History of the Knights Armament SR-25 with Jack Leuba and Jeremy Tye.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- FTA Industry Partner Jeremy Tye interviews Jack Leuba of Quantified Performance who is also Director of Sales for Knights Armament. They talk about the history of the SR-25 platform and look at some of the various versions, changes and improvements that have occurred over the years.
This video was recorded after a long day of shooting in the mountains of Colorado on the spur of the moment so please forgive the lack of production value. We feel the info it contains has enough value to overcome the production short comings. Thanks for watching.
I had the privilege of being trained and led into combat as a boot infantryman by SSgt Leuba in 2010-11. He was a real hardass and perfectionist during our workup training exercises. He always expected and demanded perfection of us. He was never satisfied. He had stern criticisms and constantly pushed us to be better after every exercise, even though our platoon's performance always smoked the other two platoons in our company. Once we were in-country though, he did nothing but hype us up before and after every patrol, telling us how much ass we kicked, and how proud he was of our performance. I firmly believe that it was due to his leadership, and a good bit of luck, that we made it through that extremely intense deployment without taking a single KIA. Jack is the real deal. He brought us ALL home.
Yep, I was in Mosul with Jack in 2003, I was his corpsman! Tough motherfucker and a great leader of Marines!
@@DoubleROutdoors 👊🏻💪🏻🇺🇸…d like to seen you boys puttin these rifles to work my brother…I’m a dd5v3 man but oh I’d love one of those bad boys…7.62 you can fire 1 and transition…instead of half a mag…I’ve got some nasty 110gr varmit rds..
Im breaking my back over here trying to get just one SR-25 and you guys have enough to make a timeline video! lmao Awesome video guys!
I'm in Huntsville, AR, and if you're looking for a dimpled KAC barrel, look at Nefarious Arms. Marvin Pitts, worked at KAC, and his work is the best and as close as you will come to original KAC parts
Nice collection, classic GWOT
Thanks for this. I needed to come up to speed on our newer stuff.
Woot woot, what up Jack. This collection is siiiiiick
Great video Sgt. Good to see your doing well 👍
Great video! I need to get 199 more guys to get the potential short run for the direct thread suppressor for the pre MK11 mod 0
I would love to see more of this content!
Sounds like the very long suppressor for the original match model with the large threads in front of the gas block. I wonder if there are even that many original match SR25s in people's hands? I saw two at gun shows back in the day. Then the match lost all the threads forward of that lock nut and very quickly lost even that and just had a pinned gas block.
I'm in
Awesome video. Great information and learned a lot about the sr25 line. Can't wait to own one someday.
Update: Just received my ACC! Such an awesome gun. I thought my SR-15's were cool but this thing is over the top badass! Now to get a MK5 thrown on it
Fabulous video guys. Thanks for all the great history. As a proud owner of a 16" SR-25 6.5CM I too can attest to their accuracy. With 140 tipped Sierra's mine just hammers out to 1300 yards. Can't wait to get another one in my hands!
Wow…who’d thunk it joe…my favorite 1911 man…I’m havin good luck too with 130 and 140tmk in my 6.5prc joe..took my 16” dd5v3 to 1k also with 1st impact with 178gr hornady match…got the older fn special police few mons ago and been loadin for it…awsome mod70 bedded action and heavy barrel….👊🏻🫡..matt in ky
Is it more accurate than JP Enterprise
@@azamat_bezhanov I wouldn’t say more to any the top tier ones but I will say equal
Great video. Jack dropping the knowledge bombs as usual.
Nice! Keep up the good work sir! 👍
Stuff dreams are made of…absolutely incredible
This video should be renamed, SR-25 Variants with personal anecdotes.
For you Knights nerds out there. Trey did a 3 part podcast on the Live Q or Die show.
"Sexy" is exactly the right word to describe this rifle... love it to death
M14's have 22-inch barrels not considering the long flash suppressor.
Are APC barrels nitrided in the bore?
Is it more accurate than JP Enterprise
Dunno what it is about this gun but I love the design so much. Pity I am not American :(
Just wondering I'm interested in a 16 inch 6.5 knights upper I'll even take 14.5 any help will be greatly appreciated
Any particular military branch that uses the sr 25
Any idea how to purchase one.
Will that 14.5 SR25 SD Cycle 308 Subs ??
Kinda bummed I couldn’t see the rifles that well
Great video nonetheless
We hope to do a better version sometime in the future. We had just finished a day of shooting in 30+ winds and were a bit smoked. It was one of those "Hey it would be cool if you guys talked about SR-25's" things with no real prep.
The video title is a bit misleading. It did convey some of the history, but only of the last 10-15 years maybe.
It would have been nice to have heard about the original match and it's changes in the mid 90's. How many of each change to the gas block area were sold on the retail market? Was the removal of the threads near the gas block a result of the '94 law or to just be cheaper/quicker to make? Or were those changes just a part of the origins of the lightweight match?
Then it's evolution into the Mk 11 mod 0. I've seen the laser engraving on those rifles in different colors. What significance, if any, does the coloration difference indicate? How many were sold on the retail market?
A video on the markings changes from the original match seen in Gene's hands to the current production would be interesting. From milled to laser marked. From Vero Beach to Titusville marked. When did the serial numbers go from just numbers to k prefixed or km prefixed?
Next, the history and changes to the SR25k. I thought originally that they came with the fiberglass tube handguard and were 'sold out' as soon as they were announced. Then about 2002, I forget exactly, some came to market with the first type of aluminum free float railed handguard. I know there were "only 100" but the serial numbers jump all over the place in no perceivable order. They were the first and only model for several years with a collapsible stock and had a short plastic buffer with dual springs. What changes/evolution has occurred with the buffers for the newer collapsible stocked models? Such as the ones shown in this video.
I'm sure others have a myriad of questions about other models and their configuration specifics so maybe a giant FAQ video?
Larry vickers ? Have you watched his video
@@nickjohnson710 I watched that a few days after. Larry can only say so much about what his unit used/tested at that time. Operational security and all that.
It did give a clue as to why the K model showed up when it did and why they didn't come with test targets. Doesn't sound like they would hold under an inch like the longer barreled models.
I tried to pose questions dealing with rifles that were sold on the retail market. Info on them shouldn't be classified. There is so much misinformation/disinformation when it comes to facts and details about knight's products. All that uncertainty leaves people vulnerable to scams or clones claimed to be originals, unverifiable production numbers or released numbers, etc. I don't think I'm asking the impossible. The enthusiasts on forums I've seen are quite driven to acquire the rare products or make a clone of their dream rifle. Just looking at photos online gave me questions about coloration differences in laser markings, engraved markings, paint filled markings, serial numbers with no letter prefix or 1 to 3 letter prefixes. An entire book could probably be written on all the SR25 and SR15 models, variants and the evolutions of the designs and components.
@@aaronfarnsworth7653 I get you
whats wrong with the MAMS?
I wanted to know this too.
Where are we with a 6.8 in the new Army caliber...?
This.
22” 6.5prc upper…
On the handguard thing I mean I'd say 95% of people buy these guns and why I want one is its an awesome gun but also because of the people who use them like delta who ran them with 1913 rails its a look and people want that its the guns claim to fame really on the civilian market
I’m in for an ECC barrel 😂
These guns over rated forsure. They are nice but look at the evidence.
For those who love these but would rather get something cheaper. Get a Diamondback DB10. They use the same SR25 style receivers, they make their own barrels and they are excellent for the price. I bought their basic 16" DB10 for $750 several years ago, and it's just stupid accurate, sub MOA consistently-- to 1 MOA. I've seen that same rifle sell on gbroker for $1300 in 2020- so they aren't quite as cheap anymore now that more people know how well they shoot. They have more of a basic AR10 setup, vs the KAC's proprietary gas system and ambi receivers, and I'm fairly sure they don't have chrome lined barrels (at least not the cheapest one that I have)-- but I think they are nitride at least- , it will have it listed on their site. -- So I'm not really comparing the two--- but I do believe that the receivers are completely compatible. So you could swap uppers with an SR25 and vise versa; so it's a good rifle to throw in the collection if you already own SR25's, just for the compatibility. SR25's are so good, that even a cheaper clone/ copy such as a DB10-- is still an excellent rifle.
Bruh
Is it more accurate than JP Enterprise
@@azamat_bezhanov Idk what that is... but I do know that they are first a CNC company.. and make parts for these badazz speed boats and other stuff... And they make their own barrels. They've always had good accuracy. The one thing people sh^t on DB for is when they first launched this little cheap pistol called the db9.... A lot of people bought it and it had issues.. But since then, the guy fired almost everyone and started over and then got into rifles.. (and then AR10's too).... And they do 100x better QC now because they have to.. Because they got such a bad name when they started. I just know that their AR10's (the DB10).. is a great rifle, if you like shooting 308 or 6.5creed.. I have 3 of them.... Thier more accurate setups will have the Stainless steel barrels.. They are sub MOA for the first few thousand rounds at least.. But SS won't last as long as a CHF chrome lined barrel.. so: there is a trade off in everything. But they are relatively dirt cheap. You can get a whole new upper for five hundred. or just a new barrel for around a hundred. ... The key is-- buy the stripped receiver and get all the parts ... and the upper-- and put it together yourself. If you buy them as a complete rifle-- they still cost from sixteen hundred to twenty-two hundred, just like other brands. But you can build it yourself for under eight hundred.. Pretty crazy discount.. and the uppers come already fully assembled
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Even something as simple as the dimples-- doesn't take much longer, and it's just a simple click of a different option on the CNC machine--- but that's not the point. It's more machine time; and when you do that to all of them it adds up to needing several more tooling changes from all the extra milling-- and tooling isn't cheap. It also takes away your production time and limits your total output capacity/ so now you're being restricted on how many barrels you can make per day because of all the extra milling time; so in order to be able to make them faster, you now have to buy another million dollar CNC machine........... Or you can just do away with the dimples and cut back on all those things and most people are not even going to notice the 1/4 lb heavier barrel. Small changes like that make sense, and don't bother me at all. But I get that some people want every little detail to be clone correct. If you really want to keep your dimple barrel--- just buy a new barrel and put it in your rifle--- and hang that dimple barrel on your wall and you'll always have it. lol