Keltec RDB experiences

[Sequins]

Hello friends,

I'm strongly considering picking up a keltec RDB in .556, and I'm curious if anyone here has experience or opinions about the rifle?

I've got plenty of AR-15s, and what interests me most about this rifle is the 20" barrel length while still being 5" shorter than an extended mil spec AR-15 stock OAL. That's a lot more rifle in the same midsized package!

Anyone have any insight into accuracy, reliability, etc?

 

[zukiphile]

Did you buy one?

One source of my reluctance is the price. ARs and their prices are so low now. The other source is the Keltec stigma.

I've never owned a Keltec, but I've heard for decades what garbage they are. I handled, but didn't shoot, a rental. I expected the plastic stock to creak and the whole thing to feel as if it would fall apart in my hands. It didn't. Instead it felt solid and had a trigger that wasn't heavy but felt as if it needed a polish.

Three things that bother me are:

1. The screwed together stock in which the pillars into which the screws are turned are aluminum. How could that possibly be durable? And I have to take the halves apart for detailed cleaning?
2. There is a lot going on in that trigger mechanism. If I took it apart, would I ever get it back together?
3. The hammer. It looks like a piece of bent sheet metal with a piece of harder metal riveted on to hit the pin and lend some weight.

3.5 -- I know people love the bottom ejection, but a switchable side port ejection like a FAMAS would allow for clearing of problems.

I'd like whoever did the zytel work for Ruger with the P series pistols to have made the lower with AR style pins. It would probably be a pound heavier, but unbreakable. Since the lower isn't serialized, I suppose someone could.

An RDB with a 1x optic and a YHM Turbo K suppressor seems to have moved into my imagination and won't leave.