Springfield Armory SAINT Victor 5.56 NATO
Model: STV916556B
Springfield Armory SAINT Victor 5.56 NATO
Model: STV916556B
Full Specifications
Threaded 1/2x28 barrel: compare 5.56 / .223 suppressor prices.
About This Firearm
The Springfield Armory SAINT Victor is a mid-length semi-automatic AR-15 in 5.56 NATO built for range work and home defense. Springfield Armory no longer makes it, so it is a used buy. Its aluminum handguard free-floats the barrel for its full length on M-LOK and is held to the upper by Springfield's own locking tabs, with a low-profile pinned gas block under it where the base SAINT had an A2 front sight tower.
Spring-loaded adjustable flip-up sights came fitted at both ends, with one magazine and a padded case carrying two AR-15 magazine pouches on the outside. The trigger is a nickel-boron-coated flat GI unit and the safety is single-sided. The muzzle wears a Springfield brake in place of an A2 flash hider, with no thread pitch marked under it.
If you're cross-shopping, a Springfield Armory SAINT Edge is discontinued as well, 0.37 lbs lighter on a billet lower, with an adjustable gas block, an ambidextrous safety and a flat modular match trigger. A Springfield Armory SAINT, the base rifle, carries 0.13 lbs more and keeps the A2 front sight base and flash hider. The Victor sits between them, so a used buyer is weighing the Edge's gas block and ambidextrous safety against the base rifle's fixed front sight.
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Strengths & Limitations
- The bolt carrier group is an M16 profile with a 9310 steel bolt, HPT and MPI tested and Melonite finished.
- The receivers are forged 7075-T6 with the Accu-Tite tension system, which takes the play out of the upper-to-lower fit.
- The barrel is chrome moly vanadium with a Melonite finish in a 1:8 twist, which covers bulk and match ammunition alike.
- The gas block is pinned and fixed, so it cannot be turned down behind a suppressor.
- The trigger is a GI unit with a coating and not a match trigger, so the break is a mil-spec one with less friction in it.
- The handguard is held by Springfield's own locking tabs, so a replacement rail means a new barrel nut as well.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How is it different from the base SAINT?
The front end. The base rifle has an A2 front sight base and a Bravo Company handguard that is not free-floated, and it wears an A2 flash hider and a GI trigger that is not flat.
What stock does it use?
Bravo Company's GUNFIGHTER Mod 0.
What magazines does it take?
Any AR-15 magazine. One came with the rifle and the case holds two more on the outside.
