The Official LaRue Tactical PredatOBR 7.62 Photo Thread (Page 4 of 24)
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Originally Posted By sgwlower:
Originally Posted By LaRue_Tactical:
Originally Posted By techbrute:
<snip> I'm wondering how small a package you can break that 14.5" 7.62 down to. I'm thinking LT "gym bag", here... http://www.harborfreight.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/i/m/image_15327.jpg Truly just another tool in the box. What you did there ... |
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I'm in awe of that rifle... Truly a work of art, that is able to go into harms way... Sadly, with three little Paddy Ricans (I'm Irish, wife is Puerto Rican...hence Paddy Rican), running about underfoot... This is likely to be as close to one of those rifles as I'm able to get for the next 20 years.... 
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Originally Posted By DVCAPI:
Mark, would it be safe to say you should take your scope mount and bridge the receiver/forearm and then lock the forearm, to align the top rail? Then move your scope to the correct position for your Rifle? Just looking at the pictures, it looks like the steel studs on the hand guard go into the steel inserts on the receiver. With the tolerances that LT normally uses I think it should line up perfectly. Strictly a guess though. |
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Hey Mark,
Was on the list for PredatOBR prior to the price increase. Canceled order to get one of the first batch of Costa's. Could I get back on list for PredatOBR at pre-price increase price? Pretty please? 
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Originally Posted By docsu-1:
Hey Mark, Was on the list for PredatOBR prior to the price increase. Canceled order to get one of the first batch of Costa's. Could I get back on list for PredatOBR at pre-price increase price? Pretty please? Yeah, I really, really considered getting one, can I get the pre-increase price, too? |
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So, does this mean LaRue will start selling barrels for caliber/role conversions? Are we going to get any info on weight?
I think the SCOBR would be my ultimate dream rifle if it also included a tool-less, quick change barrel system. I'm not sure why more manufacturers haven't moved in this direction given the modularity focus of modern rifles. The technology already exist in certain iterations. The AUG has a tool-less barrel change capability, as do various belt fed machine guns. Oh well, I'm sure LaRue will come up with something like this a couple years after I drop a few K on SCOBR's... 
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Originally Posted By techbrute:
Originally Posted By docsu-1:
Hey Mark, Was on the list for PredatOBR prior to the price increase. Canceled order to get one of the first batch of Costa's. Could I get back on list for PredatOBR at pre-price increase price? Pretty please? Yeah, I really, really considered getting one, can I get the pre-increase price, too? I pre-ordered an OBR heavy at $2500. Can I get a 7.62 SCOBR at that price too?* 
*Question is tongue-in-cheek. |
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Aw bite me.
I've been looking at the pics on an Iphone today. Now I get home and see a good picture on the screen. I really like this now. Mark, you are the devil. |
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Originally Posted By Soconmtneer:
Originally Posted By DVCAPI:
Mark, would it be safe to say you should take your scope mount and bridge the receiver/forearm and then lock the forearm, to align the top rail? Then move your scope to the correct position for your Rifle? Just looking at the pictures, it looks like the steel studs on the hand guard go into the steel inserts on the receiver. With the tolerances that LT normally uses I think it should line up perfectly. Strictly a guess though. Looks like a good guess considering the whole thing is made by LT aka "Austin PRECISION Products". 
As my grandfather would say, "Looks perXact." * * An East Texas contraction of perfectly exact, in other words, it doesn't get any better. |
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Don't know how I missed this thread this morning!!!!! I almost cancelled today to buy a Colt LE-901. Luckily they were out of stock too!!!!.... Whew, that was close!!!! Especially since I have been waiting for a LaRue since early December..... 2011...... What a gorgeous gun, I may have to switch from a 16" to a 14.5 P&W!!! Or I guess I could just order the other barrel!!!!!
REAL MEN SHOOT 7.62!!!!!!! 
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Originally Posted By BS68280:
Can't wait to see the 5.56 pics. I decided not to wait. I went ahead and ordered a 14.5" P&W tOBR 556. Might as well beat the rush when the pics are posted, right? |
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Can ya cook a small one for the wife and I? I'll drop by tomorrow on the way to Home Depot
ETA- I'll be adding this piece of beauty to the collection. Since my PredatAR is on the order, should I just change it now? |
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Originally Posted By omd:
Originally Posted By BS68280:
Can't wait to see the 5.56 pics. I decided not to wait. I went ahead and ordered a 14.5" P&W tOBR 556. Might as well beat the rush when the pics are posted, right? Yeah I guess, I ordered mine back on 3-15, thought I was ordering the normal hybrid but this looks like it will be even better. |
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Originally Posted By Trumptone:
Truthfully, I think this new handguard looks ugly compared to the regular one. I kind of agree. Let me clarify, on the 7.62 it looks great. Has more meat and is kinda like a tonka truck! On a 556 I think I like the slick look but I will reserve final judgement till the official 556 picks emerge from dillo works 
I also noticed that the predatOBR and OBR are the same price now, so why not just buy the OBR? |
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Originally Posted By Harley1:
Originally Posted By mattdomes:
I also noticed that the predatOBR and OBR are the same price now, so why not just buy the OBR? Because I already gotz one of themz.... True, but for a noob with his first LT still on order the question of which will be #2 comes to mind
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Originally Posted By LaRue_Tactical:
Originally Posted By mettee:
I can't stop looking at it  As my dear ol' Navy dad used to say - "built like a brick sh*thouse". Be advised, once mfingar gets hisself some shuteye, other pics and video to follow. Sooooooooo... How long does he sleep, anyway?
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Originally Posted By mattdomes: I also noticed that the predatOBR and OBR are the same price now, so why not just buy the OBR? It depends what you want. Do you want the 20 MOA top rail and a short HG? Then OBR. Do you want a longer HG and a Zero MOA top rail? Then SCOBR. IMHO, you're getting more bang for the buck with a SCOBR. also they don't offer a 14.5" OBR. |
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Originally Posted By DVCAPI:
Originally Posted By mattdomes:
I also noticed that the predatOBR and OBR are the same price now, so why not just buy the OBR? It depends what you want. Do you want the 20 MOA top rail and a short HG? Then OBR. Do you want a longer HG and a Zero MOA top rail? Then SCOBR. IMHO, you're getting more bang for the buck with a SCOBR. also they don't offer a 14.5" OBR. ...and because Suitcase. |
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Originally Posted By techbrute:
Originally Posted By DVCAPI:
Originally Posted By mattdomes:
I also noticed that the predatOBR and OBR are the same price now, so why not just buy the OBR? It depends what you want. Do you want the 20 MOA top rail and a short HG? Then OBR. Do you want a longer HG and a Zero MOA top rail? Then SCOBR. IMHO, you're getting more bang for the buck with a SCOBR. also they don't offer a 14.5" OBR. ...and because Suitcase. Please excuse the noob question but what is Suitcase? I don's see how removing the hand guard makes it fit any easier in a suitcase... Flame on... 
Found my own answer: 
Yeah that's pretty cool but why cant you do that with all the predatAR's? |
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Originally Posted By mattdomes: Here's the old Suitcase Rifle before the QD handguard. It took him half a minute to install the HG screws. Originally Posted By techbrute: Originally Posted By DVCAPI: Originally Posted By mattdomes: I also noticed that the predatOBR and OBR are the same price now, so why not just buy the OBR? It depends what you want. Do you want the 20 MOA top rail and a short HG? Then OBR. Do you want a longer HG and a Zero MOA top rail? Then SCOBR. IMHO, you're getting more bang for the buck with a SCOBR. also they don't offer a 14.5" OBR. ...and because Suitcase. Please excuse the noob question but what is Suitcase? I don's see how removing the hand guard makes it fit any easier in a suitcase... Flame on... Found my own answer: http://www.defensereview.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/LaRue_Suitcase_Rifle_Data_Sheet.jpg Yeah that's pretty cool but why cant you do that with all the predatAR's? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I9lLwIdmGs |
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Originally Posted By techbrute:
Originally Posted By DVCAPI:
Originally Posted By mattdomes:
I also noticed that the predatOBR and OBR are the same price now, so why not just buy the OBR? It depends what you want. Do you want the 20 MOA top rail and a short HG? Then OBR. Do you want a longer HG and a Zero MOA top rail? Then SCOBR. IMHO, you're getting more bang for the buck with a SCOBR. also they don't offer a 14.5" OBR. ...and because Suitcase. Personally, I want something lighter than my OBR while still retaining the OBR barrel with PST. I really hope LaRue managed to trim some weight with the SCOBR. The pictures that have been posted so far don't really look like it. I wasn't expecting PredaTAR lightness, but somewhere about mid way between the OBR and PredaTAR would be nice. The website list a weight of 8.2 pounds for the 14.5" 7.62 model, but who knows how accurate that is for the redesign. Hopefully LaRue will be forthcoming on the weights for the finalized design. Actually, I wish they would update their website providing more specific weights for all their rifles in each barrel length. Constructive criticism aside, Mark, are their any plans to offer the 5.56 SCOBR in a 12" model? I think an SBR SCOBR would be more practical than an SBR OBR. |
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Originally Posted By DVCAPI:
Originally Posted By mattdomes:
Here's the old Suitcase Rifle before the QD handguard. It took him half a minute to install the HG screws.
Originally Posted By techbrute:
Originally Posted By DVCAPI:
Originally Posted By mattdomes:
I also noticed that the predatOBR and OBR are the same price now, so why not just buy the OBR? It depends what you want. Do you want the 20 MOA top rail and a short HG? Then OBR. Do you want a longer HG and a Zero MOA top rail? Then SCOBR. IMHO, you're getting more bang for the buck with a SCOBR. also they don't offer a 14.5" OBR. ...and because Suitcase. Please excuse the noob question but what is Suitcase? I don's see how removing the hand guard makes it fit any easier in a suitcase... Flame on...
Found my own answer: http://www.defensereview.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/LaRue_Suitcase_Rifle_Data_Sheet.jpg Yeah that's pretty cool but why cant you do that with all the predatAR's? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I9lLwIdmGs Good video, I am guessing that you can do this with any of the predatAR's as long as you have the tools? Any data from Mark or mfingar? |
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Originally Posted By Corporal_Chaos: Originally Posted By techbrute: Originally Posted By DVCAPI: Originally Posted By mattdomes: I also noticed that the predatOBR and OBR are the same price now, so why not just buy the OBR? It depends what you want. Do you want the 20 MOA top rail and a short HG? Then OBR. Do you want a longer HG and a Zero MOA top rail? Then SCOBR. IMHO, you're getting more bang for the buck with a SCOBR. also they don't offer a 14.5" OBR. ...and because Suitcase. Personally, I want something lighter than my OBR while still retaining the OBR barrel with PST. I really hope LaRue managed to trim some weight with the SCOBR. The pictures that have been posted so far don't really look like it. I wasn't expecting PredaTAR lightness, but somewhere about mid way between the OBR and PredaTAR would be nice. The website list a weight of 8.2 pounds for the 14.5" 7.62 model, but who knows how accurate that is for the redesign. Hopefully LaRue will be forthcoming on the weights for the finalized design. Actually, I wish they would update their website providing more specific weights for all their rifles in each barrel length. Constructive criticism aside, Mark, are their any plans to offer the 5.56 SCOBR in a 12" model? I think an SBR SCOBR would be more practical than an SBR OBR. The weights listed for the tOBR since SHOT 2012 have been as heavy as a OBR. Where were they going to loose weight in a tOBR when it had a longer HG than a OBR? The longer HG but without the 20 MOA top rail would be a wash as far as weight is concerned. But with a SCOBR, you could have a light weight barel and a heavy weight OBR barrel and change them as needed. I'd like a heavy 7.62 barrel and a LW 6.5 Remington hunting barrel. |
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Here's the old model SC/R taking it apart. With all the gaffes MF makes when doing it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EwdcGtn4Xs |
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Originally Posted By Colt_sporter: Which one, 7.62 or 5.56? Just look up the PredatOBR on LaRue Tactical's web page. Nice. Price?  http://www.laruetactical.com/larue-tactical-14.5-predatobr%E2%84%A2-556 http://www.laruetactical.com/larue-tactical-145-inch-predatobr%E2%84%A2-762 Why does someone else have to do all the work for you?  |
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Originally Posted By DVCAPI:
The weights listed for the tOBR since SHOT 2012 have been as heavy as a OBR. Where were they going to loose weight in a tOBR when it had a longer HG than a OBR? The longer HG but without the 20 MOA top rail would be a wash as far as weight is concerned. But with a SCOBR, you could have a light weight barel and a heavy weight OBR barrel and change them as needed. I'd like a heavy 7.62 barrel and a LW 6.5 Remington hunting barrel. Do we know for certain that the SCOBR rails are longer than the OBR rails? Looking at the pictures of a 14.5" posted on page one here and comparing it to pictures of 16" OBR's and PredaTAR's, the rail length on the SCOBR looks closer to that of the OBR. I though the rails on the SCOBR/tOBR had been shortened to accomodate the 14.5" barrel offerings. |
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Originally Posted By Corporal_Chaos: 16" OBROriginally Posted By DVCAPI: The weights listed for the tOBR since SHOT 2012 have been as heavy as a OBR. Where were they going to loose weight in a tOBR when it had a longer HG than a OBR? The longer HG but without the 20 MOA top rail would be a wash as far as weight is concerned. But with a SCOBR, you could have a light weight barel and a heavy weight OBR barrel and change them as needed. I'd like a heavy 7.62 barrel and a LW 6.5 Remington hunting barrel. Do we know for certain that the SCOBR rails are longer than the OBR rails? Looking at the pictures of a 14.5" posted on page one here and comparing it to pictures of 16" OBR's and PredaTAR's, the rail length on the SCOBR looks closer to that of the OBR. I though the rails on the SCOBR/tOBR had been shortened to accomodate the 14.5" barrel offerings. http://www.laruetactical.com/larue-tactical-obr-optimized-battle-rifle-complete-762-rifle-16-barrel 16" tOBR http://www.laruetactical.com/predatobr-762-16inch It sure looks like the tOBR rail is longer by a couple of inches, but we need to see the new pictures of the new redesigned SCOBR 16" model to compare. Then we'd be comparing 16" to 16". The tOBR rail was suppose to be longer than the OBR rail, but shorter than the tAR rail because of the 14.5" option. But what the heck, I'm just making a SWAG, the same as anyone else not in the loop at LT. |
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I must say that I'm more impressed than i ever thought I would be, I even bought two surefire suppressors from my local SOT when I ordered the rifles and all I can say is that I was going to give them to my 5 and 10 year old boys but now hell no they wait until I die
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Wondering if the geometry on the sides of the upper/lower receivers are going to match.
In the pics, the new upper design butts into a wider vertical section on the side of the lower receiver. Perfectionist I guess.
Anyways, got home to the big screen last night, and WHOA this is purdy!
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Originally Posted By techbrute:
Originally Posted By LaRue_Tactical:
Originally Posted By mettee:
I can't stop looking at it As my dear ol' Navy dad used to say - "built like a brick sh*thouse". Be advised, once mfingar gets hisself some shuteye, other pics and video to follow. Sooooooooo... How long does he sleep, anyway?
Long day - we had multiple meetings from daylight until they run us out of Surf and Turf ... ... and Gov. Perry came over for our deep fried turkey fajita lunch to check out the topic of this discussion ... And though Fingar doesn't fancy himself a photographer, he did manage to take all them pics in his room at our local Holiday Inn Express. 
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God Bless Our Troops ... Especially Our Snipers.
Makers of all things LaRue - the Stealth Uppers, the OBR in 5.56 and 7.62, the PredatAR in both 5.56 and 7.62, the best QD mounts known to mankind ... and so on.
Makers of all things LaRue - the Stealth Uppers, the OBR in 5.56 and 7.62, the PredatAR in both 5.56 and 7.62, the best QD mounts known to mankind ... and so on.
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Originally Posted By LaRue_Tactical:
Originally Posted By techbrute:
Originally Posted By LaRue_Tactical:
Originally Posted By mettee:
I can't stop looking at it As my dear ol' Navy dad used to say - "built like a brick sh*thouse". Be advised, once mfingar gets hisself some shuteye, other pics and video to follow. Sooooooooo... How long does he sleep, anyway?
Long day - we had multiple meetings from daylight until they run us out of Surf and Turf ... ... and Gov. Perry came over for our deep fried turkey fajita lunch to check out the topic of this discussion ... And though Fingar doesn't fancy himself a photographer, he did manage to take all them pics in his room at our local Holiday Inn Express.
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Originally Posted By LaRue_Tactical: Originally Posted By mettee: I can't stop looking at it As my dear ol' Navy dad used to say - "built like a brick sh*thouse". Be advised, once mfingar gets hisself some shuteye, other pics and video to follow. Bump for mfingar to get "hisself some shuteye" |
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Originally Posted By DVCAPI:
16" OBR http://www.laruetactical.com/larue-tactical-obr-optimized-battle-rifle-complete-762-rifle-16-barrel 16" tOBR http://www.laruetactical.com/predatobr-762-16inch It sure looks like the tOBR rail is longer by a couple of inches, but we need to see the new pictures of the new redesigned SCOBR 16" model to compare. Then we'd be comparing 16" to 16". The tOBR rail was suppose to be longer than the OBR rail, but shorter than the tAR rail because of the 14.5" option. But what the heck, I'm just making a SWAG, the same as anyone else not in the loop at LT. Keep in mind that the pics on the website for the 14.5" tOBR and 16" tOBR are the same. I agree, until we hear something definitive from LaRue, it's all speculation. |
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Originally Posted By Corporal_Chaos: OK I did some more looking for pictures and here is the 14.5" SC/R pre QD/HG from SHOT 2012.Originally Posted By DVCAPI: 16" OBR http://www.laruetactical.com/larue-tactical-obr-optimized-battle-rifle-complete-762-rifle-16-barrel 16" tOBR http://www.laruetactical.com/predatobr-762-16inch It sure looks like the tOBR rail is longer by a couple of inches, but we need to see the new pictures of the new redesigned SCOBR 16" model to compare. Then we'd be comparing 16" to 16". The tOBR rail was suppose to be longer than the OBR rail, but shorter than the tAR rail because of the 14.5" option. But what the heck, I'm just making a SWAG, the same as anyone else not in the loop at LT. Keep in mind that the pics on the website for the 14.5" tOBR and 16" tOBR are the same. I agree, until we hear something definitive from LaRue, it's all speculation. Well the one picture went poof but there's more at the link below. http://www.defensereview.com/larue-tactical-suitcase-riflecarbine-suitcase-gun-14-5-7-62mm-nato-308-win-takedown-predatobr-riflecarbine-at-ndia-joint-armaments-range-day-video/ Here is the handout from SHOT 2012.  In this picture and the handout we know the Rifle pictured has a 14.5" barrel and if someone wants to they can look up the length of the SF-MB for the size reference. I'm not doing all the work for Y'all. |
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In this picture and the handout we know the Rifle pictured has a 14.5" barrel and if someone wants to they can look up the length of the SF-MB for the size reference. I'm not doing all the work for Y'all. But we humbly thank you for it!!!!
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Originally Posted By haroldwilson:
I'm experiencing a little turgidity. 
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God Bless Our Troops ... Especially Our Snipers.
Makers of all things LaRue - the Stealth Uppers, the OBR in 5.56 and 7.62, the PredatAR in both 5.56 and 7.62, the best QD mounts known to mankind ... and so on.
Makers of all things LaRue - the Stealth Uppers, the OBR in 5.56 and 7.62, the PredatAR in both 5.56 and 7.62, the best QD mounts known to mankind ... and so on.
. I just got through with this whole "I'm only going to purchase 2 guns next year, honey" spill with my wife... how in the hell will I convince her I meant 3...???