#Battle arms development workhorse series
The WORKHORSE™ series offers an amazing value. It is loaded with numerous enhanced components such as a smooth nickel Teflon trigger, enhanced magazine release, enhanced take-down/pivot pins for easy tool-less breakdown, one-piece magazine catch, billet trigger guard, enhanced bolt catch, user-adjustable three-position pistol grip, and enhanced single side safety or the latest BAD-ASS-PRO ambidextrous safety selector with a virtually unbreakable lever attachment mechanism. Look a bit more closely and you will find this duty line of rifles are not so “plain jane”. In a class of its own, every WORKHORSE™ is outfitted with a new industry standard-setting RACK™ ambidextrous charging handle with monolithic handle and smooth side sliding latch that is built to take abuse. Rifle models utilize a mid-length gas system for reliable and smooth cycling action while reducing recoil and minimizing wear. Each barrel is individually head-spaced with matching Carpenter 158 steel bolt and 8620 black nitride carrier for ultimate reliability and ease of cleaning. Every firearm is equipped with a 4150 chrome-moly steel black nitride barrel for durability and accuracy. At 12 o’clock is a full-length Picatinny accessory rail with our signature notch cut matching the upper receiver. It is purpose-built around the forged BAD-15 7075-T6 aircraft-grade aluminum receiver and free-float rail handguard with M-LOK attachment point at 3, 6, and 9 o’clock positions. However, that price tag is no joke at just north of $3k – but if you’re in the market for the most ridiculously light AR-15 in town, you just might want to check out the BAD OIP.The BATTLEARMS® WORKHORSE™ series of firearms are built for duty and hard use in mind. Remember when you were a kid, and trying on a new pair of shoes made you feel like you could run faster? Shooting courses with the OIP is a lot like that. The gun is an absolute pleasure to fire and ran flawlessly, and running around the range like a dork feeling totally unencumbered was a blast. Overall, is the Battle Arms Development OIP worth the price tag? Well, that probably depends a lot on you. All in all, we would have much preferred to see a way better trigger setup for a gun coming in at just over $3,000. It’s an AR-15 platform, so the world is very much your oyster, outside of the limited options for attaching optics. The gun is definitely visually striking! Its combination of lightening cuts and carbon fiber components make the gun look fast. We have no gripes with the streamlined design of the gun, but there are no frills here either. We didn’t actually get a chance to shoot actual groups with the rifle, but considering you can’t really mount a magnified optic on it, it performed admirably against the ~100 yard steel we shot at. We ran approximately 600 rounds of bargain bin Serbian M193 through the OIP with nary a malfunction. If your biggest gripe with a rifle is that minuscule, suffice to say that you’re on pretty solid footing. Maybe the only gripe we had was the charging handle’s occasional habit of extending outwards and tapping you on the nose once the bolt locks to the rear on an empty magazine, but it’s really more of an odd sensation than anything else. Not that I’m a great shooter by any means, but I actually had a bit of trouble with overshooting targets when running plate racks, as it doesn’t take anywhere near as much effort to move the barrel around as you’d think coming from other AR-15s. Obviously, right? But the noticeable lack of heft actually throws you off for a bit until you get used to it. We were fortunate enough to link up with Battle Arms out at Gunship Gun Range – who normally specialize in letting tourists pop off rounds from an M249 mounted on the side of a helicopter, but were kind enough to let us plink with the OIP on their range between flights.įirst things first – this gun is light. Ounces equal pounds, and pounds equal pain, after all.
If you’re in an absolute worst-case scenario situation, lugging around any kind of extra weight will eventually take its toll. However, Battle Arms has informed us that the rifle is intended more for survival purposes than anything else, which we can definitely see as well. Originally, we had thought the gun was geared primarily for competitions, as you can definitely move quite fast with the gun if you’re at all physically fit. What’s the point of such a light rifle, you might ask? Now onto the written review! Who Is It For? If that was awesome…we upload new content every week so be sure to subscribe to our YouTube Channel.
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