Sterling Arms R18 MK3 new for 2024 at TACCOM

Getting a first look at the new for 2024 Sterling Arms R18 MK3 at TACCOM. JR and Mike go over what's new and and improved with the latest version of the R18.
#sterlingarms #taccomcanada #R18MK3 #canadainsemi #pewpew #banyakboys #banyakprecison #Balisticallyspeaking #2eh

[@GordonShemway1]

The aesthetics on this rifle look like a huge improvement over the mk.2. The fact that it comes with a dust cover and triggertech trigger at $1800 is incredible!

[@petesheppard1709]

Greetings from the States! This was a fascinating video; it's fun and enlightening to see what you Canadians are doing with the AR18 system. If JR wasn't such a Canadian patriot, I'd wish a US company could poach him. 😜 Now, to ditch Trudeau...can't happen fast enough.

[@MikhaelWest]

No, actually you don't want JR in any capacity. This is one of the most toxic pieces of shit in the entire Canadian firearms industry and he's a fucking rat. This man single handedly caused thousands of Swiss arms owners more grief than you could imagine by going to the RCMP firearms lab and informing them that Calgary Shooting Center had imported rifles that were built off of converted automatic receivers which was bullshit. JR is a spiteful and sour man who couldn't deal with his former business partners who run Calgary shooting center getting the contract here with Swiss arms. This man put his personal pride above the community he thinks he serves and gave the RCMP just enough reason to add another family of rifles to the prohibited class in Canada. If anyone cares about their firearms or the remaining privilege we have left in this communist dump hole the last thing they should do is go and patronize JR Cox's business. He has spent a considerable amount of time to try to rebuild his image since he turned rat for the agents of communism that work at the RCMP firearms lab. Any shooters in this country that don't have the memory span of a hamster vehemently hate this man for what he did.

[@MikhaelWest]

No, actually you don't want JR in any capacity. This is one of the most toxic pieces of shit in the entire Canadian firearms industry and he's a fucking rat. This man single handedly caused thousands of Swiss arms owners more grief than you could imagine by going to the RCMP firearms lab and informing them that Calgary Shooting Center had imported rifles that were built off of converted automatic receivers which was bullshit. JR is a spiteful and sour man who couldn't deal with his former business partners who run Calgary shooting center getting the contract here with Swiss arms. This man put his personal pride above the community he thinks he serves and gave the RCMP just enough reason to add another family of rifles to the prohibited class in Canada. If anyone cares about their firearms or the remaining privilege we have left in this communist dump hole the last thing they should do is go and patronize JR Cox's business. He has spent a considerable amount of time to try to rebuild his image since he turned rat for the agents of communism that work at the RCMP firearms lab. Any shooters in this country that don't have the memory span of a hamster vehemently hate this man for what he did.

[@mikhaelwest6981]

No, actually you don't want JR in any capacity. This is one of the most toxic pieces of shit in the entire Canadian firearms industry and he's a fucking rat. This man single handedly caused thousands of Swiss arms owners more grief than you could imagine by going to the RCMP firearms lab and informing them that Calgary Shooting Center had imported rifles that were built off of converted automatic receivers which was bullshit. JR is a spiteful and sour man who couldn't deal with his former business partners who run Calgary shooting center getting the contract here with Swiss arms. This man put his personal pride above the community he thinks he serves and gave the RCMP just enough reason to add another family of rifles to the prohibited class in Canada. If anyone cares about their firearms or the remaining privilege we have left in this communist dump hole the last thing they should do is go and patronize JR Cox's business. He has spent a considerable amount of time to try to rebuild his image since he turned rat for the agents of communism that work at the RCMP firearms lab. Any shooters in this country that don't have the memory span of a hamster vehemently hate this man for what he did.

[@mikhaelwest6981]

No, actually you don't want JR in any capacity. This is one of the most toxic pieces of shit in the entire Canadian firearms industry and he's a fucking rat. This man single handedly caused thousands of Swiss arms owners more grief than you could imagine by going to the RCMP firearms lab and informing them that Calgary Shooting Center had imported rifles that were built off of converted automatic receivers which was bullshit. JR is a spiteful and sour man who couldn't deal with his former business partners who run Calgary shooting center getting the contract here with Swiss arms. This man put his personal pride above the community he thinks he serves and gave the RCMP just enough reason to add another family of rifles to the prohibited class in Canada. If anyone cares about their firearms or the remaining privilege we have left in this communist dump hole the last thing they should do is go and patronize JR Cox's business. He has spent a considerable amount of time to try to rebuild his image since he turned rat for the agents of communism that work at the RCMP firearms lab. Any shooters in this country that don't have the memory span of a hamster vehemently hate this man for what he did.

[@sadnessinside123]

I was waiting for this. Woke up and found this on my top feed. A gift. Thanks

[@MrFox1111]

It looks like they TRULY listened to everything that Canadian 180 customers were saying. I have faith this will be a good rifle in its class - looking forward to it. Kudos Sterling.

[@jeffhunter3402]

Ok, now im finally interested in sterling arms.

[@nelsonm5032]

1800.00 canadian? with a trigger tech trigger? ... wow.

[@BlackBearOutdoors]

Interesting rifle. Exciting to see some new options. Thanks for the video!

[@Dmac6969]

Extremely competitive rifle. They have done and continue to do a great job

[@MM-kv8ly]

Moving the gas block helps move the weight back. Smart move. Looks like some big improvements over their previous rifle.

[@davegrimshaw7318]

The fact that that the guy show's a stripped down rifle and shows how everything works is a big plus for me 👍

[@scorpion2669]

Can't wait to get one!!!

[@toestr2120]

Funny how Kodiak is moving to a rifle length adjustable gas block and Sterling is moving to carbine length fixed block.

[@johnpierce3569]

What’s the biggest difference between the two? Sorry new PAL holder here 😅

[@toestr2120]

@@johnpierce3569 generally speaking a carbine length block will have more kick and excess gas come out of the action because it's tapping gas closer to the chamber (higher pressure) and for any given barrel length it will have that gas acting on the piston/carrier for longer until it exits the barrel (this is called dwell time). Generally they're thought to be more reliable because the additional gas can help the bolt overcome any debris that would slow it down. However it can cause other types of malfunctions related to the bolt opening too quickly if not setup properly (like on early M16s), premature parts breakage and being generally dirtier at the action. An adjustable block will allow users to tune the rifle for things like different ammo, adverse conditions, suppressors (obviously not relevant here), and rifle grenade launching (not relevant today unless you're a 3rd world military). Either will run fine if it's properly setup.

[@internetexpert8153]

​@toestr2120 my money is on sterling. kodiak is a shittier company

[@lib556]

I knew JR in the army 25 yrs ago. He's changed a fair bit over decades. I'm so pleased to see he is doing well.

[@Wardog-rf1tx]

I knew JR in the Calgary Highlanders, late 1980s. I was with 15 med company initially then transferred top Calgary Highlanders. Was CH till summer of 1998 CO said I wouldn’t get another year at CFB Suffield Medical Centre. Transferred to SALH, Stayed working at CFB SUFFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE till Sept 009 when I got medically released. JR always treated me right in the military and in his Store when I visited them, not so much since 2020, and paperwork required. 💂‍♂️🪖⛑️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦

[@lib556]

@@Wardog-rf1tx believe 98 was around the time that all reserve units were ordered to purge their establishments of non-trade soldiers. eg, an inf unit had to transfer its medics, MSE ops, sup techs etc to the Svc Bn. Your CO may not have had a choice in where you went. When I met him in Edmonton, JR was PPCLI.

[@Wardog-rf1tx]

@@lib556 thanks for this, the purge came around 2003-2004? I could be wrong about those dates. 98 issue is he wanted me to come back to the CH and work 6 days a month, instead of 365. Had a wife, 2 kids that wasn’t for me. Maj at SALH had been hinting at me to transfer so when the CO made his comment I transferred. It was years after my transfer to SALH that the purge happened.💂‍♂️🪖⛑️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦

[@papermind4010]

The fact that this guy is a good ol Albertan veteran makes me want this rifle even more. Its even more homegrown for me than just being Canadian

[@mikelafferty5253]

Take my money!!

[@the.albertan]

Very interesting to see Sterling go shorter on the gas and ditching the adjustable block while Kodiak is going rifle length with adjustment. Looking forward to seeing these two rifles go head to head and it's great to see Canadian manufacturing enter a new era of rifle quality (we hope!)

[@gunny1234]

you have come a long way from your days as a Calgary Highlander James..arighart!

[@papermind4010]

If there’s no over insertion issues and these things run I will happily buy one

[@joelanthony3308]

I want one!

[@mrpowerskate]

Yall at sterling really nailed it out of the park. This platform if as reliable as the mk2 will be a game changer. Most competitive and most interesting rifle in the market at the moment. And it having a NR frt edges me over to buying this over the Crusader Crypto.

[@riley739]

Why can't Canadians just have a regular ar15 😂

[@PitPwny]

Politics.

[@Sarando1]

Liberal communist Trudeau banned them. Typical commie thing.

[@mxmech13]

Dictator trudope

[@kevinmccubbin2385]

Obviously we aren't capable of freedom or something...

[@ilovefreeski]

Tyrannical government and a minority of cucked gun owners. Most of these ar-180 canadian remakes are unreliable af, we're forced to buy the ccp type 81s that are ultra reliable but have mid accuracy and shoddy build quality (made by bugeating slaves). There is still the iwi x95, apc 223 and bren 2 as reliable options (only available every few months/years depending on stock as the demand outdoes the supply) but they're around 3k-5k cad.

[@user-sm7cp4eu6e]

I was told the current r18 was out to make way for the R20 which was supposed to be a 308. From the shooting edge 🤷‍♂️

[@SyrupCanuck]

Any idea on what these rifles will produce 10 shot groups, moa? Twist rate?

[@bobbyacred3185]

How many times can we sell the AR 18/180

[@Yuu3]

Screaming MCX... I like.

[@tombryant4518]

How has everyone forgotten who the community backstabber is? Swiss Arms Farms remembers….

[@bs_podcast]

@@tombryant4518 Geezuz... 🙄. If Napoleon were here you'd still be roasting him for making the mistake of marching on Moscow. Got anything to say about anything someone did THIS decade?

[@76597-d]

Never forget the Swiss Arms betrayal at Calth

[@dmarr83]

Can someone elaborate on this?

[@papermind4010]

@@dmarr83I’m pretty sure sterling arms did something to get a bunch of the Swiss rifles banned so that they have less competition or something. I don’t know the full story or if that’s a bunch of BS. It’d be really sad if that’s true and if that’s the case then idk I’ll still probably buy this rifle tbh. I wouldn’t be able to afford a Swiss rifle anyway

[@dmarr83]

@papermind4010 really? Wow that's greasy. I'll probably still buy one anyway lol

[@MrFox1111]

Thanks for the coverage BS.

[@Chr0mePisto1a]

WOW I NEED THIS!!!

[@mrshort2379]

awesome platform @SterlingArms as a suggestion I would like to see a similar platform chambered for .308Win, 6.5C.M. and/or 8.6B.O.. just a suggestion. so far that I know of nobody has done a platform like that in a none-intermediate cartridge.

[@bs_podcast]

@@mrshort2379 I believe they're working on a large calibre short action version already.

[@advanceddronetech9461]

great price reduction!, that was one of the main issues with this rifle

[@davebona9592]

Yes that’s why I bought a Siberian instead

[@trantem]

I wonder what kind of mags the x39 will use.

[@Sarando1]

I got to ask. How does the quality of the rifle stand up to high rounds. Because I have a Kodiak wk180 and have had nothing but problems with piston rods snapping. I have gone through 4 now and I don’t even want to shoot it any more for safety reasons. Have your rifles suffered from breakdowns? I don’t know if I want to waste 1800 for an AR18 if you have the same problems as other 18s.

[@petergarratt9645]

The previous editions of the SA18 was reportedly getting 40k rounds without problems. The most reliable of the Canadian 180s

[@petergarratt9645]

6:23

[@bs_podcast]

@@Sarando1 the MK2 was going through tens of thousands of rounds without failures. Of course, one can only speculate, but there's no reason to think this will be different.

[@76597-d]

Never forget the Swiss Arms Betrayal at Calth.

[@brandenfiles5050]

I wanna see more of the 9mm pcc mp5 mag rifle

[@bs_podcast]

@@brandenfiles5050 that will definitely be coming soon.

[@Boon20]

I think i missed it. When were these coming out?

[@user-wh7ty2dd9g]

Maybe I missed it, but will the uppers be compatable with mk2 lowers?

[@SyrupCanuck]

Can anyone do a 1k burn down? Very curious how these hold up with abuse? Springs,etc

[@ueg-zm8wf]

wanna see after 5000 rounds.......yea looks excellent but !!!

[@bs_podcast]

@@ueg-zm8wf no reason to think that will be a problem. There were MK2 versions of this rifle functioning after more than 16,000 rounds.

[@gonzala]

One of my local ranges used to rent r18 mk2's they went through 40k-50k rounds without major issues

[@rmdonkey]

So is this the new R20? Thought the R18 was kaput.

[@mrpowerskate]

R20 is another rifle being released soon also i believe

[@bs_podcast]

@@rmdonkey it's our understanding that the R20 is intended for 3.08/6.5 creed calibers.

[@rmdonkey]

A 6.5 semi would be amazing 🤩

[@TownyResident]

Should I sell my MK2 and buy the MK3?

[@2damaxmr2]

Someone finally staked the gas block.

[@bs_podcast]

@@2damaxmr2 you might be thinking of the Kodiak.

[@fabulouskhro4847]

So a mcx?

[@erikchristensen9959]

So why did I pay 2700 for a mk2 with a milspec trigger? Just started giving AF?

[@SyrupCanuck]

Thank you for paying for R&D to make future products better for us.

[@markcampbell8533]

You paid that because your Mk2 was manufactured by Canadian machinists, earning a Canadian machinist's wage. The Mk3's major components are fabricated and finished off-shore. For example, the Receivers are manufactured in Turkey on robotic CNC machinery to ISO standards with Type 5 Hardcoat Anodizing. Those manufacturing cost savings are passed directly on to the customer. Cheap overseas labour is the difference between a $2800 rifle and an $1800 rifle. A $900 cost savings for the consumer.

[@calvinnvprofection7030]

Why the handguard so short?

[@bs_podcast]

@@calvinnvprofection7030 I don't think it's that the handguard is short, it's that the barrel is long. They have a shorter restricted barrel model, and it looks like they just had the same handguard on both barrel lengths.

[@martkbanjoboy8853]

No beta testing. Black Creep Labs does not ascribe to that ethics principle.

[@MrWinchester1995]

I had a BCL102 will never buy from them again

[@tallywhacker1]

Ar180ish?

[@petergarratt9645]

So does it use stanag mags?

[@bs_podcast]

@@petergarratt9645 yes, it does

[@raleighepp5274]

What calibre is it chambered in?

[@derekyam1805]

this is in .223, the 300blk/7.62/.308 is coming first quarter of 2025

[@martkbanjoboy8853]

Did Sullivan ever do the design work on the assumption that some day, the upper and lower recievers were going to be cnc machined from aluminum alloy rather than sophisticated steel alloy stampings? I doubt it. I doubt anyone else finished that testing program since. The yt chan owner Ave did a review on one of these Cdn. made derivatives a few years ago and it was frankly shocking. Like almost every other manufacturer of this derivative, they went half way. So you got to ask yourself if you have got something as good as an Ar 15 or a cheap replica of a reliable service rifle?

[@lanemitchell4573]

Why have you been releasing rifles without proper testing (all the previous problems and faults) Why should we trust you for future models

[@FredAndrea-z3p]

Lee Anthony Wilson Maria Jones Kevin

[@ZombieJeezus420]

If you look online you can pre order it for over 2500 bucks lmao

[@bs_podcast]

@@ZombieJeezus420 you looking at a MK2? Link?

[@bradleyjohnston6112]

I had a mrk 2, what a complete piece of junk. Focus less on looking pretty and build something functional.... dont see anything that makes me think this will be any better.

[@alexjoseph8363]

More junk Gamer Boi Gucci Guns to waste your money on... just cant take any of this soon to be Forgotten Weapon nonsense seriously. Big thumbs down!

[@catfart879]

$1800, no thanks.

[@Adrian-ge6dv]

You wanna have a gun that breaks just because you want it to be cheap? Because there are plenty of ar180 clones that cut costs but end up with snapped pistons

[@fugg3543]

lmao its not 2012 anymore pal, look at literally any other new production semi centerfire for sale in Canada (thats not a type 81 or Turkish).

[@Adrian-ge6dv]

I have a x95 and a bren2 and a Kriss vector

[@fugg3543]

@@Adrian-ge6dv Okay? all of those are over 1800.

[@Adrian-ge6dv]

Let me know if you can find a decent 223 rifle under 1800 dollars Minus taxes and shipping