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The PSA Sabre comes with ambi controls, cold hammer forged barrels, upgraded muzzle devices, triggers and buffers and in shorter barrels than 16 inches

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With the amount of money spend being the trend for quality, this appears to be a city boy ego trip. PSA makes great guns and if you know how to turn a screw, you can update the build. The biggest thing to spend money on is an adjustable gas block! This allows you to tune the ammo to the action. Not all ammo is created equal. Watch out for some cheap ammo as the loads are too hot. Also get a Infinite Muzzle Brake with a long can to reduce the muzzle flash in your night scope. HG – Midwest Industries Combat rails are the best! I see no reason to spend more money on this gun other than to have a bragging right at a money pit BBQ range party.

GREAT video!!! Thanks for the intel on this. Very detailed and well thought out.

Can a left handed use a Sabre or will the gas and shell blast our face?

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So this is essentially the Apple MacBook Air M1 of rifles? Actually punches above its weight, good performance + good price + looks nice. But absolutely horrid user-serviceability and you gotta buy a new one if barrels gone essentially(would be the battery for M1).

Regarding the sabre rail, thats the best/most reliable rail design you can have. Based off the knights URX 4 it seems, this keeps the gun as light as possible while keeping the rail as stiff as possible. Leave the rifle alone, you're not taking that thing apart in a shtf situation anyways. User serviceable for what…. you haven't even shot the gun enough to find a weak point.

Very nice upgrade compilation. 👌🏻

Dang. I've built all of mine. When he's going down the list of parts that the cheap ones can't upgrade, I'm thinking to myself "Just buy the one you want the first time. Duh"

But … Thinking about the parts like the ar wrench, the Midwest reactor rod, the vise and various other tools … It can get expensive. However, I seriously have never seen a gunsmith ever. Especially for sights (pistols)

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The IwI Zion wipes the floor with every rifle mentioned in this review.

Great vid as usual man!

Excuses I live in az and it's been beautiful outside for a month now.

I got the lower ruger 556 and I built it up got my self on a bunch off mailing list and just waited for sells black friday and so forth I say I did very well

I think you're overselling the upgrades a bit. PSA sells that whole combo of the trigger and pins and buffer tube and spring and all that for $189

The sig m400 tread is a good one also

I honestly just built the upper I wanted and chucked it on a PSA lower. Changed the trigger & buffer/spring later on.

Well done sir

Buy a BCA and change the grip, stock, and add a can. Literally all you need to do. It's not "just as good"! It's better because you get to keep your money!

1:34 categorizing by price is really flawed… So, if I charge you $1800+ for a Anderson, it will be considered 'High Teir' 😂😂

Sounds like all the negatives are what if hypothetical scenarios. Assuming most people have more than 1 rifle, if you ever have any issues with the PSA, just send the upper to them and get it back within 2 weeks for free. Idk, am I missing something here? I personally prefer BCM and only have a few PSAs, so I'm by no means a PSA fan boy.

Well I think it's definitely a great looking rig however I personally only use forged receiver's and only chf chrome lined barrels so I would probably go to the higher priced one and as far that handguard goes that's a no go for me but I'm like you I want to be able to change anything if I want!!! Great video!!!!

Would be cheaper without forward assist like stoner and god intended it to be used

You and HonestOutlaw are the only sites I advise people to watch for reviews! Tools and Targets for ammo reviews. Your stuff is much more detailed and very informative. Thank you Sir! Appreciated!

Sabres are showing to be over gassed with quality control issues. At least in non YouTube videos. Springfield should be avoided per usual.
Enhanced bcgs are usually snake oil. Adjustable gas blocks have no place on serious carbines. Quality parts are more important than “enhanced” budget parts. Ambi is over rated, and forge receivers are 100% fine.

Real quality budget build:
Centurion receivers (or SOLGW, mega, expo mega ect..)
Rosco is the absolute bare minimum you should accept for a barrel. Criterion or centurion barrels if budget allows.
Schmidt tool or bcm for budget quality small parts
A5 if you can afford it, otherwise bcm has affordable milspec buffer systems
Micro Best BCG (or the 100s of companies that sell them)
CMT HDM series of rails are super good quality for the cost
Gas block and tube from a reputable manufacturer
Bcm or radian charging handle

Furniture of choice.

How can you say "full upgraded" when it's not automatic?

The knights armament urx rails have a similar install. Essentially the rail is the barrel nut.

Love the vid. Could you look into the ambi AR from Dirty Bird? It has an ambi bolt catch and release.

Can you recommend a good cerakote shop here in the Phoenix area?

I've been subscribed for a while but hadn't been seeing your videos pop up until a couple of days ago.

Love PSA, buy em cheap and stack em deep to arm anyone

Wish they would sell to Massachusetts. Great vid as always

Can’t say nothing bad about PSA my humble opinion

Is that an aems optics on the Sabre?

LWRC is the Giant Killer G.O.A.T, Can get black DI’s for $1500-1600. They’re all sub moa, bombproof bcg, gas block and charging handle, fully ambidextrous with a machine gun barrel and monoforged upper for zero optic shift.

I wish this was around when I bought my first AR in 2018, I’m happy with mine though, LWRCi M6IC DI 16 inch with LWRC proprietary rail and all furniture. I just wish it didn’t have the heavy profile barrel as I’m not foreseeing getting into sustained firefight where that heavy barrel will be beneficial. I got the M6IC because I was just starting out and didn’t know if I would shoot left handed or right as I’m cross-eye dominant and liked the ambi controls.

Ty for the overview. Very helpful

I wish this was around when I bought my first AR in 2018, I’m happy with mine though, LWRCi M6IC DI 16 inch with LWRC proprietary rail and all furniture. I just wish it didn’t have the heavy profile barrel as I’m not foreseeing getting into sustained firefight where that heavy barrel will be beneficial. I got the M6IC because I was just starting out and didn’t know if I would shoot left handed or right as I’m cross-eye dominant and liked the ambi controls.

I bought the Sabre with the PSA QD rail and FN 13.7 CHF w/ Jmac flash hider and adjustable gas block (someone mentioned that it is superlative gas block) and B5 furniture, hard to beat it for the price and all the upgrades.

I wouldn’t get the mag as they are tight a$$ed about sending standard cap AR mags to Hawai’i even though they are in common use here.

Thank you that had a lot of info i wanted to know on the sabres.

Groups is a must.

Since the bulk of cheap 5.55/.223 is 55 & 62 grain, I think barrels should be with a slower twist rate than 1:7.

So, are you saying the QD mount on your hand rail would most likely fail in the long run?
Furthermore, John, you need to cut yourself a break and not trouble yourself regarding that handguard. I understand and agree; i would feel the same. But, i know im a smidge older than you, and i urge you to learn to live with it to take one more item off your plate and a chance to watch the rifle perform just fine over the long run.

My only PSA AR15 came with a clocked barrel and the feedramps didn't align properly with the m4 cuts. Does anyone else have this issue?

I have a red dot on mine but looking at changing the sights to some more mid range. What would you recommend?