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The HCR takes design cues from a number of different rifles. The buttstock support tube was structured like an AR-15/AR-10 adjustable buffer tube. The grip was also an AR component. The magazine-release paddle was much like an M14 or M1A. The one-piece 20-MOA scope mount shared its mounting screw pattern with the Weather Vanguard series of rifles.
Cerakote-finished to match the barreled action, the two-lug bolt was easy to operate.
The LUTH-AR buttstock was adjustable for length of pull at the mock buffer tube and by loosening the rearward locking wheel. Fine grooves in the mating surfaces enhanced lockup. The buttpad itself could be lowered, raised, or cast to one side by threading the mounting screws through different reliefs on it rack-like design. The matching reinforced nylon buttpad was standard, but we shot with the black rubber pad for greater comfort. Comb height was adjusted with the forward locking wheel. There was also a Picatinny rail on the bottom for connecting a stabilizing device, such as a monopod, and the forward surface was contoured to work with a support bag or the web of the shooter’s support hand.
At Gun Tests, our shooters have had no problems with the P320 in terms of reliability and had no malfunctions with it. We gave it a Grade B rating in our first report on it in 2015. Many of our readers have told us they won’t buy ‘B’-rated guns, especially when there was another handgun in the test — a Heckler & Koch VP9 9mm Luger — which earned a Grade A rating and was Our Pick. Read More
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