this is the Bushmaster ACR thanks for watching
thanks for watching peace-loving guns today we have a very special treat for you this is of
course the Bushmaster ACR this was originally designed by Matt Cole under the name the Magpul
Masada Bushmaster pickup the rights and production of it surely after its design inception and
yeah it's a kind of a neat modern offering by Bushmaster it's uh an ambidextrous carbine that
is truly ambidextrous which i think is novel it's impede extras in that you can press the magazine
button in from either side and the function is the same there's no lever on one side and a button on
the other or a button and a paddle on one side because this gun was designed from the ground up
to be an ambidextrous weapon so that's kind of cool you have the same fire selector on either
side it's very a are ish and that has roots in the fact that Magpul has done so much in the ar-15
kind of custom realm one thing that's kind of ar-15 ish is Magpul designed the Magpul bad lever
which was kind of revolutionary in some circles some people don't really like it at all they say
that it's a firearms safety violation waiting to happen I'm not of that school of thought granted
it is something that kind of stuck through the trigger guard and that gives people the willies
sometimes but I rather liked its operation and this is designed very much in that vein you can
lock the slide back or rather you can lock the action to the rear by pressing up on this and
then you can also drop the action by pressing down on it so it's very much like the the Magpul
bad lever it's designed completely ambidextrous in that we can do it from both sides and in the same
exact manner no oh you can lock it back this way on this side and then with the bad lever or with
ar-15s you would have to hit a paddle on this side to then lock it back to the rear so that's
kind of cool that the functionality is the same on both sides of the rifle I think that if you're
gonna design a rifle from the ground up that the best rifle in theory that you can make would be
ambidextrous and would be the same on both sides is this the best rifle ever I'm not going as far
to say that but I think that it's cool that it has features like that so again you've got the fire
selector is the same experience on both sides the magazine released is the same experience on both
sides and the bolt lock is the same on both sides so that's kind of cool the charging handle is
reversible from left hand side to right hand side so you could run it on the side of the gun here to
make it more of an a case tile of battery of arms where you come under sweep to charge the weapon of
course that wouldn't really be necessary because you could just load your magazine in and then drop
the action using the release there but what I really like about this is that you can clear
malfunctions with a simple flip of the finger and you can chamber the next round after you've
finished reloading or clearing the malfunction with the flip of finger so it's pretty cool in
my opinion this gun is obviously not a bone stock Bushmaster ACR this came from the factory as a I
remember what color it was from the factory I think it was black this has actually received
a a digital starry night camouflage paint job but yours truly back in my younger days this belongs
to a friend of mine actually digitized a version of starry night and used to photoshop to kind of
pixelate it and make it look similar to like 8-bit or 16-bit graphics and then I painstakingly took
a razor blade and cut out a masking tape that had that printed on to it and we have this very nice
if I don't say so myself starry night patterned of camouflage on this weapon so it's kind of neat
it's it's maybe a little bit amateurish on the dura coating job that's a little bit thick but
it's pretty cool it's a it's a small source of pride if you hate it you can tell me I won't
cry myself to sleep too many nights in a row but yeah Digital starry night paint job the owner of
this has done some modifications to it he uses a brass catcher because he reload so that's what
this little contraption is for this would have come with the Magpul flip-up polymer sights it
should be noted those sights are kind of lower than a standard a2 site so typically you want to
make sure that if your mix and matching sights that they're the same height you can get into
trouble using say a a2 style front sight and a rear lower thirds coitus rear sight because you're
not gonna ever have the right range increments if you have incremented range stuff he likes the Troy
flip up battle sites the sites that he's using specifically are a dual aperture rear with tritium
on the night aperture and then on the front it is a tritium post it's rather thick and coarse
which isn't such a big deal when you're running an optic currently this isn't set up with an
optic obviously but for night shooting I can see that as being valuable this started off life as
the Bushmaster ACR enhanced which is the version with the folding telescoping stock and adjustable
cheek piece it doesn't go up my very high like the scar family rifles does but it does come up just a
little bit so this began life as a Bushmaster ACR enhanced which meant that this comes with the nice
folding stock and it actually did not come with this handguard this is this comes on the basic ACR
and the owner of this weapon actually went back and put this on there because it covers the gas
block up nicer the enhanced comes with a triple cork triple quad rail aluminum handguard and that
goes to about here and you know we tend to like to grab a little bit further up on our rifles and
this enables that and covers up the gas block and that's I think a pretty cool configuration
there so Bushmaster enhanced ACR with the basic ACR front four end going forward of the gun so
this is a 16 inch long barrel and that doesn't include the flash hider which is threaded on
there this is an AAC flash hider it is a triple prong design it's not my preference because it
is the type of flash hider that when you shoot it rings for about a second after you shoot so it's
just like that so that's not my favorite if you actually filed down one of these just a
little bit you'll lose that that resonance and it won't do that but not my favorite but it does
a pretty good job of mitigating the flash this is a multi caliber gun so it's chambered in 556
NATO two to three Remington and you can change the bolt and barrel out well it was originally
designed with the impression that you could swap out to 6.8 spc or 300 blackout I'm not sure how
commercially available those are at this point in time my understanding was that the Bushmaster ACR
Community was waiting for that and then it never happened that might have changed but yeah so it
was supposed to be multi caliber in that regard it obviously will not accept a long action style
of weapon like a 308 and it it's not multi caliber up to those kinds of calibers oh it's
worth noting that the the charging handle is a non reciprocating design it's not my
favorite charging handle because with other non reciprocating charging handles like the ar-15 s
you have to have some sort of locking mechanism so that it doesn't blow back with the action and
it stays put and this is chintzy to me I don't care for that this gun has a lot of polymer on
it which bothers some people it doesn't bother me so much because the real working parts of the gun
are metal but this bothers me just a little bit it's kind of a minor gripe it also tilts back a
little bit so when you charge the weapon you're it kind of lends itself to your hand coming off of it
which when you hit the full rearward most position of it it enables the gun to just slap forward it's
gone all the way rearward your hand kind of slips off a bit and then it chambers cool I kind of wish
that it was turned around so that that flat was up here just kind of minor gripe that way there's
more to grab on to as opposed to less so that you slip off of it easier it would have also been my
preference if this was just on both sides of the weapon it would be super easy to do and then you
would also it wouldn't really matter that it's on both sides because it doesn't reciprocate so
just minor minor gripes there let's go ahead and shoot it and you know put some rounds downrange
with it have some fun all right so Bushmaster ACR enhanced basic combination custom gun let's do it
let's you it let's have some fun we're just gonna throw some lead downrange so so the Bushmaster
ACR is not the lightest weapon in the world it is it has some heft to it granted I've got a
40 round mag pull magazine in it it's probably now less than a half way full but the front end
has some heft it is a piston gun it does have this big kind of reciprocating mass in here for
the action that said it's super supple to shoot and we just got done shooting the scar 17s and
this is just like nothing compared to that so super easy and this has a really nice trigger
in it the owner put a guy's li trigger in this gun and yeah so feels really good and pew pew
sometimes it's just fun to let loose and throw some rounds downrange guys I mean I
can't help myself I get my hands on a nice little carbine and I just want to bump fire
it it's just something that I do it's fun and you know it's the closest thing to us plebs
get to shooting full-auto so much for shall not be infringed am i right am i right am i
right yeah so let's reload and heat this baby up some more all right push master ACR you do
it again where did it come out of there good did it shoot out of the empty ejection port
huh I think you must have okay oh I mean like I think you're just shoving it in
too hard okay let's try that again alright cuz it I think your magazine sex you might that's
fine if it does you know their grass dress never do here we go never seen that before
duty in it might be time to change that Magpul mega so this is the weirdest thing I've ever seen
with the Magpul mag that's a little concerning just concerning it'll be fair you shouldn't
have to you don't have to smack it in lips well yeah but like I mean that's not that aggressive
I don't like that at all so that might be the infamous feed lips loosening up over time because
I keep this fully loaded didn't do that time ha let's shoot it what happened what done happen
getting a little bit of ammonia kind of kind of feeling there hear the pings coming from the
flashhider it's not as noticeable when you're actually shooting it no but it's annoying when
you're the other one was really enough though what do you call it the mr 762 yeah that was
super noticeable yeah I still hear this one though that was scary that paper flipped up
and I thought it was a person moving alright got it a little bit warm so that's interesting
with the Magpul magazine might be time to dispose of that one because rounds shouldn't
just be shooting out of it and coming out of the gun alright thanks Jim Lock 23 for
letting us borrow this gun for the day we really appreciate it and we're gonna
show it a little bit of love with a little bit of a classic bump fire in action here
see we can do some Pocket Style pump iron got a little got a little something there let's
get a little warm holding it up front like that alright that's a lot of fun
go ahead and take that barrel off real quick
I want to thank you all for watching and I want to thank Jim Locke 23 his channel description
will be down in the doobly-doo below he was kind enough to let us borrow this Bushmaster ACR that
he personally owns for making this video today and you know get it get it heated up for him
make sure it's a in good working order you're welcome Jim we always like to thank William
Britain and the culprit enough gray fox ranch and gray fox gunsmithing for allowing us to come out
here and shoot their door as we've done and you know we kind of basically dug up the place with
all that bum carrying so this is well peace-loving guns signing out we'll catch you on the next one