![]() ![]() Basically, what you’d expect with relatively low cost mass assembled products. The AR uppers arrived and while gritty and needing polishing, they worked. When I bought my uppers, Radical was undergoing a huge growth spurt and I had to wait some period of time (4-8 weeks maybe) for the uppers. ![]() By using the metric designation, Radical could build an upper without paying anything to AA. 50 Beowulf cartridge that AA owns the intellectual property for. In case you are wondering why I am listing 12.7×42, that is the generic designation for the. In an impulse buy, I purchased two 5.56 uppers and the 12.7×42 upper. When I first ran across Radical, I had high hopes. The Radical upper caused me quite a bit of grief and I am going to chronicle my adventure here because I did get it to work out in the end and was very happy with the results but I had to work for it. To jump ahead just a bit - I wish I had bought a better AA upper for $923-1190. It seemed like a no brainer and I went with the Radical unit. A decent looking Radical unit in the generic 12.7×42 chamber was only $598. A basic AA upper was around $719 that did not have a brake (or threading) and basic handguards. In early 2016, I looked at two different vendors of assembled uppers – Alexander Arms (AA), who was the originator of the cartridge, and Radical Firearms, a discount AR rifle and assembler of uppers and lowers in Texas. I have fun assembling AR lowers the way I want them and figured I would save time and get an assembled upper. Somewhat humorously, I’d also point out that it drops noticeably at 150 yards and like a pumpkin after 200 yards but boy, does it hit hard when it does. 45-70 cartridge in an AR platform that hits like a freight train. What’s not to like – the ballistics of the. 50 Beowulf cartridge, it got added to my bucket list immediately. ![]()
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