Faxon arak-21 marvel of engineering - Faxon Firearms AR15 Upper Receiver Groups 1

I picked up a new in box Arak-21 with 16inch .300 and .556 barrels at an estate sale recently and it has proven to be by far the best Semi-Automatic rifle I have ever owned. In reliability, recoil, and accuracy and it blows my Sig 556, Bushmaster AR, and Romanian PSL and AKs, out of the water on all counts. Running Precision One ammunition with a Hiperfire SS trigger I got an average of .9 MOA from a bench rest, (one group was less than .3), and the most amazing thing is that even after switching the barrel from .300 to 5.56, a process that takes 3 min, I was able to hit 6 inch plates at 200 yards with the same hold of an unadjusted Meprolight True Dot RDS. I could not believe this at first, and some of you will undoubtedly think I am exaggerating.

After my first shooting session when I had some failures to feed from fresh mags, but this was probably a bad mag, Otherwise I have had 100% reliability over 750+ rounds with Magtech subsonic, Precision One 208 Grain match, and personal reloads of 208 and 220 grain pills, both Suppressed and unsuppressed. When I attached a an Omega 45k suppressor onto the .300 barrel it is well below hearing safe with 200, 208, 220 grain reloads, and even runs flawlessly with 150. Its of course even quieter when you turn off the gas. It does get dirty after a couple hundred rounds suppressed, but cleaning it is no harder than an AR, far easier than a Sig 556 or PSL, and the powder buildup has yet to cause malfunction up to 300 rounds suppressed without cleaning.

The only downside I would say would be the weight, my build with Omega-45k suppressor and meprolight on an A2 stock is about 9 lbs. I also wish there was more after market support and Im very sad that they discontinued the 12.5 inch .300 blackout barrel, but It is a marvel of engineering that is worth every bit of its high end price.