The new Operator series from Rock River Arms offers tons of features at an excellent price. Rock River Arms AR-15 BB2522 Operator 2 Rifle

Recently, Rock River Arms launched a new series of firearms. The Operator 2 line consists of 3 unique versions of Rock River Arms highly regarded direct-gas-operated LAR-15 style rifles. Each of them share some standard functions, and the weapons take their name from the new Operator stock Rock River Arms has recently announced. Rock River Arms started out building excellent 1911s, years before it was cool, the Corona, IL, company got into the AR-15 field. Its firearms were so perfectly made that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency selected 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 2 brothers, Mark and Chuck Larson, who worked out of a garage. It has developed steadily ever since and today employs more than ninety folks. Even though Rock River produces rifles for several govt agencies, the actual vast majority of their sales are to the civilian sector. Rock River Arms offers 50 or so versions of weapons, but shoppers can make up their own designs, making use of a great number of components alternatives - sights, rails, stocks, barrel length and contour, and more. Rock River will additionally include accessories like flashlights and red dot sights. Rock River Arms is like an a la carte workshop for rifles. Rock River doesn’t make many parts on site. Rock River designs and spec parts, then receive them, perform inspections, complete them, assemble them into weapons and ship them out. The RRA facility is complete with a buffing and blasting area, where raw forgings become finished parts. Rock River Arms is truly 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 purchase 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 as well as examined as they arrive in to the production facility and at various stages during production. Tested for hardness, testing is done all the way down to the flash hider. All of the little sub assemblies - sights, gas blocks, carrier groups, safeties, and so on -- come together at the stations where the upper halves and lower halves are put together. Once at a work station the gunsmith assembles the upper half of what will be a future complete rifle. The gunsmith takes special care to assemble the upper with the silver tube running along the top of the barrel which directs gas from the gas block to run the action. During the upper half assembly, the headspace gauges are used to examine the dimensions of the chamber. The bolt of a rifle should close up over the green “go” gauge but not close over the red “no go,” which is slightly oversized. Cartridges can rupture, occasionally dangerously, in an oversized chamber. Rock River offers the choice of a standard trigger or a two-stage National Match trigger for serious target shooting. A two stage trigger is the recommended style for military rifle competitions such as the famous National Match at Camp Perry, Ohio. Pulling a two-stage trigger, you feel slack as the trigger moves a short distance, then a light, clean break. The Rock River Arms gunsmith will check the weight of the trigger pull by dangling a 4 1/ 2 lb weight from the trigger. If the weight doesn’t trip the trigger, he will file the trigger sear to lighten the pull. Lighter trigger pulls are also available from leading Rock River Arms dealers. Lowers also come with options such as an oversized winter trigger guard, originally designed for police officers who needed to keep their hands inside warm gloves but still be ready to shoot in cold weather. Winter trigger guards work perfectly for winter coyote hunters as well. As the final pieces are assembled into a lower half of what will be the final rifle, this lower half could also be matched to an endless combination of barrel lengths, barrel contour, hand-guards and calibers.

As uppers and lowers are joined by a master gunsmith assembler, the firearms are tagged and prepared for the test fire phase of the product.

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 out to the range. Shooting from the back of the vehicle, 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 principal attraction of Rock River Arms rifles is that they shoot significantly better than marketed.

Thanks to Rock River Arms AR-15 Model BB2522 Rock River Arms Operator 2 light-weight, it's trouble-free to carry and the Rock River Arms Tactical Rifle AR-15 Model BB2522 Rock River Arms is even smoother to shoot. Produced with exclusively top-grade materials and produced to the strictest technical specs, this Rock River Arms AR-15 BB2522 Operator 2 is exceedingly precise, long lasting, and reliable, and makes a beneficial improvement to any firearm collection.

The Rock River Arms Tactical Rifle AR15 Model BB2522 Rock River Arms 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 do not have child-size hands, and they encourage poor shooting technique by positioning the second joint of the finger on the trigger. After market grips such as the ERGO correct that downside. The rifles are equipped 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 performed just like it should, but I like the looks of the mil-spec design better probably because its what I'm accustomed to. When I first picked up the Operator and tried out the trigger, I was really astonished. As a general rule, production line triggers on AR-15s are awful. Not so the Operator trigger. Its crisp, light, two-stage trigger that breaks right at four lbs -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 includes a lightened hammer.

Now, I realize that even without brakes .223s just don't recoil all that much, particularly 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.



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

Notes: Accuracy results are the averages of four five-shot groups at 100 yards from a sandbag rest. Velocities are averages of three shots measured with an F-1 Alpha chronograph 12 feet from the muzzle. Abbreviations: FMJ, full metal jacket; HP, hollowpoint; SP, softpoint.

It is easy to get great groups from a mediocre rifle if it has a great trigger, but put a tack-driver with a gritty eight-pound trigger in anybody's hands, and they will be lucky to stay on paper. The Rock River Arms Operator rifles are not just inherently accurate (that's one plus to the AR design), they are equipped with quality triggers that enable the user to get the most out of them.

Rock River Arms AR-15 AR15 Model BB2522 Rock River Arms Operator 2 has a list price of 1515.00. I ended up ordering it over the internet for much less. Most dealers in my area wanted list price ... plus which did not set well with my spending plan. I purchased my Rock River Arms AR-15 AR15 Model BB2522 Rock River Arms from Class 3 Weapons in Houston, Texas at a considerable cost savings. Rock River Arms is at this time selling the Operator rifles as a package deal, with the rifle of your choice equipped with its National Match two-stage trigger, any one of four rear sights, a one-inch or 30mm Hi-Rise scope mount, two 30-round magazines and a case. These packages start at an incredibly economical price of $1,000 according to the RRA factory website. I ended up purchasing it online for much less. Most dealers in my vicinity wanted retail plus which did not set well with my budget. I acquired my Operator from Class 3 Weapons in Houston Texas at a sizeable savings of only $969.00 which included shipping. Depending on where you live your price will deviate based on shipping and taxes if applicable. For the time being, thanks Rock River for a awesome firearm and keep up the good work. I'm off to the area firing range to see what this power house can do again.


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