Posted March 14, 2017 12:16 pm by Comments

By Eric R. Poole

Springfield Armory Saint

Springfield Armory made its foray into the AR market and announced its AR-15 to a short list of my colleagues within the Outdoor Sportsman Group (OSG). Shooting Times, Rifleshooter and Guns & Ammo were all represented at the secret preview on Sept. 13, 2016. The location was a remote training facility near Gillette, Wyoming, where U.S. Navy SEAL Eric Frohardt was busy training combat mindset and carbine use to six female shooting contestants from different walks of life. The winning participant would be announced as the face of Springfield’s project several weeks later, when the rest of the gun industry’s media was let in on the secret project in Las Vegas.

To receive an invite to the second event, the media accepted a non-disclosure agreement — even members of the cutthroat gun media working for popular internet blogs. And a show it was.

“This is like a dream come true for me,” Dennis Reese, president of Springfield Armory, said to OSG attendees. “To be a part of the [AR] market is something we have been working on for many years. I hope you appreciate what we’ve put our heart and souls into. The [Saint] platform lends itself to be modified as we …Read the Rest

Source:: Guns and Ammo

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