Recently, Rock River Arms launched a new series of rifles. The Operator 2 line consists of 3 unique styles of Rock River Arms well known direct-gas-operated LAR-15 style firearms. All of them share some familiar abilities, and the firearms take their name from the new Operator stock Rock River Arms has recently released. Rock River Arms started out constructing very nice 1911s, years before it was cool, the Corona, IL, company got into the AR-15 field. Its firearms were so well made that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency decided on Rock River to produce its issue weapons available currently as the LAR-15 Pro-Series Government Model.

Rock River Arms was launched eleven years ago by two brothers, Mark and Chuck Larson, who worked out of a garage. It has developed progressively ever since as well as today employs more than 90 folks. Even though Rock River produces firearms for several government agencies, the majority of their product sales are to the civilian market place. Rock River Arms offers fifty or so versions of weapons, but customers can make up their personal designs, utilizing numerous components alternatives - sights, rails, stocks, barrel length and contour, and more. Rock River will additionally add add-ons like flashlights and red dot sights. Rock River Arms is like an a la carte workshop for weapons. Rock River doesn’t make many components on site. Rock River designs and specifications parts, then receive them, perform inspections, complete them, assemble them into weapons and ship them out. The RRA factory is actually complete with a buffing and blasting area, where raw forgings become completed parts. Rock River Arms is genuinely a family business with the brothers Chuck and Mark Larson as well as their father and one of their sons working at the plant. Looking about the facility there were many boxes of rifle carrier groups, essentially the bolts of the rifles. Rock River Arms offers an almost countless number of chambering options for the basic AR platform. Once you own a lower half which consists of the stock and receiver, you can buy upper halves (barrel, carrier group, and gas system) in all kinds of chambering and interchange them freely. There's even a company that offers a .410 shotgun upper half for the AR15 rifle.

Components are measured throughout the production stage. Components are tested for hardness. The moment testing is complete the come together at the respective assembly stations. Care is taken with every step of the upper and lower assemblies. Uppers are matched with various barrels and lowers are assembles usually are assembled with National Match triggers at 4 lbs and various stock combinations.

All rifles are built to customers specifications and each lower and upper is unique

In the shipping area, parts come in, guns go out. There seems to be no end to the demand. Rifles usually are sitting on dealers’ shelves for a few days before they’re gone. For dealers that take deposits, guns never even make it to the shelves before they are picked up by a local customer or shipped out again.

Preparation for the firing test begins with the loading of magazines which is a full time job. The finisher snaps 20-30 rounds into waiting magazines in preparation for the final function test

Several times a day, assemblers and rifle testers load the Rock River van with weapons and take them away to the range. Shooting from the back of the van, each and every rifle with sights is sighted in, and then test-fired for function. Testers shoot at least two magazines through the fully automatic guns. Who says semi automatics aren’t accurate? With barrels provided by Wilson Barrel, the primary appeal of Rock River Arms rifles is that they shoot much better than marketed.

Thanks to Rock River Arms AR-15 AR15 Model BB2522 Rock River Arms light-weight, it's effortless to transport and the Rock River Arms AR15 BB2522 Operator 2 is even simpler to fire. Created with entirely top-grade materials and manufactured to the strictest specifications, this Rock River Arms Tactical Rifle AR15 BB2522 Operator 2 is really accurate, durable, and well-performing, and makes a great addition to any rifle collection.

The Rock River Arms AR-15 AR15 BB2522 Operator 2 rifle includes a Rock River Arms winter trigger guard and the ERGO Sure Grip. While I prefer a hard pistol grip, I have long recommended use of pistol grips such as the ERGO that add a little material to the backstrap of the rifle. Standard AR pistol grips are too small for anyone who does not have child-size hands, and they encourage poor shooting technique by putting the second joint of the finger on the trigger. Replacement grips such as the ERGO correct that downside. The rifles are furnished with the RRA Star safety/selector, which sticks out a bit more from the receiver than a mil-spec safety. It is not ambidextrous. The safety worked just like it should, but I like the looks of the mil-spec design better probably because its what I am used to. When I first picked up the Operator and tried the trigger, I was really shocked. As a general rule, production line triggers on AR-15s are terrible. Not so the Operator trigger. Its crisp, light, two-stage trigger that breaks right at 4 pounds -not what I was expecting at all. This was right before I realized that all the Operator rifles come equipped with Rock River Arms well-respected two-stage National Match trigger system, which features a lightened hammer.

Now, I understand that even without brakes .223s just don't recoil all that much, especially when versus the bolt-action sporter-weight rifles chambered in big game calibers. That said, these weapons are designed for use in competition or self-defense, where rapid, accurate follow-up shots might sometimes be the difference between winning and losing. And in a self-defense situation, second place is not where you want to be.



Accuracy Results - Rock River Arms AR-15 BB2522 Operator 2

Load Muzzle Velocity (fps) Standard Deviation (fps) Group Size (in.)
Black Hills 55-gr. SP 2,910 12 0.99
Black Hills 60-gr. V-Max 2,880 16 0.87
American Eagle 55-gr. FMJ 2,810 24 1.05
Black Hills Match King 69-gr. HP 2,780 21 1.03
Hornady 55-gr. V-Max 2,935 13 1.11
Black Hills 52-gr. HP 3,042 18 1.12

Most dealers in my location desired retail plus which did not set well with my budget. I purchased my Operator from Class 3 Weapons in Houston Texas at a appreciable savings of only $969.00 which included shipping.


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