Posted on 01/16/2021 7:20:48 AM PST by Onthebrink
Tavor X95: Lightweight, long barrel length, and Israeli dependability has proven popular internationally.
A Solid Weapon
The Tavor X95 is a decidedly space-age looking weapon. With its bullpup-style layout and prominent handguard (on models sold in the United States), it is easily identifiable. The manufacturer, Israeli Weapon Industries, offers several X95 variants, with differing barrel lengths available, as well as several calibers, including the NATO-standard 5.56x45mm as well as the Soviet, now Russian 5.45X39mm cartridge. The X95 is even offered as a 9mm submachine gun, and more recently in .300 AAC Blackout.
Ukraine military has a large number of these.
I can’t do Bullpup.......I mean I’m sure if my life depended on it I’d find a way......but I’m old school. Years and years of old school.
Training and shooting changing out mags in front of the trigger.....hard to break that.
It would be a
Fun Shooter in 9mm.
I am the same way. I have held several over the years and they just feel awkward. I have a hard time getting a proper aim to boot. I guess it has it’s place in the weapon tool box but I prefer the old standard configuration too.
Yep,looks like “Spray and Pray” to me.
I’m to old to be huffin’ lots of ammo.
Each enemy target gets one shot from me. So I better make it a solid one. LOL
I would need deprogramming LOL.
03A3 suites me better, and for close encounters, a Mossburg 500.
“...I can’t do Bullpup.......I mean I’m sure if my life depended on it I’d find a way......but I’m old school. Years and years of old school.
Training and shooting changing out mags in front of the trigger.....hard to break that....”
You’re not alone in that.
However, it would be fun to just shoot one of these, especially in 9mm.
“...03A3 suites me better...”
Yep!! Many young folks don’t have a clue what an 03A3 is....LOL
As a kid growing up, that’s all I ever had available to me for deer hunting. Heavy, solid rifle, but it is totally and completely reliable and accurate abeit slow....like me.
I love my old school FNFAL - excellent balance, built in bipod, and .308. For me it’s got better balance when patrolling, and field strips faster than anything.
Yep. Fun shooting for sure......but I wouldn’t chose it to fight with.
“...but I wouldn’t chose it to fight with....”
Totally agree...me neither.
There’s something to be said for many years of training, muscle-memory, automatic reflex, familiar sight picture...etc. etc.
Selling to the Ukraine? That might help explain the Cyrillic labels on the display table the weapon is chained to in the photo (see # 2).
I prefer the KRISS Vector.
It's optimized for urban/close quarters and operating out vehicles where it excels.
It's competition in these applications is a short barrel (10.5”) in M16/AR15 and the X95 is superior to an SBR AR in most respects. An X95 with a carbine length 16 in barrel is only about 24” in in length which is actually more compact than SBR AR while still providing the ballistics of a 16 in barrel - 5.56 needs all the help it can get from a ballistic effectiveness perspective.
It compares very favorably to a rack grade M4 carbine as an issue rifle, especially for the IDF’s coed conscript military. The X95 is very compact and well suited to operation by female soldiers, especially in urban conditions.
Here in the USA there are so many aftermarket add ons for the Stoner series rifles it's difficult to establish an apple to apples comparison.
Some people have a very hard time adapting to the bull pup configuration, especially those who are muscle memory adapted to the AR layout. At the end of the day, a rifle is just a tool and a person skilled and drilled on an X95 going to be able to keep up with anyone in most situations and may have a distinct edge over most anything for it's intended purpose
And chambered in Russian caliber as well.
This ^^^^^.
A FAL with the para length barrel, light alloy lower receiver and light alloy magazines compares very favorably to pretty much anything else out there.
No bad for a 70 year old
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