Scar 17s is a rifle I have always liked to own. Been thinking about this lately (again) and poking around. I know what the diff function is between a reciprocating and non-reciprocating charge handle.

What are Pros and Cons of the two? Enough to warrant one over the other if pricing is the same?

I know the rifles have gone up since coming out years ago but what's the deal with the mags? Again, I poke around here and there, and mags have seemed to be around $50-60 and now they are $100. Is there some shortage thing going on and FN not making them anymore? Do you think the mags will come back down at some point or this the new price or greater going forward for now on?

Are the 2nd Amend and ProMag (I know ProMag doesnt have a good rep) worth buying or suck up the $100 for FN?

Thanks for any and all insight.

The current generation SCAR is probably the best of the three generations of rifles. It has the square shoulder for the muzzle device, longer rail standard, NRCH standard, and a few other advantages. BUT, it’s probably the least interesting of the three. The original RCH is annoying, but it’s the closest to the original rifle, which is why I wanted it. The NRCH model is a more usable version of the original, so if it was between the two, I’d probably get the NRCH. The current model, to me, is just a FNH piston rifle that takes the proprietary mags. You can get a Lingle lower for any of the gens to accept P-mags, but that’s 450 more bucks. If I were to get the current GEN, I’d probably get a Lingle lower since it has almost no resemblance to the original rifle, anyway. I bought the original RCH model about 10 years ago, then I bought six magazines when they were on sale for 40 bucks each. I also had it p&w’d to 14.5”. No experience with the off-brand mags. You can also purchase an NRCH upgrade kit which essentially makes a RCH model an NRCH model, but it’s like $800 to do it after the fact.



Also, MSRP for 20-rd magazines still seems to be $55-$62. Anything more than that is likely supply/demand.
https://www.primaryarms.com/fn...agazine-20-round-fde

https://gunmagwarehouse.com/fn...rod_default_products

Thanks for the feed back. Currently I'm seeing the Belgium RCH ones going for $4500+, the NRCH going around $3k-4 and the current gen is $3600. Looks like I'm good with a NCRH of around the $3k mark. I know when they first came out, many years ago now, I wasn't fond of the RCH when I shot one.


I guess the mags are a supply demand. I have seen regular retail pricing but of course everyone is out even FN. I'll dig into this more to determine if supply expects to come back and prices drop. But if this is the new norm investing in a $450 lower to run Pmags might be worth it.