{"id":887,"date":"2013-10-04T16:17:02","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T21:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/?p=887"},"modified":"2020-01-04T19:00:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T00:00:40","slug":"larue-tactical-optimized-battle-rifle-obr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/2013\/10\/larue-tactical-optimized-battle-rifle-obr\/","title":{"rendered":"LaRue Tactical Optimized Battle Rifle (OBR)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LaRue<\/a><\/p>\n

The LaRue OBR represents the pinnacle of autoloading medium-caliber rifles. It’s not the only premium AR-10-pattern gun on the market, but it’s probably the best deal. The base rifle is just over $3000 … plus a wait currently running about eight months. Fit and finish on this hand-built gun is superlative. In fact, the tolerance between the upper and lower was so tight I had to use a rubber mallet to separate them at the rear takedown pin.<\/p>\n

The 18″ .308 caliber model here has been kitted up with LaRue’s quick-detach scope mount ($264), a $2200 Nightforce F1 NXS scope, Atlas QD bipod ($280), and $1250 Thunder Beast 30BA suppressor. Suppressor compatibility is one of the great features of this gun: It has a port selector on the gas block that toggles to the right to reduce blowback when shooting with a suppressor. And, since even that won’t prevent carbon fouling of the action<\/a>, most of the BCG has a polished chrome finish that wipes clean — shown here cleaned after<\/em> its first extended range session:<\/p>\n

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The rifle comes with two of LaRue’s M110 20-round magazines, which are slicked-up boxes with a fully-welded seam in the rear to maximize loadable cartridge length. Additional LaRue mags run $75\/apiece.<\/p>\n

A couple of sons joined us for the rifle’s inauguration. After we sighted in at 200 yards a 90-pound 12-year-old with little experience was able to get behind it and ring two 10-inch swinging plates, alternating back and forth with no hesitation, for a full magazine. It was an impressive feat. Before moving to more distant steel I jumped on it and took the first four shots at 300 yards with my 150gr handload optimized for 18″ barrels:<\/p>\n

\"OBR<\/a><\/p>\n

With both 168gr FGMM and this handload the rifle is easily a 1\/2 MOA gun. Update:<\/strong> Further testing at 100 yards using state-of-the-art statistics<\/a> show its CEP is under 0.4MOA.<\/p>\n

The trigger is a crisp Geissele SSA two-stage, with about two pounds on each stage. When given the choice I opt for single-stage triggers, but on a rifle designed for the most grueling field conditions I can agree that a two-stage offers an extra layer of control while still allowing for the precision of a light pull.<\/p>\n

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The LaRue OBR represents the pinnacle of autoloading medium-caliber rifles. It’s not the only premium AR-10-pattern gun on the market, but it’s probably the best deal. The base rifle is just over $3000 … plus a wait currently running about eight months. Fit and finish on this hand-built gun is superlative. In fact, the tolerance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arms"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po3d1-ej","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1193,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions\/1193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}