I recently purchased my second AR, and its a NEA DMR with an 18 inch barrell. I purchased this rifle due to its rather attractive price, the sheer number of features and the fact its canadian made. I intend to plink and compete with this firearm and im on a budged so i said...ahhh what the heck...might as well give her a try.
Basically the rifle has a 18 inch compensated and polygonal rifled heavy barrell. The rifle also has a free floated one piece NEA 12inch quad rail with a mid length direct impingement gas system. m4 feed ramps, full auto BCG, flared magwell. I was excited about its 1:7 twist rate, as it gave me options with heavier bullet weights
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Now for the unboxing...the rifle was in a simple colt like cardboard box,with one magazine. The finish on the rifle is fine, with absolutely no machining marks. There is no burrs or nicks or sharp ends. The rifle was well oiled from the factory, and included three test fire shell casings. The chamber was shiny and the bore was nice and clean. The exterior was a grey matt finish of the rifle however was rather dirtly with a dusty black coating, i assume its just remnants of the machining process. A quick wipe fixed that. The user manual.....well its online, the box included a single sheet of paper with warnings and registration card printed on back. The online portion dosent work..link is out...haha, ah well, its just another AR anyways
The magazine is another issue...its in a shiny black finish, toatlly not matching the rifle, and its pinned rather ugly to 5.5 rounds and it screams craptacular ....Right off the bat i knew something was rather cheap to this mag... more on that later.
The trigger was your typical mil spec type, but i would say it wasent too bad, i held spikes and norinco rifles with worse triggers alike.
The compensator was one i have never seen before, its flat closed on the bottom, and has a even number of cutouts on the top half. We will have to see how she works.
The rifle takedown pins were TIGHT!!! you needed nails of steel to pull those suckers out, so i promptly assisted myself with a spare round to encourage them. The rifle upper and lower are married rather tight as well, didint expect her to be this tight...my norinco cq upper and lower tolerances felt sloppy or slutty when compared to the nea.....
After a few quick bore snake passes, cleaning patches and lube (speaking of slutty) thru the barrell, it was range time.
RANGE REPORT #1
So its competition day tommorrow, but guess what, i have not sighted this sucker in yet. I decided to go with a old trusty eotech 512 as my sight option, and with me, I brought some locktite, screwdriver and some American Eagle AR 223 black box 55 gr fmj ammo.
As I arrived to good ol trusty silverdale, to my dismay i found the 200/100 yard ranges closed due to backstop "reconditoning" but thank god, the 50 was still open and my intent quickly changed from a 100 yard zero mission, to a 50/200 zero.
I mounted my eotech to my liking, boresighted it, shot a 3 round group at 50 yards. The group was sub 1 inch, and it was right on, 4 inches right of 3 o clock of center. I corrected and shot anoter 3 shot group. Now heres ther kicker, the group was under a half inch dead on....wow...after my 6 inch 100 yard groups with my norinco, this rifle is feeling amazing right out of the box!!!! even with the 1 moa red dot in my eotech, she groups beautifully, no fliers, no waiting for the barrell to cool down, every group i shot was tight and under one inch, and im not much of a shot either. The 1:7 twist rate is a definate plus for the heavier bullets, so i am definately looking forward to test this rifles accuaracy potential.
I took the rifle to the 10 yard line and it shot beautiful. I basically held over the lower part of the ring and the rounds went where i wanted.
The muzzle brake was effective, waay better than the A2 birdcage, but i feel strongly that she will perform better with a battlecomp
I only fired only 60 rounds thru the rifle, no ftf, fte etc......and here comes the big however....
HOWEVER
The factory magazine is causing issues. its failing to lock back the bolt on the last round. sometimes it did, sometimes it didint, and sometimes it slammed the bolt shut after ejecting the magazine. I will be contacting NEA with the issue soon. Now i didint bring any milspec or reputable magazines with me to confirm that the failure to lock the bolt back was a magazine issue, but i will be doing that soon, how soon might you ask? how about tomorrow!!!...Im competing in a 3 gun match with it so lets just say im putting a lot of faith into this rifle.
TO BE CONTINUED with PICS
Basically the rifle has a 18 inch compensated and polygonal rifled heavy barrell. The rifle also has a free floated one piece NEA 12inch quad rail with a mid length direct impingement gas system. m4 feed ramps, full auto BCG, flared magwell. I was excited about its 1:7 twist rate, as it gave me options with heavier bullet weights
Blah Blah Blah
Now for the unboxing...the rifle was in a simple colt like cardboard box,with one magazine. The finish on the rifle is fine, with absolutely no machining marks. There is no burrs or nicks or sharp ends. The rifle was well oiled from the factory, and included three test fire shell casings. The chamber was shiny and the bore was nice and clean. The exterior was a grey matt finish of the rifle however was rather dirtly with a dusty black coating, i assume its just remnants of the machining process. A quick wipe fixed that. The user manual.....well its online, the box included a single sheet of paper with warnings and registration card printed on back. The online portion dosent work..link is out...haha, ah well, its just another AR anyways
The magazine is another issue...its in a shiny black finish, toatlly not matching the rifle, and its pinned rather ugly to 5.5 rounds and it screams craptacular ....Right off the bat i knew something was rather cheap to this mag... more on that later.
The trigger was your typical mil spec type, but i would say it wasent too bad, i held spikes and norinco rifles with worse triggers alike.
The compensator was one i have never seen before, its flat closed on the bottom, and has a even number of cutouts on the top half. We will have to see how she works.
The rifle takedown pins were TIGHT!!! you needed nails of steel to pull those suckers out, so i promptly assisted myself with a spare round to encourage them. The rifle upper and lower are married rather tight as well, didint expect her to be this tight...my norinco cq upper and lower tolerances felt sloppy or slutty when compared to the nea.....
After a few quick bore snake passes, cleaning patches and lube (speaking of slutty
) thru the barrell, it was range time.RANGE REPORT #1
So its competition day tommorrow, but guess what, i have not sighted this sucker in yet. I decided to go with a old trusty eotech 512 as my sight option, and with me, I brought some locktite, screwdriver and some American Eagle AR 223 black box 55 gr fmj ammo.
As I arrived to good ol trusty silverdale, to my dismay i found the 200/100 yard ranges closed due to backstop "reconditoning" but thank god, the 50 was still open and my intent quickly changed from a 100 yard zero mission, to a 50/200 zero.
I mounted my eotech to my liking, boresighted it, shot a 3 round group at 50 yards. The group was sub 1 inch, and it was right on, 4 inches right of 3 o clock of center. I corrected and shot anoter 3 shot group. Now heres ther kicker, the group was under a half inch dead on....wow...after my 6 inch 100 yard groups with my norinco, this rifle is feeling amazing right out of the box!!!! even with the 1 moa red dot in my eotech, she groups beautifully, no fliers, no waiting for the barrell to cool down, every group i shot was tight and under one inch, and im not much of a shot either. The 1:7 twist rate is a definate plus for the heavier bullets, so i am definately looking forward to test this rifles accuaracy potential.
I took the rifle to the 10 yard line and it shot beautiful. I basically held over the lower part of the ring and the rounds went where i wanted.
The muzzle brake was effective, waay better than the A2 birdcage, but i feel strongly that she will perform better with a battlecomp
I only fired only 60 rounds thru the rifle, no ftf, fte etc......and here comes the big however....
HOWEVER
The factory magazine is causing issues. its failing to lock back the bolt on the last round. sometimes it did, sometimes it didint, and sometimes it slammed the bolt shut after ejecting the magazine. I will be contacting NEA with the issue soon. Now i didint bring any milspec or reputable magazines with me to confirm that the failure to lock the bolt back was a magazine issue, but i will be doing that soon, how soon might you ask? how about tomorrow!!!...Im competing in a 3 gun match with it so lets just say im putting a lot of faith into this rifle.
TO BE CONTINUED with PICS
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