My Tavor Review: pre-Shot Show Hype

TV-PressPass said:
Not a long enough video to justify a whole new post, but here's the breakdown of the IWI US Tavor bolt. They're quite different from ours.
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Well, that pretty much ends any speculation about compatibility. Different BCG and bolt, different fire control group and thus basically ensures a different barrel and chamber as well. We might benefit from a few QD sling mounts and less essential parts, but that's about it.

There's absolutely no way these are going to be eligible for import without a thorough review and classification from the CFC, and the earliest you might see them in Canada (assuming IWI USA even authorizes their export) would be mid-late 2014.
 
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Samson23 said:
Any word on why the changes? Does it address some issue IWI saw in the field, general technical advancement?
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They needed to dumb it down for the US market? ;)
(sorry, couldn't resist!)

There's a reason for some of the changes, but in lieu of recent media (etc.) poking around it's not something those of us "in the know" are willing to discuss on an open forum. As North Sylva put it, we're essentially getting the same rifle that the IDF utilizes. So for a few hundred dollars in savings - what would you prefer? The combat-tested version we have or the revised US one?
 
Different BCG and bolt, different fire control group and thus basically ensures a different barrel and chamber as well.
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The barrels I handled looked identical to mine. But of course I didn't take measurements on them, so I can't say for sure.

I asked some of the guys from Israel why the bolt changed to much and they didn't seem to have a good answer for me. Essentially it sounded like they want to differentiate as much as possible from the IDF's rifle. Personally I don't like the idea of a hole in my piston. I'm just so used to the standard Tavor.

I wish like hell there was a way to put their trigger into my rifle though. . .
 
Seems it will be more of a downgrade than a upgrade. Good thing we get the originals!
 
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