keltec rfb
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It's a good gun, some hate it. I love mine. Most are 1.25-2 moa with good ammo. Mine is 1.5 with Winchester silver tip 168gr and 2-2.5 moa with norc surpluss. Mine has ben 100% with thermold mags.
WARNING yes you will need to adjust the gas for diffrent ammo and after breaking in period.
WARNING yes you will need to adjust the gas for diffrent ammo and after breaking in period.
I've had mine since day 1 in Canada (Gen 1)...it's a 2MOA rifle for me. I don't expect it to be a precision rig. I haven't had any issues with mine (other than my father in laws crap reloads which the rifle hated). My only complaint is the severe over pricing on this rifle compared to the states...but I blame the importer for that.
Alright I'll be that guy. I have one and its running so so. The Thermold mags are ****************** garbage! Stick to the metal FAL mags 1000x better.
But I'm talking with Vault right now to get her fixed up.
For some strange reason I'll never get rid of it. Its fun to shoot and super easy to handle.
But I'm talking with Vault right now to get her fixed up.
For some strange reason I'll never get rid of it. Its fun to shoot and super easy to handle.
The earlier Thermolds had issues, but they were fixed at some point. When did you buy the Thermolds?
any pics?
Love mine - one of the first Gen 1 guns. I've had I think one, maybe two easy-to-clear stoppages in 1-2000 rounds. I use mine mostly between 50 and 100 yards, and run DSA metal FAL mags. Great little blaster. I haven't used it much since getting my XCR-M Micro, but I still don't think I'd sell it.
Funny how people complain that it's heavy and others complain that there is too much "plastic". If they use less polymer then it would be even heavier and it they use more polymer then people think it's cheap. Can't win on this site.
The price of the mags is the most ignorant thing with these rifles. They are dirt cheap in the US but because they import only enough to maintain a high demand they can charge ridiculous amounts for these mags and the five cent rivet they put in them to make them Canadian legal. My Thermold mags were 100% reliable, so were my DSA mags though. Even my 5/30 DSA was perfect.
My gen 2 RFB was 100%reliable as long as you gave it enough gas to cycle. I had the occasional stoppage because I always ran mine with just barely enough gas for cycling to make it shoot super gentle. Accuracy on mine was about 1.5moa with handloads and 2-3moa depending what factory loads I put through it. I never tried any premium factory loads which probably would have been as good as my handloads.
The RFB is more than accurate enough to hunt any large game with and it is so compact that it's a pleasure to haul around all day through the bush.
Don't buy one if your one of the guys that thinks that just because a rifle is over $1500 it should be able to shoot Norinco ammo into tiny groups. The rifle was never designed to be a DMR and nothing you do to it can make it more accurate. The design uses the barrel as the spine of the rifle so there are too many contact points interfering with barrel harmonics to be able to do much with it.
If you buy one, enjoy it for it's positives and don't try to make it something it was never designed to do.
It is also a very awkward rifle to get set up on bags properly to do good accuracy testing with so that also takes away from a lot of people's results.
Learn to use the gas system and understand what your adjustments are doing and you can tune it to any ammo in a very short time. I've shot everything from 110gr handloads to 175gr loads and it will reliably cycle them all if it's adjusted correctly. You could over-gas it and have it cycle everything but that would just beat up the gun and your shoulder.
How often do you actually swap to different loads anyway. Any reasonable person would find a load the rifle likes and then stick with it. Being able to put 5 different loads in a single magazine and have it cycle them all nicely is a stupid test that proves nothing about the rifles reliability.
Some days I regret selling that rifle. I just wasn't shooting it as often as I should have been and wanted something else so it was an easy way to get the money for my new toy.
A buddy of mine picked one of these up a few months back. He absolutely loves the thing. I just yesterday got a chance to physically see it, handle it and shoot it. This thing was 1000 times cooler IRL. It handles nicely, it looks sweet (most important factor), and it feels absolutely solid. Yes it is heavy but it is balanced very well so it does not feel that heavy. I'm a KelTec skeptic and this thing felt great. My advice: if you want one of these and you find it: buy it. They are sweet.
