Pleasantly surprised: Keltec 308 bullpup (RFB)

[JohnFreeman]

I got to shoot my shiny new Keltec bullpup at ENC today. Having read and watched YouTube's of Woe about this gun, I was skeptical about its performance, but I was really surprised. I put the gas setting at the recommended starting point and it ran fine.

I bought this rifle off a forum member a couple months ago NIB and it was on a whim, but I'm really pleased at the performance. The eject (dribble) out the front is odd but works so far even with zero break in and I don't lose any brass this way. I have a Burris optic to put on it and then I'll get to see what kind of accuracy I get.

While I like my FAL's better, this is a really cool gun and I'm happy it worked right out of the chute.

Anyone else got one?

 

[shadowsbane]

First gens had issues. Basically they made the gas system a bit too adjustable in a way. More recent ones opened up the port and changed something else I can't remember so that you didn't have to dial it in for a particular loading.

Don't own one, but seen several others throughout the years and they all worked fine.

 

[CHRIS_WNC]

How do those things do suppressed? I've always wanted one but haven't handled or shot one yet.


CHRIS

 

[Prudii]

First gens had issues. Basically they made the gas system a bit too adjustable in a way. More recent ones opened up the port and changed something else I can't remember so that you didn't have to dial it in for a particular loading.

Don't own one, but seen several others throughout the years and they all worked fine.

Part of it had to do with the bad reputation they had prior to their ISO 9001 certification in 2011. Since then there QC process has improved considerably, but it's hard to remove years of bad reputation.