![]() ![]() – Springfield Armory’s brand new SAINT Edge Pistol combines the most popular features of the most premium SAINT in the lineup with the compact shootability of a pistol platform. Considering it only takes about five minutes to swap out a safety, my complaint is almost inconsequential.GENESEO, ILL. The only thing I don’t like about it is the long lever on the right side of the safety, as it pokes my trigger finger. This pistol is as close to perfect as any company is likely to come. But I know there isn’t one for this price. I don’t know if there’s a better AR pistol than the SAINT Edge. No matter the load, the pistol ran perfectly. and Black Hills’ 5.56 NATO 50-grain Optimized TSX, which is my preferred defensive load in ARs with barrels shorter than 16 inches. The ammo I fed it was a mixed bag of loads consisting of Winchester and Frontier 55-grain FMJ (5.56 NATO), some Hornady steel-case. I’d brought along a lot of loaded magazines and blew through 150 rounds in about 10 minutes, until the oil on the gas block was smoking and the end of the handguard was too hot to touch. The first day I brought the SAINT Edge pistol to the range, my intent was solely to have some fun. Bought separately, this brace retails for $395. As a result, it has a smaller buffer and a stronger buffer spring, which requires a little more effort to work the charging handle than with a standard AR. ![]() ![]() This brace has a shorter-than-Mil-Spec proprietary buffer tube. It has a QD sling-swivel socket on either side, just behind the receiver. The Maxim Defense is a four-position brace, and you can pull it open with one hand. The four-position adjustable Maxim Defense pistol brace is one of the best on the market. It’s so good, some customers are buying the brace to put on their rifles and SBRs. Not only can you stick your arm through it and use it as a brace, but when shooting it off the shoulder, the rubber brace portion doesn’t slip. In function, Maxim’s pistol brace is superior to their stock. In both looks and functionality, the Maxim Defense CQB pistol brace is indistinguishable from the best personal-defense-weapon (PDW) stock on the market, which is also made by Maxim. Since this pistol is so light, I decided to stay that course and top it off with the lightest red dot I have, a Trijicon adjustable LED RMR with their quick-detach (QD) riser mount. The Match unit in the Edge Pistol, on the other hand, provided a nice, beautifully crisp 3¾-pound, single-stage pull with a very short reset. Any AR that costs over a grand (much less $1,500) shouldn’t have a trigger pull that sucks. The standard AR trigger pull is 6 to 7 pounds and is usually gritty, which is a technical way of saying it sucks. I can’t tell you how many $1,500 ARs I’ve tested that have had basic triggers. You’ll see screws on either side of the receiver, holding the trigger and hammer pins in place, as inside the lower receiver is a drop-in cassette-type trigger unit - Springfield’s Match single-stage trigger. There are stylized inlets in the side of the receiver as well as slots cut into the integral, oversize triggerguard. I’m not sure who started doing this kind of lower first, but a lot of the semi-custom AR shops (like Battle Arms Development) are producing them, and you’ll pay $250 for just a stripped lower. With the Edge pistol, you get a good-looking lower made from billet aluminum sporting a uniquely contoured magazine well.Ĭheck out the stylized billet lower receiver. Both the handguard and hand stop are Springfield designs. The handguard has M-LOK attachment slots all around and comes with a small aluminum hand stop mounted at the front. The barrel is free-floated inside an aluminum handguard roughly 9¼ inches long. The enhanced M16 bolt carrier group is finished with Melonite, just like the barrel. 625 inch at the gas block, and the low-profile gas block is an adjustable model of Springfield’s own design. The barrel is tipped with a standard A2 flash hider and has a carbine-length gas system. ![]()
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