#Drd aptus review full

Patel and DRD have developed a series of semi-automatic rifles that feature a quick takedown mechanism that allows you to fit these capable firearms into deceptively small cases and assemble them in seconds rather than minutes (or hours). Company owner Skip Patel is something of an ingenious mad scientist when it comes to radical gun design, and the company has always struck me as being the Skunk Works of the firearms industry. So, is there another way to take down the size of the AR, one that requires some “outside of the box” thinking? Well, you need look no further than DRD Tactical.

#Drd aptus review full

Carbine variants of the design (culminating in the M4 Carbine of today) attempted to bring down the size of the firearm by employing shortened gas systems and barrels as well as collapsible stock systems, but the receiver extension/buffer tube assembly design of the AR prevented the design from being shortened further (apart from some more esoteric solutions such as full folding stock systems that either move the recoil spring assembly above the barrel or fold the actual buffer system and render the AR as a single-shot until unfolded). In its original military-configuration form as the 5.56x45mm M16, the rifle featured a 20' barrel and a fixed stock. The AR-pattern rifle has many positive characteristics, but extreme compactness is not one of them.