I don’t think many folks have seen SD upper and lower receiver (or are aware of their high quality) so I took some pics that hopefully show them off.
IMHO, their uppers and lowers and the BLACKEST I have ever seen and will go out on a limb and say that their M4 upper receivers are the straightest I have seen of ANY forged receiver!
C4
…price?
Mace
Lowers are $129 and uppers are $135.
C4
Grant
Just checked on the website, Sabre not listed under manfacturer. Do you have available a barreled stripped (no B/BC/CH forgrip) Sabre upper with middy chrome lined 1/7 barrel, cost?
I don’t have anything up yet. I have own part number with SD for uppers I had spec’d out. I don’t have any in stock though (2-3 weeks).
C4
I continue to be impressed by the accuracy of my Sabre A3 mid-length 1/9 16’ gov. profile. I have it mated to an LMT lower, and despite the fact it lacks M4 ramps and extensions, it feeds everything I’ve put through it from varmint loads to Hornady Tap 75gr.
On top of that, Sabre is a supporter of practical/action competition. They were the major match sponsor of CMG’s 2006 PRTC, and they’re coming back this year for our Camp Guernsey event.
If you wouldn’t mind indulging me just a little, is this Camp Guernsey event an annual thing, and what all goes on?
Almost monthly, with a bigger event planned for August.
To not dillute this thread, check it out and post questions over here–
https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?t=4297
Thanks Zak.
I continue to be impressed with everything I see from Sabre.
I plan on picking up one of these lowers and one of Grant’s spec’d uppers.
When mine gets here, you’ll have to take a look at it.–might let you shoot it:cool:
I’m totally sold on my SDI middy upper.
Just some feedback on my SDI lower and upper:
The lower is well machined and finished. The machine is a little better than average. The only minor cosmetic issue was that the forging line was left a little high inside the trigger guard. No biggie as it isn’t sharp or anything.
The upper is a middy 1:7 from Talon Arms, supposedly all SDI made, the upper on mine is unmarked except for a splintered A and Tmarks. The M4 cuts in the barrel extension were a little deeper than the cuts in the upper. With a dental pick there is only one small area on the far right where the barrel extensions cut is slightly higher than receiver’s. It is a very small area on the far right of the right side ramp. I only point this out as on my BCM middy, the ramps are virtually seemless. There was also a little blemish in the finish above and between the shell deflector and ejection port, not that I care, but I tried to wipe it off at first and thought, “Hmm? oh well”
Finished the gun off with Stag/CMT guts, H2 buffer. Only changes from the SDI guts provided was the replacement of the blue extractor insert with a spring/black insert/Oring from Grant, and I swaped out SDI AR15 bolt carrier for one of Grant’s FN contract M16 carriers.
I like that the barrel is heavily stamped with SDI info and lot number under the handguards, and “CMV - 1:7 - 5.56 Nato” stamp in front of the F front sight base.
So far it has shot on par with most rack grade chrome lined barrels, shot a few sub 1" ten shot groups at 50 yards with an aimpoint shooting 55 grain Hornady soft points with cannalure, CCI standard small rifle primers and 24.5 grains of H335 in Winchester brass. This seems to be a generic good shooting handload in all of my AR’s. Shot on par with my other guns on everything else.
Reliability has been boringly so. The gun only has about 650 rounds through it in two range sessions, so it is just getting broken in. The only two malfunctions I have ran into so far involved shooter induced malfunctions (duh, if you put the ejection port against something solid, brass stays in the gun…duh).
When I first put the gun together the upper and lower fit together very tight, as in with the take down pins out, it took a bit of effort to get the upper off the lower.
They seem to me to be a good quality rack grade blaster.
If anyone is interested, I can try to take some pictures if I can get some good lighting.
Grant,
I want the 1st SDI flattop upper receiver with M4 feed ramps that you get in. I can pay now?
Thanks
Hmm, does the upper receiver have deep M4 cuts like the one I posted above? Me thinks you didn’t get a SD upper receiver, but a CMT.
The reason that SD started marking there upper receivers is because dealers were taking their barrels and putting them on cheaper receivers and passing them off as the real deal.
C4
They are in now. Give me a call.
C4
I have a Sabre 16" midi 1/7 with M4 ramps. It has been 100% reliable and is as accurate as any I have had.
I think Grant may be right about your upper being a CMT. My Sabre upper has a keyhole mark behind the deflector the same as the fourth pic down in the OP. Meaning the forging came from Cirro if I’m not mistaken. I don’t recall ever having seen a Sabre upper with a different forger’s mark at the gun shack I patronize who is a SDI authorized dealer.
I cant tell from the pics on this LCD screen. Matt or shiney?