Tavor (pronounced TAH-VOR
).
A couple of buddies have picked these rifles up and they both love them to death.
The rifle is rugged, relaible and really easy to use. The fact the firing chamber is right beside your face instead of some distance in front can take some getting used to. The report is strangly tinny as the round is discharging just a scant inch or two away from your OTL matrix.
The rifle is very fast to get into action and is comfortable to hold and handle. One thing though, know your manual at arms pretty well before you start using it around other people as there is a tendency to wave it in a most impolite fashion. A liability now, but just wait...
When you bring it up in bright daylight you will notice the dot sight tends to wash out, one of the reasons the Israelis went with the MARS sight, I have been told. When in moderate light, the sight works wonderfully and a buddy of mine used this rifle & sight to ring a man sized target at 200m with regularity. The BUIS is a bit of a chore to get up, but as with all things, practice makes perfect.
When they run the rifle, the only issue they ever had was with cheap or worn mags that just didn't like the rifle. Run good mags and there will never be trouble in the reliability department. Both of my buddies like P-mags for this rifle.
Now for the heads up.
When you run this rifle, be sure to keep your sling tightened up on the buttstock so that it can't slip under the bolt release button. Failure to do so will result in a non-functioning rifle until you un-f*ck it. Not an issue on the range, but if you ever needed this rifle to fight with, you wanna know.
Speaking of fighting...
We ran several drills, everything form engagements at 300m all the way in to surprise CQB and the rifle was very "pointy". It took no effort or time at all to get the rifle up and on target and push lead down the pipe in short order. For the most part the rifle worked out great... Except for a few rounds where one of the guys missed this little detail called "sight off-set" and drifted a round right through an old training vehicle on two seperate drills during the same range session. Some of you on Range 18 may have heard me yelling, "Stop shooting my f*cking vehicle"! I was not in Wainright with you...
One note, the rifle is very "tall" and it takes some finesse to use it under low barriers, but the same can be said of any rifle with a 30rd. mag on the bottom...
All in all, the Tavor is a very good rifle, and if you throw a Picatinny rail on the top and mesh your own optics it is what one may call, damn good. If I did not already have my Classic Green Carbine, I would take a very long and detailed look at this rifle. I would suggest you do the same.
BTW, Klunk, what are you doing up in Wainhole? Playing Opfor in Kanadahar?
