Bushmaster ACR launched!
The LONG anticipated Bushmaster ACR has been officially launched. I warn you in advance that it is priced FAR higher than what was rumored!
As you can see above, there are four models (ACR SS 16M B, ACR SS 16M C, ACR FR 16M B and ACR FR 16M C ). Essentially there are two colors (Black and "Coyote Brown") and two types (Basic and Enhanced). Each model is available in 5.56mm or 6.8 SPC (but can be quickly swapped from one caliber to the other by changing barrel and bolt head).
The Basic model features:
- 16.5-inch cold hammer-forged barrel system
- A2 birdcage-style suppressor
- Magpul MBUS iron sights
- A-Frame style stock
- Free floating monolithic top rail.
The Enhanced model adds the following features:
- Three sided handguard rail ( giving a quad rail setup with the monolithic top rail at 12 o'clock ).
- AAC Blackout flash hider
- 6 position folding stock. This stock is what we all think of as "THE" ACR stock.
Now what you have been waiting for ...
The suggested retail price for the Basic models is $2,685 and for the enhanced it is $3,061! This is what I expected, although many were hoping for it to fall into the $1000-$2000 price range.
I will try to find out the price of caliber conversion kits and additional barrels when I am at SHOT.
[ Many thanks to Daniel and Josh for emailing me info about this rifle. ]
Well THAT’s disappointing.
Seems Bushmaster/Remington/etc are trying to match the price of the FN SCAR? I guess they’re comfortable with the tiny market penetration that will bring.
Magpul’s self-styled myth of building “the people’s rifle” is finally dead. The Masada may be here but ‘The People’ simply can’t afford one.
I could have sworn it was the Remmington ACR the other day! haha
Hi if at all possible could you find out the length of the rifle folded? Hoping to try import one to New Zealand and the government are quite funny about the length of the rifle has to be over 762mm with stock folded and without flash hider, unless permenantly attatched. Hopefully I will manage, lots of hoops to jump through though. Cheers!
Wow.
You know, I wondered briefly if buying a MSAR E4 (instead of the ACR I was saving money for) was the right decision. I’d been saving for a long time, and I was really excited about the ACR, but when MSAR had their sale on E4’s, I made a decision that a bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, and I bought an E4.
Turns out I made the right decision. Damn. Talk about dropping the ball. I know MSRP != Street Price, but even assuming a 25% markdown, Bushmaster is still 700 dollars over what I paid for my E4!
“We” were lead to believe all this time that this was going to be “The People’s Rifle” an AR-15 replacement.
Sorry Bushmaster, not at that price! Who do you think you are, H&K?
That “enhanced” version makes me think that all involved were surprised at what the r&d ended up costing, and that Bushmaster was just looking for any way they could to mitigate sticker shock.
well,at least the old Masada handguard is back.
For that much money they can go to hell. I guess I’m saving up some money for the MSAR Aug clone that takes AR mags.
well Im still going to wait for real street prices. MSRP isnt the real price its sold at. For instance Ruger SR556 was MSRPed at $2000 but street price was $1400-1500. Most of Bushys street price seem to be around 25% off the MSRP.
Im going to jump on a wait list for the May 1st Enhanced, but if I dont like the price by then I can always cancel.
Any chance you have any information on where/when we can actually order these bad boys?
Someone remind me why I wouldn’t want a SCAR and $400, instead.
Looks like they missed the mark bigtime with this one. I’ll just wait for the clones at $1200. Remington would have to drop prices 50% just to make it interesting. I thought this thing was supposed to be cheap?
Apparently Remington/Bushmaster don’t subscribe to the ‘under-promise/over-deliver’ school of marketing, after all the hype this is quite a let down. It’s a free market, do what you want- but I find the price insulting. $3000? Come on.
Come on guys, stop giving Bushy a hard time over the MSRP, they need the extra dough to fight off court cases, produce CGI laden videos and buy more gun companies.
I suspect the high price has more to do with the licensing from Magpul then the cost of manufacture – everyone has to get their slice – except Robinson Armaments obviously.
If the ACR lives up to it’s billing as being the most bestest, superest, awesomest rifle ever, then 3k doesn’t seem that much.
wow, unbelievable. I’ve been waiting for this gun since 2007. Had 2k saved up for it and everything. They can go shove a pmag for that price. I think i’ll build an upper with an adam’s arms piston kit instead.
$3000.00 ? Yeah, okay.
I’ve been waiting, literally counting the seconds, until the ACR was available. I’ve been buying gift certificates at the gun store and begging for more for my birthday and Xmas, just to be able to choke down what ever price the ACR would be. NO CHANCE. Looks like I have been saving my money for something else. I am totally disappointed with Magpul, Bushmaster, Remington and Cerburus (sp?) on the decision to price this rifle so high. What a joke. Unless the price of this rifle is cut in half, I won’t own one. I’m so crabby about this I can hardly contain myself. Magpul needs to cut the budget on their marketing department and spend it on their production. All bark, no bite. Too bad. Somebody else will get my money.
Ruger gives the sr556 Troy BUIS, here we have a gun thats double the cost with a set of BUIS thats about 1/4 the quality. And that A2 suppressor….
Might be a lot of gun, but could they have spent a little more and included some better accessories? Very unimpressed, and am not even remotely interested.
Also fire the idiot who wrote that brochure, the last sentence seems to suggest no rifle is better than the ACR (not exactly high praise).
@uhhhh…
Comrade, you should know that the people’s rifle is and will always be the AK !
No seriously, 3000 $ ? I am making a mental list of all the stuff (weapon related or not) I could buy with that money, and all of these things sounds better or more fun than the ACR.
(I guess that OPERATORS OPERATING in OPERATIONNAL OPERATIONS will start fielding the ACR, just to show they have an insane amount of money.)
people are saying someone at shot show said the dealer pricing for the basic was $2100. Ugh
I have ben waiting for so long for this rifle to get to market.
I’m of 3 diffrent waiting lists in 3 diffrent stores so I could get one while I am able – now this.
The main reason for me wanting to buy this rifle so bad was the ability to use all my AR and AK Mags with the proper lowers and cal kits.
For this price I can buy a S&W Piston AND an Izhmash AK With optics for each and still come on top. I could, most likely, have enough left over for a lot of rounds for each.
…I guess I will have to get the XCR after all and get a couple AR 762×39 mags and save a grand or two.
How can someone take a sure fire success and F it up so bad?
Yeah I have to agree that ACR is DOA in the civilian market just like the SCAR because of the sticker shock.
When the economy was good the pain level was $600 before consumer think hard and long if they want to spend that kind of money. It is probably much less now with 1 in 5 US male out of the job. One job for every sixty that applied. With real unemployment rate nearing 20% (17.3% now) I don’t see ACR will have that much success in the current economy.
R&D cost is small. The SCAR R&D cost was paid by US taxpayer. The ACR was already done for them. It is a copy of an older design with a new body. Bushmaster already paid for the tooling and CNC machines via AR15 productions. Remember Magpul people brag about their mechanical prowess. They developed FMG-9 on the airplane back from shot show.
Free floating monolithic rails does increase the cost but not to that extent. The plastic lower receiver should help migrated it tho. I won’t lose any sleep over it. Let the market decide on the finial cost.
My guess is that they are charging that much money because they know that there are a select few people who absolutely have to be the first guy on the block with the now mythical ACR. These will be the same people who were willing to pay out the nose to have a SCAR when it first came out. That market should wear out pretty quick because the few guys that can actually afford a super exclusive $3000 gun will all be racing eachother to see who can get theirs first.
After the market of people who can afford to be first is worn out, my guess is that the price will gradually drop down to something a little more reasonable. I am sure that everyone who planned to get one before the price announcement will still be ready and willing in a few months.
Take a minute to consider what the consumer is actually getting for his money and you will realize that $2700-$3000 actually is not that far out of line. Try building yourself an ar-15 with all the high end custom features that come standard on this rifle and you will easily end up dropping that kind of money. The only ar-15 upper reciever that I can think of that features a piston operation AND a full length monolithic top rail is produced by Lewis Machine Tool and lists for about $1500 on their web site. Now add to that the cost of a lower reciever and a whole suite of Magpul accessories and you will end up pretty close to the MSRP for the ACR. Even after dropping that kind of money building an ar-15 with all the features that come standard on the ACR you would still end up with a gun that doesnt quite match the functionality of the user-interface designed into the ACR. And if you managed to complete this mythical ar-15 build for under $2700 that is because you arent paying to own the most long awaited cocktease of a firearm to be released this year.
All that being said, there is no way in hell that I could justify that kind of money for a rifle at this point in my life. Hopefully someday, when my tuition stops eating up my ramen budget, and the price goes down I will be the proud owner of an ACR. Than again, if all goes according to plan, by that point in my life I will be hunched over a computer in an office somewhere designing the next over-priced dream-gun to hit the market.
Oops! My comment is dangerously close to becoming a rant. Better stop now.
“I will try to find out the price of caliber conversion kits and additional barrels when I am at SHOT.”
Maybe this will be sufficient to offset the initial investment?
Still, I’d rather have an AR and another thousand dollars to spend.
Very disappointing. Was following this all the way from the start. Almost three grand and it doesn’t even come with a folding stock.
To be fair, Magpul/Bushmaster/Remington probably sunk a ton of R&D money into this rifle, and it isn’t that much more expensive than some of the high-end “custom-grade” AR-15 out there. Then again, those also come with match-grade barrels for milisecond-of-angle accuracy, while the first generation of ACRs may still have some kinks to be ironed out.
So yes, it might be a better idea to save your money for the time being.
Its price is high beacuse of its hype. If we can hold out on buying one for a year or two the pricew will fall.
WOW.
Does this thing have some sort of projectile guidance system? What are they thinking?
For that kind of money, you can buy two very nice AR systems, be part way to a very VERY nice AI rifle, buy yourself a competition SIG pistol and enough ammo to shoot for about a year.
EEK.
And if it’s meant for the pros – guess what, I represent that market and those dollars are even tighter than before – some procurement guy is going to laugh when this crosses his desk.
People are quite disappointed with the price, weight and the 1:9 barrel twist.
Now I see why Bushmaster is famous for fuckin things up…
Ouch. I guess we’ll see how much all the video game and real world hype is worth after all and how much of it is really going to translate into sales. Sorry but at $3k it just ain’t worth it in my book. Yeah, it’s MSRP and there’s an early adopter tax built into that price but come on.
Remington in general seems to be mismanaged. Their choices for new products makes little sense to me.
As for the ACR, I would have thought they would have gone with a removable handgrip so if someone wanted to change that to their liking they could do so. Given that they’ve done so many other things to this design that weren’t really necessary which upped the cost, they could have done this for probably no difference in cost.
Scurvy,
If you’re waiting for clones of the ACR, you got a long wait until the patents expire. You can’t just “clone” something that isn’t in the public domain.
Michael
OK, one of two things is happening here,
1) Bushmaster/Remington/Magpul haven’t worked out all the kinks yet and cannot build them fast enough to sell them at a realistic price
or
2) Bushmaster/Remington/Magpul have utterly lost their collective minds.
$3000? no way. this is just another bullet launcher. I want one, sure. but not for DOUBLE the price of any other perfectly capable bullet launcher. for that price i can get two A3 style Bushys and still have enough money to buy a nice optical sight.
$1500. $1800 if i have to. fuck you otherwise.
Just have to add my disappointment. Like many of you, I avoided the SCAR in hopes that the ACR offered much more and was planning on buying at least 2 ACRs. Now I don’t think I’m going to buy even one and the SCAR looks far better then ever.
Also looks like there may be an XCR in my near future.
So disappointed.
I was disappointed with the price, extremely disappointed. So many additions to my AR could be made with that money, which will be made haha. Kudos to anyone who can dish out that cold cash for this puppy.
Wow. I don’t know what they were thinking. We’ve been waiting three years for this. I mean, come on AR-15’s will still get the job done just fine, so buy the appropriately priced AR, and spend the rest on training ammo and classes. I dread to even think about the Massoud’s price point. I’ll just go buy an XCR.
Well, that does it. I’m going to totally stop using the ACR in my Modern Warfare 2 games. Do you hear that, Bushmaster? It’s the sound of a thousand mall ninjas’ hearts breaking.
@Dom
lojlojlOlololoL! i’m going to keep using it in the game
and i’m going to keep using my AR in real life.
That’s some expensive…plastic.
Wait. I can get a Larue or a Noveske AR for less than an ACR? I can build my own AR-SBR with all kinds of tricked out parts for less than an ACR?
Than why wouldn’t I, and who’s going to buy these things?
Obviously none of you are from MapulLand™®© Where the rivers flow with .223 and unicorns load your PMAG’s™®©
Have you all forgotten the Magpul lowers that sold for $3k+ on EE/GUNBROKER??
I sold my used UBR during the “drought” for $400 because it was magical Magpul goodness and they hadn’t made that particular color for 2 weeks.
Don’t get me wrong, I love my PMAG’s, MIAD, ACS and CTR, but stop drinking the f*cking kool-aid people! Not everything Magpul makes is hand crafted by leprechauns in an under-volcano lair. Sure it’s really fun to use in ModernWarefare 2 but tha’ts really only because of it’s insanely fast fire rate on full auto.
The dealer price is $2100. If you can get below that you’re a lucky guy.
Hmmm. Those XCRs are looking a lot better now.
Why is the handguard so short on the Enhanced version? That’s dumb, as is the one-size-fits-some pistol grip.
I’m gonna sit on my money for now. Maybe upgrade an AR-15 upper or two.
What a laugh, I was sure there was no way the ACR would be less than 1500 but 3K?! I am the firearms instructor for a small police department. We are retiring our old shot-out A2 carbines and had talked the chief into getting gas piston powered rifles instead of M4orgeries. I had purposely put off getting bids because I wanted the ACR in the mix. No dice now… Looks like its down to Robinson, HK, and Sig. I hope Robinson wins the bid; they built the ACR before Bushmaster anyway and I am sure they can use an order for 35 rifles.
anyone know the MOA after barrel changes?? its not advertised anywhere that i could find.
I just saw the weight on the ACR, 8.2 lbs. That’s heavy for a carbine that is half made out of plastic. Then again the monolithic rail and the extra components for quick barrel change does add weight.
is this supposed to be funny? $3000?!!
and i see they dropped the ball on the ultra accurate & long range 6.5 grendel
screw them. I could buy 2 good guns for that price.
seriously.
Personally, I think it’s a pretty stupid marketing move. With a molded poly lower, there’s no way the production costs are that much higher than a high end AR. There no machining in an injection molded piece. There’s a reason my SigPro 2022 costs half as much as a P226.
They’re simply going for those prices because they know people will pay, because they paid that much for SCARs. But now there’s a bunch of people that were putting off SCARs because they were sure that the ACR was going to be cheaper, and now it turns out that it’s actually going to cost more. I wonder how many SCARs sold since the price on the ACR was released.
Now if they had set it at even 3/4 the price of a SCAR, then all the people waiting would have jumped, and a bunch of people that wanted a next gen rifle would have jumped on the ACR bandwagon.
Instead, BM has shoved a bunch of people over onto the FN boat and probably even more over to Robinson, especially after the introduction of the lawsuit.
Hopefully Magpul takes the Massoud somewhere else.
Ummm, those of you waiting for Bushmaster to lower the price???? Don’t hold your breath. I bought the first SIG556 I could find for $1100.00 and regret it. I haven’t seen it lower than $1400.00 since, but I got one from the first batch with a canted flat top (not good). The ACR will sell, to some (not me), but not in the volume they had hoped for. But oh well, they make twice as much for producing half the rifles? Sounds like they can count. I saved my money for the ACR, and I’m very disappointed. I can only spend it once and it’s not going to Bushmaster.
I do seem to remember the same thing happening with the RFB from Kel-Tec three years ago as well. At least their price came down quite a bit, now the only problem they have is making them fast enough. I know the new toys are gonna cost a little extra, but i paid a lot less for a brand new SOCOM 16 not even two years ago. I just cannot fathom what they were thinking.
It should be noted that with the government printing money wildly, inflation is moving faster than most people notice. “Old” products have a lot of price inertia (manufacturers will often cut quality before they raise prices). New products can be priced in line with the actual cost of materials and labor (plus, there’s a need to amortize the R&D costs); so the prices on new products are higher.
I think anyone who expected a shiny new rifle of advanced design and quality construction to be “the people’s rifle”, they are sadly deluded. Let’s face it, even a nice stamped-reciever AK (Arsenal) costs $700 at retail these days.
Crabula makes a great point, that a high-end AR-clone (LWRC M6A3 for instance) has a pretty high pricetag most of the time as well. That said; will the ACR be built to LWRC/Colt standards, or to Bushmaster standards?
The features available in the ACR (side/forward charging handle, caliber convertibility, folding+adjustable stock, possibility of interchangeable lowers for different mag designs) are a unique combination. If you don’t care about those features; go buy and AR or an XCR. (IMHO the XCR has a better bolt and piston design; but doesn’t have a fully ambi charging handle or magwell changeability).
All rifles suck. This one just sucks less; and it has a concurrent price tag.
$3000 is the price range for a Swiss SG 550 (PE90). I can’t believe they are pricing this plastic POS for the same price.
the caveat is even if magpul kept the production to themselves, they couldnt possibly produce it in the quantities demanded so the price would be gouged anyways
I think it is going to be like the Iphone, everyone has to have one and those who can afford it will buy it for $3000.00. However, after the initial sales and hype are gone, the prices will come down. How long, who knows, but the market usually wins if given a far chance!
Cheers
I messed around with the display guns yesterday. The railed guns were heavy because of the 24k gold rails. The 1in9 twist is an absolutly retarded decision. Advanced rifle that shoots 55gr ammo yes wtf. Now throw a $3000 price tag on it , these guys must be high. The acr is a joke in my book, I find the pricing insulting. Lmt will continue to get my cash for there products. I’m glad I didn’t save $ for these rifle. Is bushmaster run by fat slow old guys like the dudes at there booth? Must be lol
I dont care if bushmaster had to spend extra money on R&D or changes to the design and parts whatever other excuse they had. The fact of the matter is they had plenty of time to figure out if they were going to have to raise the price or not. In my book they are a bunch of liers because hiding the truth is just as bad as lying. I can possibly see a rifle like this be sold for $3000, but they said it would be a lot less then that right up until the last minute so now all the people that were anxiously waiting and saving up their money have now been let down and are really pissed off that they have been betrayed like this. Bushmaster needs to rethink their ethics and start thinking about their customers instead of their wallets. That being said, I’m not so sure this is magpuls fault at all… Think about it, magpul designed to rifle to be the best rifle of all time and suceeded in a very short amount of time and tried to contract it out to keep the costs minimal then bushmaster took it and did smoke and mirror R&D with some BS mods thrown in and skyrocketed the price so they could buy that new porsche for there son or some crap like that. That being said, getting the rifle thats fits my requirements perfectly might still be worth it no matter how disgusted by the company i am. So I havent quite made up my mind just yet.
Sig Sauer vs. Bushmaster? I pick Sig.
Sig556 vs. ACR? Sig556 is proven, ACR is not.
Price Sig556 vs. Price ACR? Sigs are under 2K, and here’s an extra $300.00 to buy ammo, optics, extra mags, beer and hot wings after shooting, ACR is WAY TOO EXPENSIVE.
http://www.sigsauer.com/CustomerService/556rebate.aspx
Bushmaster, sorry guys. I knew you would f’this up somehow. I was crushed when I heard you guys got involved.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0Pu-rvFjs&fmt=18
When a company drops the ball like this you have to make them feel it in their pocket books or they will do it again and again.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=262088880770
I have to agree with most everyones’ comments made to date. I have followed this rifle ever since learning about it right after getting back from my last tour in Iraq, in ‘07. I have been anxiously waiting and dreaming it’s release, disappointed each time it was pushed back for one bullshit reason after another. I have memorized as much about the rifle as I could from videos and press releases that I could find. The day that the rifle was released was the happiest day I’ve had in a long while. Then I found out the price and went red with fury. Such big promises from both companies who started out with this rifle. Magpul/Bushmaster made promises to sell this gun at a price that would make it easy for the common man to be able to afford. Yeah, and pigs can fly. I really believed that they would stick to thier word, only to find out that like almost every civilian I’ve met to date, they were full of crap. Thank you all for opening my eyes to better weapon systems. I will be looking into them now, as I am thoroughly disgusted with Bushmaster now.
It’s great to know that Bushmaster, like Eddie Bauer, is charging more for the name than the product
I have been watching the Masada/ACR since its first rumblings. This new price and 1/9 twist is a real kick in the teeth. I will go ahead and buy a couple of Noveske rifle builds for that price. They a giving away free lowers with the uppers. Cool.
lets be honest, did anyone really think a next gen rifle was going to be the same price as a quality AR15? Even if it did come out at $1500 the demand, wait list, and price gouge would be so horrendous that people would still complain. I never really expected this to be $1500 when high end piston ARs go over $2000. After seeing them extending the R&D for another couple years, I quit kidding myself living the $1500 pipe dream. I am still interested in this gun (however less than before), but I didnt get butthurt like a lot of people did, its just a gun.
If I had designed and made this gun, no way hell I’d sell it for just $1500 considering what else is on the market.
Leave it to a civilian to misread what I wrote and get butthurt about it. I don’t need you to defend yourself. If you’re too much of a coward to go out and fight for your country when it was attacked, that’s your issue. Don’t try to pawn your excuses off on me, Mack
Macks comment should have been deleted and now had been.
Please keep this discussion focused on the Bushmaster ACR. Offtopic comments in the future will be deleted,
read on two different forums that FFL dealers have noticed a drop in the dealer price on the ACR:
http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=2&f=28&t=184425
Basic – $1959.10 Dealer
Enhanced – $2232.12 Dealer
It was better 2 years ago before shrubmaster got involved.
The prototype worked flawlessly and was LIGHTER than an ar-15, now its heavier, and a 1/9 non chrome lined barrel heap of crap
if you wanna burn your money, why not throw it in the right stove and get a scar? lol
re: Youtube post
It speaks to my soul on how I feel about this.
After thinking about the little green shorty I messed with at the Rem Mil booth, I kinda still want one. Im just gonna wait till after March 1, and the feeding frenzy comes and goes. If street price hits around $2000 Ill buy one and SBR it. The barrel extension was infact an AR-15 one just with the piston junk attached. Im sure some aftermarket company could copy or make a replacement barrel system, besides bushy. Ie Caliber Corner could start 6.5grendel, 300 whisper, etc etc. Thus worth the initial purchase price.
BTW that modular bolt gun was tits.
Like someone else here already said, dont put too much weight on the MSRP. MSRP tends to usually be higher than what it will be sold on the streets. ALthough the verry first will probably go for or higher than MSRP, it wont take long for bushy to catch on with the demand and we will start to see prices drop below MSRP at retailers.
Follow more ACR discussion at http://www.acrforum.com
next generation rifle for under 2k? get real all you idiots on this post griping about being disappointed with bushmaster…
seriously. Did you think the latest and greatest would be 1500? you must be dreaming. Just be patient and the price will go down…like the SCARs, which have gone from 4,000 to roughly 2,00.
The high price is not suprising even though once this rifle is in volume production it should cost less to manufacture than a typical AR due to its plastic lower and upper that appears to be based on an extrusion.
The high initial price is because they are hoping to get goverment sales. They are pretty clear in the marketing I have seen that this is a goal. They would be cutting their profits if they offered commercial versions of the same rifle at a fraction of the price they were bidding it to goverment customers at its introduction.
If this were a commercial only product, with no goverment sales, do you think they would bring it to market at this price point when it offers potentialy a slight performance improvement over the popular AR? From all the comments above I think I know the answer.
John
you all should be glad you not live in norway and have to pay approximately 4500$ for this gun
thats the prices i have seen around where i am living
I never believed the ACR would be 1500… I had hopes, but never believed.
That said, I did get the “sticker shock” most of you felt as well. 2685 for the basic model with all of the “innovations” in manufacturing they claimed to use??? It would be more reasonably priced around 2000.
I understand the need to compete with the likes of SCAR and XCR, but Bushmaster/Magpul should be looking to DESTROY them in the market. It makes better buisness sense to under-price the product to sell more, thus recouping the R&D costs.
I guess I’ll just have to hold on to my direct-impingment AR til either the price comes down or I give up and buy a conversion to gas piston…
-PFC Taylor US Army National Guard
Bushmaster has just handed all that money sitting on the side line over to SIG’s 556. Pricing is out of whack for the ACR. At least SIG has a NJ compliant rifle we and other socialist States can purchase.
Man, what a bummer. I really wanted one of those but no way am I paying 2500 to 3000 for one. I bought 2 XCR’s and held off on a 3rd as I wanted a ACR, but for that price I’ll be making room for another XCR. Hell, I can even buy all 3 conversion kits with the new XCR for that price lol.
Sorry Bushmaster, keeping my XCR’s, which perform great, and my Arsenal AK’s.
Thanks, but no thanks.
When you price a rifle into the range of a Larue OSR or KAC SR-25 and then try to sell people a plastic 5.56 rifle you’re going to be met with some confused looks. $1999 was the absolute MAX price point for this rifle and they missed it by a mile.
These prices are understandable though if they have some potential .gov contracts on the horizon.
THIS IS A LOAD OF BULL. What happened to the $1,500 dollar price tag!!
I’ve been waiting for the ACR to be released since the MASSADA was invented and now they double the price.. They can keep the ACR and I encourage people NOT to buy these guns, get the F&N SCAR instead if you really like the concept and at least that has been tested.
Disappointing to say the least.
I guess I’ll be doing some more waiting to the price goes to something reasonable, or looking at the Larue OBR Lite.
Wow. Wonder why the covered the gold plate with that paint? It IS made of gold, right? LOL!
I really hope when Magpul goes to mass produce the Massoud they do it themselves. Or find a dependable company to do it that won’t make it cost $5000 or something.
Why isn’t anyone talking about the Remington ACR?
last price i tracked down was 2700.0 thay should call it the acr massaga.thanks for all the draged out info.i can build that for less
My Sig556 Classic SWAT should be in Wed or Thurs. Can’t wait to pick it up. It will be my second Sig556. Love it! Wanted an ACR but there’s no way I’m going to give my money to Bushmaster. Hey Magpul guys…I LOVE your products…..PMAG & UBR are unreal….but you screwed the pooch on the ACR. Sorry. Saved for months for your Masada, you went to Bushmaster, I went to Sig. Sorry Silly Rabbit, but those tricks are for kids.
Bushmaster is not even in the same league as FN for designing or building a Military purpose built weapon even with the help of Remington & Magpul. The price of the ACR should not be anywhere near the price of the SCAR. The Bushmaster ACR is still just a BUSHMASTER
2600 same price as a fancy new scar get over it fanboys its a new rifle and a new concept its not gonna have the same price as something thats not as good come on
looking around some sellers are posting up their street prices seen everything from $2100-2300 for Basic $2400-2600 Enhanced
hey d… In what state/states are they doing the 2400-2600 price for the enhanced ACR?
Here is a Veterans perspective
the rifle is quite pricey, but well worth it. on the 5.56 model i tested out recently, you can see easily why.every milimeter of the rifle is fine tuned, it is definitely a better fit in my hands by far. it falls back into place very quickly after firing. my only wish is that it was in 7.62×51. i think personally, i will never own one for personal use. i love shooting just as much as the next guy, but spending anything over 1800 on a rifle with no optics is out of the picture. a Flat top bushmaster AR cabine will run about 1200, 450 for an EOtech, 70 in good mags, and another 150 for nice furniture, then 200 for GOOD rails, not tapco trash. why not go with that?
Are you kidding me? Over priced. End of story. Paper punching zombie/commie hunters don’t need to switch calibers or fast switch barrels, just give us the 556 and cut the price by a grand. I read one jagoff say….well if you don’t want to switch calibers this rifle isn’t designed for you….thank you General Knowitall, actually, the Bushy’s are supposed to be for the civy market anyway. Let the boys at Remington worry about over charging the military to swap out magpul’s for crappy ak47 mags, that never was very attractive for 99% of the people who planned on buying this rifle. It just looks cool. Yep. That’s the crux of it. I’m the target market. 30ish, slightly over weight, very good looking range rat who wants a rifle that looks cool and could be relied upon if things hit the fan. You know, 2012 is right around the corner……
Actually, on second thought, I just bought my second SIG556. You can keep this overpriced, unproven, untested, undelivered (check the date guys) rifle. Hey Bushmaster, you are not HK, SIG, FN, you are slightly below average with a reputation for being sloppy. Magpul, these guys killed your rifle. You picked quantity over quality and it’s a shame. My money is already spent.