RTI Arms

[Job]

Ladies and gentlemen, it looks good 

http://www.rtiarms.eu/priest

[aluminumfetish]

For sure ! 

[dcorvino]

The priest does look good
Like the price and fact you can take off the bottle and teather it
Should be available here soon from what I have heard

Dave

[Job]

Already available

http://www.rlairgunsupply.com/air-guns-air-rifles/rti-arms-the-priest/

[dmeguy]

Per bottom of the description "Expected delivery date is November 5th"

[dcorvino]

Already available

http://www.rlairgunsupply.com/air-guns-air-rifles/rti-arms-the-priest/

Yep Randy will be carrying them
Didn't want to give it away

[Rico14]

Don't know if I want my hand almost on top of the bipod, might take a while getting used to it

[oldpro]

I personally hate when companies make and almost in this case identical clone of someone else's hard work. I mean couldn't they have atleast changed the design a little. Other than that cool beans

[aluminumfetish]

I'm sure the guys at FX have bigger fish to fry.

[Dairyboy]

They talked about it on another forum and actually was being designed before the impact came out. In case anyone was wondering they didn't steal the idea from FX

[oldpro]

Well someone copied someone that's for sure no way is it a coincidence.

[Dairyboy]

Yeah I'm not really sure on all the specifics but I guess it is what it is. I know I would be choosing this over the impact though. Much simpler design and hopefully less issues.

[oldpro]

Not sure if it does or doesn't have all the Impact issues only time will tell. I hope it doesn't but who knows.

[anti-squirrel]

What a beauty!

I doubt anybody copied anybody.  This is more likely a case of "let's make a minimalistic regulated bottle-gun with a compact lightweight AR-style stock"... FX went one way, RTI went another.  The end results look alike- probably because the design criteria were similar.  I'm especially fond of the cocking bolt on the Priest- much more than the sidelever on the Impact.  At just over 4 1/2 pounds tethered, this screams "pesting machine".

[Zebra]

Let's not get silly about this. The look of these guns is not original to either FX or RTI. The styling is obviously based on an AR-15 so they are both copy-cats but why should we care?

In case anyone is thinking of telling us that they meant the multi-caliber option or the position of the air bottle, check out the Airrow from swivel machine. That gun came out 20 years before the Impact or the Priest. It looks like an AR. It's an air gun and it's available with multiple barrel kits. In fact, it has more caliber options than the Impact. In addition to calibers ranging from .177 up to .38, It also has an arrow barrel and if that's not enough, it has grapnel hook barrels, harpoon barrels and tranquilizer barrels. It has an externally adjustable regulator option. It can be run on just 2000 psi air while still delivering over 110fpe. It can also be run on CO2. You can get all of the caliber options for just $600.

So, as you can see, there is nothing original in either gun's styling.

Personally, I hope they both get copied ten times over and we have access to better versions for half the money. The price of the FX Impact and some other guns is getting ridiculous. That's what happens in the absence of strong competition. I hope the Priest does really well.

It's not like there isn't room for more competition. FX is not exactly doing a good job of keeping up with demand. They have a six month backlog so another option is more than welcome.

[Job]

Full review 

[Zebra]

Is it an actual "review" or paid advertising? I don't know much about the guy in the video except that he used to work in the comic book store in the Simpsons. He sounds local to where RTI are based. Could he be a friend of the owner?

[Tomg]

I like a lot of the design features, and performance, however, the side panels....good grief. Looks a bit like Evanix, which is not a good thing in my book.

[z324u]

Wow, I really like the cocking method of this gun vs the impact.  It's a lot like the colibri.
I gotta say though, the profit margins on these guns has to be pretty good......

maybe they did, but it would be so easy to utilize the mounting style of the ar15 grip.  This would open up almost limitless possibilities for hand grip styles.  I could also see where it would be really easy to have custom water jet sideplates made for it.  I'd like to see the gun in burnt bronze and black.

It seemed like the gun wasn't silenced as good as some others, did it not have any baffles?  It seemed like the inside of the shroud was empty to me?   Maybe opportunity to really quieten the gun down even more.

I like it - if I don't have a PCP by November I may grab one.

[rkr]

Wow, I really like the cocking method of this gun vs the impact.  It's a lot like the colibri.
I gotta say though, the profit margins on these guns has to be pretty good......

maybe they did, but it would be so easy to utilize the mounting style of the ar15 grip.  This would open up almost limitless possibilities for hand grip styles.  I could also see where it would be really easy to have custom water jet sideplates made for it.  I'd like to see the gun in burnt bronze and black.

It seemed like the gun wasn't silenced as good as some others, did it not have any baffles?  It seemed like the inside of the shroud was empty to me?   Maybe opportunity to really quieten the gun down even more.

I like it - if I don't have a PCP by November I may grab one.

No baffles, just an air stripper venting to a shroud. You can add a LDC which should make it really quiet but the thread is M14, not the usual 1/2" UNF.