The low profile gas block is pinned to the 7.5″ Melonite coated stainless steel barrel beneath the handguard. It’s been given high pressure testing and is magnetic particle inspected. The Saint Victor has a lot of nice features right out of the box. The original Saint pistols had standard M-Lok slots in the same style of aluminum handguard and a curved trigger compared to the Victor’s flat trigger and slightly angled M-Lok cuts. Older models of the Saint pistol looked very similar to the Victor but it seems Springfield has since given the “base” Saint a hefty overhaul. There’s something hilariously fun about having fifty caliber Desert Eagle sized fireballs out of something which is much more economical to shoot. It may still be excessively loud and have an obnoxious muzzle flash but I have come to absolutely love this rifle caliber pistol of somewhat questionable practicality. If I had one, which model would it be? Then maybe if I changed out a few of the parts here and there…ĭays later I went back to the Saint Victor pistol hanging on the wall at the Range and made a purchase which I have never once regretted. Weeks later I did some research on these “Saint” pistols. Every day that I went into the range I saw it sitting there on the rack. Over a month had passed from this first range outing.

Did I really need another AR, and one which is less capable than my rifle? In part I may have been actively trying to make myself NOT like it. The thing is, the AR pistol seed had already begun taking root. I found the noise level to be excessive, the muzzle flash to be obnoxious, and the recoil to be uncomfortable. For rental use ours had an optic mounted up top which really didn’t agree with me. The OD Green Springfield Saint pistol had the older SB Tactical SBX-K brace already installed. To be perfectly honest, at first I really didn’t like it. It wasn’t until a curious and…dare I say it…particularly cute model came onto the rental rack from a big named company that my opinion started to change. It didn’t help that my very first experience with an AR pistol had been a home built one which felt like it was cobbled together with spare parts collected off of the workshop floor.

For a couple of years I had struggled with the concept behind going shorter, why complicate matters? Why not just use a rifle? These shorter barrels also lead to somewhat harder recoil and faster parts wear. Up until recently I had been resistant to the concept for a number of reasons, largely because less barrel length equals more flash, more noise, less accuracy, and less power per bullet compared to a rifle. Short barreled rifle and pistol variants of AR15’s have been around for some time already but recently they have gained some serious traction.

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