the first non-Ar 5.56 that I would entertain paying the money for. |
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I am going to go ahead and guess that the guys at MagPul ensured it could be fired with the stock folded!
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You know, at first I thought the same thing. I though, eh, it's ok, but an ar15 is just as cool ect. The more I look at it, and after going over that poster thing seeing everything that it has, I like it. A lot. Too bad I'm too poor to even afford an Ar  .
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That's not quite my concern. My concern is their experience in doing something like this. Would this weapon survive the same types of tests that Colt or FN or HK do in delivering rifles to the U.S. army or other major armies? What round count does this thing fail at under extreme conditions? Things like that. |
Well you just proved that you don't know shit about MagPul... congrats. |
From the poster pic it looks like the stock is specifically built NOT to interfere with ejection when it is folded. |
From the poster pic it looks like the stock is specifically built NOT to interfere with ejection when it is folded. |
It's actually an excellent name. Masada was the epitome of the creed, "live free or die." |
Healthy skepticism keeps me from buying junk that I later regret. I like MagPul for some of its products, especially my choice CTR. But, how many rifles has MagPul brought to market? |
Actually that's a VERY good question... |
Even worse - the folks on Masada were attacking their own people, as well as the Romans, before the Romans finally had enough and prepared to crush them. THEN THEY KILLED THEMSELVES. 'Masada' as an example of 'taking a stand' looks an dsounds good at first glance, but the realities of what happened there do not make it a worthy example or name IMAO, particularly not in terms of the RKBA fight here in America. In fact I think it is more in line with defeatist fan-fiction predicting a future america where RKBA advocates are hunted down like stray dogs. Problem with modern america - lot of lip-flapping and next to nothing being done to actually defeat our enemies foreign and domestic. We'll congratulate ourselves for 'taking a stand' and 'fighting the good fight', meanwhile the AWB is shoved up our asses for its full 10yr span and allowed to expire instead of being reversed by a supposedly Republican-controlled Congress. Instead the cretinous LIARS of Brady / VPC / HCI / whomever are allowed to continue spreading their garbage effectively unchallenged. But hey, 'we're fighting the good fight' / 'taking a stand.' feh. |
I would prefer it if the made the ENTIRE grip modular (like the AR  ).
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