The Fightlite SCR , from Fightlite Industries. I have wanted to get my hands on one of these for quite some time. I figured I'd take advantage, and do a full review of the Fightlite SCR.
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You can get either a complete rifle, or a complete lower receiver that comes with the proprietary Fightlite Stock. The Remington 870 style stock houses the buffer spring, weight etc. The recoil system. Knowing that it is compatible with AR15 upper receivers I wanted to get a good feel for it, and also see If I could use my 300 blackout upper receiver on it. Then I thought about it, and decided I should also bring a 350 legend upper receiver to see if it works as well. While the Fightlite SCR Lower accepts standard mil-spec AR15 upper receivers it uses a unique fire control group, and a button style safety selector rather than a traditional AR style safety. However this rifle is not only California Compliant its 50 State Compliant!
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California Compliant rifles are confusing. It has to do with physical appearance of the parts somewhat. Anyways to keep this rifle California Legal you can't use a flash hider type muzzle device , and must keep in mind to either run it with the included thread protector, or when selecting a muzzle device make sure its a compensator, or muzzle brake not a flash hider!.
We took it out with 500 rounds of 556/223 ammo, 80 rounds of 300 blackout ammo, 40 rounds of 350 legend ammo, and a Vortex Optics Venom 1-6 x 24 thanks to Vortex Optics. After finding a decent zero I went to town ringing steel over, and over. its lighter than I expected, and the Fightlite SCR Stock is surprisingly comfortable. The grip angle is good for shooting while standing, but offers a nice angle for bench shooting.
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After burning through most of my ammo I was impressed this thing is accurate. It didn't make much of a difference in terms of ammo they all shot extremely well, and to me that's important. I had no malfunctions of any sort. I chose to use a Hera Arms Magazine for this video, and it worked well for the 556/223, and the 300 blackout. I shot the remaining 556/223, and got right to swapping upper receivers.
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First I decided to try out the 300 blackout. I brought 4 different types of ammo out with me. 3 were Supersonic ammo, and 1 was Subsonic ammo. The Fightlite SCR lower did really well with all the Super sonic ammo, but the subsonic had issues. I decided I needed to try the ammo out with the 300 blackout upper back on the original AR15 lower receiver, and so I did. It had the same style malfunction as I experienced with the Fightlite SCR Lower & 300 Blackout upper combo. So I drew the conclusion that it was ammo related. Not that the ammo is bad, its just a thing when it comes to some cartridges you have to find what runs reliably in your setup. when it comes to 300 blackout it can be tricky to build one that runs both subsonic ammo, and supersonic ammo well unless you have an adjustable gas block etc. which this upper doesn't have.
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I finished up running the 300 blackout, and swapped a 350 legend upper receiver onto the Fightlite SCR Lower Receiver. I only brought 2 types of ammo with me, and 1 of them I know from experience doesn't feed well in my 350 legend AR normally. That said I experienced the same thing when using the 350 legend upper receiver on the Fightlite SCR Lower Receiver.
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All in all I think its a very innovative design, and I would love to see some aftermarket support in terms of buffer weights, spring strengths etc. The AR style rifles have the best after market support with so many manufactures producing parts. We have cool uppers chambered in things like 450 Bushmaster, 458 Socom, 50 Beowulf. While most of these run on the same style platform they can each require tuning. This is something we will perhaps have to revisit.
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12 июл 2024
