Para Ordnance TTR AR-15
Snowflakes in Hell (who, long overdue, is now on my blogroll) has photos of the Para Ordnance TTR AR-15. The Tactical Target Rifle features a unique recoil system above the barrel, which significantly reduces recoil and allows for a folding stock.
The new Para Tactical Target Rifle with its Direct Impinged Gas System™ (DIGS™) gets you back on target faster than any other rifle of its kind. The recoil spring is over the op-rod so there is no “twang” in your ear as your head rests on the rifle’s stock while the bolt cycles between shots.
Having the recoil system up front over the barrel puts it where it naturally pushes the rifle back down on target instead of up and into your shoulder.
The specs:
Caliber: 5.56 Nato
Barrel: 16.5 inches Chrome Lined
Twist: 1 in 9 inches
Sights: Flip up front sight and fully adjustable flip-up rear sight
Overall Length: Stock Open and Fully Extended – 36 inches
Stock Open and telescoped in – 33 inches
Stock Folded – 26.25 inches
Weight: 7.6 pounds
Additional Features: Field strips with no tools
Multiple sling mount points
MSRP: $2,297
The rifle will go on sale in 2008. Next year conversion kits will be offered to install a TTR recoil system on a standard AR.
Sebastian’s photos are here. More info @ Para.
UPDATE:
Roughedge pointed out in the comments that this rifle is a Yankee Hill / ZW Weapons LR300 AXL rifle. It looks like it is either a clone or, more likely, Para has licensed it. YH/ZM are not selling them now. When they were sold they cost $2139.
Here are some photos from ZM and GunBroker (NXL model). Click to expand.
NXL
Para-Ordnance.
ORDNANCE.
Kyle Huff, thanks
That’s a ZM weapon systems rifle. Yankee Hill Machine was selling them for a number of years.
Now YHM is NOT selling them, so i guess they either where not manufacturing them in the first place and where just distributing them, or something else happened.
I wonder if they price is going to go up?
Thanks for the info Roughedge. It looks identical.
They wont sell a whole lot of them if they keep the price that high. I would consider one in the $1500-1600 range, but for $2200, i can get 3 or 4 different custom built AR’s in different calibers.
I have one of them. It’s a Z-M Weapons LR300 NXL. Aldo Zitta invented it about 20 years ago and YHM was manufacturing them. I bought the upper only.
Aldo sold the manufacturing equipment to Para and now they are making them with the new marketing spin.
The rifle is nice and with a muzzle break the barrel does not move between shots. The design keeps the bolt a little cleaner too.
The pricey part is the folding butt stock. That alone is about $350.00. The upper part that I purchased was around $1400.00 with BUIS. That’s about the price range of a higher end Noveske. I have a skeleton stock for it since there is no buffer needed.
Here’s a picture of mine:
http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc212/olava1/ar15/ar15flowers.jpg
You can add this to my previous comment.
Here’s a video of me shooting the LR300 NXL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK3NwONJ6s4
I have one of these and describe it here:
http://firearmsandtraining.blogspot.com/2008/09/z-m-weapons-lr300-becomes-parausa-ttr.html
Hi Olav,
Thanks very much for the photo and link to your blog post.
“The recoil spring is over the op-rod so there is no “twang” in your ear as your head rests on the rifle’s stock while the bolt cycles between shots.”
I would miss that sound.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fmY13xYUkc
Someone disassembling then reassembling their LR300.
One thing about the design is that it wouldn’t be possible to use a full-auto lower receiver and have it fire on full-auto due to the chopped bolt carrier. Not that it would be a negative to the casual plinker.
The thing that would worry me about this design is that little part which connects the recoil spring to the bolt carrier (in the video the person doing the narration called it a C-clamp). It’s likely to get lost and if that little part isn’t installed properly or works itself lose, bad things are probably going to happen.