New MPAR 6.8 Rifle from Masterpiece Arms

by Richard Johnson

Published: February 3rd, 2014

MPAR 6.8 Camo

MasterPiece Arms announced a new rifle called the MPAR 6.8. The gun is chambered in 6.8 SPC and uses a short-stroke pistol system. The gun does not need a buffer tube, so the company outfitted the gun with a six-position stock that can also fold to the side.

The guns will be available in a variety of finishes including a black phosphate, ATACS camo and hydrodipped Vista Camo.

A 16″ barrel with a 1:11″ twist is standard. The handguard will have a Picatinny rail on top and bottom, with the option of adding side rails.

MPAR 6.8 Camo rifle

The rifles should be available for purchase by April 2014.

Details:

chambered in 6.8 SPC
short-stroke piston system
side folding, six position stock
16″ barrel
MSRP: $1028-1103 depending on finish

#MasterpieceArms #MPAR6.8

Richard Johnson

An advocate of gun proliferation zones, Richard is a long time shooter, former cop and internet entrepreneur. Among the many places he calls home is http://www.gunsholstersandgear.com/.

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Iksnilol on Feb 05, 2014

HAHAHAHAH! For every piston AR (especially long stroke) we AK guys are winning.
Not intended to be fanboyish but it's interesting how "new" ARs are either chambered in 300 BLK or are some form of piston action.

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- Drapetomanius on Feb 05, 2014
  
  @iksnilol "Confirmation bias (also called confirmatory bias or myside bias) is the tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs or hypotheses.People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. The effect is stronger for emotionally charged issues and for deeply entrenched beliefs. People also tend to interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their existing position. Biased search, interpretation and memory have been invoked to explain attitude polarization (when a disagreement becomes more extreme even though the different parties are exposed to the same evidence), belief perseverance (when beliefs persist after the evidence for them is shown to be false), the irrational primacy effect (a greater reliance on information encountered early in a series) and illusory correlation (when people falsely perceive an association between two events or situations)"
  Just throwing that out there.
  
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- FourString on Feb 05, 2014
  
  @iksnilol Shrug, more options can't hurt. AR ergos packing AK wallop is a win in any guy's book. Even if I were an AK guy, I wouldn't be at all opposed to the new stuff coming out like the SIG 556xi in 7.62x39mm (has a left hand charging handle). In fact, I'd probably add it to my collection because sharing AK mags with a Swiss rifle, and then swapping out to a NATO caliber depending on ammo availability, is just cool.
  
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- Iksnilol on Feb 06, 2014
  
  @FourString Yeah. That is cool.
  And you are right about the confirmation bias.
  
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- FourString on Feb 06, 2014
  
  @iksnilol Haha the second kudos goes to Drapetomanius not I :P
  
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- FourString on Feb 06, 2014
  
  @iksnilol also: .300 BLK stacks in your widely available PMAG, so it's nice in that regard over the ol' Russian whopper. Same bolt, same mags, same lower receiver as your 5.56x45mm stuff. Admittedly, Ye Ol' Russian is cheaper feed to yer rifle.
  
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Rainhaven on Feb 18, 2014

I'll never understand why, in the 21st century, that any design that isn't completely ambidextrous is even considered at all. It's mind boggling. I know for the most part that righties don't care about lefty user experience, but c'mon if you're going to design something put a little extra thought and care into it so that ALL potential users can use the product with little to no discomfort or altered usage. Just like all the people mewling about how awesome the Tavor is...no it's not. It's an extremely old design dressed up with some decent ergos...but you have to have two fricking versions of the guns to satisfy your user base. And that means two sets of parts and the armorer/gunsmith has to know the protocol for working on both versions. And don't even get me started on switching the components out to make it lefty from righty...you have to take the entire gun apart....
This MPA stuff would be so cool if they had just thought forward a little bit and made it more user friendly and completely ambi. /End Rant/

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