Recently, Rock River Arms introduced a new series of rifles. The Operator 2 line entails three different designs of Rock River Arms respectable direct-gas-operated LAR-15 style firearms. All of them share some familiar features, and the firearms take their name from the new Operator stock Rock River Arms has recently announced. Rock River Arms started out building very nice 1911s, years before it was cool, the Corona, IL, company got into the AR-15 field. Its firearms were so well made that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency selected Rock River to produce its issue firearms available currently as the LAR-15 Pro-Series Government Model.

Rock River Arms was founded eleven years ago by two brothers, Mark and Chuck Larson, who worked out of a garage. It has developed progressively ever since as well as today employs over 90 people. Although Rock River produces rifles for various govt agencies, the actual bulk of their product sales are to the civilian market. Rock River Arms offers fifty or so models of weapons, however customers can make up their personal designs, using a great number of components substitutions - sights, rails, stocks, barrel length and contour, and more. Rock River will also include add-ons like flashlights and red dot sights. Rock River Arms is like an a la carte workshop for firearms. Rock River doesn?t make numerous parts on site. Rock River designs and spec parts, then receive them, perform inspections, complete them, assemble them into weapons and ship them out. The Rock River Arms factory is actually complete with a buffing and blasting room, where raw forgings become finished parts. Rock River Arms is genuinely a family business with the brothers Chuck and Mark Larson as well as their father and one of their sons working at the plant. Looking about the factory there were many boxes of rifle carrier groups, essentially the bolts of the rifles. Rock River Arms offers an almost countless number of chambering options for the basic AR platform. Once you own a lower half which consists of the stock and receiver, you can acquire upper halves (barrel, carrier group, and gas system) in all kinds of chambering and interchange them freely. There's even a company that offers a .410 shotgun upper half for the AR15 rifle.

Components are measured throughout the production phase. Components are tested for hardness. After testing is complete the come together at the respective assembly stations. Care is taken with every step of the upper and lower assemblies. Uppers are matched with various barrels and lowers are assembles usually are assembled with National Match triggers at 4 lbs and various stock combinations.

All rifles are built to customers specifications and each lower and upper is unique

In the shipping area, parts come in, guns go out. There seems to be no end to the demand. Rifles usually are sitting on dealers? shelves for a few days before they?re gone. For dealers that take deposits, guns never even make it to the shelves before they are picked up by a local customer or shipped out again.

Preparation for the firing test begins with the loading of magazines which is a full time job. The finisher snaps 20-30 rounds into waiting magazines in preparation for the final function test

Several times a day, assemblers and rifle testers load the Rock River vehicle with rifles and take all of them out to the range. Shooting from the back of the vehicle, every firearm with sights is sighted in, and then test-fired for function. Testers shoot at least two magazines through the fully automatic guns. Who says semi automatics aren?t accurate? With barrels provided by Wilson Barrel, the principal attraction of Rock River Arms rifles is that they shoot far better than marketed.

Thanks to Rock River Arms Tactical Rifle AR-15 BB2522 Operator 2 light-weight, it's very simple to transport and the Rock River Arms AR-15 Model BB2522 Rock River Arms Operator 2 is even much simpler to fire. Constructed with exclusively top-grade components and manufactured to the strictest specs, this Rock River Arms AR15 BB2522 Operator 2 is extraordinarily accurate, hard-wearing, and dependable, and makes a superb improvement to any weapon collection.

All Operator 2 rifles feature flat-top receivers and 16-inch chrome moly 1:9" twist barrels with 5.56 NATO chambers, tipped with the RRA Tactical Muzzle Brake. I purchased the Rock River Arms Tactical Rifle AR-15 BB2522 Operator 2. I found the BB2522 Operator was the most unusual-looking member of the group with its gas system and a unique Free Float hand guard.

I also shot the Operator alongside another AR-15 with no brake, just a standard A2 birdcage flash hider, and the Operators brake did not seem to be noticeably louder. This is an essential point when using a rifle indoors.

Here are the features when delivered through my web based dealer.

Manufacturer Rock River Arms
Model: Operator 2 Series
Type: direct-impingement AR semi auto
Capacity: accepts AR-15 magazines of any capacity
Caliber: 5.56 NATO chamber
Barrel length: 16-inches chrome moly, 1:9" twist
Overall length: 37 inches
Weight: 7.2 pounds (Entry and Tactical), 8.0 pounds ()
Hand guard: Half-Quad aluminum free float (BB2522)
Stock: RRA Operator CAR compartment stock, ERGO Sure Grip pistol grip
Sights: post front; wind age-adjustable rear aperture
Trigger: RRA National Match, 4 pounds pull
Sale Price: $1,000.00 , Retail $1,515.00

Load Muzzle Velocity (fps) Standard Deviation (fps) Group Size (in.), Black Hills 55-gr. SP 2,910 12 0.99, Black Hills 60-gr. V-Max 2,880 16 0.87, American Eagle 55-gr. FMJ 2,810 24 1.05, Black Hills Match King 69-gr. HP 2,780 21 1.03, Hornady 55-gr. V-Max 2,935 13 1.11, Black Hills 52-gr. HP 3,042 18 1.12

Notes: Accuracy results are the averages of four five-shot groups at 100 yards from a sandbag rest. Velocities are averages of three shots measured with an F-1 Alpha chronograph 12 feet from the muzzle. Abbreviations: FMJ, full metal jacket; HP, hollowpoint; SP, softpoint.

It is easy to get great groups from a mediocre rifle if it has a great trigger, but put a tack-driver with a gritty eight-pound trigger in anybody's hands, and they will be lucky to stay on paper. The Rock River Arms Operator rifles are not just inherently accurate (that's one plus to the AR design), they are equipped with quality triggers that enable the user to get the most out of them.

Most dealers in my location wanted retail plus which did not set well with my budget. I acquired my Operator from Class 3 Weapons in Houston Texas at a substantial savings of only $969.00 which included shipping.


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