The difference in ergonomics and the manual of arms should be the deciding factor between those two
I have no experience or interest in bullpups so I won't comment on the Tavor, but I have owned an ARX for almost three years.
It has just over 4k through it with just a single shooter induced malfunction. All of the features work as designed and it will operate with little lubrication as outlined in the manual. After the intial cleaning and lubrication, I did not clean or lubricate the ARX for the first 1200 rounds with no degridation in performance, it was only guilt that caused me to clean it. Field stripping is far easier than most of the YT videos suggest, in fact most I've seen actually do it wrong, omitting a critical step before pulling the barrel. Cleaning was simple, pull the bolt carrier, wipe off the bolt, carrier and cam pin, apply a drop of oil to each extractor and the cam pin. Pull the barrel, drag a boresnake through it, reassemble... done. 1200 rounds didn't leave much to really clean.
As far as the "adjustable" gas... it only has two positions, "S" standard and "N" non-standard. The switch does not regulate gas in the gas block, but instead switches between the 2 gas ports in the barrel. I've never changed from "S", as I've never had a reason to.
The dual extractors may offer some benefit, but are primarily there as part of the switchable ejection feature, each alternately acting as the extractor or ejector depending on which direction you choose.
Last edited by BBossman; 03-23-17 at 05:52.
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