The Adams arms COR (5.56 nato)
I bought this after watching a
review by James Yeager on YouTube. I loved how it looked, and the idea of a
rifle that has zero recoil was very appealing. So I found one on gun broker and
bought it. When I got it home two weeks later, after dealing with a FFL and
shipping I was all excited. It looked and felt great, maybe a bit long, but
good. That said this gun has a bit of a love hate relationship with me; we’ll
get into that more later on.
On my first outing it did not cycle
reliably at all maybe one out of six rounds would run. It would fire, the bolt
would travel back just far enough to roll the spent case out of the gun, but
not far enough to strip a fresh round from the mag. it was very annoying. So I
sent it back to the factory for repair. Adams arms have a fantastic reputation
for customer service so I was not worried. They paid shipping both ways and in
three weeks I had the gun back with a new barrel. They said the flash hole was
not drilled right and as such I was not getting the pressure I needed to cycle.
It all made since, so I grabbed some medium velocity hand loads I had made a
while back and hit the range. It was much better but still not perfect so as I
had a rifle-pistol match coming up I loaded some hot hand loads (not crazy but
mimicking nato .5.56 rounds) verified that they worked and went to the match.
The gun ran perfectly not a single jam all day, and I did awesome. I was so
happy with the gun that day. We truly bonded and everything was great, right up
to the point when I took it apart to clean it. It was full of metal shavings.
My $2000 rifle was chewing itself to pieces, and I was incensed. I called up Adams
arms and shipped it off the very next day.
Three weeks later I once more had
the rifle in my hands with a note that the buffer was at fault. That made no
sense to me and there was no mention of the metal shavings at all, that being
the reason I sent it back, so I emailed them again and was told that it was
normal in a piston gun for my bolt key to strike the outside of the receiver
and that if I was worried about it I should install a ball barring gas key, so
I did then I took it out shooting and once more it didn’t work at all in fact
it was worse than when I first got it. It jammed every single round, only now
it was far more creative in its jamming. It had ftf, fte double feeds and stove
pipes. Also it was once more full of metal shavings despite the new gas key. I
was livid. So I put it in the back of the safe for a few weeks and shot the
bushmaster instead.
Once I had calmed down enough that
no swear words would be included in the email, I contacted Adams arms once
more, and once more had it shipped to them. This time it took 4 weeks but right
before they shipped it I was sent some videos of it working with a verity of
ammunition. I was still not hopeful but they shipped it back to me. After all
that heartache and aggravation, not to mention around a thousand rounds wasted
on an unreliable gun, now it works perfectly. The factory replaced the gas
system, the buffer spring, the bolt, the trigger hammer, and the charging
handle. I am sure they lost their shirt on this one, especially considering it
cost $40 each way to ship it, and that was six times.
I am now, finally, very happy to
report that this gun rocks! It shoots great, cycles fast and smooth, is
accurate (1-1.5 moa) and just plain works. It has only had one jam in the 2000+
rounds sent through it after its third cross country repair trip. I have added
a BCM gunfighter charging handle, a rhino magwell, it wears my favorite vortex PST
1-4 scope, a surefire light, a BAD lever, and a Harris fixed bipod. Despite all
the heartache and anger this rifle, and the whole experience put me through I
do now love this gun. Which is a very good thing as I doubt I could sell it for
anything near what it cost me to buy it for, as the gun market for sporting
rifles is so soft right now.
THE GOOD: (I am going to focus on the here and now not my
previous issues for this bit)
This gun is a pleasure to shoot, it becomes an extension of
your body almost immediately; shooting it is effortless and joyful.
I love the ergonomics, it is comfortable
The rhino magwell rocks, loading is effortless with it.
I still love the scope. Vortex glass is so clear.
THE BAD:
I don’t like how long the stock is if I have plate carrier
or shooting vest on.
It is SO loud.
I like the hydro dipped pattern but it shows where I scratch
it. I should have just gotten it in black (though all the girls I have shot
with think it’s pretty)
FINAL THOUGHTS:
It has been a long trying and arduous journey, yet despite
it all this gun now really rocks. I am not nice to my guns, I don’t baby them,
I shoot them and run them hard, and this gun takes it like a champ now. And is
a joy to shoot. I don’t know if I would recommend this because of all the
trouble I have had with mine, but as Adams arms is still in business this gun
must have been a lemon, the one in a thousand that was made at 4:30 on a Friday
with parts that didn’t mesh properly. You would likely not have a similar
issue, but who knows. In the end I still like the gun a lot.
