i hope you can see the gas blowing out the sides of the muzzle brake like i can that's one of the
cool things about this led star grunt and we're gonna have a fun review on it today but first
our video is made possible by our friends over at brownells now if you've never heard of brownells
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their strong suit was and still is firearm parts if you never need a part i'm like
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walk-through processes on all their videos and it's by you know qualified high-end gunsmiths
not just some youtube dork speaking of youtube dorks though let's get on with this video so this
led star grunt now i think it's lead star you know how the english language is it might be lead star
yes it's gonna be lead star because it throws lead right it's how i would describe it is kind
of a quality but wallet friendly version of uh entry level ar but with a lot of the upgrades
that you'd want if you're going to want a competition shoot personally i don't like muzzle
brakes in a defensive scenario because most likely i won't have earpro on you know i like suppressors
because if this rings off in a house or something or even just outdoors you're not going to be able
to hear too well but it's got one massive well it's not massive effective let's go with effective
muzzle brake on the end but it's got this lightened 17 inch hand guard on a 16 inch barrel
so yes this hand guard fits all the way out even underneath the muzzle brake so it looks neat slick
and it's it's pretty slim as far as handguards go i can feel some heat after running a mag through
it just right here around the barrel nut but that brake is pretty effective and we'll put in a high
speed a little later and just see if we can see how well it actually runs a mid-length gas tube
a nice extended charging handle not ambidex just been extended uh everything else is kind of
basic you have their own stock here of course six positions but here's what i found out earlier okay
i like the qd sling studs i didn't bring a cutie sling for this but you have one two three four
five six seven eight nine so you can put the sling however you wish on this thing and get because a
lot of them i'll i'll change these stocks out just so i can you know have the qd's the grip is their
own kind of rubberized grip feels good now but i know like with hoe grips and stuff after a few
years it gets sticky and i don't like it anymore it has a hyper fire like i gotta look up the exact
terminology i'll put it down below so i don't get it wrong it's a hyperfire trigger in here that i
was like hey that ain't bad because you know the first thing i usually do switch out that trigger
to something a little more uh crisp but it's it's got a two stage but it's it's a mushy two stage
it's kind of a heavy two stage get you in here see but yeah so it's like it a fake two stage maybe
that's it or just creep that you can er it's not terrible it's not mil-spec so that means it's a
lot better we threw on the house aims up here and we're just having some fun with it so we're going
to have a little more fun and then we'll do some accuracy testing let's plank around a little bit
okay i'm used to getting gassed out with a suppressor but i'm getting gassed out a little
when i shoot that fast it's just you know blowback coming in under my eye pro so let's see what my
brass is throwing that's always a good okay brass is throwing a little bit forward so it could be
a little overgassed but you know that's what they want for reliability so there's that side as well
and you're not going to be shooting probably as the volume as i do uh it fast let's try
putting hey we got a steel target about 50 yards i'm gonna put a double tap on it see
if i feel gassed out like that because that's what you'd be doing in three gun
first one missed let's be honest let's try to get a good honest hit double hit i don't get gassed
out when i'm shooting that when i first pulled it out of the box though it's like the joker feels
light now it's not like it's a lightweight build carbon fiber and all that mess but maybe it's just
me that always puts suppressors and everything on well like man this is pretty cool oh and now
we're empty but i just thought you know what it's something lightweight that i could i could
make some shots one-handed that's kind of neat and probably it's a good way that we can text
the efficiency of that muzzle break so we're going to get the high-speed camera out and
just see what we can see i have a real aggressive recoil reducing stance that's not always the best
for viewers to see what's really happening with the rifle tiny sniper here hasn't shot too much
on the heavy stuff so he's a great example of what the muzzle brake reduction will be so we're going
to shoot with this then we're going to shoot with the uh just a stock 16 inch and see what we see
on the high speed camera so you can go ahead and post yep mount up good just let it rip yep
all right okay uh why don't you give five shots as fast as you can s decently keeping on target
so from behind him i feel the pressure do you feel that break i like the brake i think it's
kind of cool as long as i have good ear muffs on you'll find if your ear muffs
are leaking huh but i'm trying to watch the tip of that muzzle and i'm hardly seeing it bounce
your shots were pretty quick from a freestanding position okay we're going to swap out the uppers
and we'll check out the high speed all right so he just asked if it's gonna kick more what
we have here lift it up so we can see this just run of the mill 16 inch budget upper um
so you got your a2 flash hider on here so on the other rifle you have that break that shoots out to
the sides and up a little because your gun wants to go up it wants to pivot and so that pushes it
down so i never saw it move at all this is more just to dissipate the fireball flash at the end
visually and not recoil wise so i don't i grabbed it just because it was easy and it's
basic so we're just going to have you do the same thing do five shots and see what happens
right away i can tell the difference in your shoulder yeah i can see you moving a
whole bunch but you were shooting what do you think it's fun it's fun either way it's fun
it's like he's my son or something so i can definitely see that it pushed you back
you know i was i was at first looking for flip when i was watching the other rifle that didn't
move as much at all watching the lead star but on the stock a2 you're bouncing back a good
two inches every shot and so oh yeah and your follow-up shots are still decent but
you want to do the lead star again just for fun we'll do that while this is saving
sweet so 10 rounds that's five bucks these days man that's crazy i'm just messing with you did you
notice that concussion yeah from behind you really do hear what you still got one round in it right
here stand right here like i am because it's directed to not to be at the shooter so here i'm
going to be a little more forward of you tell me what you think about the pop when i shoot
did you feel that oh yeah that's a break for you man for precision we have
brownells mpo i like these things so we're going to slap it on here this is the larue
can mount so we don't have to have tools to uh to tighten our adjustment here
yeah that's about right let's see that's a little too tight go back two or three clicks we're gonna
wait till it's about a 45 degree and kaboom now look scope is mounted is it going to be
on target probably not but we'll find it out and then do some accuracy test so here's the deal guys
uh we're not looking for bullseyes we're looking for accuracy we're looking for group size so
we'll shoot a group size not bull's eyes with different ammo now first we're just going to
shoot with some 55 grain then we got some 69 grain match from black hills and then 75 grain match
it's got three targets out there like i said it's only four-sided so it ought to be two inches to
the bull's-eye so this this just some 55-grain kind of bulk stuff first on the larger target
for boar siding that was actually quite accurate um i've got about a group like that my third
one opened it up a bit but we'll get a good measurement in a second this is the 69 grain match
so if i forgot to tell you earlier i know i did at the very beginning because when you
do a regular ar you really don't have to say it's five five six but this is a two to three wild
or is it wildy i don't know i think it's wild uh a chamber
and one in eight twists so it's gonna handle the 55 the 556 rounds just as well as the 223
but they claim a little more accuracy out of the wild chambers 69 grain going now
to be honest my last group was a little better i believe than the 69 grain match
now 75 grain match i will say i wish i had a more crisp trigger when i'm doing
precision that's why it's taken so long to pull these shots we're making sure we do it right
you know my my regular larue mbt trigger would have been nice and crisp
interesting results yet again it seems to like that 55 grain better than all this matched up
we're gonna go get the real measurements now though oh group size is less than i thought we
had this one flyer out here this this is our 55 grain and we had our one flyer these four
rounds were you know almost an inch wait that one messed us up a little bit so our group size
is a 1.8 moa so 1.9 inch with our bulk so now with our 69 grain we've got our five shot group and we
have a group size of 1.690 but you know again we had one relying on the outside you could probably
cut that down to an inch easily of this so 69 grains did seem a little better all right and
finally with our 75 grains we've got a three inch group now these three looked really well centered
especially for bore sighting but uh uh you know it just didn't agree with those just as much which
honestly okay if you're doing long range you do want some higher 75 grain but for me i like the
cheaper stuff so being able to use 55 grain and getting the most out of it i'm game with that so
that is our lead star grunt if you're looking for something you know i'd rate it above dpms
i'd rate it above you know those entry level like smith west and m p uh because it comes in
a right or i think it's around 800 for the black version and then you can pay like 250
dollars more for the colored ones uh they got the cerakote options that you can do
but uh i'll leave a link down below make sure you check out the companion blog post there
we didn't bring him down let's get out of here
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come on come on
i came in like a wrecking ball
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