My brand new RRA, which is a much less expensive model than the FEP, but does also have the 3/4 MOA guarantee, is meeting it's accuracy guarantee right out of the gate. Barrel isn't collecting any copper to speak of, cleans up easy and feels pretty smooth on a tight dry patch. All indications are, to me, that it's a better barrel than the majority of factory bolt rifle barrels I have ever messed with.
Out of the gate, ran a bunch of different bullets with two different powders through it, just looking for an MOA-ish load to burn up components which I already have a lot of on hand. Using armory prepped once fired LC cases. It's shooting almost everything, from 40 gr. to 60 gr., right around MOA or better, for five shot groups. With two different bullets it's shooting five shot groups in the 6's and I fired one ten shot group with what appears to be the rifles favorite bullet so far, ten shots that went just under MOA.
Brand new out of the gate. And I'm still trying to let the rifle tell me how it likes to be driven off a bench. It's my first AR and the first time I've ever shot groups with one. Sure ain't anything like shooting groups with a bolt gun! I do believe the flat bottom of the hand guard is an asset with my front rest though.
OP never said how much this thing was going to cost him. But I got a smoking deal on my new ATH and even though I'm not an "AR guy" and don't know a whole lot about them, I feel pretty confident that I got a lot of AR for my money.
I do not like the trigger on it though. But it seems like an AR trigger I would like, is going to cost more than 1/3 of what this whole rifle cost.
- DAA