My bro is going to get his first AR for Christmas. He's dead set on a Sterling Arsenal SAR-XV Mod3 AR-15.

Seems fine to me but really overpriced. Has anybody tried these out before? Pretty sure I could build one for half the price. Do they have a reputation or something maybe I don't know about?

I totally get it when a firearm tickles your fancy or whatever, personally I'd much rather get a BCM or something.

Thanks!

Definitely looks overpriced to me, especially when some of the components are no-name ("Aluminum flip up sights, MLOK rail).

Hey if it gets your brother in the AR game, let him have at it.

But I'm with you - I'd take a Colt, BCM, or LMT or roll my own before buying that.

Since he’s set on it just compliment that it looks cool and go shooting with him to ring in the new year.

$1400 isn’t so bad, if he was looking at some boutique AR over $2500 I could see feeling a duty to talk him out of it.

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Originally posted by Strambo:
Since he’s set on it just compliment that it looks cool and go shooting with him to ring in the new year.

$1400 isn’t so bad, if he was looking at some boutique AR over $2500 I could see feeling a duty to talk him out of it.

Yeah he really has his heart set and I don't want to break it. I was just hoping there was something special I didn't know about it.

Link doesn’t work for me. Is that the place in NoVA?

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Originally posted by Leemur:
Link doesn’t work for me. Is that the place in NoVA?

Yeah, looks like I had a mobile only link in there:

https://www.sterlingarsenal.com/SAR-XV_AR15.php

Looks like a massively overpriced no name parts gun with some bottom tier features. He can have the same quality for half the price by buying a PSA.

Tell your brother to buy a LMT mrp mlok or a Centurion C4 instead. Other contenders are Colt ( if the Coltpocalypse weren’t in effect), DD, and BCM.