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April 2009

AR-10 Shootoff: We Shoot Three Big Brothers of the AR-15

Models by ArmaLite and Fulton Armory had solid performances, and our shooters would buy either of them. The Remington R-25 proved to be a misfire in multiple categories.

The AR-10 has led an interesting and strange life since its birth in the 1950s. It has never achieved the popularity of the AR-15, even though it was Eugene Stoner's first rifle built on his gas-impingement system. Initially spurned by the U.S. Army for the legendary M-14, the AR-10 was banished to relative exile, occasionally appearing in the hands for small foreign militaries, or in a few cases, the revolutionary. Raul and Fidel Castro were said to have ended up with a few of them, courtesy of a captured Batista government arms shipment. …

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