Does anyone on here have personal experience with it? This just popped on my radar recently, and I’m kind of intrigued by it. Pros and cons? Please, no linking to someone else’s reviews. I can do that myself. I’m interested in members’ experience with the system. Thanks.

No personal experience, but it seems like just another competitor in the AR-15/AR-18 hybrid market, alongside things like the PSA Jakl, Brownells BRN-180, Sig MCX, Foxtrot Mike FM-15, etc.

They all use uppers with AR-18-based/inspired operating systems, married to standard AR-15 lowers.

(And if a bufferless AR is mainly what you're after, there are also a few companies offering conversion bolt carriers that use a similar principle and that allow you to convert your normal AR-15 upper to be bufferless, like the Law ARIC or EWS bufferless bolt carrier.)

I too have no experience with that particular line. But my CMMG Banshee has been perfect. Several hundred rounds now without a cleaning, just a little lube each time it’s shot. Popped squirrels from 40 yards in a tree stand one evening, fairly accurate I suppose.

have a BrN-180 uppers 5.56/300blk. and a dissent in 300blk. i had an early sig mcx, but that's gone... too many trips back to sig.

id say i like both, if i had to choose one, the dissent seems a little better thought out when it comes to design. BRN is going through many "generations" as they learn lessons from their customers...

i have had 0 issues with either, i find the DI and gas regulation on the dissent more pleasant to use suppressed. its relatively easy to take down for cleaning. only down side is its a bit heavy and a much taller receiver then a standard AR upper. their endplate is required to convert the lower.

Is "bufferless" a performance feature, or is it just another way of saying "foldable stock".

On rifles like the Dissent, it's a different bolt carrier system based around the Armalite AR-18, with dual springs above the bolt carrier that compress against the inside of the upper receiver, rather than a spring and buffer inside a buffer tube and the BCG partially leaving the receiver during travel.

But yes, the main thing you gain from this is being able to attach a folding stock, and shoot with the stock folded. You also don't get the typical AR-15 "sproing" in your ear.

(The AR-18 was initially designed as a cheaper, simpler, and easier to manufacture rifle compared to the AR-15, and this represents part of the simplification as you didn't need the buffer tube and threaded forged receiver, just a square stamped and welded receiver.)