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Offline Hardwood83

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New OD Tavor Rifle
« on: October 31, 2014, 09:03:01 PM »
Picked it up today. It's the first Bullpup I've owned. In fact, the Tavor is the first bullpup I've ever even held. They are a little heavy- but balance very well. Can't wait to put some rounds through it this weekend.

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Re: New OD Tavor Rifle
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2014, 09:47:21 PM »
nice!
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Re: New OD Tavor Rifle
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2014, 09:55:47 PM »
 does that take special mags? or will AR-15 mags work?
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Offline gsd

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Re: New OD Tavor Rifle
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2014, 10:07:29 PM »
Did you pick that up in Lincoln?
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Re: New OD Tavor Rifle
« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2014, 08:09:07 AM »
I am so jealous.   40th anniversary coming up in April.  My wife told me she wants a pair of diamond stud ear rings.  I told her I want an IWI Tavor.  She will get the ear rings, I am sure I will get ..... after shave.

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Enjoy your Tavor.  Next best thing to a SBR. 

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Re: New OD Tavor Rifle
« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2014, 11:30:28 AM »


Heavy is fine as long as it's balanced ok.  I've never shot one of these but they're an interesting design.
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Re: New OD Tavor Rifle
« Reply #6 on: November 01, 2014, 07:53:26 PM »
Takes AR mags- comes with a Pmag, actually.

I ordered it from Atlantic arms, transferred through a FFL in Omaha.

Denman- you're absolutely right as far as an SBR. The Tavor is a couple inches shorter than my 11.5" AR SBR! If the Tavor and the Sig 'arm brace' woulda come out a few yrs earlier I would have saved several hundred $$'s on tax stamps.
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Re: New OD Tavor Rifle
« Reply #7 on: November 01, 2014, 10:39:36 PM »
How is the trigger?  I know some bullpups have funky triggers.
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Re: New OD Tavor Rifle
« Reply #8 on: November 03, 2014, 03:19:51 PM »
Quote from: shooter on October 31, 2014, 09:55:47 PM
does that take special mags? or will AR-15 mags work?


I believe they work well with any AR-15 mag.
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Re: New OD Tavor Rifle
« Reply #9 on: November 03, 2014, 03:21:22 PM »
Quote from: gsd on October 31, 2014, 10:07:29 PM
Did you pick that up in Lincoln?

I was just on Deguns.net, and you can buy one there for 1799.00, and pick it up at their store location here in town.
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Re: New OD Tavor Rifle
« Reply #10 on: November 06, 2014, 07:42:58 PM »
Bkoenig- the trigger is a little long and heavy, but not as bad as I expected based on some reviews I read. There are some options to improve it too.

Sgt- I paid $1589 from Atlantic Arms. Which is about what they're going for on Gunbroker.

Here is my rather petite wife squeezing off a few on Sun afternoon.
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Re: New OD Tavor Rifle
« Reply #11 on: November 07, 2014, 08:05:29 AM »
:) I see your wife is Special Forces... ( sorry I couldn't help it!)

All joking aside, it's sounds like you're enjoying the rifle, and I have heard that there is a couple companies that are lookin into tuning the triggers on them.
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Re: New OD Tavor Rifle
« Reply #12 on: May 31, 2015, 12:37:50 AM »
Quote from: gsd on November 07, 2014, 08:05:29 AM
:) I see your wife is Special Forces... ( sorry I couldn't help it!)

All joking aside, it's sounds like you're enjoying the rifle, and I have heard that there is a couple companies that are lookin into tuning the triggers on them.

As a new-ish tavor owner, I'll bring this one back. The rifle definitely needs some mods. The default rail is about 1/2" too low for most AR-15 scopes, you can get a raised one for around $100. The default trigger is a horrible 12 lb pull, can be modified down to 8 lbs, either way there are a few 2-stage triggers out there but all in the $300 range.

The default butt-pad is also pretty pad. All being said I put a $350 geissele super sabra trigger in it, a raised rail from Gear Head Works, a curved buttstock and forend grip from Manticore arms (the latter being mostly cosmetic). Oh an a Jerry Miculek muzzle brake for ****s and giggles. It cost quite a bit to modify but it is definitely my most favorite rifle. And as someone else pointed out, it's actually shorter than some SBR's.



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